JASMINE IN MY MIND

I am no orange person. Yes I love the citrus fruit but I seldom wear dresses of that color.
Since my complexion is on the darker side, wearing bright colors automatically metamorphose me into a baluga of the first kind. Fortunately, my familiarity with Picasa3 and  other digital mediums allow me to tweak photographs. At [...]

I slept and woke up to find January’s gone! Am I in another timezone? Days pass by in a blink; although I’d like to think this is a good thing. One is spared from dwelling too much on a not-so-pleasant situation.
It’s still cold at dawn but mostly, cold days have started to compete with warm [...]

When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I’ve got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.
Suddenly I didn’t know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was [...]

I only have this to say: W-O-W!
See, even inmates can summon inspiration. I saw this from my cousin’s FB but did not figure out how to make the video appear in my blog until today. They are the “Dancing Inmates” from Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), a maximum security prison. It was so [...]

(A poem by M. Angelou)
There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful.

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“Marlene says her son went into hiding because they knew they were up into an influential person - the victim’s father - and couldn’t possibly find justice in the country. But if her theory is to be believed, if in fact her son is the victim of a conspiracy, then wouldn’t his innocence be his [...]

Lately, my inner censor prevents me from blogging. I do keep a small notebook where my scribbles and outlines are contained but I wonder why I can’t compose a sensible entry. Psychologists, according to Erica Jong, has a more appropriate term for this. Flow state (characterized by the suspension of the sense of time, the [...]

Surprise, surprise! I got all excited this morning after seeing some old copies of National Geographic Journal at the market, dating as far back as 1977. So “high” the feeling was, I only left the stall after taking with me issues that belonged to the ’70s and ’80s era. My seeming affinity with antiques, relics [...]

Just for the fun of it, I recorded one of my favorite songs called “It’s too late” by Carole King. The song (from King’s Tapestry Album) bagged a Grammy’s in the ’70s. But hey, I wasn’t born yet at the time it became a hit. Take note of the lines that got flat. Haha. I was actually inspired when my husband posted his version of Beatles’ Oh Darling in his blog and so I came up with my own using my magic sing. Now you know how I sound like when I sleep at 2 am and wakes up at 6 the next day.

A courier service messenger came with a package for me the other day. This is unusual, I thought. I seldom receive gifts now that I’m a parent except from generous girl friends who happen to have the same initials (my kumareng M, and my good friend M). I was puzzled while alighting from the tricycle [...]