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		<title>Reassess</title>
		<link>http://fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/reassess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Villanueva</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[V. 23]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[verb. revise or renew one&#8217;s assessment
appraise, assess, evaluate, valuate, value, measure &#8212; evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of; &#8220;I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional&#8221;; &#8220;access all the factors when taking a risk&#8221;
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		<title>On the first night</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Villanueva</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[V. 23]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SLEEP was a bit of trouble, but I got some nevertheless. This amid a sagging mattress, the noise outside, my own anxieties. Didn&#8217;t feel like home (yet/yet). Felt far from it. But the nights since have been easier. I even did some unperturbed reading yesterday when I got home. Later, how about a night in?
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		<title>Dispatches from a bedroom</title>
		<link>http://fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/dispatches-from-a-bedroom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Villanueva</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[V. 23]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WHILE Typhoon Ondoy wrecked havoc across much of the other parts of Metro Manila and Luzon, the family and I were at home in Paranaque where the extent of what we felt of the storm was just the incessant rain. Whereas others lost homes, some even their lives, I lost a couple of days of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com&blog=5226415&post=368&subd=fromthemonobloc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journal Entry #8</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Villanueva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I BELIEVE it was Sting who sang about a brand new day &#8212; or something to that effect. And for me to begin with a cliche allusion to some otherwise cheesy song lyric means I&#8217;m doing alright. The day after these thoughts were first jotted down somewhere, I paid a 2,000 peso reservation fee for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com&blog=5226415&post=361&subd=fromthemonobloc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A final scene</title>
		<link>http://fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/a-final-scene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Villanueva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THERE are plenty of films from my childhood that have made a lasting impression on me, but the one I&#8217;m thinking of now has a title I don&#8217;t remember and a premise I don&#8217;t even think I ever understood. The truth is, it&#8217;s only one scene from that film that I remember, a surreal one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com&blog=5226415&post=356&subd=fromthemonobloc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dilaw (7/7)</title>
		<link>http://fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/dilaw-77/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Villanueva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I LIKE the standard &#8220;Where were you?&#8221; questions that come with historically significant moments. More than remembering the place and what you were doing, you&#8217;re remembering where you were in your life as a whole, and how your life was being played out amid greater, more significant things playing out.
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		<title>Dilaw (6/7)</title>
		<link>http://fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/dilaw-67/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Villanueva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[QUESTION: Have you noticed, as many had been hoping and speculating, a palpable change in the attitudes of Filipinos after the death of former president Corazon Aquino? Was the celebration of her life amid her passing truly a turning point in our own attitudes about who we were, who we are, and who we can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com&blog=5226415&post=344&subd=fromthemonobloc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dilaw (5/7)</title>
		<link>http://fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/dilaw-57/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Villanueva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;M torn about how yesterday&#8217;s La Salle-Ateneo game went. No &#8212; I&#8217;m torn about the pre-game festivities. (Very much happy with the final score &#8212; go &#8216;teneo!) On one hand, it was good to acknowledge the passing of former president Corazon Aquino. On the other hand, &#8220;Bayan ko?&#8221;
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		<title>Dilaw (4/7)</title>
		<link>http://fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/dilaw-47/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Villanueva</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[V. 23]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ONE out of my 60 or so students went out in the rain with her family to greet Cory Aquino as she was being transported to her final resting place this past Wednesday, August 5. Less than a quarter of the students actually watched the coverage on TV. I didn&#8217;t bother asking the rest what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com&blog=5226415&post=339&subd=fromthemonobloc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dilaw (3/7)</title>
		<link>http://fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/dilaw-37/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Villanueva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FORWARDED by our Chair at the Ateneo Department of English, a letter from Ninoy Aquino to daughter Ballsy which refers to Cory&#8217;s steadfastness long before she became president:
August 18, 1973
 Fort Bonifacio
Makati, Rizal
Ms. Maria Elena C. Aquino
25 Times St. Quezon City
My dearest Ballsy,
I write you this letter with tears in my eyes and as if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromthemonobloc.wordpress.com&blog=5226415&post=335&subd=fromthemonobloc&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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