The Three C’s for Dealing with the Psychically Toxic
Some people believe that moods can be contagious. While it’s common to be influenced by the mood of a person you’ve interacted with, there are folks who believe that places and inanimate objects may (accidentally or not) influence a person’s emotions as well.
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Seek Ye Whore
Students have been taking up this increasingly hard-to-find story, so I’m placing this here until my second collection comes out.
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Discovering the Philippines, One Dish at a Time
This is what happens when farmers and chefs get together: you have excellent ingredients prepared with love.
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When You or Someone You Know is Struggling with Depression
Depression is stealthy and insidious. Every day is a struggle to want to stay alive. Every act of compassion and kindness helps.
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Manila: The San Sebastian Basilica
I have always wanted to go to the Minor Basilica of San Sebastian in Quiapo ever since I found out that it is the only all-steel church in the country.
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Going Hyperlocal: Mapping Out The Food of Quiapo
What is Filipino food? To most people, it’s a group that contains adobo, sisig, and halo-halo. But as Filipinos know, it is more than that. There is food that is characterized by region, by province, by town.
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We Went Ghost Hunting Along Balete Drive and This is What We Found
Balete Drive is known as one of the most haunted streets in Metro Manila. A couple od friends and I decided to see if it was true.
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Watching a Pagtawas, or Wax Divination
Pagtawas is the name of a kind of divination which uses candle wax to figure out the often supernatural cause of a person’s ailment.
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Hidden Wonders: Visiting Hong Kong’s Zoo, Aviary, and Botanical Gardens
Hong Kong is a cosmopolitan city, one of Asia’s business centers and chopping capitals. While the city has tourist attractions set in nature such as Victoria Peak and Lantau Island located above or on its outskirts, not a lot of people know that there are ways to interact with nature within the city itself. Hong […]
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The Time I Spent Three Hours in Traffic Trying to Get My Mom to the ER
Manila traffic is an everyday inconvenience that, given the wrong circumstance, can be dangerous.
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