jari m

Tag: family

  • Food: Angeles x Clark

    Pampanga was awesome. Here’s a video.

  • filipino liberalism, the ties that bind, and the illusion of immutability

    M recently remarked that I haven’t been posting anything other than art and poetry (and korean dramas), so here is a rant. No editing. 💕💕💕 Lots of redundancies. Lots of sense. (Hi.) … Privilege protects me from the consequences of my liberalism.

  • i miss

    life, nostalgic. i’ve been stuck in manila for what feels like weeks

  • i’ve been hit by the hallyu fever

    i’ve been hit by the hallyu fever

    and I can’t get up. (I blame The Heirs for the storm that followed). A couple of weeks ago, I caught a scene of The Heirs on a local TV channel (it was a Filipino-dubbed version). I can’t remember the exact scene anymore, but I remember finding it outrageously dramatic or something. And given all the free time I…

  • Jari in EK: Red, queues and the Montys

    Jari in EK: Red, queues and the Montys

      xxx Happy birthday again to my cousin! And thanks for the whole day treat. It was awesome. I have so many other blog posts planned out, but somehow this came out first. And a belated greeting: have a happy Chinese New Year! Follow me on Instagram! ( x )

  • Jari x 2015

    Fifteen minutes to the new year. Time for a 2015 recap! People x Art x Travel x Advocacy x People This year, I learned that relationships don’t always have to be quick and intense, or (conversely) slow-burning and infrequent to be sustainable. I found my time occupied by new and old friends I somehow managed to not…

  • five-minute word vomit

    i’ve been planning gifts this holiday season, and it was a revelation. i found that there were only 16 people i loved enough to spend for. the rest of my ‘close’ friends, and everyone else who fit into some other social niche i can’t explicitly label in this blog –given this blog’s audience– do not…

  • Crafts: DIY Wired Flower Crown

    Crafts: DIY Wired Flower Crown

    Prepare yourself for the most unhelpful do-it-yourself blog post ever! Just kidding. Note: This DIY post is for the resourceful and for the impulsive. I wasn’t really planning to do a flower crown last Saturday night, but I ended up making one for no reason at all (???). And since I didn’t exactly prepare for…

  • my mum and i just bought PHP9000 ($200) worth of groceries in one go. for a month or so. we’re a family of five. do we really need this much stuff. and then afterwards we were like, we need to be more frugal, so we ended up eating dinner at jollibee’s. (meals are worth PHP150/$3…