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ipis dei — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:07:18 -0400

How rude of me! I just realized that I started posting here, without any decent introduction, or getting-to-know-me stuff (other than my User Profile).

This must be rectified, stat! With that in mind, here's a quick set of bullet points -- so arrogantly written in the 3rd person -- that should bring you up to speed about my background:

* born to an overseas Pinoy (Filipino) family headed by a lifelong investment banker;

* raised wherever his dad's expat status took him, including stints at an all-boys Catholic school in Singapore and various international schools in the Asian Tiger Economies, circa the height of the whole deregulate/privatize/liberalize shebang;

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ipis dei — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:33:18 -0400

A friend of mine -- let's call her Dead Star -- relocated to Dubai several months ago, to live with her dad (an engineer in the ranks of the Overseas Filipino Workforce) and his new girlfriend.

Her first weeks in the country left her bored out of her skull, unable to deal with the frustrating mix of large-scale consumption (grandiose shopping malls; opulent luxury resorts) and fundamentalist Islamic cultural practices (getting the stink-eye for her discount-bin harajuku fashion, and dealing with the inconvenience of buying cheap snack food during the Ramadan fasting).

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Previously on "Hey, It's Paolo!"...

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