“So what is it that you like about Sam?”
I was asking adorable eight-year-old Ian about his crush last night.
He was watching the restaurant TV in between big mouthfuls of fish. (The kid loves tuna! He picked a fish place last night over a steakhouse. A miracle for a boy of eight.) But he stopped watching and chewing to give the question his full attention …
“Sam [...]
Poor baby Nina. Stuck inside Gildamic for the next couple of months, she has no choice but to sit and listen to the various laments of her depressed titas. Tita Blue Sneakers, for one, is particularly blue at the moment.
Gildamic had a feeling Tita Blue would be in Coffee Bean again today, and she was right. Gildamic is psychic in an unobtrusive, non-exasperating [...]
And why I’m outing myself on this blog right now, I don’t know. Except that this is something I have to say at least once in my life.
I really, really loved her.
This happened all of 20 years ago, yet I still remember some of the time I spent with her as if it took place yesterday.
Thea was 21 [...]
This city used to BE me.
Exactly like me.
Singaporeans march briskly through their organized and very clean streets, wonderfully but similarly dressed — a droid army of knowledge workers. They walk while talking a mile a minute into their cellphones, their minds focused on dollars and cents and finding opportunities to make more dollars and cents.
They generally consider children annoying. [...]
Laughter was ringing out along the office corridors today. Post ZTE Special revelry.
I loved the sound of it.
Every time a big tv project is about to end, you can hear the collective adrenalin building up to shouts of excitement during actual airing, piping down into relief then painful exhaustion — sweetened by the warmth of working with people you respect and the joy of a [...]
Nope, this ain’t me.
Meet one of my very available friends, flaunting it at a bar we were at last weekend. Haha.
Do you ever stop to think about what it is you love about your friends?
It’s the little quirks that always get to me, make me laugh, make me think — hey, this is a real person [...]
That’s a direct quote from my friend at dinner the other night. Another Theresian-Atenean with a strong personality, she complains her husband lets her do the driving in every aspect of their life: their kids, their household, their business, even their bedroom …
They fought recently, in the middle of the night, and she told him to get the hell out. [...]
Tiffany has, for years, spoken wistfully about her hometown: the three-storey building where her entrepreneurial Dad set up a Chinese resto and a cellphone shop and many other businesses in between, the restlessness of her Mom in such a small place, the gate within a gate within a gate leading to their family fortress.
Who would [...]
My first thought when I woke up this morning was so unexpected, it shocked me: my boss is unhappy. It’s funny how you sometimes have to go far away to see the people who are closest to you.
Maris may not know it yet but the mysterious illnesses that plague her are manifestations of something deeper. [...]
It’s been a strange December. My friends have been crawling out of the woodwork like real life angels in my time of need.
Naya called me from Toronto for the first time! Alarmed by my emails, I think. She has a Canadian accent now. It was amazing to hear her voice. Tiffany, who is like a sister to [...]
