Jul 29 2008
Note: this is such a long-delayed post… it’s almost moot.
In the middle of our last choir practice before of our performance, I made a little impromptu (okay, okay… it was quite long and drawn-out) speech to the choir. I said it mostly in Filipino, and this is more or less the translated version:
Okay [...]
Jul 14 2008
Most dreamy-eyed brides go to their grand Cinderella-weddings in flower-laden long white limousines which goes by the name of “bridal car.” Myself, I had no such luck. Instead, I went to my wedding in a “bridal truck”.
Jul 06 2008
I went to the dentist to have my teeth cleaned sometime last week and then had a facial a day after that. Funny how there are so many parallels between dentists/clinics/dental appointments and facials/facial therapists/facial rooms. Consider this…
My dental cleaning took thirty minutes, my facial took forty minutes. My dentist and my facial [...]
"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
