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12Apr/1114

Barely Alive

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Because Joey can’t find the time to resize our old photos or take new ones, I am forced to “reblog”. It’s the in-thing after all; people are bored with their lives but are too lazy to compose their own entries. Madness! That’s what I love about humans.

But I love puppets more.

“An actor struggles to die onstage; a puppet struggles to live,” says Adrian Kohler, puppet master. On TEDtalks, they bring a wooden warhorse to life.

And just today I discovered the Muppets on Youtube! Their puppet master is long gone but still they live, funny as ever and not a day older than the last time I saw them on TV. Well, except for Statler and Waldorf but they’ve always been old and grumpy and utterly lovable.

Live, puppets, live! You will always be my inspiration and hope.

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5Jan/1130

Message from Uno: New Year, New Song

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Mistula starts the New Year with a song to share.

Panalangin sa Panahon ng Bagyo (Prayer in the Time of Storm) was written after Typhoon Ondoy devastated our country and left so many of us homeless and hopeless. It is a gift, our donation to every person who feels small and powerless in the face of calamity.

We would’ve presented this song last year had a baby not taken our lives by storm. In 2010, our creators Joey and Rey weathered a rough pregnancy and gave birth to a super typhoon called Korbin. Until now, she keeps us wondering if the next day is going to be calm or turbulent. For such is life: ever-changing, never predictable.

Will the New Year bring new storms in our lives? Naturally. They will come in the form of tropical cyclones, cataclysmic careers, whirlwind relationships. It does not matter how they come, what is important is how they leave us: not victims but victors, weather-beaten but unbroken.

The next time you feel the clouds gathering above you, sing.

Let us welcome the storm with a song in our heart.

Like every prayer, Panalangin Sa Panahon Ng Bagyo is most powerful when sung in unison. So share this song. Sing it with your family. Your friends. Your classmates. Your choir. Sing it with faith, with hope, knowing that sometimes, it takes a storm to bring out the best in us.

“Ang buhay ay weather-weather lang.”
-Kuya Kim Atienza

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27Aug/1036

In The Dark

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“Uno, what are you doing out here in the middle of the night?”

At the risk of being called unoriginal by Lugosi, who gets up to pound away at his drums only when everybody else has gone to bed, this is how my nights are spent recently: unable to sleep, lost in thought. My favorite cup of cocoa is of little consolation. My mind remains restless and filled with uncertainly.