To the Filipino hiker, Mt. Kinabalu isn't as hard the way conventional Filipino mountains are hard. Where Filipino mountains rely on natural trails (a root becomes a step, a branch, your foothold), Mt. Kinabalu is 80% stairs. This means the best way to train for Kota is not exactly to run hills, or to climb… Continue reading Kota: Tips and Tricks (and Stuff I Wish I’d Known)
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Great Balancing Act
The end of every year shows Twitter in a flurry of activities: people tweeting about the things they're grateful for; about things they wish they had done, or done better; about lessons they learned or lessons they wish they were taught. On my part, I decided to go on a sharing spree about the good… Continue reading Great Balancing Act
Of family
I write this sitting next to 3 other people poring over their journals, scribbling furiously to translate into writing the words playing around in their head, some resorting to doodles only they can understand: an attempt to remember things -- trips and falls, bumps and scratches, summits and jump offs. I write this slumped… Continue reading Of family
Tide/high
This is the part, you've got to say all that you're feeling, feeling Packing a bag, we're leaving tonight when everyone's sleeping, sleeping Let's run away I'll run away with you P H O T O D U M P
The world is our playground and we will always be home
You found me Where will we go from here I swear I belong This is where I belong Where do we go from here? Keep me It was the second night of the usual vacation festivities -- intoxicated bodies in swimwear, hair tousled by the breeze, the smell of salt clinging to our… Continue reading The world is our playground and we will always be home
Traverse in verse (Balingkilat/Nagsasa)
i. Midnight — clambering on a bus; speedy entrances to nighttime vehicles, people. Dozens: asleep, dreaming, clutching a phone, or a bag, or an umbrella, or a memory. ii. Dawn — a sudden jolt. Arms stretched, waters drank, bags repacked, fist bumps exchanged, dialogues made: “Are you… Continue reading Traverse in verse (Balingkilat/Nagsasa)
Another space for me
Anyone who knows me know full well how much of a camera fan I am, and how I would prefer being behind it than in front. And while I am nowhere near good at what I love to do, I think it's nice to have a place where I can keep track of the… Continue reading Another space for me
Photo Log: Kalinga
I haven't posted these yet, and I keep reminding myself to but I always feel like I have something else to do once I'm seated and ready to type. But hey, better late than never! All photos are mine. Copyright 2014.
Philippine Travels # 6: Favourites
As is probably obvious from my Instagram photos (for those of you who took on my suggestion to virtually creep on me there, at least. Haha), I went to Cebu last week with one of my longest, closest friends, Erika.And inasmuch as I'm all averted to all things cheesy -- well, at least online --… Continue reading Philippine Travels # 6: Favourites
Conquering the World # 1: Third Home (And Third Homesickness)
Today marks the first year anniversary of my coming back to the Philippines after spending 5 months in San Francisco as an exchange student, and while I've (mostly) come to grips with the realization that I won't be coming back, at least for a few more years, to the Bay Area, I still have moments… Continue reading Conquering the World # 1: Third Home (And Third Homesickness)
Of perpetual finds 