Contemplations

Hi and welcome to my blog; the musings of a Filipino-American writer, martial artist and teacher. Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to hearing what you have to say about what I have to say.

30 November, 2012

50,972

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Let me start by wishing everyone who participated in the NaNoWriMo challenge congratulations. Whether you got to at least 50,000 w...

19 November, 2012

A Writer's Life

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November, being the month of Thanksgiving, and in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, there have been a lot of words of thanks popping everyw...

29 October, 2012

Development in Martial Arts as I've Seen Them

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Developments in Martial Arts as I’ve Seen Them My last blog post, with my 27th anniversary having just passed, was about my lo...

28 October, 2012

Happy Anniversary

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Happy Anniversary I’ve been so busy that it wasn’t until the end of the day last Friday, as I was riding home on the team bus from a v...

A Rutgers Tradition - revisited

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A Rutgers Tradition - revisited Hi friends! For some reason, my last blog post, A Rutgers Tradition , doesn't come up properly on som...

21 October, 2012

A Rutgers Tradition

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A Rutgers Tradition There are four entries (five, if you count that number one has two definitions) for ‘tradition’ in the Merriam-Web...

14 October, 2012

NaNo, NaNo

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NaNo, NaNo No, this isn’t a post about the 1970s/80s sitcom “Mork and Mindy.” Simply, I couldn’t resist using the bad pun as t...

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Juan Rader Bas: Mabuhay! I'm an Asian American writer (Back Kicks And Broken Promises, Abbott Press, 2012), martial artist and teacher who was born in The Philippines, raised in Hong Kong and ended up in New Jersey.

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