An Eraserheads Memory
The Eraserheads held a well-attended reunion concert Dec. 22, bringing to mind my own memories of the band and their songs. More specifically, one song. I know of the Eraserheads and listen to their music because my children do, and not because I’m a fan. Let’s just say I’m a listener whose taste in music…
Acid pain
It’s the season for Christmas parties, reunions and get-togethers and also a season for hyperacidity due to the ingestion of caffeine, wines and spirits. Hyperacidity also due to stress, as we struggle to fulfil various commitments before yearend. Hyperacidity sufferers like me are glad there’s Tums, an antacid med, two bottles of which I recently received…
An “Instagrammable” tour
I just returned from a trip to Bali, my second this year, and my third in all. To be honest, it felt like an obligation, something I was forced into because my officemates wanted to travel and needed me to meet the minimum number of persons required for a promo price (super low airfare +…
The gift of one’s self
Photo credit: The Long Lunch It’s the Christmas season and time to talk about gifts. I admire people who have their recipient lists and gifts ready as early as July. I’m not one of them, obviously. For many Christmases, my job and the pressures of raising a family denied me the luxury of surplus time…
A Coffee Night
B and I went to Starbucks because I needed a change of setting so I can write and meet deadlines. In the big table where I sat, there was a man talking to his computer, apparently in a zoom meeting, so noisy I could not hear myself think. So we decided to transfer to another…
Post-Covid travel
Photo by Luz Rimban Who would have thought that in the year 2022 A.C (after Covid or more precisely, after Covid vaccine), I would join the big global convulsion of people breaking free from the chains of indoor-boundedness, rushing out everywhere in what has been called revenge travel? Who would have thought that I would…
A memorable day
I wrote this biography of the veteran broadcaster Tina Monzon Palma after she was selected to receive the prestigious Gawad Plaridel Award given to an exemplary media practitioner. This piece was published in the souvenir program for the event produced by the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication, and later in the academic…
A traveller’s mindset
For three days this week, I felt like a traveler again, despite having journeyed no farther than 12 kilometers from my home to a place so achingly familiar to me and some family members. The purpose of the trip was a face-to-face live-in workshop of the kind that had been part and parcel of my…
A song from the past
I was supposed to write about other things today, but a friend’s article published in the website of a major daily prompted me to set those other things aside for this memory. The article was about “An achingly beautiful song called ‘Both Sides Now’” and I had to drop everything to read it, share on…
Series logo
This is a short post to tack on a little label that I created using Canva to identify blog posts that will be part of my 60 going on 40 series. For those visiting for the first time, an earlier blog post explains the series. The stories are personal and mostly private. Some will involve…
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