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Tag: holidays

  • diy floriography cards

    diy floriography cards

    Hi everyone! Happy new year! I want to start the year off right –by giving thanks to the people around me and by spreading the love. What better way to do that than by sending cute personalized cards to people? Before I start with this super short tutorial, I just want to say sorry for…

  • 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…

  • i don’t hate indigenous peoples, but i never learned to love them either

    i don’t hate indigenous peoples, but i never learned to love them either

      an essay on the absent narratives of indigenous peoples in the philippines, by jari The plight of indigenous peoples (IPs) against the reality of ethnic cleansing is a battlecry some people are willing to take to its bitter end [1][2]. Since the inception of nation-states as we know them, indigenous peoples have been fighting…

  • 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.

  • 2014 x Footnotes

    Before I make a post bragging about the roast chicken I cooked (I did a lot of the prep, okay), and actually making my new year post, I’ll add in the last four highlights of my December 2014. And before I forget: THANK YOU to everyone who made 2014 possible and wonderful. The air I breathe. My…

  • MMFF 2014 Movies: The Amazing Praybeyt Benjamin, Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo, and English Only, Please

    Here I am, three MMFF movies later. :)

  • Rise and shine!* …for Simbang Gabi

    *Though to be honest, I didn’t wake up early so much as I never slept at all. Simbang Gabi is a well-loved holiday tradition of the Philippine Catholic. For the nine mornings before Christmas Eve, the religious devout (or just plain dedicated) attends mass before the crack of dawn. For some people it’s for the…

  • Life Update #2014x

    I’ve been living the past few days in a haze of hesitant lethargy. I don’t actually go to sleep every night planning to sleep over fifteen hours the next day, but that’s what happens. Curse the invention of naps.

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    Also technically an unscheduled holiday because #MarioPH came and ruined all of my plans. I have done nothing the whole day but sleep and maybe study. A little bit.