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November 18, 2015
Things to Do on a Fall Trip to Korea: Noryangjin Fish Market, KBS Building, Yeouido Park
Day 3 was another day trip of sorts as we crossed over to the other (dark? Not really, hihi) side of the river for a day of fresh (live!) fish, trolling around the KBS building, and an hour or so to rest our tita bones with the view of autumn colors to relax us. Noryangjin […]
Things to Do on a Fall Trip to Korea: COEX, Sinsadong, Dongdaemun Design Plaza and Market
Day 2 had us crossing the river (via the train system of course) and heading to the Gangnam side of things before heading back for some alien-level architecture and Divisoria-level haggling. COEX, Hyundai Department Store, SMTOWN Artium. COEX mall had been under construction for the longest time and Tin was hell bent on seeing it, so we went […]
November 17, 2015
Things to Do on a Fall Trip to Korea: Insadong, Bukchon Hanok Village
Yes, we were there just last year. But also, yes, it is quite impossible to see everything you want in an awesome country in only a few days. So we came back! We still booked our flights with AirAsia (the same airline we used last year) on almost the same time of year: end of […]
October 29, 2015
Paperback Giveaway via Will Read for Feels: Blossom Among Flowers
Last month, I released print editions of my two books Blossom Among Flowers and Songs of Our Breakup. If you missed that exciting announcement, you can find the order form here. If you have your eyes on my manga-novel Blossom Among Flowers though, here, have a giveaway! <3 Click the link and join the raffle, […]
October 25, 2015
StrangeLit Book Launch: It Really Happened
It was a strange day. I went in there bringing people I knew, and I was welcomed by the sight of people I knew. But every few steps I would feel a sense of isolation, like I was an outsider looking in. As if I was a mere spectator in this festival, surrounded by merrymakers, doused […]
October 24, 2015
Review: Paper Planes Back Home by Tara Frejas
Paper Planes Back Home Published on February 21, 2015 by Tara Frejas Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Fantasy, Romance Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Smashwords | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Apple iBooks SYNOPSIS: When Gianna wakes up on a cloud, she is disoriented yet fascinated. She thinks she’s only dreaming until she gets a storm of paper planes—”They’re thoughts of people who remember,” a man […]
October 18, 2015
Blossom Among Flowers: Cover 2.0 and Print Book!
My first book Blossom Among Flowers was plenty busy last month! It had its very first virtual blog tour thanks to the wonderful folks at Pinoy Book Tours, It received sweet, tears-in-my-eyes reviews from Anne of Will Read for Feels, Camelle of Home of a Book Lover, and Claire of Coffeebookmom (thanks for giving my weird, manga […]
October 6, 2015
Dear Majesty
When I read Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen I thought, this is it. This is how you’re supposed to write about death and loss. You write it with the kind of honesty that rips your heart open. No lies about how much it hurts, how you don’t care about what you eat, how you look, about anyone […]
September 18, 2015
Review: Heneral Luna
This might not turn out to be coherent enough to be a proper movie review. It sure won’t show off an informed opinion of the historical biopic. I guess this would just be a documentation of my thoughts and feelings after watching the film Heneral Luna. I have a strong inkling I would need to […]
September 5, 2015
StrangeLit Happened and It was Awesome
Sometime this year, I decided I’m going to be an author. That was around Holy Week I think. Come to think of it, this is the second year in a row that my epiphanies came after Easter, and they felt so real and intense that I actually acted on them. It’s not a bad yearly […]
