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Legs
by Roy. Lu
The definition of a chair always includes the fact that it has legs. These hold up the chair, making it possible to support any weight often heavier than itself. Just how heavy is easily imagined by how heavy one is.
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Greenpeace Cebu
by Roy. Lu
Greenpeace is one of the most visible environmental organizations internationally. It has become synonymous with “direct actions,” as Greenpeace members call it, designed to confront the issues, as much as make it to the front pages of newspapers and the prime-time news on TV.
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Lullabies
by Roy. Lu
When I moved to my present apartment almost seven years ago – a bachelor’s pad until recently when I hung up my bachelor’s togs – one of the deciding factors was how quiet the village was.
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Where were you?
by Roy. Lu
Oh no! was my first reaction. The event streamer that I had painstakingly worked on by hand – with Pentel Pens! – the whole day of Sunday and Monday was gone. Stolen, I thought. Just as quickly, I thought proudly: that streamer should be good enough for stealing!
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A new discovery of the old
by Roy. Lu
CEBU, Philippines—Anton Ego, the crowish food critic and tasting terror in all of Paris, sums up the movie “Ratatouille” beautifully. He writes a review of the revitalized Cafe Gusteau, whose main chef, it is revealed to him, is, incredibly now, a rat.
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I will never kayak again
by Roy. Lu
CEBU, Philippines—I will never kayak again, in a kayak that keels this way and that, seemingly with a mind of its own and taking as much time and much more energy to keep its bow on target towards its destination.
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Welcome to the club
by Roy. Lu
CEBU, Philippines—The performance art troupe in Cebu is a fairly small one. It numbers from anywhere between two hands full to a couple of fingers, although the number easily balloons to more than many times that during the annual MindWorks of the UP Cebu Fine Arts Program.
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Capitan Maldo
by Roy. Lu
CEBU, Philippines—Two Fridays ago, while we were getting ready for the following day’s celebration of “Earth Calling Cebu,” another group of friends and colleagues started off, from where we were making our preparations, to head to where the call of the earth issued from her deep and dark recesses.
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