Stranded

SMARTPHONES can be useful.
Especially if a summer downpour catches you unawares, leaving your underpants wet and forcing you to seek refuge in a fastfood outlet whose airconditioning is slightly above the temperature needed to produce ice.
Which is exactly what happened to me Tuesday night in Quezon City on the way home.
Immediately after getting off a [...]

Playboy Mansion in the Philippines?

UNCONFIRMED reports indicate that the company which will own and manage the Philippine edition of Playboy Magazine has already acquired a mansion in an upscale subdivision in Manila. According to the grapevine, this will ensure that no rallies nor demonstrations will be held outside the said mansion, which will also serve as the magazine’s editorial [...]

Mum’s the word

FOR a blog with significantly less hits than a porn site during Good Friday, Nothing in Particular has its fair share of readers, a number of whom, I am proud to say, are accomplished individuals.
Shortly after I began to blog regularly—an acquired taste, especially for someone inured to seeing his pieces printed on paper used [...]