Archive | August, 2008

23 August 2008 ~ 16 Comments

Plane Phobiatitis. Pills.

Earlier, during my semi-annual visit to my psychiatrist to sort of give her an update on my perennial, downhill battle with depression and a weird anxiety disorder; I realized something: The little phobia associated with airplanes and flying I developed when I visited Bicol several months ago just became a full-blown clusterfuck of obsessive fear [...]

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13 August 2008 ~ 13 Comments

The Star Mart Girl

Because I live like 400 miles away from civilization and have a bladder of an infant, everyday, I routinely have these gasoline station/convenience store pit stops on my way to work to both empty my bladder and grab a cold beverage or a light snack.
The usual place I do all of these is a Caltex [...]

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04 August 2008 ~ 7 Comments

The people you meet in Twitter and Plurk

As a veteran blogger who finds the luster of blogging less and less appealing with each day that passes, I submit to the fact that microblogging services such as Twitter and Plurk could very well be the last form of un-moderated avenues of self-expression in the swathe of services web 2.0 brought upon us.
Without an [...]

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