I am yet to finish a map ala Prisoner of Azkaban for Potching so we'll have a mini-treasure hunt at our house on the 31st. We had a nasty expereince kasi last year where all the kids were made to walk for 30 minutes in harsh winds (mahangin sa amin e...nasa paanan ka ba naman ng Makiling) and of course, these kids were like wolves looking for prey by the time we were about to start trick-or-treating. At the sight of the first house with candies on a bowl, let's just say 3 seconds after that, all I could hear was just the woog-woog-woogitty-woogitty of the empty spinning bowl. It was like feeding time at the zoo and I did not want to have anything further to do with that. We went home with Pot's empty jack-o-lantern bucket.

BASA AIR BASE, Pampanga - As music from the soundtrack of the movie "Top Gun" blared, the fighter jet taxied toward a hangar in this air base to mark the retirement of the country's 37 F-5s, once dubbed the kings of Philippine skies.

Shortly after, retired Brig. Gen. Angel Okol Jr., who was the first to fly the twin-engine supersonic plane for the Air Force in 1965, and Maj. Carlos Evangelista, the last to steer it in 2002, stood beside the aircraft, giving it a last look and posing for posterity.

Called "Freedom Fighter," the 46-foot-long F-5s arrived in October 1965, launching the Philippines into the supersonic age. It was the first Asian country to acquire the planes and, until the '70s, the Philippine Air Force would be the envy of its neighbors.