Whenever someone asks me how I am, I usually make a face and grudgingly reply, “still alive.” I think this is because I was brought up not to talk about myself, and that telling people about myself was a bad thing. That’s something that I’m still trying to unlearn. 2022, despite its ups and downs, […]
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MYS Universe (Ms. Yvette’s Strange Universe) is now available on the Quento app. Aside from being a horror fiction writer, I’m also a paranormal enthusiast whose been interested in the realm of the weird since I was a child (I thank 80s TV host Inday Badiday for opening my eyes to the true weird). While […]
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“The Last Moon” is the first NFT book ever to be dropped at the Frankfurt Book Fair—the world’s largest and oldest trade fair for books. It is a graphic story from the Philippines written by acclaimed Filipino horror writer Yvette Tan and with visuals by design studio Team Manila.
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I don’t encounter the supernatural very often, nor do I wish to, but they seem to take advantage of the few times that we cross paths, packing a bunch of experiences in the span of a few days, or in this case, hours.
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Where were you when enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) was declared? Chef Ramon Antonio was in Mactan visiting his mother. “I have been visiting my mother in Mactan every month since 2018 (always via PAL for 46 years and counting), [for] at least seven to nine days per month, since that first time she slipped. She […]
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This isn’t a post about watching a puffball explode. It’s about eating it.
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As romantic as this sounds, for a brief moment, people got to see Manila the way Carlos saw it: not just as a random city, but a dynamic place filled with life, potential, and art.
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Finished my old journal (Filed Notes) and starting a new one. This particular Field Notes journal took exactly one month to finish. Quite an achievement for someone who tries to fit everything in neatly, with as little overlap as possible. It’s also the journal I started drawing in. It’s taken me years to finally put […]
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You can tell that someone is into food when they send you condiments for fear that your food is bland.
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I know that I can live without coffee; I’ve done it before, with no ill effects. But the question is, why would I want to?
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