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Continue reading →: DAY 3 MEMORIES OF MY FORGOTTEN CHILDHOOD
My whole weekend was occupied by our family reunion. There were many familiar faces and also new faces. Meeting relatives in the Philippines is always a loud gathering with the videoke on and random chats with whoever is available. This time, however, the family had an overnight swimming. No lazy…
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Continue reading →: Childhood Fairy Tales
No, actually most fairy tales in their original form were gruesome to the extreme. In Cinderella, the stepsisters had their feet mutilated to fit in the shoe and her eyes were eventually picked out by doves. Sleeping Beauty was raped while she was unconscious by the King. Hansel and Gretel…
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Continue reading →: DAY 2 Memories of my forgotten childhood
Many challenges came to me even when I was just growing up. The confidence that I have for myself had to mature as well. I never thought of my strengths before but now I know better or a least I think I know something more. Going to school gave me…
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Continue reading →: DAY 1 Memories of my forgotten childhood
At my age, many people seem to see that I act and think beyond my years. Their reactions and comments make me look back and try to find out the events that made me like this. Is it because of the people I met? Or the trials I encountered? When…
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Continue reading →: Reflections of My Somewhat Writer Self
Friends and acquaintances usually have an impression and/or expectation that when someone wants to be a writer or is already one, has a different sense of reality. That most of the conversation you’ll encounter with a writer would be reflective or deep. Maybe those people are just my friends and…
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Continue reading →: Children’s BooksTheir colorful pages and interesting titles draw my attention whenever I try to buy some books from a second-hand bookstore. I am not sure what comes to me when I check children’s books. I am just mesmerized. 🙂 These past few days I have caught myself checking children’s book titles…
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Continue reading →: Pop, PopColorful shirts, baggy pants Cute, glittery headdresses Catchy lines, pretty dances Collection of memories, nineties faces Children jump and sing Along the tune of western beings Girl groups, boy bands Screaming pre-teens all around No fancy bags, no messy jams Just loud and wonderful sighs Dreams come all alive Around…
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Continue reading →: DaluyongChildren grow up so fast, but their memories linger for a lifetime. This process keeps a collection of the impressions and emotions that I have made throughout the colorful, unforgettable, and random days of my childhood. I was given the chance to live and grow up in a generation when…
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Continue reading →: Looking for Inspiration
Every now and then I find myself conflicted with the proper ideas to build a story or to write a poem. There are a lot of factors which I think are mostly distractions. I find inspirations in the most unusual time. Just a view from something different can bring inspirations.…
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