I don’t know where I got this. I wish I could remember, but my memory fails me. Just that this isn’t originally my idea, but I wrote down the prompts because I like prompts. And I like how your answers change when you do it again in two weeks, or two years. Hearing: Lots of whirring… Continue reading At the moment [1]
One thing that will never be absent in a Filipino kitchen is soy sauce. It is a key ingredient in adobo – the most stereotypically Pinoy dish, if there ever was one. It is the base for most stir fry dishes. And it is also a popular choice for sawsawan, or dipping sauce. We love… Continue reading We love soy sauce
I first came to Nepal on a tourist visa that I got on arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport. We were able to register our marriage before that visa expired, so by the time I needed to renew it, I was already eligible for a spouse (non-tourist) visa. This is how we did it. DISCLAIMER: This… Continue reading HOW TO: Switch from a Nepal Tourist Visa to a Marriage Visa
This picture looks like a cross between exercising and sleeping. These were the things I needed for my session of yoga for period cramps. I was wondering about whether I should write about this or not. But maaaaan, this thing works, and if I can just point one other person suffering from cramps to a possible… Continue reading Yoga for Period Cramps
I like writing about new experiences while everything is still new, before they become “normal”. I wrote one about six months ago, and it was nice to look back on my perspective about different things then, so I’m doing it again now. It’s been a few weeks since we moved to another country and into… Continue reading New Country, New Life
It’s been pretty quiet around here in the past weeks because we’ve been very busy with real world adult concerns. Haha. We moved to somewhere closer to the ocean! The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7000(!) islands so I was never too far from the water while growing up. That’s one of the… Continue reading We’re starting on a new adventure…
A few days ago, Ba’s cousin’s wife died. This meant he and Ama had to enter a period of mourning. Death and mourning are observed differently in Nepal and in the Philippines, so I wanted to document this one. This is different from mourning the death of a core family member. I don’t know where the person… Continue reading Mourning from a Distance
