Gravity of love on Feb 17, 2010 in biyaheng langit emote the icon friends phnom penh life habitat for humanity post 072 Valentine's Day As I am writing this, I can feel a distinct throbbing on the inside of my right arm. It is not painful, but it is a physical reminder of what I did last Sunday, Valentine’s day. I have written in my previous post my feelings on (with a deliciou...
My funny valentine on Feb 13, 2010 in emote the icon lovefoolosophy phnom penh life self-therapy sexing the city post 069 Valentine's Day Until now, I still find Valentine’s day to be a strange holiday. From my childhood I remember that it coincides with Teacher’s day at school, a time when we give flowers and little gifts to our mentors after mass or a short program on t...
Friend(s) of mine on Feb 10, 2010 in blog ang mundo emote the icon friends phnom penh life self-therapy By some twist of fate, the start of the project I recently acquired was postponed, leaving me with a 2-week gap I had no way of filling with other bits of work, having refused a short assignment in the end of January. Another source of mild irritatio...
The child is gone on Jan 31, 2010 in emote the icon i heart phils self-therapy facebook high school post 068 Something remarkable happened to me a couple of days ago. I was logged in Facebook, looking at the wall of status updates of my friends. A name popped up in a friend’s status update comments. A blast from the past. Before I could control myself...
You got me on Jan 27, 2010 in friends phnom penh life wala lang gifts holidaze post 067 I do not wish to write about the holidays again and yet here I am doing so. The past holiday season did not leave me with feelings of joy that I usually felt before. In fact, if anything, I felt absolutely mirthless over-all. Sure, I had bursts of ex...
Comfortably numb on Jan 26, 2010 in blog ang mundo friends phnom penh life holidaze post 067 I didn’t expect that I’d be able to write this post, because I felt that the past holiday season went by in a blur, almost a drug-induced haze that it didn’t seem worth writing about. And yet here I am, doing exactly the opposite of...
Return to innocence on Jan 24, 2010 in blog ang mundo emote the icon electric youth karen mae post 066 I found this in my 16 year-old cousin’s blog over at tumblr. I’m not sure if she wrote this (it looked as if she got it from another blogger–a friend, presumably) or not. I’ve been reading her posts for quite some time now and...
Last Christmas on Dec 23, 2009 in phnom penh life wala lang christmas card 2009 post 065 Although the title of the post suggests a reminiscing of sorts, I will not do it simply because last year this was exactly what I was doing: thinking about last Christmas. My Christmas eve tonight will be a busy one; the house will be the venue of ou...
Be happy on Dec 23, 2009 in blog ang mundo emote the icon self-therapy post 064 Perhaps the most perplexing thing about whatever-the-hell-I’m-going-through-right-now is my inability to write about the whole experience. This is something I used to do with ease, since I was young. Whenever I felt troubled, disturbed, and con...
Happy on Dec 15, 2009 in blog ang mundo phnom penh life wala lang Phnom Penh Post Photo Contest post 063 winner I have very few reasons to smile and laugh these days. I won’t give the morbid and grisly details because people are put off by other people’s misery, this I know clearly now. It is not true that misery loves company. People, especially t...
