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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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November
And thus ends nearly a month spent on the road, when work and home became the dash in between travelling. It was a search for, well, something. Back then, it didn’t have a name, just a nagging restlessness that was translating into an annoying version of myself. I was becoming irritable, throwing tantrums and fits [...]
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August
Two things happened while I was in Sagada this long weekend. Two rather important dates, actually: Owie Burns-Dela Cruz and my grandmother celebrated their birthdays. Both had exactly the right celebrations that they deserve: my grandmother had her family over and laid out a feast, and Owie spent time with her beautiful family. I don’t rattle [...]
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June
(So before you start reading this, I suggest you scroll down, click play, and then listen to the song WHILE you’re reading this. Come on, if I’m going to cry as much as I did, you might as well cry with me.) “We’re going out. You can stay here or you can come with us, [...]
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June
You could say that I grew up with her since she and her sister lived in the house right next to ours, which was (because this was Quezon City in the 80′s) connected to each other through a quaint little passage. They would cook siopao on those long Filipino afternoons, all the ingredients spread out [...]
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March
Dear Future Self, Do you remember growing up in Project 4? How, at this time of the year, the narra trees would be near-barren as it prepares for the flowers of May? Literally: Flores de Mayo. I don’t know what the weather’s like in your timeline, but right now, the weather all over the world’s [...]
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February
Every year, my cousins and I make it a point to go to 70′s Bistro for their annual Beatles Night. Always. I always end up missing our other cousins who are in other countries during this night, because only my cousins can sing the hidden bass/lead guitar parts with me. And we’re such Beatles geeks [...]