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Tag Archives: travel
First Meals, New Thrills.
Just very briefly because things took off twice as fast as expected–one minute I was working three different timezones and now I’m in Delhi surrounded by incredible young minds involved in development. Here’s my first real taste of authentic Indian … Continue reading
Work and Why You Must Travel–Every Day.
[But] The 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, Life, possibility, productivity, travel, Vocation, why travel, Work
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Updates in defense of silence.
I didn’t want to jinx it. When I got the news about India, I worried that it would be too good to be true–so I decided to keep silent and go about my life. There was a strong sense that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Delhi, Graywolf Press, India, questions, travel, Writing
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Wariness and Anticipation: Travelling in the Digital Age.
We travel for pleasure, for a door-slamming sense of “I’m outta here,” for a change of air, for edification, for the big vulgar boast of being distant, for the possibility of being transformed, for the voyeuristic romance of gawping at … Continue reading
Blooming in April: When Writing Feels Great.
The flowers have started to bloom outside our front gate signaling the arrival of summer. It’s an event I look forward to the same way the Japanese anticipate the coming of the cherry blossoms–if you notice, the flowers are similarly … Continue reading
Development: Continuing an Ongoing Conversation.
I have been wary at times to call my line of work “development” related because I don’t meet communities regularly and most of my days are spent sitting on a desk, in the company of my laptop and books that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, development, empowerment, Life, personal, Philippines, travel, youth
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Lonely in the City: How Manila Mends the Heart.
Only a beautiful city can repair a broken heart. After having been turned away from my alma mater and missing the opportunity to bid my students adieu and congratulate them on successfully completing high school, I took my loneliness out … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, architecture, city, faith, History, holy week, Intramuros, Life, Manila, Philippines, travel
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March Sunsets.
March, you have been immensely life-giving. You’ve shattered many of my illusions and taught me to be brave in the face of adversity. You’ve rallied me on and said ‘why not’ when most people were likely to not even understand … Continue reading
Commuter’s idealism and finding one’s self.
I am a commuter, not between the city and the village, although I do this frequently; not between the inane idealism of the classroom and the stifling reality beyond it, which I must do for survival and self-respect. I am … Continue reading
The Real Deal and Why I am my own Valentine.
A year ago today, there was some serious bloodletting going on–and it wasn’t because I was heartbroken. If anything, I was getting my soul mended and learning that in life, as in love, one must bleed a bit every now … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Life, love, personal, ritual, travel, Valentine's Day
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Traveling with Others: An Abundance of Patricias (Part 1)
I have travelled with a fair share of Patricias whom I’ve found to be a rare mix of headstrong and vulnerable all at once. They’re an unpredictable bunch and they’re definitely set apart from the Anna’s and the Kate’s. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, discovery, Friendship, Manila, Patricia, Recreation, travel, Vietnam
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Companions.
Sometimes it isn’t about where you go but who you travel with, much like it is in life, right? As February rolls by, I’m tempted to introduce those people who have made the journeys worthwhile. Having been somewhat successful at … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Baguio, creativity, Culture, Kalinga, Manila, outdoors, Philippines, Sagada, Sagada Mountain Province, travel
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Longing for Hanoi.
Reading Greene as a means to get over my longing for Vietnam. He wrote The Quiet American in the Metropole in Hanoi. I wonder, did the scenery affect him at all? Pico Iyer, whom I’m still reading, slowly and purposefully, … Continue reading
Closer to an altar.
I am inching closer to building an altar and discovering that most, if not all, faiths have room in them for others. Since taking refuge in Buddhism, I have come to find more ways to try and practice the Noble … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Altar, Buddhism, Catholicism, lifestyle, practice, Religion & Spirituality, travel
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To rest in spite of the ambiguities.
My cowardice and indecision aside, I’m too tired to defend myself against loneliness and the reality that even connections must be broken before they are even fully realized. I always thought every person we connected with would stay with us … Continue reading
The Inevitable End.
…hear Greene say that it was a form of “moral cowardice” to sustain a connection just because you couldn’t find the right way to end it. (Pico Iyer, Man Within My Head) Taking Iyer out of context a bit and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Graham Greene, Hong Kong, loneliness, Pico Iyer, travel
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Shadowlands.
The foreigner, precisely by going to another country, brings a whiff of a different world into the lives of the locals he meets. From that point on, both are in the shadowland that lies between the existence we lead and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Books, Hanoi, Hạ Long Bay, Pico Iyer, shadowland, travel, Vietnam
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Digressions and Men Within My Head.
Tonight, after cooking dinner and settling down to eat, I picked up a copy of Jonathan Lee’s Fifty Great Escapes. Not to be deceived by the title, I bought this at Booksale because of Lee’s definition of travel which he … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Aldous Huxley, Books, Graham Greene, literature, Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer, travel
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Ways of Seeing.
A short drive out of town took us first to Crescent Moon Cafe to celebrate the birthday of potter and all-around-amazing Tita Lanelle Abueva. Every year she celebrates by gathering friends and family together on a Sunday serving only rice … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, art, faith, lifestyle, museums, personal, Philippines, travel
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January Doldrums.
Apparently, there’s a term for this feeling and it’s called January doldrums. The holidays have just passed, resolutions have been broken just as quickly as they’ve been made and all I’m really doing is waiting for summer so I can … Continue reading
