I’m indoors with the children in the middle of tropical storm Paeng (Nalgae). Here in Metro Manila it’s just hours and hours of nonstop rain, …
“Let’s drink beer and put on facial masks”
(said the great sage Xiumin… who is finally getting a solo in September!) A few nights ago, our house-mice ate the potato chips I had …
What’s built ceaselessly
Surprise, surprise: I’m in isolation again. It might be nothing, but someone tested COVID-positive at the office and yesterday was a mad scramble to salvage …
A Brief History of Obsession
(Or: How I Learned to Stop Resisting and Love EXO) If we’re talking about first encounters, then it began with Goblin and Chanyeol on Stay …
Neglected for Life and Longhand
I began this post over a month ago. What with the frantic cramming of the campaign season, the post-elections heartbreak, the scrambling to get up …
2021: “No feeling is final.”
Time for the annual review! I realize I hadn’t been able to link to past years, so here are 2020 and 2019. 1. What did …
Taking Stock
I feel like I missed my train into the new year and I’m just getting settled in for a long, chaotic wait at the station. …
Your grief is your love something something
I’m writing this in the middle of a frantic race to finish work before we close for the holidays, in the middle of an unlooked-for …
Fig Leaves
Today my “flow” consisted of obsessing over stages in a user journey in the morning and a list of outputs for the next season of …
Open Tabs: Parenting triggers, liminality, opportunity costs
This isn’t as much an Open Tabs post as it a tidying up one, which is what I feel the past month has been, an …