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going against the current more thoughts just thoughts skip to content going against the current more thoughts just thoughts menu author travels readers contact guest writers ties this morning when i got to work i saw these neckties on my table they re a gift from an outgoing professor who after teaching strategic management in the philippines for more than five years has given up his tenured post and will head back to the united states this week he thought i d love them and that he will not have any opportunity to wear them in his retirement anyway so he d be happy to give them to someone he s sure would wear them thanks prof olivier will surely miss our morning chats rate this author j posted on april 1 2026 categories commentaries leave a comment on ties cats we will not be able to live so many lives and so we imagine how other lives are lived including the life that we ve left behind but to be truly happy is to just live and live in the best way that we can the life that we have right now i think this is both the beauty and the tragedy of being human and being alive little boy on the day of my last visit rate this author j posted on february 17 2026 february 17 2026 categories commentaries leave a comment on cats 2016 2026 a lot of things can happen in ten years but i hope my 29 year old self would only have a few things to scream and wail about once he found out what happened to him ten years on that younger version was a difficult man way too exacting unreasonably and obsessively passionate about all things work school life love but love most especially this current version is relatively calmer more forgiving and somewhat again i hope wiser rate this author j posted on january 18 2026 january 18 2026 categories commentaries leave a comment on 2016 2026 le oi while searching for a document on my computer i found this photo from 16 years ago when i was a student in vietnam to my right was a good friend whom i eventually lost contact with years after i returned home she and her painter mom generously invited me to stay with them in their house in hanoi though it was not legal at that time for vietnamese families to have foreigners live in their homes the mother and daughter managed to convince the village police that i was a distant relative from the south of the country near the border with cambodia who was coming to stay with them which explained my strange accent my vietnamese was that good then it seemed life was a lot simpler it was a beautiful time to be young and without a mortgage to pay off rate this author j posted on january 6 2026 january 6 2026 categories commentaries leave a comment on le oi christmas in spain atop the cathedral of barcelona rate this author j posted on december 25 2025 categories commentaries tags christmas 2025 manila spain leave a comment on christmas in spain hedz hedz was a schoolmate at up visayas we never attended the same class but for some odd reason we always found ourselves having late night conversations in the waiting shed by the entrance leading to the staff houses in miagao we joined the partido sang mainuswagon nga bumulutho pmb at the same time in our freshman year but heading the college paper i thought was a more exciting venture than diving deep into turbulent campus politics hedz went on to chair pmb during our final year in the university eighteen years it appears wasn t sufficiently long to get in the way of a friednship we developed back when we were younger and still unflinchingly idealistic rate this author j posted on november 16 2025 november 16 2025 categories commentaries leave a comment on hedz tagbilaran city i presented my research on informality and food safety practices observed by street food vendors in metro manila at the 47th anthropological association in the philippines ugat conference in holy name university i regret having to stay in bohol for only a day surely i ll come back again someday to stick a while longer thanks to the ugat people who are the kindest nicest and most supportive group of scholars and thanks most especially to my favorite teacher the indefatigable prof mary racelis who gave away her ticket to a tour in order to attend my panel rate this author j posted on november 14 2025 november 14 2025 categories commentaries leave a comment on tagbilaran city posts pagination page 1 page 2 page 147 next page search for search much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid fyodor dostoevsky how to defy the current i want to receive email notifications from this guy s blog your email here email address hit me here join 403 other subscribers finds may 2026 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 apr passersby who defied the current 853 227 delinquents dissenters anonymous on 106 9kg angelina c on with you dr vic on somewhere j on somewhere dr vic on somewhere tcongdraws on on writing about the pres anonymous on a night 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