From:
F.G. David/Mrs. Ethel David
214 Alden Park
School House Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19144
U.S.A.
08 July 1989
Vey, Bryn, Ferri, Xenia and Avril
dear vey, bryn, feye, xyn and aving,
since the arrival here last 29 june of your mama and ucron, there hasn’t yet been a letter sent here by any one of you. i’ve told your ma, i’m wondering why […]
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[Alphaville cover]
Let’s dance in style let’s dance for a while,
Heaven can wait we’re only watching the skies,
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst,
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?
Let us die on let us live forever,
Don’t have the power but we never say never,
Sitting in the sandpit life is a short trip,
Music’s for […]
10:30 pm 27 Jul 71
(Received at UP August 3, 1971)
Dearest Lioness,
It is indeed some scene to imagine you and your cubs trailing the Disney jungle from our cave to the game field of the Coop. The Buch cub is gradually initiated into the Diliman ethological niche, w/c the oldest Bob cub is now familiar w/.. […]
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… About me …I still kick and darn. Lola Bambi might not have been totally wrong when she said that I might’ve have had a compact with shadows of the world under, who keep me propped up long enough to spill my venom in my godforsaken confined world of home, Lagoon, and school. Don’t I […]
… I reached home, driving through the twilight. I tried to enjoy the serenity of twilight, when the quiet night is about to replace the noises of the day …. I said to myself that I’m still alive. So is still alive the whole of human civilization. Every man is my brother. I share his […]
A week ago we gathered with our family and friends to mark Dad’s first year of passing. Tradition would have us consider it as the ‘official’ end of the mourning period. Anyone who has lost a loved one however knows that it is mostly optimism that makes one call it as such. Anyone who has […]
..Life is largely an accident, no matter how one reckons it, from the prospect of getting born, through fortunes and opportunities, to the prospect of dying. Only in a small scale or time frame, which science or philosophy calls local causality, can predictions and choices really make sense. But just the same, how one incessantly […]
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Ask Your Doctor
Vietrez P. David-Abella, MD
Diplomate, Philippine Board of Surgery
Fellow, Philippine Society of General Surgeons
Fellow, Philippine College of Surgeons
Fare thee well
July 09, 2008
For months, I had struggled with my father’s (Fredegusto Gueco David’s) imminent babang luksa this July 13. Is this society’s way of saying that mourning is over? That by this time one […]
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