Buddha babble on Real Life Fiction

Looking ahead

By this time next week, buddhababble.com would be no more.

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The best part about moving on is the ability to look at yourself in the mirror and smile and say: “Everything is going according to plan”.

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For the chauvinistic and the uninitiated, “SEX AND THE CITY” is nothing more than sex and an endless stream of designer labels. For the discerning deserving female, “SEX AND THE CITY” is about female choice, drive, and a rewarding life for the fulfilled modern woman.

One such woman of substance is Pamela Anne Pangan.

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DAY FOUR: I Know What You Did Last Summer
 

Good morning dawgs

We woke up to much cooler room and almost running water. Several pails and an agonizing wait later, a decent bath was within reach and humanity is again saved.

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 Breakfast with Tita

We woke up late the next morning to goodbyes, Indian mango pasalubong and handshakes of interesting people met and new friends made. Irreplaceable reasons and memories for traveling, definitely.

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 Still smelling fresh for the day ahead

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 Excited to use vacation leave credits

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(Taken just this summer 2008, the Ilocos road trip is a milestone of personal firsts of sorts. 

A word to the wise: while this bachelor-esque article has four sequels of tales to tell and a buffet of food references, it is in no way a culinary review, but more of a pleasurably experimental gastronomical journey. Of sorts.

 



Enjoy!)













The best thing about vacation is that it is a world unto itself where you can get away with (almost) anything.

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My cousin Ana aka HBM (that’s Hot Big Mamah to you) is leaving town to build her life and make it out on her own, and I’ve never seen her more anxious and more eager to jumpstart her new domestic role as mother to uber baby Jacob, wife to baking god Lloyd, and hot new ambassador of the ultra-cool Quaker community of Pennsylvania (Has anyone seen “The Village”?)

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    There comes a time when a person must move on…life is made up of stages: there must be movement otherwise life stagnates.  Sometimes, you find yourself stuck at a certain stage, trying to get to the next one, frustratingly, always falling short.  In game terms, this would probably mean that you haven’t XP’d enough-you haven’t had enough experience nor are strong enough to go to the next “level”.  The willingness is there (thus the “frustration” part), it’s just that Life often throws you on a loop.

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