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bat cave tales , cooking , COVID-19 , diary entries , family , filipino food , food and cooking , food and dining , life in lockdown , lockdown , manila
Life in lockdown: the fish with a bird's name
We're running out of rice. My organic long-grain is taking its sweet time rolling into town from Nueva Ecija, the country's rice...
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diary entries , notes and doodles
Saturday, done right
The past week had been bad on my energy levels. With all the shiz going on at work, I wish I could just block off all the updates and just f...
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diary entries , eulogy , notes and doodles , notes to self
2019, a eulogy
The year is ending in a few minutes and my social media feeds are bombarded with essays. I hate all the unwarranted emotional downpour b...
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diary entries , notes and doodles , notes to self
What's it like?
Recently, I've been in a very introspective period, a phase triggered by two news of deaths: one from someone I've heard of...
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creative writing , diary entries , film , indie film , scriptwriting
And here we are
I am beginning to feel that sluggishness of having to update an outdated blog account. Blogging seemed to have been largely abandoned i...
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diary entries , el nido , palawan , travel , travel photography , travel videography , video
A Sunset Catch
TD and I saw these children last night while doing our mandatory walk along the beach. These kids, as we found out, were looking for sh...
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creative producer , diary entries , production , writing
It's Only January!
I could not get myself to stop staring at this photograph. I'm pathetic, I know. Especially since its not even true to begin with. ...
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We Are All Storytellers
Last month, my ex-favourite person (it became so after this video) sent me a video on why I shouldn't call myself a storyteller. The bot...
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Remembering Remembering
The year 2016 will close in a few hours and my Facebook feed gets bombarded with how horrible the current year had been with its share of sh...
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diary entries , scriptwriting , writing
Sunday
8:03 a.m. I am on the verge of a creative breakdown. I've been ruminating on a feature film concept since June but my muse hasn'...
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Saturday Night
They don’t put bubbles in the milktea anymore. They omitted the Thai version and retained this one, a brown concoction with more milk than t...
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creative writing , diary entries , essays , palette of place , travel , writing , writing prompt
Stalemate
Raindrops hit my ankles as I breeze through the cobblestones. Looming around are ancestral houses painted new, in a street littered with ki...
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creative writing , diary entries , essays , writing , writing prompts , you ought to be in photos
Bunso
In this photo you are a conqueror. Do you notice how we crowd to you? How we struggle to get into the frame, be included in your light? You...
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chinese food , diary entries , new york , north america , parks , street photography , times square , travel
NYC Diaries: Tired and Jetlagged
Times Square, daylight Paul and I were awake as early as 3 a.m.; Our body clocks still wired to 4 p.m. in Manila. After three hours of n...
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brooklyn , diary entries , new york , north america , travel
NYC Diaries: Touchdown
The bed has never been as enticing. I arrived at Bill’s house after 19 hours of air travel. I never had jetlags but today, tonight rather, ...
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camiguin , creative writing , diary entries , poetry , travel
In Reverence
Our shoulders touch as the boat crosses the bay in a tedious passage. This lonesome voyage we share with a chorus of tired souls...
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anawangin , camping , diary entries , photography , travel , travel photography , zambales
Zambales Diaries: Camping in Anawangin
I first heard of Anawangin Cove from Kim during our magazine days. She used to camp at this Zambales escape a lot. The primary come-on was t...
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creative writing , diary entries , essays , fellowship , travel , writing , writing prompts
Swerve
That kadin (local name for mountain goat) is a more experienced trekker than I am The other week, I applied for a travel writing scholar...
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