I Regret Shrugging Off Twilight

(Now, there’s another five words I have never imagined myself saying.)
I admit—back when Twilight rose to fame among teenage girls, I was quick to shrug it off. Back then, I was convinced that vampires and teeny-bopper love stories just didn’t mix. Add to that the fact that most of the addicts of the novel were [...]

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The Search for Dean’s Next Top Digicam

I’ve always wanted a digital camera with at least slightly better quality than my camera phone. The best my family has ever had, I think, was an Olympus C-350, with 3.2 megapixels, 3x optical zoom, and 3.3x digital zoom. It shot OK-quality pictures, but video was audio-less and therefore sucky. It was the only digicam [...]

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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret [Book Review]

It’s never too late to start reading a classic, so while I struggle to finish Nineteen Eighty Four, I read “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret“, a short, 25-chapter novel by Judy Blume that revolves around Margaret Ann Simon, a 12-year-old who grew up with no religion.
Having one Jewish and one Catholic parent, Margaret [...]

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Go Out and Vote

In only seven short days, the American people will storm the polls to cast their ballot for their next president, the next leader of the Free World.
There’s been all this mudslinging between the Republican and Democratic campaigns. Nasty namecalling, adamant arguing about one another’s policies’ incompetence—all the stuff you’d expect to see on the campaign [...]

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Meet Manuel [Blog Action Day 2008]

Meet Manuel. He’s six years of age, although if you look at his tiny, lanky frame, you’d swear he was four. He, his four siblings, and his mother live in a cardboard house on a sidewalk in Metro Manila. None of his siblings (who are eight, nine, and twelve years old) go to school; instead, [...]

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I have the iPhone! (Plus more personal life updates)

As an early birthday gift, my folks got me the iPhone 3G this week. Woot! It’s an amazing cell phone—a computer in your palm, really—and I was literally jumping for joy when I first coddled the device in my hands.
I won’t write a review. We’ve read enough of those. I’ll praise the iPhone instead. With [...]

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“Obama is not who he says he is”—orly?

Just a few moments ago, I came across this plurk:

Obama is not who he says he is! Don’t be deceived!

Spoken like a true Republican. It sounded very well as if he knows Obama in person and has knowledge of the dirtiest skeletons in Barack’s closet.
As I said in that plurk thread, I could very [...]

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