WINNING IN THE HUDDLE by Stauro Punongbayan

          I had the privilege to be invited to the book launching of WINNING IN THE HUDDLE, by the author himself no less, and my high school batchmate Stauro Punongbayan. The book launching took place last Saturday (February 28) at Right Start Center, 2nd West Crame St. in San Juan City.

        Regrettably, my frenzied schedule even on a Saturday prevented me from attending it. To make up for it, I am promoting his book here in my humble blog:

I Dream of Dogs

          Whenever my memory grants me the privilege to remember a particular dream upon waking up, I grab my book about dreams soon after and try to search what my dream meant. The past moons have witnessed me dreaming of dogs. On several occasions, I even dreamt of Bambi, our ever loyal Basset Hound - now sniffing her way around in heaven for many years already. I have been wanting to get another dog after the last of our canine companions died on December of 2010 (the same month that my Dad died). Her name is Wimby, a maltese-spitz. I got her in year 2001 and named her Wimby, short for Wimbledon, since I got her around the time that the Wimbledon Tennis Championship was being held in London (June).

        One would initially think that my dog dreams are manifestations of my ardent desire to get another canine friend. But my book told me otherwise: 

Do You Believe in GHOSTS?

Anvil Publishing Inc., 2011

        Do you believe in spiritual beings (ghosts)? If this question will be thrown back at me, then my answer will be a resounding YES. This is not to say though, that I have had encounters with “them”. I don’t want to in the first place! I personally believe that we share this world with spiritual beings, most especially those that are still earth bound, or are still attached to the physical plane (am I sounding like a psychic here?).

        Last December 12, on the occasion of my Dad’s first death anniversary, I bought a book at National Bookstore entitled Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ghosts (but were afraid to ask) penned by the leading paranormal authority in our country, Mr. Jaime T. Licauco. Coincidence? I really don’t know. I simply chanced upon this book at the aforesaid book store and thought of buying it. I am in fact a fan of Mr. Licauco because he talks about paranormal phenomena with immense knowledge and eloquence. What further fuels this is that I marvel at stories about the supernatural.

        I am done with the book and so I want to share with you some very interesting facts about ghosts that I learned from Mr. Licauco’s book, which I am sure you people out there are also inclined to know. Here they are, in my own words (majority):