Since Saturday I had this fever, colds, cough, and muscular pains - probably the effects of dropping temperature, or information overloading? ^-^ I spent the whole weekend inside the apartment lying down, sleeping, drinking lukewarm water and hot tea, and from time to time, browsing the internet. When I woke up this morning, I was […]

(Taken at the favorite restaurant in Shin-Osaka)

Our apartment has two bedrooms. One with windows but no cabinet, and the other has a huge cabinet but without a window. I chose the one with windows. Since I arrived in July, I did not buy curtains ‘coz I wasn’t able to find curtains that cost 500 yen (as if I could find these […]

It’s already 1:35AM and I’m still wide awake. Tsk tsk… clearly I had too much caffeine today.
This dilemma brought my mind back to March 22, 2001, the day before my college graduation. A Pinoy and 2 Japanese executives from Epson, Japan came to Cebu to give exams and conduct interviews. The exam was a blur […]

These lines really struck me:(1) From William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream:
“The course of true love never did run smooth”
(2) From the movie A Lot Like Love. I forgot the exact words but it went like this…
“Your life is this… right now. It does not wait for you to get back on your feet.”

When I was a grade school student, I loved writing letters. I’m pretty sure that my father (who was in Saudi Arabia at that time), my grandparents and other relatives in Bohol and Cebu enjoyed receiving letters from me. (Well, they should have ^-^) I even had many pen friends from different parts of the […]