The first photo is the only one I took of my book signing at @mtcloud last weekend. It was a fun and intimate event filled with unexpected and serendipitous occurrences that can only happen in Baguio. I really had no plan beyond showing up, but then Frank Cimatu arrived and before I knew it, I […]
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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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I’m trying to write fiction again. This is harder than it sounds.
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Over the next few days, I will be writing more about how the movie got made. Meanwhile, enjoy the trailer, and don’t forget to watch Ilawod when it opens in theaters nationwide on January 18, 2017.
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Part of what attracted me to freelance life is being able to work anywhere. This is something that I take advantage of as often as I can, thanks to technology.
Read moreMy blog’s going through a slow revamp in terms of both appearance and content. It’s also got a new name: Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, French for ‘My Heart Laid Bare,’ a phrase I borrowed from Charles Baudelaire, because it’s a beautiful and apt phrase for what I intend to use my blog for, and […]
Read moreHaggling for creative services such as writing, photography, and graphic design is detrimental to both client and supplier. Here’s why.
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An abridged podcast of “The Bridge,” my short story about a very special former first lady and a psychic child can be heard on Pakinggan Pilipinas, site that features podcasts of fiction written by Filipino authors. Listen to “The Bridge” here: https://pakingganpilipinas.blogspot.com/2010/10/episode-4-bridge-abridged-version-by.html I had that story in my head for more than a decade, ever […]
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I am fortunate to have Visconde Carlo Vergara, one of the country’s most talented writer/ illustrators and author of One Night in Purgatory and Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah, the latter one of my favorite graphic novels. Just just Filipino graphic novels, graphic novels, period. Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah is about a gay man who comes a cross […]
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A Visit to the Seaside The boy stumbled over the body of a mermaid, long dead. The sea had tangled seaweed onto her hair and body.The crabs had picked at her skin and the gulls, her eyeballs. She stank like meat and fish left too long in the sun. She was the loveliest thing he […]
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