December 17th. It was around 10pm, I was getting off the bus carrying a box of ensaymada in my right hand and using my left hand to make my way down the crowded aisle despite the speed and turbulence of the bus ride. As I alighted off the bus, I felt movement in my left pants pocket, where my wallet was. As soon as my left hand was free I checked to find my wallet missing and looked back accusingly at the mass of unfamiliar faces crowded along the door of the bus. One man whose face I couldn't see extended an arm and pointed out into the crowd. There's a man running, he said, that's who you're looking for. I look around like an idiot, and the bus goes on its way. There was no running man, my wallet was lost.

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Days seem to fly by at such an unforgiving pace. Has it really been thirty-one years now?

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Here's the scenario: Last Sunday in the early morning, there was a fire in our office building, which hit some power stuff in the basement. So yesterday (Monday), the whole building was running on generators without air conditioning. Last night, we were notified that the power was back in the building, but just in case, we should come in to work in casual clothes ("dress down"), normally reserved for casual Fridays/Saturdays.

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It's 8:30 pm on Friday. I step out of Maxim's, a fastfood place near the office in Hong Kong. I flew in to HK the morning of the day before, and had given a presentation over a conference call on Thursday night. This was the only free time I had during the entire trip since I had to fly back the next morning. I decided to take a walk for maybe an hour or 30 minutes, to savor the cool night's weather before going back to hot and humid Manila the next day.

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I had actually read the much-acclaimed graphic novel only last year. And while I found the story decent enough, I wasn't sure whether to like it or hate it. Undoubtedly it was an important point in the history of "superhero" comics, but I was never entirely sure about it's point.

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