4 min readLifted from my Day One journal. Saturday, 23 November 2019 Out of the many Saturday afternoon walks I’ve taken around Joo Chiat, it’s the first I’ve taken notice of this beautiful mural. Mother and child – the most proverbial connection. I’m running empty. It’s been difficult lately to get myself to write something, anything. It’s…
Month: June 2020
Happy Birthday Rachel!
3 min readI’m sorry this greeting came a little late. I really should have stopped at drink number two at Tuckshop last night but here goes! Being one of the last to come to Hong Kong, I was naturally unnerved by the thought that I’m moving yet again to another unfamiliar territory. But it didn’t take long…
Madrid
6 min readWhen my friend Vanessa hit a bit of a snag with her visa and had to stay behind in London for a few hours, KC and I went ahead and embarked on our trip to Madrid, the second city on last year’s European holiday itinerary. Our friends saw us off at the tube station that…
Chance Encounter
3 min readFour years ago, on a red-eye flight from Manila to Sydney, I sat next to an elderly lady whom I will later get to know as Mrs. Reyes. Her seat was to my right, separated by an aisle. I couldn’t help but notice that she had difficulties with mobility, perhaps on account of old age….
Temperamental Millennial
3 min readThe avalanche of bad news this year has left a lot of us paralyzed with insurmountable fear that turned into hopeless rage. It’s easier to perhaps remain apolitical and instead, watch endless Tiktok videos but my temperamental millennial mind just won’t shut up. Someone in my Facebook network shared a post airing the supposed statement…
Life Update and Whatnot
2 min readBecause I’ve committed to writing about the day to day when I started this blog a few weeks ago, I feel compelled to recap the events of the last few days despite being still pretty much locked in. On Friday, 12th of June, I closed yet another chapter of my life working in corporate. I…
Ice Cream Parlour
< 1 min readThis is a micro story, a story of no more than 100 words. What about all these years? I don’t know. What are we doing here then? I don’t know. It’s complicated. We don’t need to decide now. Let’s take a couple of weeks to clear our heads. She remained quiet. Steadfast in her resolve….
Love Game
2 min readIt was summer of ’02 when, bored out of our wits at home, my uncle commissioned one of his friends to train me and two other cousins to play tennis. I cannot remember exactly what gave him the push, maybe he was secretly hoping to make Federers and Williamses out of us, to no avail….
I am Not a Terrorist
2 min readOn my bi-weekly quiz night with friends prepared this time by a lawyer classmate, one of the rounds was about half-witted statements made by certain government officials whose unquestioning support for the president of the republic is preposterous at best and alarming at worst. I felt overcome with and debilitated by rage, blood rushing to…
New Look!
3 min readI know it hasn’t been that long since I launched this space so it couldn’t possibly have a makeover this early but a good friend of mine offered to make a customized header for my website and I wasn’t going to say no to that! Utter lack of skill prevented me from doing anything with…