http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/ The Marocharim Experiment Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:00:01 PST http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2007. Writing Relationships School http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/archive/1315.html Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:27:34 GMT No bracketed taglines for now. It's not that I'm discontented with BlogDrive, but I kind of figured that maybe it's high time for me to move to another blog-hosting service. These past few years have been great, I can tell you that, but for now, it's time for Marocharim to move. I'm keeping this account active as "Original TMX:" I think for all that it has gone through and purposes it served for three years and 1,315 entries (including this one), it should stay just as it is. Basically, The Marocharim Experiment just moved here: http://www.marocharim.com For all the... (more) http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1315 http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/archive/1314.html Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:17:58 GMT < showbiz > It's a good thing Mariel Rodriguez was sent home after a long-overdue stay in "Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition 2." I thought this was going to be the end of watching "Wowowee" with Pokwang being forced down my throat, but nope: it seems that she's there to stay. I have nothing against Pokwang personally, but as a viewer, I won't put up with more of her hosting style that reminds me ever so much of late-night comedy bars: she reminds me of a female version of Joey de Leon. True: while "Wowowee" demands a palengkera attitude (even that gravitas infected Nikki Gil... (more) http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1314 http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/archive/1313.html Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:43:21 GMT < hmmm... > There are things I really, really want to do when I put everything on the line, going at it tooth-and-nail. Some of my friends say that I am at my best when I take to my fighting form, when my self-imposed desperation takes the better of me. Like my thesis: to be honest, I was a walking act of desperation during those days. And here I am in yet another desperate attempt: making a technical paper that condenses my 366-page thesis into eight pages for submission to an international conference. I've been at it for a couple of weeks now, and somehow, I'm nearing that... (more) http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1313 http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/archive/1312.html Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:03:37 GMT < hmmm... > "The grass is always greener on the other side," so they say. Of all the many things I know about all sorts of grass, there's always a different view from where you stand. Somehow, I still have the distinct advantage of having to talk to my mother on a face-to-face basis every day. At least it works that way for me: an interaction mediated by air. I take it for granted, perhaps even take it as an annoyance, that I can talk to my mom whenever I feel like it. But for others, it's different: for the kid beside me, it's having to talk to her Mommy through a headset... (more) http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1312 http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/archive/1311.html Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:02:14 GMT < oh boy, this will suck > In Twisted 3: Planet of the Twisted, Jessica Zafra wrote about "The Nativity Cross" which was once sold by Ricardo Montalban. Forget "Spy Kids:" Ricardo Montalban was the iconic planet-destroying Khan in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the previous generation's equivalent to Antonio Banderas. It kind of makes me think how many Trekkies (for you who think that Star Trek is not different from Star Wars or Starstruck, it's "Trekkie," not "Trekker," and I stand by that no matter what Wikipedia says) have actually bought the Nativity Cross: maybe Leonard... (more) http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1311 http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/archive/1310.html Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:36:02 GMT < politics > I think that if Antonio Trillanes is to beseige a hotel in the name of the people, he should qualify who are "the people." As far as I'm concerned, Trillanes does not represent me. I'm going on the record that as far as I'm concerned, I no longer recognize Trillanes as a Senator. While it is true that he is a Senator by virtue of a mandate, I question that mandate in very much the same way I question the mandate of Gloria Arroyo: mandate is not something you get from an election. Mandate is not the rental of a seat at government. It is something constantly... (more) http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1310 http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/archive/1309.html Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:51:51 GMT < hmmm... > Yesterday's siege at the Manila Peninsula left so many mediamen arrested and rounded up to Bicutan. Their hands were tied with plastic straps and sent on over to a police station. Media violence? Send me hate mail: I don't think so. Before anything else, the police had no right to cuff media practicioners with twist ties. Heck, they didn't have any right to arrest a media practicioner, never mind that Magdalo members posture as mediamen. But on the other side, just what are media practicioners doing in a sensitive military operation that involves gassing a... (more) http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1309 http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/archive/1308.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:04:17 GMT < not "dora the explorer" > I was reading the local paper this afternoon when I came across another crime story. I don't have a particular taste or liking for journalists who get news bits from blotters in a police station, but that's how the business goes. It's a good thing that the lot of criminals are not people I know, but today is different. Surely, coming from an expensive sectarian Catholic elementary school (not that I'm mentioning any names here) should teach you a thing or two about codes of conduct. Because I'm Machiavellian to a certain extent, I judiciously lie... (more) http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1308 http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/archive/1307.html Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:25:43 GMT < hmmm... > There's something about a fat man and his undershirt. In every man, there's an irresistable impulse - a stimulus, if you will - where on a hot day, he'll raise the hem just under his man-nipples and expose his belly for everyone to see. I'm not against the fat man per se: I have enough flab in my abdomen for me to be "fat." But I'm not fat enough for my undershirt to rest comfortably above my stomach. Sure, all men dream of having abs like those of Carlos Agassi, but if life deals you with the kind of lipids and adipose tissue that would make Paris Hilton, Nicole... (more) http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1307 http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/archive/1306.html Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:08:16 GMT < hmmm... > I've choked the proverbial chicken before: preened the bird's feathers, stroked the cock, made the rooster crow. But as far as every avian metaphor for masturbation goes, I didn't do it in the darkness of a cinema. OK, so I can't watch "One More Chance:" I'm not saying that I'd like to jack off to the sight of Bea Alonzo or Maja Salvador (cancelling out John Lloyd Cruz and Derek Ramsey because I don't have a shred of gay in me), but I can't watch anything anymore without being misinterpreted by peons. The last chick flick I watched in a cineplex was "The Lake... (more) http://marocharim.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1306