When I was a student, one of the highlights of my life was shopping for school supplies at a shop called Golden Bell before every start of a school term. Maybe that’s why until now, I get weirdly happy whenever I find myself in a stationery supply store or bookstore. That’s where I found myself […]
Love Stories are a Topic for the Young
Recently, my friend May shared a reel made by Justine Luzares that made her feel kilig (giddy). Her sharing about feeling kilig made me realize something. When you make new friends as an older person, you don’t really talk about love lives anymore. This isn’t the first time I realized this, actually. I had this […]
Is it Bad That I Look Young?
“My boyfriend can’t believe that you’re over 40,” my friend told me recently. Apparently he could believe it about our other friend, but not me. This isn’t surprising to me. I’ve been getting the exact same reaction from many people who met me for the first time. My reaction was always to be flattered. I […]
Are you there, God? It’s Me, Dee
On the plane from HK to SG, I watched the movie Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. It’s based on a book by Judy Blume. I think I read this as a kid, because I remember that she was one of my favorite authors. Anyway, it’s set in the past and kinda made me […]
True Friends Backread
I got fed up with some friends recently. I have been noticing that they have this annoying habit of not bothering to backread in group chats and just suddenly jumping in and hijacking the conversation only when it’s convenient for them. This has been going on for a while so I guess I just finally […]
Bucket List 2.0
A couple of weeks ago, we released a podcast episode about bucket lists. You can listen to it below or look for episode 80 of Banana Q: a Filipino flavored podcast on Spotity, Apple, or wherever you listen to podcasts. In the episode, we discussed the origins of the bucket list (it was a term […]
Back to that First Blog Post
It just suddenly occurred to me that today is the 17th anniversary of this blog. So I made a note to blog today because of course I have to. Sure, 17 is not really a nice round number to celebrate unlike 10 – when I made that whole post and even bought balloons and a […]
Memories of Vale
Dear Team Spirit, Today I’m finally strong enough to write this without bursting into tears. I’ve been digging into my blog and diary archives lately, looking at posts from our golden era – our early twenties which we spent as housemates in Makati. I found an old entry from October 2007 which said: Since we […]
Rest in Peace, Team Spirit
Ronald breathed his last at 1:30AM. Rommel said he was very happy to be home. And the only word he was able to say is: “Ma.”
Eyebags are Apparently Cool
I unearthed an old picture of me during the time I was sporting a “fob” with bright red ends. That was such a terrible decision that I immediately regretted. I couldn’t stand all the negative attention; I immediately had it dyed black in a few days. 😅 I realized something else, though – oh yeah, […]
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