Jan 30 2008
When you lose ten pounds, where does all the weight go? To Connecticut? No, really. Where does it go? It couldn’t possibly have disappeared into thin air? The weight, after all, is made up of masses of fat and lechon and pizzas and milkshake all blended and processed into tiny [...]
Jan 24 2008
Ginebra Miguela Macalinao, Berdugo Lintang, Jenny Bagong-Gahasa, Noel Hinampas, and Linda Panti – these hilarious names came from Rayts. Evil Big Brother (and I say evil with much affection) had a classmate whose name is Johnny Go (must be related to Edgar Allan Pe). And in merry old England, Gypsy said that Brit parents [...]
Jan 21 2008
I have been doing the family tree of the clan of my maternal grandparents (also called Angkan ni Roman at Antonina). We can track up to four generations of the ancestors of my Lolo (grandfather) and Lola (grandmother)…
…and down to four generations of their descendants. So you can just imagine that I have [...]
Jan 07 2008
One of our big projects last year was our Filipiniana Book Donation Project for the benefit of the National Library of Cambodia and the Library of the Senate of Cambodia. We were able to collect over 60 coffee table books, yearbooks, reference materials, CDS and other reading materials about the history, government, culture, environment [...]
Jan 05 2008
After the amigas left Phnom Penh for Hanoi, Vietnam, for the last leg of their tour, Mom was left behind to stay with us in our apartment for a week. Like a true dutiful daughter, I put her to work right away. First, I gave her a pile of clothes for [...]
"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
