Tag: family

  • 日本 2015: Credits and Love

    Words and any number of photos, artworks and dedicated poetry would not be enough to express how thankful I am to everyone and everything involved in making Japan 2015 possible. That is:  My family. Hello.

  • 日本 2015: Love and Life in Japan (in Nine Parts)

    日本 2015: Love and Life in Japan (in Nine Parts)

    Basically I really loved Japan.

  • life update, word vomit-style

    my network sucks, or my phone does; either way, i couldn’t receive any of my calls and texts today, so my mother and siblings and everyone else for that matter became insanely worried because i wasn’t replying to their messages or answering my phone. when i restarted my mobile an hour or so ago, i found…

  • Life Update: hi

    The story: [Two Pronged] Masturbating grandchild In third grade I read a book which described how masturbation is actually a natural process and an instinct –because we’re naturally curious about the world and our bodies, because we are inclined to pleasure. And then for some reason we, as a society (as many societies), developed norms…

  • What’s in a name?

    My pride, actually. x There are those who find it hard to pronounce my last name, for some reason –it’s actually very simple. Monteagudo. Mon-te-a-gu-do. Five syllables of say-it-how-it’s-spelled Spanish-derived goodness. Easy, right? Last Wednesday my friend and I talked to one of our profs regarding our thesis proposal. Lovely as she is, she still doesn’t know how…

  • BABY ALERT (happy first birthday)

  • Five Reasons Why I Won’t “Fall in Love”. Again.

    Writing and performing a personal narrative for Speech 11 was a cathartic and frankly exhausting experience. But watching everyone else was very fun and insightful! Definitely adds new perspectives to life. I posted everything here because I want to. It isn’t that coherent (I’d probably need 15 minutes of speech time to set everything straight),…

  • i sat on my chair and i wrote,

    It’s 1AM. Here in Manila, after catching the last showing of Crazy, Beautiful You in the cinemas. It was a good film. Things that are also catching: exams, relationships, GHD and the future.

  • Last Week (A Retrospective)

    Saturday, today: debate training (morning), committee meeting for Global Health Debates finance (noon), TEDxUPM talk (afternoon), IDeA competition (evening), sleep (night). Busy day, to end a spectacularly eventful week.