Author: danDAman

Prolific Nonsense Propagator What aspiring writers become when they don't commit to writing... auguilar@hotmail.com
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Offense Will Win It This Year

Dan Aguilar, playoffs 2015
This must be the west finals.

Steph Curry is the favorite for the MVP race, mainly on the basis that his performance translated into wins, most than any other team in the NBA this year. More importantly he has improved his performance from last year’s numbers, particularly the TurnOvers department resulting to where GSW landed on the road to the playoffs. Harden is able to showcase the peak of his individual talent, almost Kobe-esque. But those type of numbers no longer translate to championships and some voters are persuaded by the individual’s fighting chance to lead his team to the finals.

This is where LeBron comes in, whose consistency is as boring as the Spurs

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Trust

Dan Aguilar, Trust
state of trust…

I walk the stretch of Edsa extension from the corner Roxas Boulevard to MRT Taft at 10p.m. whenever I opt to leave my car and take the train instead. The sidewalk depicts the threat of decay Pasay City seems to suffer from within, similar to a shiny teeth enamel that is rotten from the inside.

It is not a secure walk and I’m pretty sure the city will use that fact that I, along with the daily mob who traverse this dirty street, walk there unharmed. The whole stretch is commercially developed but

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Laos

Dan Aguilar, Damian A work of fiction / Kathang isip lamang…

Mas mahirap malaos kesa sumikat. Mas matinding pagsubok sa katinuan ang pulutin ang sarili sa pagkakatulak sa putikang pilapil matapos ka ring itulak para iakyat sa pedestal.

“Sino ka nga ulit?!?” bulong ng boses sa mikropono.

“Si Damian…” marahan at may nginig na sumagot pero pinutol ito agad ng mala-balong boses na pumupuno sa entablado.

“Ahh, ikaw yung singer dati! Yung parang mas korning bersyon ng Eraserheads!”

Si Damian nga ang naging animong pamasak sa butas na iniwan ng banda ng 2002,

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Teaching Cinderella and Spider-Man

Dan Aguilar, Spidey and Cindy
photo courtesy of reddit.com

Perhaps the most difficult role a parent has to do is to create an elaborate tent of myth to sustain the growth of your children’s imagination. Sure, I’d want to tell my kids the truth and teach them the value of being true and sincere with whatever and whoever they choose to be. But handling the truth about Santa, princesses, and heroes require, you know, kids’ gloves. Are they gonna be better off if we let them crash into the ground until they learn the concept of balance or are they gonna learn better with training wheels? The answer is much much more complex and if it’s gonna be aided only by odds (something like 80% of kids without training wheels perform better…) and not by something absolute, then it means you’d have to find things out for yourself and hope that the result followed the trend.

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For Never Nor… Not

Love Triangle, Dan Aguilar
Love can be a heart shaped triangle…

Rated M for Mature

This is a story about a love triangle. I’m sorry the title don’t make sense but that’s because most love triangle stories don’t. If you’ve noticed the trend, most love triangles now consists of 2 females and a male. Even the last big hit about two males, one was just biologically male. The Ton Ton Gutierrez vs. Goma to win Sharon or Edu Manzano vs. Christopher de Leon to win Vilma is so 80s. (The 90s was about Robin Padilla blasting a syndicate to win a Sharon/Vina, or Andrew E. kissing all the girls you can only fantasize about. Although on 90s TV, there always seem to be two guys fighting over Thalia.)

So back to my observation about the male centric triangle… Why?

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Cake Planet: An Out of this World Cake Experience

Choco Macadamia by Cake Planet
This Cake’s got seconds to live

My favorite vegetable since I was a child is Ampalaya. I never outgrew it. The bitterness that presses the brain down as the juice from crunchy gourd escapes and triggers the back side sensor of the tongue. I like it maybe because I have an insatiable sweet tooth. It either makes the sugar I devour sweeter or it lessens my guilt for eating too much cake. Cake is one of mankind’s greatest food invention. I mean it’s not a derivative of something that naturally exists in the world like salad. It’s like when we invented the simple bread, we knew that there must be something more to this! Cake is a proof of creativity, like music. Cake makers are like alchemist to a fan like me.

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