Category: personal
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Now Showing on EDSA
Sometimes, the EDSA bus works. Most of the time, I prefer taking the bus over dealing with the spawns of Satan that are 90% of Metro Manila Taxi drivers. The bus will stop where it says it will (coding permitting). It does not haggle. It drives through the traffic. And when I need it, it…
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Rome wasn’t built in a day
Tips for beginning calligraphers, from a beginner calligrapher. I swore that I would not buy new pens and inks until my calligraphy got better. I also figured I’d be kinder to myself and start with Roman lettering and calligraphic print instead of jumping into Copperplate. I used ye olde ‘Writing & Illuminating & Lettering’ to…
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Rome wasn't built in a day
Tips for beginning calligraphers, from a beginner calligrapher. I swore that I would not buy new pens and inks until my calligraphy got better. I also figured I’d be kinder to myself and start with Roman lettering and calligraphic print instead of jumping into Copperplate. I used ye olde ‘Writing & Illuminating & Lettering’ to…
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Pen Love
Good writing is part craft, part distraction that isn’t facebook. I thought the distraction would be photography, then I discovered that the local bookstores carried brush pens for as low as PHP28. It started innocently enough. Doodle. “Oooh” and “aaah” at the brush strokes. Write a quote in script (and face the horror of finding…
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The Cat Comes Back
The goodbye I wrote for Mela was uploaded around two weeks from the time she disappeared. The day after it went live, Mela came back! She crawled in through my bedroom window, mewling, then made a run for her foodbowl. I could only gawk at her in disbelief. The following morning, I gave her a…