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Maybe We Don’t Need to Paint their Hands Back.
Maybe it should remain there to remind us that no power on Earth should tell us that our love is less. Maybe it should remain there, so that all of us who love will finally stand up and show the world that we will no longer be afraid to hold the hands of the one…
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Multifaceted
Recently over dinner (North Park‘s steamed tofu with black vinegar and chili sauce — one of their delicious vegan-friendly options I should note, in case you wanted to know the details), someone told me how I was holding myself back. Perhaps too quickly, I disagreed and said that I only try to come from a place…
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What Is Essential
Taken from ZenPencils.com Midway between packing my two large bags with clothes as I prepared to move out of my old condo, I suddenly had to pause as a phrase kept repeating itself in my head: the stripping away of the inessential. I knew it was something from childhood because it made me remember those…
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The Brave and the Free
Over dinner on our second night in Hanoi, my friend Biboy shared to us how he up and left Manila for Vietnam. He was backpacking a year ago when he decided to throw all caution to the wind and just move to the country. To survive, he became an English teacher and earned a measly…
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The Madness in the Method
“Pale Blue Dot”, photo taken by the Voyager 1 spaceprobe “You’re too cautious,” she wrote, except the last two words had been crossed out. “You’re not taking any risks, which is the formula to boring yourself to inertia.”
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Bend It Like the Bamboo
Advice from a vegan restaurant in Bukit Bintang I can’t believe the year is almost over. I’m pretty sure though a lot of people are saying the same thing. Where did the days go? Weren’t we just welcoming 2013?
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Human, All Too Human
Image from theartofgooglebooks.tumblr.com Tonight, a New Yorker article “The Artful Accidents of Google Books“, which reported a growing interest on Google Books scan mistakes, led me to the Tumblr site “The Art of Google Books“. I ended up checking the collection of photos on the site: some bizarre, some creepy, all reminders of what writer…
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Gone in Bagan
Next to traveler’s diarrhea and your Hostel fears coming true, what’s one of a traveler’s worst nightmares?
A Writer from Manila 