Category: personal
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Chronicles of a Freshie Journalist: Putting "Un" with Fashionable
What to do when you’re covering an event that you’re awfully under-dressed for? I remember what an old editor once advised, “I don’t trust a journalist that’s well-dressed! It shows that he has time to care for how he looks!” I’ve learned to look put-together for the business beat ever since I got sent to…
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Aim for Heaven 2011
The title is a play on JK Anicoche and Sipat Lawin’s slogan for 2011. It has been a rocky start. As soon as work started for 2011 the bills came in, and I had to get used to the fact that I was the one picking up the tab. So this is what adulthood’s like:…
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Of Grief and Other Things
It has been four months and counting since Mom passed on. The only thing that keeps me alive sometimes is the idea that it could be worse. People ask me if I miss Mom. I’ll be honest: no. When I wonder if I should begin to miss her, instead I become resentful of the things…
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[Day 14] A non-fictional book
I recently picked up ‘I should have stayed at home: The worst trips of great writers’. It’s an anthology of anecdotes from different writers on the worst trips they’ve ever been on. Among the writers featured are Pico Iyer, Isabel Allende, Paul Thereoux, and many more. Isabelle Allende writes about going around Europe on $1…
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[Day 13] A fictional book
I’ll count the last entry as the one for day 12. Funny, when made to name a fictional book, I’m at a loss for words. Where to start? I already wrote about Harriet the Spy. Ah, I know, I’ll write about the Jessica Darling series. I make no excuses: this is chick-lit. I actually like…