Category: personal

  • miiEtiquette: Play Nice, It’s Not Your Party

    To my dear guests, You are cordially invited to my totally awesome Christmas party. I promise you it will be epic: fire dancers, Cirque du Soleil, Michael Jackson rising out of the grave, with a 5-star Michelin buffet. The party I have in mind will be the stuff of rap videos. And I want all…

  • miiEtiquette: Play Nice, It's Not Your Party

    To my dear guests, You are cordially invited to my totally awesome Christmas party. I promise you it will be epic: fire dancers, Cirque du Soleil, Michael Jackson rising out of the grave, with a 5-star Michelin buffet. The party I have in mind will be the stuff of rap videos. And I want all…

  • Maybe this time

    GMA News: PAGASA: Weather clear for November 9 asteroid ‘sighting’. It seems silly to  take the word of a hit-or-miss weather bureau and a daily known for dipping into tabloid fodder. Yet as I while away in an office the end of the world seems all the more likely. Why not now, after all? We’ve…

  • Art as Conversation

    My approach to art is to see if it works as a whole. I wasn’t wowed by Mideo Cruz’s “Poleteismo”, but I get it. If the only thing we see is a condom and a dildo over pictures of Jesus and Mary, then the criticism fails. I overheard a colleague criticize Mideo Cruz’s work as…

  • The World in Pixies: Life without facebook

    I am now easing into a new life as a digital copywriter for a major advertising agency. As I like telling people, “What else do you do with someone who wastes a lot of time online?” But well, it’s still an office.  I settle in and find out that facebook is banned on most of…