This is The Ailene.

For the six-day weekend.

It’s the start of a six-day long weekend here in the Philippines. I’m getting ready to hibernate hard-core and to recharge my inspiration-starved senses. At the same time, it’s good for some spring cleaning. Here’s what I plan to do, since I never leave Quezon City during the Semana Santa: – Fix this blog up. [...]

Dear Future Self #001

I’m going to start writing to you about the stuff that’s happening to me today. When I say “today,” I guess I mean now. And all the days that I’m about to live out. And the strongest memories that I have of the past how many days. I do this because I know us: things [...]

“All things new.”

It feels like Christmas. It’s a painfully sunny day here in the Philippines, and all I can think of is that it smells like nutmeg and coffee and tinsel and I feel like I’m eight years old again, waiting to open the balikbayan box from my godmother. Wondering if she got me the Lego set or [...]