February 2012
5 posts
“If you want your thoughts and motives to be honest, then you must first attain...”
– an East-Asian proverb as recited/translated in TV series SungKyunKwan Scandal, 2011
January 2012
8 posts
“Writers are competitive. If you’re a writer, declare yourself the best...”
– Ernerst Hemingway (played by Corey Stoll) in Midnight in Paris, 2011
“You have a clear and lively voice. Don’t be such a defeatist.”
– Gertrude Stein (played by Kathy Bates) in Mindight in Paris, 2011
“Very odd, what happens to the world without children’s voices.”
– Miriam (played by Pam Ferris) in Children of Men, 2006
December 2011
6 posts
A roller coaster 2011 →
1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?
(1) Do beat reporting, which includes talking to a senator by phone at around 3 a.m., ambush interviewing the BSP chief and DILG Secretary in…
“The blessings you count are the blessings you choose to see”
– Hannah Reyes, photographer
November 2011
7 posts
“That’s the problem with living vicariously; it’s so much faster than...”
– Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry
“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with...”
– Oscar Wilde
Two years ago I wrote this on piece of paper which... →
Fiction: Remembrance of Innocent Pasts (01.16.09)
He couldn’t believe what he saw when he looked out the window. It was his mom watering orchids that hung on the sturdy mango tree in their front…
October 2011
23 posts
“This isn’t real. You know what it is? It’s St. Elmo’s Fire....”
– Billy (played by Rob Lowe) in St. Elmo’s Fire, 1985
“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy...”
– Andy (played by Tim Robbins) in Shawshank Redemption, 1994
“I’m currently working on a personal project in Brazil for which I’ve...”
– award-winning photographer Doug Menuez in an interview with LIFE Magazine
“But the reality of it is that true work of improving things is in the little...”
– Celine (played by Julie Delpy) in Before Sunset, 2004
First, first copy →
I was cleaning up my email when I saw the first ever copy I submitted for BusinessWorld. I submitted it in May 21, 2010. Oh, how time flies.
I’ll forever be thankful for the company who accepted…
“When I was young I had such a vision of myself. I dreamed I’d be someone...”
– Barbara Covette (played by Dame Judi Dench) in Notes on a Scandal, 2006
“Mama, I don’t want to keep people from dying; I want to show them how to...”
– novelist Chaim Potok said when his mother urged him to become a brain surgeon to save lives and earn loads of cash instead of becoming a writer
Remember →
“Next time you feel fear, either right after a major decision or just before one,...”
– The Universe (via strunkandwhite)
22nd →
The night before
Hours before my birthday, I was eating alone in a Japanese restaurant waiting for my friend who I had hitched a ride with from Manila back to east side. Dining alone had been a…
1 tag
September 2011
2 posts
