HIGH UP ON THE THINGS YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DISCUSS with people you are not close with, and most definitely people you’ve just met, is RELIGION. But hey, if people can ask me why I’m single at almost 30 and if I’m worried about my biological clock ticking, then I can definitely talk about God.…
SOMETHING ABOUT JULY has got me feeling that anything and everything can happen. Beginning the second half of the year is like a somewhat clean slate, a midpoint that may or may not drastically change the course of the year. Maybe it’s wishful thinking. After all, I remember 15 years ago when I dubbed July…
HEY, WHAT’S UP BLOG? So much for daily logs, my last entry was last December. Meaning I’ve gone through January without even posting an either sappy or hope-filled birthday entry. But not to worry, even if January has passed, you can still expect a somewhat sappy yet hope-filled entry. Because, hey, if you can’t be…
TIS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.. and I’m in bed nursing a sore throat and the occasional bursts of headache. I’ve recently shared that December came in such a blur, and if my word wasn’t enough proof, I’m guessing my sickly state is. But that isn’t to say that I’m feeling Grinchly though. If I had…
YOU KNOW WHAT’S WORSE THAN BEING HAUNTED BY YOUR GHOSTS? Coming face to face with your shadow. Ghosts come and go, they’re bound to you but they’re mostly remnants of other people. It’s other-centric and grounded in the past. Whereas your shadow? Well, it’s pretty much you. Your darkness, your flaws, your weaknesses. What you’ve…
I THOUGHT I’VE ALREADY SEEN THE LAST OF “MAY PASOK BA?” MORNINGS. Growing up in the Philippines, a tropical archipelago, by its very definition, surrounded by oceans; we were prone to typhoons and monsoons. And because of our lack of infrastructure and urban planning, Manila is pretty much flood disaster prone. As you get older, because of the government’s…
OWN YOUR TRUTH – what the heck does that even mean?! What is my “truth”, anyway?! Okay, let’s base it on Apple Dictionary’s definition as: that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality. In accordance with reality. So, it’s owning your reality. I mean, yeah, you can acknowledge your truth. But actually accepting it is…
BEWARE THE OKAY LANG – The boring middle, the one that is not bad enough to push you, the one that is not good enough to keep you happy. It has enough up points to sail you through, and since it’s not SO bad, you tell yourself you’ll coast through for a little bit longer.…
I FEEL LIKE I OWE IT TO MYSELF to write something, to post something that will somehow neutralise the negativity of the last post. Not that there’s anything wrong with having down days. Guys, we seriously need to stop projecting that everything is fine and dandy all days of our lives. YES, I SAID IT.…
IT’S THAT FEELING AGAIN. That emptiness, that frustration, those small indignations that have built up into a dam of pent up rage. That feeling when you’ve crossed a certain point and know instinctively that you have to pull yourself out before you drown in the toxicity of it all. Several times you’ve thought you’d reached…
Tokyo 2016 Photodiary aka: a last minute visa applicant’s attempt to talk the universe down.. to TOKYOu down. 😉