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Richard is easy to deal with.

If you him to listen to you, give him food.

If you want some advice, make sure that you follow whatever he tells you.

That’s it.

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Wisdom Tooth

Last week was a very weird week. Monday started out really slow. I was feeling very odd, and I was cross most of the time. I kept on snapping at people for the smallest things. I was also silent most of the day because I had a hard time reviewing essays and giving my comments. I felt so dumb that day. Little did I know that it would be the start of a very painful tooth ache.

At around 3:00 PM, I started feeling pain from my right molar. A few years back, I seemed to have broken my tooth, my right wisdom tooth, while eating sisig, a local dish. I just ignored it until this month, my tooth ached. Before I went home, I asked my supervisor if I could take the day off so that I could have my tooth fixed. Luckily, she told me that I could work from home so that I could still do my job and go to the dentist.

Tuesday afternoon, I went to the dentist and had my molar fixed. She said that the tooth has cracked and I only had 3 parts of the tooth left because I left the crack untreated for so long. Good thing, yet again, that the dentist can still fix it with light cure fillings. However, I can’t bite on anything hard anymore. She told me that I need to take care not to do that so that the tooth won’t shatter.

Wednesday came, and I went back to work, feeling all happy and jolly. I said good morning to my officemates, and after an hour of sitting at my desk, a very funny realization hit me:

I think I acted foolishly because of my tooth ache. The tooth that shattered was my wisdom tooth. When I got it fixed, I felt alright! My work felt easier to do because, probably, my wisdom came back when my wisdom tooth got fixed. LOL!

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Happy Birthday, FLIP / still!

September 14, 2009. FLIP / still, the umpteenth blog of Richard is born at exactly 3:00 AM, Manila Time.

I flip through blogs. Hence, part of this blog's name is FLIP. Still, I keep on making new blogs every now and then over a period of almost 15 years now. Hence, part of this blog's name is still.

Kate would laugh out loud when she finally sees this blog. As a long-time friend, we've been through several blogs in each of our own lives. I think she is on her fourth one. I think I am on my 15th. On the other hand, I can't trust my own counting because I have already lost track of how many I have. "You know, Chad, you're a serial blogger," Kate said to me one day. I said, "No! I sure am not." She'd laugh in triumph for being so accurate in labeling me as a serial blogger.

Before, I had themes for my blog. I seem to make one when a new phase in my life comes up. For example, I once had "Orange Fantasies" to mark out the time when my favorite color was orange. Now, it's green so that blog is already dead. I also had a cheesy blog, "Just Look Back," to mark a melancholic and pensive mood, which almost was a death warrant to that blog since it was only done on a whim. When the wind wafted the whim away, the blog was blown away with it.

I still have other blogs that are still active. For now, I am keeping my stories flowing in "The Ivory Tower" but the stories are running short, and gaps between posts have been longer. I also keep "Ang Pinoy Aquarium," which is in Filipino; I've been interested in keeping fish for a long time now, so I guess that blog might stay a while. To ensure its survival, I got a friend to help me update it, although he's not the most prolific writer. Hopefully, I could keep this blog alive as well.

In this blog, expect to read about flip ideas. Hopefully, I could keep myself still long enough to make this blog the last blog I will ever make.

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