Metro Manila Miasma

"I am here to propose a legend that says the city was once / a tribe of children / humming around in a circle / with embers at the center and cold hunger / for a story." - Ned Parfan

I, we, thrive within the Petri dish defined by your jagged boundaries, binding sixteen cities and a developing duck embryo, officially, squared by three suspended railroads plus the most ancient on soil, you are defined and simplified by two to three words and not much else, and undefined and unraveled by a million spectacles and cuss word puzzles. Tabloid fodder factory you are, and we line up for news about ourselves and the more suffering, or dead, victims among us. And I, we, your weary children: indifferent, passive, as our lungs fill up with your pneumatic smog, with barely a sniff, plow like the diminishing, extinct-bound carabaos (and trivia: sprawled inside Krus na Ligas, is the only functional rice field within you, which your steeled and cemented self may have forgotten.) 

Your redemption lies buried in one of your landfills, perhaps among the one hundred and fifty buried in Payatas, or underneath a garbage pile on one of your feces-strewn sidewalks. Your chalice of salvation dumped in a junkyard somewhere or sunk on a bed of your polluted rivers. In futile search of your desaparecidos, there are uncanny moments when incense mingles with the unified cry of your orphans, add to that those of the casualties of the recent Kentex conflagration (among others).

May all your churches, temples, buildings of worship, of whatever religion, serve as your thumbtacks, iron nails, staples, keeping you stuck to this earth, in place, that you wouldn't tremble too much in case of a violent tremor. We got, gathered, guts grinding from your gutters. And the (arguably) richest of your fiefdoms dreams of a tower that will be third tallest in the world (and soon fourth, fifth, sixth, and ad nauseam, as vanity of edifice complex goes). Indeed, you host these parasitic turfs that are no different from you: cabal of fools making fools of what they really are: 

fools. 

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Happy New Year, everyone! 

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Wrestling Association of the Philippines partners with Gawad Kalinga

Content originally posted on the Wrestling Association of the Philippines (WAP) Facebook page last July 25, 2013.

The Wrestling Association of the Philippines (WAP) recently partnered with the renowned and highly-respected non-governmental organization (NGO) Gawad Kalinga in the latter's project of building houses at Brgy. Escopa III, Dist. 3, Quezon City last Sunday (July 21, 2013). While volunteers built houses for the barangay's community, WAP secretary general Karlo Sevilla, Fabricio BJJ student Carol Pajaron and Quezon City wrestling team member Gedeon Lauyon (from left to right of photo, respectively) taught some wrestling basics to a dozen children -- for free. WAP also provided the wrestling mat for the one-day wrestling lesson and demo.

Free workshops in singing, dancing, arts and crafts, etc. were also held by other volunteer organizations for the rest of the community's youth, simultaneous with last Sunday's house-building project.

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Tado hosts “X-sena: Just Like the OId Days” X Games and tattoo event at QC!

This Sept 30, 2012, Arvin Jimenez A.K.A. Tado will hold and host a grand X Games and tattoo competition and exhibition at the Bernardo Park Covered Court in Barangay Kamuning, Quezon City. In cooperation with Punong Barangay Jayson Encomienda, the event entitled “X-sena: Just Like the Old Days” expects hundreds to patronize the various featured activities.

The X Games events of skateboarding, BMX bike stunts, fingerboarding and all-girl skating, along with the tattooing competition, will run from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM. The concert featuring iconic bands like Greyhoundz and Arcadia commences right after the X Games.

Also in the afternoon, S.P.R.A.W.L.-Mixed Martial Arts and the Wrestling Association of the Philippines (WAP) will hold MMA, grappling, Muay Thai and wrestling exhibitions.

With cerebral comedian of the absurd and social activist Tado at the helm—with co-hosts Skunx RiotRiot and Nognog Dgk—expect an Xtremely fun Sunday, morning to midnight, on the 30^th. 

Entrance fee is only Php50.00 each for spectators. Registration for competitors is from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM. For X Games athletes, it's Php150.00 each (they may practice at the venue as early as 8:00 AM); for tattoo art contestants, it's Php700.00.  

“X-sena: Just Like the Old Days” is organized by X Games veteran Alvin Ruas in cooperation with the QC Office of the Vice Mayor (our Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte will grace the event), and sponsored by QCTimes Magazine, Gubat Photographer Club, Skatepirate Skateboarding, Limitado Clothing, Wrestling Association of the Philippines, S.P.R.A.W.L. MMA PHL, among others.

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Contact Number:             0910-440-8035      ;             0907-302-0384      ;            0927-703-6912