Disappearing in Thailand
The first thing you need to know about Bangkok is how the heat can make you do crazy things in April. One morning, after the usual breakfast of croissant, eggs(?), fresh orange juice, coffee, and...
View ArticleNail specialists
Our fingers, our toes – they register our hardships or lack of such. “Nail experts” can read how and how often we use them. A professor of literature once observed that social classes can be read in...
View ArticleSleep and Marcus Wayne
Having a kid at home sends waves of energy and love. Hope to crush this boy with hugs and kisses again, probably on the long weekend. And now, I go back to sleep. But very quickly, speaking of sleep,...
View ArticleSleep – an important health and beauty investment
Australian sleep expert Prof. D Hillman said sleep, like diet and exercise, is key to healthy living. One who lacks sleep experiences quality problems in thought processing, decision making, vigilance,...
View ArticleWorld’s 2013 ‘best’ universities
I did a rewrite of a breaking news on the world’s top universities ranked according to reputation. As you might have guessed, the elite “super-brand” universities from the US and UK were on top. In...
View ArticleThe so many questions after her death
There have always been those who have filled their bellies because they had no sense of shame, but we, who have nothing, apart from this last shred of undeserved dignity, let us at least show that we...
View ArticleNo use talking about privacy in social media, says law professor
Less—not more—privacy benefits the community, said Deakin Law professor who argued that “the more we know about other people, the clearer it becomes that they are like us.” This, he said, reduces...
View ArticleCrossing fingers for heaps of good news
It’s a shame that the world is crazy over news on Boston bombing while ignoring or ignorant of that bombed Afghan wedding where casualties were ten times more than the marathon tragedy. This is not to...
View ArticleWe are what we eat and I am a salad
Since I come home after work early in the afternoon, siesta time, I would usually take a nap, read a book, walk around MOA (Booksale or Fullybooked or fashion stores), watch BBC/CNN/HBO, or prepare...
View ArticleApril
Women, they say, are most physically attractive when they’re in their late 20s and early 30s. Natalie Portman easily comes to mind as an example. This is the time of maturity for many in terms of...
View ArticleAt the sound of hello
At the sound of hello, I quiver holding the telephone connecting me to a voice from the land of aborigines, kangaroos, and koalas. Koalas. Seventy-five percent of a koala’s day, they say, is spent on...
View ArticleMangoes, anyone?
Mike knows that mangoes tame my inner monsters, so since the onset of summer he’s been buying me kilos of yellow mangoes that exude that familiar smell of ripeness. One second, I could be a complete...
View ArticleIf the MMDA really has to write Dan Brown a letter
If the MMDA really has to write Dan Brown a letter, maybe I would have volunteered as their ghostwriter and have the chair sign this: Dear author, That literature mirrors reality has long been a...
View ArticleJars and a rainy day
When I was small, I slid some sheets of crepe paper into jars of water, and my jaw dropped when the water turned red, blue and green. I kept the jars at the backyard of my grandparents’ house,...
View ArticleRadio and bedtime stories
When I was small, my parents were sometimes away and the aunts slept in another room, so my sister and I would sleep at the master’s bedroom, listening to voices and sounds on the radio, clutching our...
View ArticleAfter the French film festival, Fête de la Musique
After the free French Film Festival last week (Jay and I watched Rust and Bone starring Marion Cotillard), Aliance Francais is bringing us another most-awaited free event in Manila, Fête de la Musique...
View ArticleEinstein’s letter to 11 year-old son
Thirty-six years old and a Dad, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to his son Hans Albert when the genius was in Berlin. The 11-year old was in Vienna, with his brother Edward (“Tete”) and Einstein’s...
View ArticleCinemalaya 2013: 25 films and some posters of art
Vilma Santos is the lead star of Jeffrey Jeturian’s Ekstra; Eugene Domingo of Leo Abaya’s Instant Mommy; Gretchen Barretto of Christopher Ad. Castillo’s The Diplomat Hotel, and Alessandra De Rossi of...
View ArticleMy first cover story
For anyone trying to make a dent in their ‘writing career,’ having one’s story published on the cover of a magazine is such a milestone worth sharing. Here I post my first cover story – the latest...
View ArticleBeing a monster is not easy
There’s a scene in Monsters University where Mike Wazowski was sitting by a lake, looking at the moon, contemplating his failure in being a monster. He’s a monster alright but the dean and other...
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