Whistling for Moonbeams

In the office, today, someone I did not know well enough to call my friend gave me a huge chocolate bar. I said "thank you," but c...

Hurrah pour moi ! I never thought I'd be able to go back to my books, but whaddya know, am reading again! This time, it's Ursula Heg...

Aimee Mann has a new album out! And the title's pretty cool, too. So far, "Freeway" is my favorite track.

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this torm...

Yesterday, when I went on a trip to Festival Mall, I wasn't at all planning to bargain-hunt. As it turned out, however, I was able to sn...

I can't wait to get my hands on Conchitina Cruz's new book, Elsewhere Held and Lingered . I keep forgetting to look it up in the boo...

Conversation #1: Jackie: (voice quivering) Why is everyone forcing me to study? Me: Baby, you need to study because it's exam week. D...

At least one week per month, I go through what I call a "hungry phase." During these periods and if I happen to be in the office, ...

1. sleepy and know that I ought to sleep; instead I am blog-hopping and having a lot of fun reading about other people's lives. 2. wonde...

I am a self-confessed shoe fiend, guilty of failing to exercise the virtue of temperance when I find myself in a place where beautiful shoes...

And Jackie is beginning to show signs that she will take after me. In this particular hunt for school shoes, she asked me to buy her pambaha...

The mist rose with a little sound. Like a thud. Which was the heart beating. And the sun rose, briefly diluted. And after what seemed years,...

The doldrums are here. Time to listen to Carrie Underwood's "Lessons Learned" and Corinne Bailey Rae's "Put Your Reco...

Yesterday, I found myself glued to the Discovery Travel and Living channel. I caught: Jamie's Italian Getaway (groovy chef Jamie Oli...

The sun was shining and so were our shirts, so we decided to have lunch out in the sunshine. It was, after all, month-end (a particularly st...

that I'm celebrating my blog's first anniversary this month! Here's to more (and, hopefully, better) entries and more time to wr...

Yup, haven't gotten over The Dark Knight yet. I do have an answer, just wanted to throw out the question for the sake of saying it out ...

Two days ago, I found myself in the middle of a debate, the source of the conflict being the title of the latest Batman movie. I was raving ...

I often find myself caught off-guard by the questions people ask; mainly because a) I am, by nature, absent-minded and almost always adrif...

If the mask fits.. Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight has ensured the gloriousness of his exit from this world. His death h...

Am re-posting the Strat plan pictures (the ones I felt like salvaging, that is). Deleted the entry because I realized that I looked obscenel...

It's a cold, gray, rainy day. It's been raining since yesterday. Last night, I swear, the wind was howling like crazy and the rain f...

When my brother and I were small, we'd do what most kids do: fight like cats and dogs. And, like how it is with small children, we'd...

Caught a couple of old musicals on the Turner Classic Movies channel last Sunday: 1) Easter Parade (1948)- which starred Judy Garland (as H...

No, this isn't about Whoopi Goldberg or Sister Act , sorry. This entry is about me. Like most of what's in this blog, duh-uh. Anyway...

1. Writing on my blog and alternately reading Alice Munro's short story in The New Yorker website. 2. Listening to U2's "The Fl...

A guy gets dumped by his girlfriend and someone says "that's Karma ." The man from next-door gets killed in a car crash and th...

(This little ditty is for my friends from Mortgage and Auto-Finance with whom I shared 24 fun hours in the Tagaytay Strat Plan) There is no ...

"We like to think of our beliefs, and disbeliefs, as founded on reason and close, thoughtful observation. Only in theory do we begin to...

In the May 12th issue of a prestigious international periodical, a Louis Vuitton spread sat smugly alongside an article on the skyrocketing ...

I was browsing through some of the papers I wrote in college and, having chanced upon a review I wrote on Kate Chopin's novel The Awaken...

Lea Salonga is not a human being. Disguised as a thirty-something (though she barely looks twenty-five), very pretty lady with peaches-and-c...

Today, I woke up early, had a breakfast of tuyo , itlog na maalat and rice. Not to forget, of course, coffee. Then I went outside, sat on m...

And after rain A deep reverberation fills with stars. Lost, is it, buried? One more missing piece? But nothing's lost. Or else: all is t...

A stranger once said there's a ghost in the house. But it's a benign spirit , she added, hastily, seeing the fear cross my face. He ...

The winds have come. What have they brought with them aside from the rain? When I was young, I remember speculating about whether the rain h...

It's been nothing but work, work, work these past few weeks. I could perfectly empathize with the Energizer bunny--I feel like one from ...

Last book I read: Imagining Characters (A.S. Byatt and Ignes Sodre) This would have to be one of the best Literary Criticism pieces I've...

Sunday mornings find me at my most laid-back state. A cup of ginseng or red yeast coffee and a book or a magazine are my best pals at this t...

Let me brag and say that I have watched four of the five Academy Award nominees for Best Picture. I know this might not mean a lot to the ge...

And The Writers' Strike is finally over. (I felt the need to write it as a proper noun--it's become such a phenomenon over the past ...

It's no different year, after year, after year. The weary sigh in defeat--they know they won't get any flowers, just like last year;...

One of this year's must-see movies, Juno proved a tear-jerker for good ol' sentimental-but-trying-hard-not-to-be me. Don't expe...