Apr 30 2007
When we received our recall order last January that we were to go back home on July next year, the urgency of getting a place to live in Manila suddenly haunted us. We left the Philippines for Cambodia in 2002 barely two weeks after we got married with nothing to our name as a [...]
Apr 27 2007
Toe’s note: my mother (whose name is Mommy) is today’s guest blogger. Below is an e-mail account of how she and my father (whose name is Daddy) spent their empty nest Holy Week this year in Daddy’s hometown in Matabungkay, in Lian, Batangas. All pictures by Daddy.
From: Mommy
To: romyandnenitatogetherforever@_________.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 [...]
Apr 23 2007
I was a piano major in college so Kuya Ray, the grand master and musical director of the choir in Kamuning recruited me to play the piano or organ for the choir. After my first rehearsal, I waited alone outside the church for Cesar, our family driver, to pick me up (for the 15-minute [...]
Apr 19 2007
I related in this post how my Ateneo Law School friends had a big girls’ night out. Since I wasn’t invited to that gimmick, I threatened them in that post with betrayal and that I would write a book divulging all their secrets. Then I took back my threat for fear of multiple [...]
Apr 17 2007
I am the bunso (youngest) – the youngest of six children; the youngest of thirty-seven cousins on Mom’s side and the youngest of ten cousins on Dad’s side. I also went to school early so I’m younger by an average of two years than a lot of my friends and classmates in [...]
Apr 15 2007
Happy Khmer New Year!
Suosdei Chhnam Thmey!
Thanks to Mongkol for sending me the above Khmer New Year e-card of a Vedic angel going around a mystic mountain on a pig which is the new animal protector.
Apr 14 2007
Honey is not happy. He joined the bowling tournament last Wednesday of the SAMAPI Sportsfest 2007 and he got listed in the green team. This is his rant:
The blue team wears blue, the red team red, the black team black and the yellow team yellow. Why does the green team wear apple [...]
Apr 12 2007
After visiting Graceland, Papa, Mama, Honey, and favorite daughter-in-law, were ravished. So we all went to the Palaisdaan somewhere between Tayabas and Lukban, Quezon. The Palaisdaan is a restaurant that is literally sitting on a fishpond or … yup, you got it… a palaisdaan.
Apr 11 2007
Friday, March 16, Quezon Province. Papa, Mama, Honey, and favorite daughter-in-law drove to nearby Tayabas from Lucena. Honey was curious how this small town in Quezon recently attained its cityhood. Here are two possible reasons: Graceland and Palaisdaan – two of Tayabas’ popular tourist attractions. For today’s entry, let’s check [...]
Apr 09 2007
Chronology is insanity.
Uhmmm… that’s my new motto. Well, I’m making it my new motto now just to rationalize the senseless order of my blog entries lately. One moment I’m blogging about my trip to the Philippines last month. Then, I’d be blogging about the food we just ate. Then, my next [...]
"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
