tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36377156083982708522012-02-16T20:17:09.089+09:00A dose of some good old-fashioned musings of a non-practicing bachelor boy about the meaning of wife... and a host of life's other nosey questions.Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-79272061627164431242009-07-16T19:57:00.002+09:002009-07-16T20:01:22.649+09:00

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Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-35413488673893857662009-02-13T18:39:00.000+09:002009-02-13T18:40:45.406+09:00

I was sure he was clueless at the time but my high school best friend Moses (not his real name!) taught me a great lesson in coolness when he kissed his mom in public one fateful afternoon. He was so casual about it and couldn’t care less who was looking that I actually felt embarrassed to be even there.Minutes later, after we board the vehicle en route back to school, I asked him what has just

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-61320991640452803592009-01-16T11:02:00.002+09:002009-01-16T11:06:59.859+09:00

'I'm a coffee lover and Ecclesiastes is my favorite blend.Freshly brewed from on high Ecclesiastes perks me up when I'm feeling low and wakes me up when I'm backsliding.Personally, I love Ecclessiastes' bitter taste, its downright cynicism, its in your face pessimism. It is guaranteed to make your mood gloomy or at least introspective with its harsh overdose of brutal honesty served hot straight

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-58526301086851384182008-12-24T13:00:00.000+09:002008-12-24T14:01:58.839+09:00

It's that time of the year again when we at the Church of God offers our sacrifice of thanksgiving to our Father in heaven. For three glorious days on December 27, 28 and 29, we shall again be awed witnesses to his righteousness and words of wisdom.Personally I thank the Father for taking good care of my family, especially of my wife who went through two surgical operations this year.. I thank

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-7806130811775463622008-12-24T11:23:00.001+09:002008-12-24T14:20:05.104+09:00

Prior to being in the Church about four years ago, I was a Catholic and looked forward to Christmastime just as much as many Filipino Catholics are. I know the excitement the christmas season brings... the cultural message quite literally runs in your veins and your senses gets intoxicated in the hype of it all... and people casually calls it "the spirit of Christmas" as spooky as that may sound

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-84802750020191489392008-07-08T16:32:00.014+09:002009-01-23T13:39:34.794+09:00

An ordinary guy who loves to move around a lot Joseph Vizcarra, (that's me), is at home practically anywhere (well except for a few hell holes I happen to find myself once in a while in quest of coffee money).Currently based in Manila as a knowledge worker, Joseph successfully crashed his way through the fields of news media, marketing communication and institutional advocacy. These days he work

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-53128073813553500732008-06-19T09:35:00.000+09:002008-12-18T13:52:07.276+09:00

My experience in self-studying English (back in first year high school) serves as a mental yardstick today in studying Spanish. I was then able to break the barrier from functional illiteracy to active comprehension by a mere three months or so of intensive immersion. (Of course my exposure to Sesame Street English was a plus factor). What worked especially well for me was my translating English

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-11288565071822936112008-06-17T07:26:00.000+09:002008-12-18T13:28:32.071+09:00

For the last several months I was busy battling my writing fatigue, which has grown to fester me like the plague. In my unrelenting resolve to kill the inner beast I’ve fortuitously discovered a“cure” that, well, seems to work for me. I’ve realized that my “writing fatigue” was really “language fatigue” in thin disguise, I was literally sick with the English language! I was so sick of it I couldn

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-44674369572404881942007-07-28T11:29:00.000+09:002007-07-27T15:17:46.480+09:00

A curious thing about life, from a fiction point of view, is that the main actor is also the number one audience. Incidentally, this is how blogging works, on the surface at least, as I see it.I, the blogger, write stuffs and then read them once, twice, over and over again, that's my choice and my curse. Then people come in to my blog, just as they do in my life. Some stay for a while or for

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-9652840793124219052007-07-28T08:06:00.001+09:002009-01-23T13:43:41.429+09:00

It's been more than three years this month since I cried out loud to God to beg for the life of my second child. She was five years old then.The night before was uneventful except, that is, for the unusually loud and sudden cry my child blurted out while fast asleep. When I and my wife came by the bedroom to check, my child was perfectly normal. Having bad dreams perhaps and nothing more... but

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-78394483287384972952007-07-27T13:10:00.000+09:002008-11-21T13:29:50.173+09:00

This site has been online since June 2, 1999 but only today will I actually start posting anything.I have not yet really decided though what to make of these pages in terms of content and everything but I guess blogging about blogging should be part of it. That's what I call "reality blogging".Life, unlike fiction, anyway, happens in real-time. Therefore, reality blogging, whatever it means,

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-60446807532997661322005-12-23T18:22:00.004+09:002009-01-13T17:15:08.648+09:00

In the Bible, TIME & CHANCE was described in the same vein as a happening or event that carries with it the gravity of fate. Its almost equated as all the fortunes and misfortunes apportioned to each and every man and woman who ever walks the earth. In Ecclesiastes 9:11 we read... I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-28518954818457397722005-05-25T20:56:00.000+09:002009-01-14T12:32:50.448+09:00

The past twenty-five years of my life suddenly hit me one day as nothing more than a premonition. I was then stupidly singing my heart out in the bathroom to the tune of "...twenty-five years of life and still, trying to get over that great big hill of hope, for a destination..." ouch! My eyes got soaked in soap! Sometimes, lucid moments does get out of hand.For the longest time, I have been on a

Joseph Vizcarranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637715608398270852.post-18603807135536743112005-05-21T21:00:00.001+09:002009-01-14T12:45:46.786+09:00

I started out in my writing "career" with no other ambition than to please myself as a reader. And I had nearly moronic standards as a reader then. I used to tag myself as a "writer of substance" because I was so poor in grammar that the only way I could mask them was by spewing insight into every paragraph. Needless to say, it worked until a well-meaninged writer friend inspired me to eat my own

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