Dec 31 2006
Bear with me… feeling Time Magazine kc… need to do a review of the year.
January – Dad and Mom finally visited us in Cambodia and they got to know our way of life here. They were with us on New Year in Siem Reap and we got to show Angkor Wat to them.
Dec 30 2006
Note: This was written on my notebook while lounging on the white sands of Sokha Beach in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
I have two issues about wearing a bathing suit. First, I don’t exactly have a Baywatch body – I’ve been trying to lose fifteen pounds for the last thirty years now. Second, I’m a [...]
Dec 28 2006
Note: I’ve pre-published this, supposedly for Christmas Day. But somehow, it didn’t get published. Oh well… better late than never.
I’ve always thought that the most boring day of the Christmas season is Christmas day. All the gifts have been opened, the food eaten, and the parties partied. There’s nothing else [...]
Dec 28 2006
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. That’s it. J.K. Rowling (pronounced like bowling and not howling) has announced the title of the seventh and last book of her Harry Potter series (see this BBC article). The seven books represent seven years of schooling in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where [...]
Dec 27 2006
Angelo tagged me with this meme:
Grab the book closest to you.
Open to page 123 and go down to the fourth sentence.
Post the text of the following three sentences on your blog.
Write the name of the book and the author.
Tag three people.
I am currently reading two books so it was a choice between a Sherpa’s account [...]
Dec 26 2006
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” — Mohammed
Dec 24 2006
- Composed and Arranged by Ryan Cayabyab
- Performed by a group of friends, all with a tremendous amount of star complex that they had the audacity to hold a mini-concert for their other friends who were bribed to attend with promises of good food and drinks
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia, December 2004
Kumukutikutitap, bumubusibusilak
ganyan ang [...]
Dec 23 2006
Honey and I are off today to spend a white Christmas. White sands Christmas, that is. For instead of snow, we’d be enjoying sand; instead of fir trees, coconut trees; instead of skating rinks; the big blue sea.
Yes, we’re taking advantage of the long Christmas weekend to go back to Sihanoukville, Cambodia’s [...]
Dec 22 2006
We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the [...]
Dec 21 2006
You remember Thing? That disembodied hand who’s one of the characters in The Addams Family? Well, he paid me a visit when I was two months old. No wonder I was crying.
More than three decades later, I still don’t know whose hand was that… but I have my suspicions.
[...]
"We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter."
Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones
