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Jaime Urquijo has a message for you.

Jaime looks like James van der Beek that. Jaime is 6'4″. Jaime is on the Philippine national rugby team. Jaime works in New York. Jaime is of the Zobel de Ayala family. Jaime is nice. Jaime does his own chores. It's so annoying.

The last people you'd expect to run into eating yogurt at a bookstore in Taguig on a Friday afternoon

And that is exactly who we found. Jake Letts, Ned Stephenson, Rupert Zappia and Cleo Gomez of the national rugby team, taking the day off before reporting to training camp.

The last people you expect to run into eating yogurt at a bookstore in Taguig on a Friday afternoon

And that is exactly who we found. Jake Letts, Ned Stephenson, Rupert Zappia and Cleo Gomez of the national rugby team, taking the day off before reporting to training camp.

In America, massive wealth in the hands of a few. Parang Pilipinas!

Some people look at income inequality and shrug their shoulders. So what if this person gains and that person loses? What matters, they argue, is not how the pie is divided but the size of the pie. That argument is fundamentally wrong. An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year—an economy [...]

Borlongan at Pinto

Kariyanan, an exhibition of new paintings by Elmer Borlongan, will be on view at Pinto Gallery in Antipolo from April 10 – 27, 2011. The exhibit opens on Sunday at 3pm. Borlongan is known for his figurative expressionist works which document Manila's urban sprawl. Eight years ago he moved to Casa San Miguel in idyllic [...]

Aunt Janey's Old-Fashioned Agony Column # 10: A return on your emotional investment

So Cher was like totally into Christian cause he was way hot and knew a lot about shoes. ________ Many women in literature are remembered for their tragic lives which end in suicide. Juliet, Ophelia, Madame Bovary to name a few. If I were to hand out an award for Most Tragic Woman in Literature, [...]

Philippines: Passion, Powerlessness, and the Pity Trap

A. Lin Neumann of the Jakarta Globe on the execution of three convicted Filipino drug couriers in China last week. AFP photo in the Jakarta Globe On a human level, it is certainly hard not to be moved by the words of Villanueva, who asked that someone look after her children and said she would [...]

A piece of me

This is my ear. A cast taken of my ear–it was damaged (the cast, not my ear) so we had to redo it. Leo Abaya is making casts of the body parts of different people for a mixed-media piece. Last year he made an installation that involved people's butts. He had the models sit on [...]

Game of Thrones: the first 14 minutes

Go Volcanoes! Watch the Philippines vs Hong Kong rugby test match on April 16

Next week the Philippine Volcanoes, the national men's 15′s rugby team, faces Hong Kong in a very important International Rugby Board-sanctioned test match. Hong Kong is ranked # 37 in the world at present. The Philippines does not yet have an IRB ranking; the Philippine Rugby Football Union became a full member of the IRB [...]