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My dad is a veterinarian, and I remember when I was little, our house was a veritable zoo, what with all the pets we had, and the patients’ pets that were staying with us for observation or operation.

My younger sisters Monique and Hayzel weren’t born yet so it was just me, Kat and Alpee.

The pets occupy a large chunk of my childhood memories ( Read more... )

Last night, Len (our production manager) and I were running like headless chickens after learning that we still didn’t have a satisfactory cover page. Who knew that the Great Wall of China could be so darn complicated? We were so desperate that we begged the Getty’s image rep. from Singapore to work overtime so that we could purchase one of their ( Read more... )

40 Things About Me

1. Pick 1 of your scars out now. How did you get it?
On my left arm, scalded by a baking pan
2. What's on the walls of your room?
A black and white photo of Jimmy Stewart from a magazine tribute of his death. Peanuts comic strips. Meteor Garden pictures. Some cut-outs of Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Marlene Dietrich. Pictures of ( Read more... )

Do you notice how things always come to you in the most unexpected places? At the most inconvenient times? I was cooking lunch a while ago, wishing the chicken would fry faster because I had to rush off to the office soon afterwards.

That was when a torrent of topics to write about hit me. Like the candy store in my old elementary school. It was ( Read more... )

I did overtime on my very first day of work. And not just any overtime, we're talking being at the office until 1 a.m. There I was, typing away about my visit to the Ayala Museum, beating the next-day deadline ( Read more... )

The big news at home is this: We find out that my brother is not actually deaf and mute and autistic as we'd all long ago concluded ( Read more... )

After months of lobbying in the political arenas, sitting through tedious Capitol Hill and World Bank sessions, U2 frontman Bono partners up with fellow musician Bob Geldof and tries to save the world the best way they know how: through a rock concert.

Live 8 kicked off in London with U2 and Paul McCartney singing “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s ( Read more... )

THINGS ( Read more... )

I ride with my friend Mela every morning going to Ortigas. She works a street away, at HSBC. Arriving 30 minutes early for work, we wait at Starbucks right across her building at Discovery Suites. It was at that point, one morning when we were talking about overtime, and investments (mostly hers, since I have not a modicum of business acumen in my ( Read more... )