December 2014
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I hate the notion of Filipino time, and the expectation that it’s okay to be hours late to a social gathering, or meeting a person. I am not one of those people who can just show up at my own leisure to something I know started at a certain time. It’s demeaning and disappointing that… Read more
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A thought came over me today, as I was hugging a colleague goodbye. Touch. We as a culture, are very careful about it. We’re not a touching culture. Shaking hands, hugging, are foreign concepts to us, that we took on when we absorbed other cultures and became more global. And I get it. We’re very… Read more
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If you’re in the Philippines, you’ve probably spent hours and hours in traffic getting to places. This year, the traffic is a different kind of struggle, and the malls, like a zombie outbreak. We’re stressing out on an extreme level because everything is taking three times as long, and it’s scary going out there.… Read more
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It’s so simple. Fiona Apple’s Hot Knife is one of the simplest songs but so good. Stay smitten. Hold on to the someone who makes you melt like butter. If I’m butter, if I’m butter (I’m a hot knife, I’m a hot knife) If I’m butter, then he’s a hot knife (I’m a hot knife,… Read more