I Am Buraot

On top of this magnificent hill I whimper. I was lying on my back, on top of the cool green mass of freshly cut grass. Parallel to my view was the city I have begun to love. So laid-back and quite friendlier than the city of angels, the one I used to call my second [...]

Conclusion (Previously… Skirmishes In and Out of Sea) Yes, I was pissed with his article. But I don’t blame Chip Tsao. He who loves to write satire, though his love of it that does not guarantee that he’s good at it, just wanted to make a point. The way I understood, as I try to [...]

Third Part of a Series (Previously… The Crude Awakening) The group of islands called the Spratlys was first occupied by the colonial French at the time when it ruled Indochina. During the Second World War, the Japanese used it as a submarine base. After the world war, the French had it back but eventually had [...]

Second Part of a Series (Previously… Arrogance and Ignorance on the Spratlys Islands) At least 6 countries, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, have filed separate sovereign claims on all or part of the Spratlys. For years, the Philippines and the other small ASEAN member countries claiming the group of small Islands in the [...]

First Part of a Series I wasn’t keen on reacting to satirical pieces made by journalists as long as it is made with class. A joke sometimes creates something more meaningful than just a dose of laughter. It is art imitating life and thus the creator had nothing to do but become the messenger of [...]

Don’t be… I am back here in Los Angeles for a weekend trip to visit my mom, who unfortunately was in the hospital for stomach pains. Since I had no plans but to be with her, I will definitely be stuck at home contemplating nothing significant. That means I can have the time to fix [...]

I was out for a few days. Been down with that “flu” again. It was the last day of winter, can’t wait to get it over with and move forward to spring and say goodbye to that snow, that fog, that cold, those pestering mechanisms that seem to trigger my preternatural undefined and up-to-now weakness [...]