The Art of Changemaking

Day 1: Choppy Landing
July 17 (My Lolo’s birth anniversary)
Masarykova Kolej dormitory
Thákurova Street, Praha 6
Today marks my Lolo’s 93rd birth anniversary. I would have loved for him to see me go off to Europe so he could tell me his own stories of European adventures. Sadly, though, he passed away in 1993 when I was just [...]

Day 0: In Flight
16 July 2010
10:40 AM

As I write this, I am comfortably nestled in seat 20G (an aisle seat) of a KLM flight, somewhere in the skies above Quezon City en route to Amsterdam, with Sophie the iPad on the table in front of me and my dreams and the world opening up ahead [...]

*This forms PART 2 of my summary of my guesting at DJ Vince Golangco’s show on Mellow 94.7 (Sunday, June 6, 2010.)

In the June 6 edition of the radio segment “Edumacate Me”, DJ Vince Golangco and I talked about freelance writing and also touched on travel writing. While I don’t claim to be a travel [...]

This trip to Miri, Malaysia to cover the Miri Jazz Festival was special in two ways: one, because I had never been to Miri before and was excited to cover the jazz festival together with my journalist friends from the Sarawak Tourism Board family; and two, because it would be the first time that my [...]

This will be a quick blog post to say that I am now in Miri, Malaysia, where my sister Ena and I are covering the 2010 Miri Jazz Festival.

Malaysia is known for many things, but not for the fact that, every year, it organizes awesome music festivals that bring together artists, audiences, and journalists from [...]

One of my favorite things to do is buy and flip through old magazines, cut and paste, and uncover dreams and hidden passions on an illustration board.
This week finally gave me the time and space to do that. As all the changes and the stress of the past few months took its toll on my [...]