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A Quarter of Myself

Disclaimer: This post exists because a certain Filpina author named Caryn P. Santi tagged me over at Wattpad. :P I’m going to try my best to make this worth your while.

First, some ground rules.

Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. (T: This is a looooong note.)

At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. (T: Dayum. That’s going to be difficult.) You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it means I...

#JustWritePH: How far would you go #ForJustice?

#ForJustice

When justice calls, heroes rise. Follow the journeys of a fire programmer, two very unique detectives, and an unlikely partnership between a mortal and a ghost as they fight for what they believe in and even their very survival in this action-packed bundle of four stories from up-and-coming writers. Features Elevenby Michael Recto, Expendable by EK Gonzales, Between Two Worldsby Pau Castillo, and The Seven-Day Detectiveby Mark Manalang.

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{ Bundle Review } #JustWritePH’s #ForJustice

When justice calls, heroes rise. Follow the journeys of a fire programmer, two very unique detectives, and an unlikely partnership between a mortal and a ghost as they fight for what they believe in and even their very survival in this action-packed bundle of four stories from up-and-coming writers. Features Eleven by Michael Recto, Expendable by EK Gonzales, Between Two Worldsby Pau Castillo, and The Seven-Day Detectiveby Mark Manalang.

The #ForJustice bundle is available on Buqo for only P4...

Ebe Dancel | Hanggang Wala Nang Bukas

Praying with all my might that Heneral Luna will still be in theaters later this afternoon because I’m finally on leave and can watch it in all its majestic glory. Ebe Dancel, you slay me. Always.

Filed under: Films, Music, Videos Tagged: films, heneral luna, music, music videos, opm

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As a child, there were weeks wherein I’d collect stacks and stacks of old newspapers from neighbors and sari-sari stores near our house for the annual newspaper drive at school. Competition was really fierce. You could sense it in the way students would try to sneak a peek inside your homeroom classroom to see how huge of a “lead” or “deficit” their class has over the others.

I don’t know if the schools these days still do this, but that was a fond memory to look back on, especially when our...

My Paper Planes are touring!

One year ago, I never would have though blog tours were a thing, but now I’m having my very own blog tour! How cool is that?

The Bookish Diaries is hosting a blog tour for my debut novelPaper Planes Back Home, and it is happening on October 24-30, 2015! Sign-ups are now open, and I’d like to humbly invite you to come join the tour by clicking THIS LINK. I am still putting together something wonderful and worthwhile as giveaways to lucky participants and bloggers who will be joining in, so may...

{ Book Review } Songs of Our Breakup | Jay E. Tria

A version of this line appears in the book twice, but I’m going to tweak it a bit and use it anyway: This book should come with a warning.

About what? you ask, and I would say,Everything. Around summer this year, my friends Chi and Therese chose Six de los Reyes’s Just For The Record(JFtR) as one reading piece in preparation for #SparkNA, and they were quickly overcome with so much feels it flooded our Viber chats every so often. The other day I told them, “Guys, I think I found my JFtR.” And...

A #SparkNA Update: We’re on Wattpad!

So . . . remember that online writing workshopI took from April to June of this year? Yep, the one for which I wrote a (gasp!) novel about a KPop band and their road manager? Nope, no publishing deals have been handed out yet, but we’re given bite-sized #SparkNA treats–AKA short,kilig, snippets from everyone else’s works–on Wattpad!

There are currently eight different scenes from eight different stories (mine included) up right now, each of them promising, with varying degrees ofkilig . . . b...

{ Book Review } Choco Chip Hips | Agay Llanera

The thing about high school isit’s never easy.Ever. Anyone who’s gone past that phase will remember how we struggled with a number of things: puberty, algebra, the wholefitting inbusiness, being cool/uncool and suffering the consequences, and the constant bickering with our parents because they can’t seem to understand us, among others. High school is rough, and Choco Chip Hips takes us back to that time–the time when we were awkward teens trying to find our place in the world– through the ey...

#JustWritePH: Do it #ForTheFeels

Early this year, I have slowly immersed myself in the Filipino writing community, thanks to the publishing and writing classes I’ve attended (#SparkNA and #StrangeLit, waddup!?), and it always amazes me to see new work coming out every couple of months. I feel like I’ve been saying this over and over since I started this blog, but I’ll say it again just the same because it’s true: This is a very exciting time for Filipino authors, published or yet to be. Just thissummer, Buqo released the Buq...