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Hear ye all who give a shit (no pun intended re: title).In an attempt to standardise all my accounts cyberwide, I have changed this blog's URL. It is now aldrin-ft.blogspot.com and no longer ahaldrin.blogspot.com. This is to parallel aldrin-ft.tumblr.com. If you follow this blog through Google, it should update itself automatically. If not, although it should, please change it to aldrin-ft.Likewise, my Twitter ID is now

I am now on Tumblr.
And I am, at this very moment, liking how it works. It allows me to synchronise my Facebook and Twitter accounts so I don't have to manually update each one and it also allows me to conveniently share the little things that I would usually spend hours on trying to turn into a decent blog entry.I shall be blogging there from now on, so you can bookmark or link my new homepage if you are the type to do so. Do not, however, replace your links just yet as I still have to find out how to export my older entries into

Aldrin: Today's Halloween is what I prefer to call Hallmark Halloween.
Since it's a Saturday and also Halloween, this week's Share-a-Quote is about this highly commercialised holiday. The quote, however, is a long one and something I wrote 2 years ago (shameless re-post, I know)."I love Halloween. Fires, dancing, soul-singing, tricks, treats, apple pie. Unfortunately, the Halloween I love depreciated o

Why A Heritage Of Smallness Isn't Necessarily A Heritage Of Backwardness
By Aldrin F.T. (me) and Jonathan S.In "A Heritage of Smallness", Filipino writer and journalist Nick Joaquin makes a brave, outspoken commentary on Filipino society, past and present. It's feisty; it stings and, most of all, it's true. But do his words, however true, speak in absolute terms? All throughout the article, Joaquin elaborates on how the Filipino's inability to think [and do] big denies him entrance into a world that thrives on progress. And as if that wasn't enough, that inability happens to be part of his heritage, he says. According to Joaqui

Lazy Blogger Tweets
At this very moment, I have 323 unfinished, unpublished entries for this blog: each one needing a specific combination of emotions to finalise. Obviously, I haven't been getting the right combinations these days. Being glued to Facebook and YouTube makes you wonder if you're actually accomplishing anything? Anyway, as a lame attempt to blog again, below is a list of tweets that I could have blogged about but couldn't due to an embarrassing level of laziness. (But if you think that's lazy, I'm actually eating pumpkin seeds right now... with their shells on