Cure for Mondays Tree and Night. Acrylic on canvass by Cole Beldia, 2015 (He painted this for his favorite man in the world for his 40th birthday.) Perfection is a distant planet; a concept far beyond the reach of earthlings; an idea trapped inside a writer's head. My existence is a reflection of choices. These are choices I have made as a woman,...
Cure for Mondays I remember when I was in grade school, our father brought us to the Philippine leg of the Royal London Circus. I can vividly remember it was set up at a huge empty lot along a famous long road in Iloilo City formerly known as the West Jaro Diversion Road. Now that space is buzzling with commercial establishments, but once...
Cure for Mondays "Alta! Gib him da lion! Giiibbb him da liiooooon!" a nanny let out a long scream while I was looking around for a place to settle at the Velasquez Park. If I knew who Alta was and who "him" was, I could have offered to mediate between the two to settle that behemothic issue over some lion. There were around...
Cure for Mondays Starting lunch off with Summer Burrata Salad with prosciutto, burrata, parmigiano reggiano, pine nuts and dalandan dressing. (PhP440) I don't like Sundays. If there's a day during the week when I get the blues, it's never on a Monday. Sundays always give me that hypochondriac-ish nausea; an out-of-the-blue blues. I like quiet, but if it's the Sunday kind of quiet,...
Aaah. The smell of weekend. A friend once asked me if weekends still excited me after being home-based for quite some time now. The answer is: yes. I'm just another human being programmed to look forward to weekends even if our everyday feels so much like the weekend. The boyfriend works from home, the kids are homeschooled and I, the mother, hangs out...
Our tiny patch says, Merry Meet! Mang Gener, our neighbor who’s a great {and often inebriated} gardener, went back to the South(ern Philippines) and left us with beautiful pots of herbs. One of them is oregano, an herb that grows well even with a person like me around who kills every green thing I touch. We placed it at the atrium where it...
spend the rest of the year enhancing your potentials and improving your finances with these workshops from world stage international. It’s the last quarter of the year, and you may either be rounding up the year with fun-filled activities to lower your stress level or are making plans for the new year ahead. If part of those plans is enriching your knowledge and getting...
Photo courtesy of 9gag.com The first step to homeschooling is knowing what the best homeschooling approach is for you. We have been on a homeschooling journey for almost five years now beginning with our son, who was nine then, and now with our four-year old daughter who, on her own, decided to hop in our alternative learning vehicle when she turned three. More...
The one thing that I love about living in Manila is the endless possibilities when it comes to cheap, delicious desserts. And by cheap, I mean getting my money's worth. There is no point in paying cheap for a cake that tastes like cardboard, is there? Uhm…yes, overpriced, overrated desserts come aplenty, too. My friend Elika sent me multiple messages yesterday (because social...
