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Views are a collection of my articles and the views of my friends. I’ve classified my articles as Istudyante, The Catalyst, ProTips, Far East Bank News, Manila Times, The Philippine Star, contest entries and web exclusives.

I've made this distinction so as not to make a short story long, or to ramble on and on, or to keep talking in a repetitive manner ad infinitum until it becomes impossible to remember what I was talking about in the first place, but, where was I?

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Cerebrate
Unpublished Contribution
Philippine Daily Inquirer (Young Blood)
In this war, there are no funerals, no eulogies. No letters to Mrs. Ryan about her dead sons. If you die, you die. To retreat is to be killed in humiliation. Surrender is never an option.
 

A What-If History
(Book Review)
Contest Entry, National Bookstore
If science fiction, like the works of Asimov, induces us to imagine the world of the future, historical counterfactuals compel us to think and analyze.  
 

Master Plan
Contribution, Manila Times
This is a different place. Not the one you were created for. This is a parallel world where altered versions of earth realities occur. This is another dimension. I know it sounds strange but that's how it is.

 

Men are From Mordor,
Women are From Lothlorien
Contest Entry, The Philippine Star
Wizards decoding the human genome have discovered that just 78 genes separate men from women. Everyone has their own opinion on what those genes might be.
 

The Farce
Science Fiction, Web Exclusive
Long, long time ago - in an office far, far away (about a bus-ride away), I came late for our Monday morning sales meeting. Little did I know, it would change my life forever.

 

The Genesis of Cell Phones
Science Fiction, Web Exclusive
The nano-cerebral, lumbering beeper gadgets ruled the corporate and party landscape. The primitive business swamps were teeming with bizarre beasts like the Beeparapturous Rex and the Great Wolly Beeper.
 

Virtually Unreal
Science Fiction, Web Exclusive
My family is a fading memory. The only words that I can relate to family are mother-board and config syster. I've found out that I don't even have to use human language anymore.

 

JFK (Movie Review)
Contest Entry, The Philippine Star
Stone points out that Kennedy was killed because he would have withdrawn troops from Vietnam and eventually, the profitable war machine would have slowed down and the war never would have taken place.
 

Txt Cptl of Th Wrld
Essay, Web Exclusive
For several years, the Philippines has remained the world's texting capital due to the magnitude of the volume of short messaging system or SMS the country churns out everyday.

 

Heart Line: Touching Filipino Hearts All Over The World
Essay, Back to the Bible 50th Anniversary Souvenir Programme
The strongest and most cherished value among Filipinos worldwide is love for the family.

 

LCM: Love, Cell Phone
and Marriage
Essay, Web Exclusive
The cell phone has become the ultimate tech trip. People can call, text, send you e-mail, photos, music and even movies from virtually any part of the world.
 

Health Care Significance
Essay, Contest Entry for PhilHealth
In recent years, there has been a tremendous focus on physical and mental health. This renewed interest in health is fueled by access to more information from the quad-media and partly through global issues.

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EMPIRE:
TOTAL WAR
Turn-based strategy and real-time tactics computer game developed by the Creative Assembly and published by Sega. The fifth installment in the Total War series.

MEDIEVAL II: KINGDOMS
The expansion to the 2006 PC game, Medieval II: Total War. It has four campaigns, focusing on the discovery of the Americas, 13th century Britain, and The Crusades.

MEDIEVAL II: TOTAL WAR
Set between the years 1080 and 1530. The game focuses on medieval warfare, religion and politics in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

ROME:
TOTAL WAR
Set during late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. I liked playing the factions of Hannibal (Carthaginian) and the Gallic warlord Vercingetorix.

ROME:
BARBARIAN INVASION
Set during the decline of the Western Roman Empire. The campaign begins in 363 A.D. and ends in 476 A.D. 

AGE OF EMPIRES II:
THE AGE OF KINGS
Real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. 

WARCRAFT
A real-time strategy game, developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment in 1994.The game is set in the Kingdom of Azeroth, part of the fictional Warcraft universe. 

POPULOUS
THE BEGINNING
the third game in the PC strategy god games of the Populous series, developed by Bullfrog Productions in 1998.
 

STRONGHOLD
A 'historic real-time strategy' game developed by Firefly Studios. It focuses on conquest and expansion through military pursuits, but also provides space for economic strategy and development.

IMPERIAL GLORY
set in the Napoleonic era between 1789 and 1830 and allows you to choose one of the great empires of the age on their quest of conquering Europe.

MYTH II
A sequel to Myth: The Fallen Lords. Set sixty years after the Great War and the defeat of the Leveler -- Balor.

COSSACKS
The Cossacks series has always been noted for having a large number of controllable units on screen simultaneously at 64,000 which is a large number compared to other real time strategy games.

COMMAND AND CONQUER III
Tiberium infestation has begun to reach critical levels and continues to destroy the Earth's ecosystems at an alarming rate.
 

WAR WIND
The game takes place on the world of Yavaun, where four races have co-existed for millennia -- the Tha'Roon, the Eaggra,the Obblinox and the monk-like Shama'Li. But the winds of war soon tear their world apart.

SEVENTH LEGION
The Seventh Generation of the Chosen have returned to make war on the descendants of those left behind - The Seventh Legion.