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Dear anonymous man hiding in the shadows

  I bumped into you because I clicked on the YouTube link from the Twitter account of The Weekly Sillimanian, because the title of the...
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Birthday Returns

  After the ravages of the pandemic, I’ve now found myself back to teaching. It was a very long hiatus from that part of my...
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How to survive a high school reunion

  and other Founders Day stories First, before you go to the reunion—especially if it’s for your 30th year—take time to scan your old yearbook. Take a...
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NegOr needs tourism reset

  On the last day of July 2023, a Monday, all the roads in Dumaguete led to the Negros Oriental Provincial Capitol where—in the forecourt...
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Nick Joaquin and me, and other confessions

<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4414480388811847" crossorigin="anonymous">I’m back in Dumaguete after a brief visit to Manila, and everything still feels surreal. And wonderful....
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The ultimate O.B.T. around Negros Island

<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4414480388811847" crossorigin="anonymous">The term “O.B.T.”–for one big tuyok–was probably first used by Dumaguete resident Raffy Teves in 1982. It...
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‘F*ckboy consumers’

<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4414480388811847" crossorigin="anonymous">Scene: Caña at The Bricks Hotel along Rizal Avenue, Dumaguete, Thursday, 3 p.m. A table overladen with...
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The darkness we don’t talk about

<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4414480388811847" crossorigin="anonymous">In 2008, a sort of funny thing happened. It was the second year of the Man Asian...
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