Dear Friends and Readers,

* * * CLARIFICATION ABOUT ALIKABOOK * * *

ALIKABOOK = TAGALOG for "DUST"

(actually spelled ALIKABOK);

but playing with the word to mean poetically,

a SCRAP-BOOK of my stories, articles

and dusty mental ruminations.

I had no intentions, nor do I have any (in the past, present and future), to offend anyone's religious sensibilities (i.e. especially my Muslim brothers). I am sorry if this may have sounded as something meant to attack someone/something or to mean something offensive.

I have written this explanation with the hope of sharing my wonderful experience of being hacked... though I wish they could have at least stated their intentions for doing so... but if it was for the plain fun of hacking arbitrarily, well, I guess I can't complain...

So there... here's my latest entry in my recent trip to Sydney for the World Youth Day... please bear with my format and layout... I STILL IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING HOW THIS IS DONE...