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I am but a traveler
Much as 2010 was the Year of Stability, it was also the year of travels, here and abroad. I’ve traveled to various destinations last year more than I ever have my entire life. There are a lot of new places, and there were also old places revisited (Hello Singapore, which some people say ginagawa ko lang Quiapo). Most of these travels were for ( Read more... ) -
WHAT WAS 2009?
Sometimes I would just like to laugh at myself for being so forgetful.
In trying to remember the names I’ve given to the past years, I’ve discovered that-for the second time in a row-I’ve forgotten to give a name to a particular year.
There are a multitude of reasons why I forgot to give 2009 a name-maybe I was too busy to even stop and think of ( Read more... ) -
STOP. PLAY. PAUSE. RINse, then repeat.
It is unbelievable, this sudden urge to write. It comes at a time when you least expect it, yet its inevitability (and persistence, might I add) is not something one can just put at the backburner like, say, the work that was due over the holidays (or last year, for that matter).
It has been a good first workday of the year, I must say. I have ( Read more... ) -
Old Habits Fight Hard
I was in an unusually dejected mood last night, probably ~one of those days~ when random sinking feelings just decide to manifest themselves, when I thought of checking how my books stashed in the second floor of our apartment were doing.
Honestly, I was postponing this inevitable moment of having to open ~that~ box and finding all my books in a ( Read more... ) -
Let’s Talk Consistency
I watched Julie/Julia on the plane on my way back from a three-day coverage in Bangkok. One line Julie uttered struck a bit of a chord in me: “I never finish anything.” She was frustrated about being recognized as the author who had a half-finished novel, someone who sets out to start some life project and ends up quitting mid-way.
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Epiphanies
Tonight, there is a sudden fright that envelopes me--like a parent waking up in the middle of a cold winter night, hugging her kid tight, bracing him tight like the turning of the world depended on the tightness of her arms around his body, afraid to let him slip into the cold silently, without as much as a willingness to fight falling over into ( Read more... ) -
Writer's ADD
We've heard of Writer's Block before, and oftentimes we wish we haven't even been acquainted with the word, nay, the concept. Every famous writer--from Woolf and Hemmingway to King and Grisham, een down to your Average Joe blogger--admits to have experienced it a least once in their writing lives, and every self-confessed writer wouldn't be caught ( Read more... ) -
Turning Points, Talking Points
My application for a US Visa was denied yesterday. Or, as my *nice* consul would put it, dee-nahyd. I had all my papers with me--sample articles, media ID, bank statement, the whole shebang--but the one thing she asked me to present (my *nonexistent* employment contract), I could not produce.
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SA-BOW.
Inverted Pyramid
(To the tune of Charice Pempengco and Iyaz's smash RnB hit, "Pyramid")
We start with the important stuff
The who, the what, and all that crap
Together at the top
Inverted Pyramid
And then we keep the story flowing
Supporting facts and all the details
Put quotes there if you may
Inverted Pyramid!
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Stupid Rain!
July 14, 2010 may very well be the worst day of my life. Ever. But I have no way of telling, do I? Since I'm still alive, yes? So let's just put it at it's the worst day of my life, SO FAR.
Here's what happened: at around quarter to ten in the evening of July 13th, the lights started flickering in my apartment. I was alone, my companions always ( Read more... )