... to let everyone know I haven't been killed by Quinito or Ryan Gregorio or Noli Eala. Not yet anyway.

It's just been an awfully busy time at work; my office is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and we're launching a couple of new websites to highlight the occasion. So there's that, and I have to prepare a speech about the sites too. We also have a conference coming up, and I'm part of that too so, yeah, busy. It's too bad, I had a lot of jokes about how the Barroca thing turned into a very ugly situation. Heh.

Anyway, I apologize for the week's absence, which should continue on to next week. Then, hopefully, I'll get back to blogging like a motherfucker.

Meanwhile, do check out Patay ang Butiki, those guys should tide you over for your sports fix.

Quick thought on the Ateneo-UE final: It's a battle between good and evil. You decide which team is which.

Also: this is cool.

Even the Inquirer couldn’t get a straight answer from FEU team officials and members of the team. Coach Glenn Capacio says he doesn’t know where Mark Barroca is, while JR Cawaling says that the superstar guard is out with the flu. A team staff member said that Barroca was suffering from an unspecified injury, even as athletic director Mark Molina and team manager Anton Montinola are refraining from giving any statements at this moment.

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I am a huge fan of Slate's series of How To Fake Your Way Cocktail Chatter series. I am expressly acknowledging that I am ripping them off in this post. Enjoy.

So your officemates are all talking about the UAAP Final Four over lunch, but you don’t know Jai Reyes from Cristine Reyes? Here’s a handy guide for everyone who wants to be instant college basketball experts.

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First, I apologize for the lack of updates. Here’s the reason I’ve been busy: A few months ago, when I started working for my current employer, the whole staff drew lots as to which presidentiable to cover. We were each assigned a candidate to keep tabs on and eventually write profiles for. Being new, I was assigned a prospective vice-presidential candidate, which shouldn’t have been much work. The prospective candidate? Noynoy Aquino.

I haven’t been posting mostly because I’ve been working on this feature.

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Just wanted to pass this along for everyone enjoying the lazy weekend:

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I root for the UP Fighting Maroons in the UAAP, but my UAAP fandom actually predates my allegiance to Maroons basketball. I started watching UAAP basketball in the early ‘90s, and I began rooting for La Salle, starring Jun Limpot, Johnedel Cardel, and Tonyboy Espinosa, against the FEU Tamaraws led by Victor Pablo and Johnny Abarrientos. (I was young and stupid, I know, but Limpot was awesome back then, and this was before he turned into the Pinoy basketball antichrist; also, Espinosa was right up there with Johnny A. before all his injuries.)

A few years later, I was on the other side of the fence, whooping it up with Henry Ong’s three-pointers that made Jason Webb cry, Bal David’s clutch free throws before Elmer Lago missed those layups, and Edwin Bacani’s ballsy outside bombs.

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Just noticed that I'm getting a lot of traffic from people searching about the Smart Gilas RP National Basketball Team currently competing in the FIBA-Asia Champion's Cup in Jakarta, Indonesia. Let me point you guys to the wall-to-wall coverage of the competition over at Bleachers' Brew. Rick Olivares is doing a great job, if you don't mind him nuthugging national team coach Rajko Toroman every few paragraphs or so.

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