Paul Thomas Anderson—Into the Realm of Auteur
Directors come in all human types—male, female, gay straight, tall, short, fair, dark, introvert, extrovert, garrulous, reserved—the adjectives can just go on and on. Today, anyone with something to...
View ArticleDear Kuya Bamboo
By now you must have read about us. It’s been four years since I found out. A coworker of mine called one afternoon in 2007 to ask if it was true. She asked why I didn’t tell anyone that we were...
View ArticleOn Meeting Queens’ Joe: First date with Joe’s Shanghai in Flushing, Queens
With its increasingly dominating Asian population, Flushing embodies considerable concentration of Asian businesses and flavors. And the business that Flushing represents the most is its restaurants...
View ArticleFirst Things First: Managing Primary Settlement Concerns
As I have talked about in my previous blog, I left the Philippines last September 2011 not to leisurely spend time in New York’s well-known attractions, but to settle for good with my husband Josh and...
View ArticleMy First Dictionary
If you’re thinking this is about some old dictionary carefully tucked in a baul somewhere- no this isn’t. Back in 2009, my life turned sour. I was turning 26 but was not doing the job I’ve always...
View ArticlePeople. Moments. Photographs. Memories.
Photographs bring back memories of people in your life—people you love, you have loved, you have learned to love, and you have not intended to love. Photographs bring back memories of moments in your...
View ArticleA Tragedy with No Name
Where’s justice in living to see the day an Ondoy tragedy deja vu happening again in less than five years? Much worse, there’s not even a typhoon or storm we can blame for all the inconvenience and...
View ArticleRemembering Jesse
There are very few people in government who earn the kind of respect you can carry even to your grave. And when people still remember what you’ve done and how you’ve made them feel- even when you’re...
View ArticleRemembering Broadcast City
Only a handful of those who aspire to become Journalists would probably think about working for a government station. Fact is, majority of those who graduate from MassComm or Journalism courses have...
View ArticleA Summer to Remember
It was an epic summer- not because of sandy beaches, or bikinis on parade. But it was epic- because I knew the sun was shining more immensely, on those days, we were there. It was my second time in...
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