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		<title>I used to be a faggoat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;You are an Aquarius,&#8217; a childhood friend once proclaimed, and I was hooked. As a kid, I immediately subscribed to the idea that our lives are determined by the stars. An avid reader of printed news, I would take time reading through the daily horoscope, plotting my days according to the lay of the stars, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fullman.com.ph&amp;blog=150999&amp;post=699&amp;subd=fullman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This year, last year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2009]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I decided to stay put and hunker down. The year has just ended, and in a few days I am turning 32. You have to admit that 2009 was a strange year: it had 3 arms, an extra face, a 13th month that had 365 days. It was as if each day is always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fullman.com.ph&amp;blog=150999&amp;post=605&amp;subd=fullman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>how to kill a fly</title>
		<link>http://fullman.com.ph/2006/10/08/how-to-kill-a-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 19:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in Nueva Ecija, townsfolks dangle clear plastic bags filled with water in their windows to ward off flies. It obviously doesn&#8217;t work; even the local people I asked about the practice admitted as much. It somehow reminds me of a rural belief allegedly propagated by a UPLB professor that homosexuality is a product of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fullman.com.ph&amp;blog=150999&amp;post=48&amp;subd=fullman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Formula for rainbows</title>
		<link>http://fullman.com.ph/2005/05/09/formula-for-rainbows-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2005 16:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With enough bouyancy and speed, the harshest of sunlight, and generous ladles of sea-foams frothing in the outriggers of the boat, one can get a glimpse of the madness of rainbows in the middle of the ocean. I have seen several: one really has to be vigilant &#8211; wait for the ocean to slam its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fullman.com.ph&amp;blog=150999&amp;post=10&amp;subd=fullman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>insomnia</title>
		<link>http://fullman.com.ph/2005/04/15/insomnia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[sleeplessness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be fun to up and about when everyone is in deep slumber. when i was still a kid, if midnight catches me awake, i&#8217;d spend hours reading, or doing just about anything that comes to my mind. imagine how liberating it was: everyone was trapped in their dreams, running after what they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fullman.com.ph&amp;blog=150999&amp;post=8&amp;subd=fullman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The thing about storms (what really happened on august 26, 2004)</title>
		<link>http://fullman.com.ph/2005/04/09/the-thing-about-storms-what-really-happened-on-august-26-2004/</link>
		<comments>http://fullman.com.ph/2005/04/09/the-thing-about-storms-what-really-happened-on-august-26-2004/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fullman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[black out]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waking up in the middle of a storm reminds me of the wonderful chaos of drums. It is as pleasantly confusing as a parade: you don’t know where you are, you feel the noise in your skin, you feel the urge to do everything all at once. You don’t even know if it’s morning already, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fullman.com.ph&amp;blog=150999&amp;post=7&amp;subd=fullman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">add to del.icio.us</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Digg it</media:title>
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		<title>Singularity</title>
		<link>http://fullman.com.ph/2004/06/14/singularity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2004 14:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fullman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every night my bed grows wide. Sometimes I’m happy about it, sometimes I feel obliged to map out the loneliness of its geography. There are nights when it becomes a vast continent of yearning. During such nights, I travel the length of its darkness, discovering along the way imprints of familiar warmth. Its emptiness contains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fullman.com.ph&amp;blog=150999&amp;post=29&amp;subd=fullman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Heron Woman*</title>
		<link>http://fullman.com.ph/2004/04/27/the-heron-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japanese tales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once, a poor fisherman saved a wounded bird from dying in winter. The kind fisherman took care of her until her broken wing mended. Throughout the time of healing, the bird came to trust the fisherman&#8217;s pure and simple heart. When she could finally move her wings to fly, she decided to transform herself into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fullman.com.ph&amp;blog=150999&amp;post=5&amp;subd=fullman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>wanderlust, or why as the beginning</title>
		<link>http://fullman.com.ph/2004/03/08/wanderlust-or-why-as-the-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea came to me a few weeks ago. Write, said this voice inside my head. But what was there to write about thousands of miles above the ground? I was once again going back, going home, and I wondered why I kept on leaving in the first place. There is only homesickness, in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fullman.com.ph&amp;blog=150999&amp;post=3&amp;subd=fullman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>my first poem</title>
		<link>http://fullman.com.ph/2002/11/01/my-first-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The earliest memory that i have is about a particular moment when i was still in pre-school. It was probably summer, or a weekend: that morning i felt too eager to play, having no classes I must go to. There was this wide lawn in front of our house, lined up with shrubs of hisbiscus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fullman.com.ph&amp;blog=150999&amp;post=6&amp;subd=fullman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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