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May
Most people took one look at that poster and went, “Ailene who?” That’s a good question. Typically, women who do talks on beauty are former beauty queens, fashion models, or have ships-launched-on-account-of-face-value portfolios like Helen of Troy. Beautiful Women, photographed a million times over, and who can make a sack look sexy. Typically. But as [...]
11
April
First of all, I’d like to say thank you for reading that really bitter and self-centered and really angry post about Day 1. I realize now that everything I wrote down can be summarized in several sentences, like: I am disappointed, because I was in faith and expecting God to do great things in my [...]
8
April
It was Rory’s fiance that taught me how to dig deep into Elevation Church’s sermon podcasts when I am at work. And now that I’ve deactivated my Facebook and changed my Twitter password into an insanely long one that I need to check-triple-check with my files just to get back into my Twitter account, I [...]
2
April
Nothing like death to shake up all the dross from this modern life. If you’re reading this now, then you’re alive, and I need to tell you: don’t wait for tomorrow to make recompenses or to right a wrong or to love someone. Do it now, while there’s still blood pumping through your veins and [...]
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March
I’ve always seen surfing as one of the most literal ways to express my faith. There I go, not the world’s best athlete or the world’s most enthusiastic swimmer, also with not that great a sense of balance, on a flimsy fiberglass board double my size, in the middle of a somewhat deadly ocean,* facing [...]
28
January
Here is how much I love Bisaya. Only 18 hours away from being physically in Cebu, and my mind is swimming with Cebuano words. Like they were little fishes drifting by my thoughts. Not lost. Definitely part of the landscape of my mind’s ocean. Tagalog feels inadequate, and I switch to English. Where are those [...]
7
January
I wanted to be silent on the last day of 2012. I thought it was fitting. Because you see, I talk too much. I remember when I first started blogging, I confessed to having an over-abundance of words. It’s been a decade of blogging and writing articles for magazines, and there are still too many [...]