Okay, so here is the first blog entry and to be honest, I feel a whole lot of pressure to make this funny and entertaining–perhaps its that high standard that I constantly set for myself, that if this isn’t the best goddamn Philippine blog out there, I will feel like an absolute failure.

I better get used to that feeling then.  And whats funny is that it is the feeling of “failure” that gave me the reason to start this blog.  I’ve been feeling a bit down and lonely this week.  For four nights I’ve been dreaming the same dream and each time I wake up, I’m hijacked by a really empty feeling.  The typical solution I have used in the past is escape.  I’ll fly to another country, do some travel alone, and come back missing what most people would call a “pretty kick-ass life” here in Manila.  So, I’m trying something new.  Maybe if I start a blog, treat it like a journal or a diary (dudes dont keep diaries so forget that i said that), it can mimic a sense of escape and i’ll feel a little better.  So again, here it is. Time to do what I do best–-and that's research, present, explain, complain–-and if this doesnt work, I still booked a flight to New York for Christmas.  Its time to let out the motherfuckin’ hog in me.