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Jasmin C. Ibañez, 27, is an English teacher at Ateneo de Manila High School. “Though I am quite satisfied with my job there are times when I dream of becoming something else even if I neither have the experience nor the courage to be any of the following: an ecologist, a radio DJ, a scholar, a mountaineer, a stage actress, a poet, and a vocalist of a rock band.”

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You outfit Roald Amundsen in 1911 when he’s the first man to reach the South Pole, and three years later, outfit the first expedition to cross Antarctica.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136215 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805321 [AuthorName] => Philip Cu-Unjieng [SectionName] => Allure [SectionUrl] => allure [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 339029 [Title] => Shaggy dog litter-ature [Summary] => I’ve always been partial to literature with absurd, off-the-wall, shaggy-dog, irreverent humor. I remember with better clarity how good it felt finishing my first Kurt Vonnegut or Tom Robbins novel than how it was closing that first John Banville or J.M. Coetzee book. I vividly recall how Robbins’ Still Life with Woodpecker had as its hilarious literary conceit, creating a story from what we see on a pack of Camel cigarettes – and that was read a quarter of a century ago. [DatePublished] => 2006-05-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135843 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1759578 [AuthorName] => SURREAL SUBURBIA By Philip Cu-Unjieng [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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Jasmin C. Ibañez, 27, is an English teacher at Ateneo de Manila High School. “Though I am quite satisfied with my job there are times when I dream of becoming something else even if I neither have the experience nor the courage to be any of the following: an ecologist, a radio DJ, a scholar, a mountaineer, a stage actress, a poet, and a vocalist of a rock band.”

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You outfit Roald Amundsen in 1911 when he’s the first man to reach the South Pole, and three years later, outfit the first expedition to cross Antarctica.

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