I was kept glancing at my Grab driver’s phone to check the ETA to KL Sentral. I was late in meeting an old friend who only had a few hours before she needed to go back to the airport and catch her connecting flight to Manila. We have not seen each other in 6 years. […]
Read MoreIt was 2 am and I was looking through a thin layer of smoke at a guy not much older than us, in a t-shirt and sweatpants swirling around noodles. It got longer and longer and he playfully circled it around this person I met just an hour ago. I was in HDL, a famous […]
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MANILA – CHERATING – TAGAYTAY – CAMERON HIGHLANDS – JOGJAKARTA – KALIBO – SINGAPORE – JAKARTA – KUALA LUMPUR Thank you for the lessons. 🙂
Read MoreWhen I was a kid and alone eating my breakfast, I would pass the time reading the back of my cereal box. Like any good paperback, Koko Krunch’s back cover was as engaging as any Nancy Drew’s – with a particular difference of course – it had twice the same content but in 2 different languages. The […]
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Some nights, I spend staring back at my reflection inside the train station and imagine myself just crashing at my house’s sofa and turning on the television watching some funny movie I’ve seen at least three times. Or sometimes, I would think about all the barkada dinners I missed out on in the 16 months that […]
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Jogjakarta, Day 2 I couldn’t tell where we were anymore. The path was narrow and unpaved. If I walked, I’d reach there faster, I thought to myself as our shiny Honda made its careful way to Jomblang Cave. The Honda suddenly came to a full stop as a man with a hoe came towards our […]
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Jogjakarta, Day 1 He held a flashlight up his face, like how little kids share ghost stories at night. Pockets of light danced around our feet as the rest of the curious travellers tried to light up the path to the infamous Buddhist temple. It was 4am and darkness enveloped us – yet, probably a product of […]
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As if by instinct, we all just moved towards the end of the bus one row for each pair. I look at the dark blue seats that looked more comfortable than a giant marshmallow in my dreams. Perfect, I thought. I could sleep a good sleep and wake up back in time – a place […]
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Hello, 2016! Keeping it brief, this year’s catch-all everyday motto is #noexcuses2016. No more excuses for not having the time to write, not pursuing things that interest me, not making the time for seeing new places, not spending time with the people I love – it’s a bold commitment but the first day of the year […]
Read MoreThe Art of Going Home This familiar blue screen informs me that I have one hour and 6 minutes to my destination, Manila, my home. It’s quite funny how this trip came about – I had just abruptly booked my flight home as I was tearing up as Michael Buble sang Home in my green […]
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