Feb 23 2009
As I said here, the hike to the top was a piece of cake with nice and safe-looking flower-lined paths with banisters to hang on to dear life. Thus, going up to the goal – the Statue of Christ the Redeemer – wasn’t as formidable as it looked.
In fact, it was very nice and pleasant [...]
Feb 15 2009
One thing about having visitors when we were in Cambodia – when we get back to the Philippines, they can’t wait to return the hospitality. Thus, when Uncle and Auntie were in Cambodia with Mom and Dad, and as a group were dubbed as the “Septos (Septuagenarians) in Cambodia” (Uncle is now an octogenarian though), [...]
Feb 08 2009
Readers of this blog, though they know me only in a virtual way, perhaps know me better than the real people I know. For one thing, I would never never never never never never never never never admit to a colleague at work, for example, that I’m a sucker for John Lloyd and Sarah Geronimo. [...]
"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
