The Ilustrado is a student of Political Science in University of the Philippines Manila. His dreams are bigger and more ambitious than yours. He sees himself as someone perfect, incorruptible and superior from other human beings.
If given the chance, he would like to be the second Fidel Castro, Michael Crichton or Karol Wojtyla. In the near future, the ilustrado will be a lawyer. But his real future is becoming the Holy Father of the Roman Catholic Church.
And oh, his name is Cleve Kevin Robert V. Arguelles. But you must always call him as Cleve. 
I have always enjoyed novels written by Michael Crichton. His writing style is very captivating because he writes with technicality through block of thoughts and actions, inserts random raw data (which I love the most, it is very hard to understand raw data but it is self-satisfying afterwards that you can finally do a lecture about it) into his works to make the readers believe it is real, but just enough for you to stay.
Airframe was no exception for being very Crichton.
I can’t believe how Michael Crichton played with several issues. All things touch other issues. This issues includes internal labor management, corporate politics/players, local regulations, international problems and the role of media. This is something that you will read when you are bored.
Airframe is wonderful, that is without any doubt. And if not for the way Crichton moves through stories I would not be able to read this book with ease and with let up. It was never a problem. But at the end, Mr. Crichton showed his fossilized weakness, that his charcaters are not too shallow to have thought processes, that they don’t have any difference with computers and other machines, that they are binary simpletons who either know or don’t know, either understand or are stupid.
It should have been a quoteless book without this line: “Emotionally [engineers], they’re all 13 years old, stuck at the age just before boys stop playing with toys, because they’ve discovered girls. They’re all still playing with toys. They have poor social skills, dress badly – but they’re extremeley intelligent and well trained, and they are very arrogant in their way. Outsiders are definitely not allowed to play.”
I enjoyed reading Airframe every minute of it.
If you’re a Crichton fan, then this one is a real throw up.
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Our maid is on leave. Christmas leave. Still applying for an extension. 
Breakfast time. There is nothing worth eating sa fridge namin. Puro chocolates and fruits ang laman. Hindi naman ako nag brebreakfast na bread ang kinakain eh. I go for rice. Haha. Yup. I eat rice during breakfast. (more…)
1. Neighboorhood without neighboors.
2. I don’t know anything about airplanes. Airframe is very timely.
3. Cooked three hotdogs. Resulted to three non-edible things in a plate.
4. Case Unclosed is doing well.
5. Bakit may quartz ang clocks?
6. Host: Anong gusto mo ngayong pasko?
Guy: Simple lang po. World Peace lang po.
*SIMPLE? Ulit. SIMPLE. Mas Simple pa siguro ang laptop at tour sa Europe. Kailan nga ba magkakaroon ng kapayapaan sa mundo?
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*RT is Random Thoughts. Tinatamad na akong gumawa ng story eh.
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1. I’m not a good mayor. I’m not good at money. ( Nalaman ko ‘to pagkatapos ko maglaro ng Sim City 4 ng limang oras. :] )
2. Do you know that the word “ghoetti” and the word “fish” is read as the same. (Maniwala ka.)
3. Gusto kong maging isang Aziraphale at Crowley. (at the same time)
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1. Bakit ang “GO” sa traffic light ay green at ang “STOP” naman ay red?
2. Christmas is about Jesus … not Santa Claus. ( kilala mo kung sino ka. :] )
3. Ang tagal pala ng vacation. 
