fire dancers, sand and light sculptures, paper lanterns swaying in the breeze, chori burgers and wood fire burned pizzas washed down with margaritas and mojitos …
a couple of tipsy sisters at the end of every white beach night …
Always had this fantasy of walking the stretch of White Beach in short shorts and a bikini top.
Well, yesterday, I did! Along with Naya, home from Toronto.
We’re living on the quiet end of Boracay’s beach, in a resort with a wide expanse of empty white sand in front of it. We’ve been walking aimlessly, eating amazing meals, taking [...]
Last night, for the first time in a long time, I felt like a real adult.
That must sound crazy, coming from a 35-year old. But really, I always lived like an overgrown teenager, knowing there was some older guy to take care of me.
Now I know what it’s like to have to take care of myself.
At 2 am last night, I [...]
Indian women look like tropical flowers … typically seen worn on the same day: a saffron colored sari with tomato red prints combined with an aqua scarf, beaded gold shoes and pink bindi.
The pop music the Indians listen to, that many use as their cellphone ringtones, is as equally loud and happy.
All sorts of animals [...]
There’s this gay guy in the office who always gets fabulous boyfriends. Not the teenybopper one night stand types but serious, thinking ones, the kinds you could imagine dating if you yourself were gay.
I asked him last week how he finds them.
Then I suddenly thought to ask him what was wrong with me. What was stopping me from finding equally fabulous [...]
Found myself in the middle of a disco crammed with bodies from wall to wall sometime early this morning. The scene was of testosterone and smoke, drunken strangers dirty dancing and a very loud DJ whose vocabulary was limited to “whoah!” “ah!” and “motherfucker!” (I kid you not!)
Man, was it ever trippy to be there!
The night started out very quietly, [...]
“So the nightingale pressed closer against the thorn and the thorn touched her heart and a fierce pang of pain shot through her. Bitter, bitter was the pain and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of Love that is perfected by Death …” from The Nightingale and The Rose, by Oscar Wilde.
My new [...]
at skinworkz in cartimar, every conversation was punctuated by the heavy, seemingly endless buzz of needles drilling …
i hung out with these guys for a couple of hours, their music was cool and they were really into discussions on design …
he had a portrait of his wife and his little girl on his inner arm. and this [...]
New Year to me always meant watching fireworks from our 14th floor window … making noise in every corner of the house to drive evil spirits away … frying thick slices of ham in a bit of brown sugar and eating them with pan de sal and Queensland butter right after midnight. Yum.
I always believed if I spent New Year at home, I’d [...]
I haven’t slept in more than 30 hours.
Decided to go to a party last night after a long day. A little members-only cult party where guests had to come in their winter clothes. (I’d post our adorable coats and scarves pics but I didn’t get to ask everyone’s permission.)
The Yakkers have been holding this party for years [...]
It’s official. I’m mid-lifing. Or mid-life crisising.
(huh? those aren’t real words, get a dictio … )
My beloved friends from high school told me last night, it was like meeting up with the high school me again. My sister wrote to say I am looking and thinking the way I did when I was a teenager.
(true, [...]
I want to hug Nick Ray, the Lonely Planet Cambodia author, for recommending the most romantic resort I have ever had the luck to live in. Le Residence d’ Angkor is gorgeous in its simplicity. No obvious facade from the outside, no fancy lobby, no tour groups. But the so-called ordinary room I stayed in was decorated in thai silk and [...]
