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In 2019, may we all get what we deserve.

You decide whether that’s a blessing or a curse hahahaha. Follow Drogon and Jacob on Instagram @jessicazafrascats. I’ve been lax about updating this blog lately—caught that evil virus that causes colds and flu, fever and chills on and off for three weeks. (You think it’s gone, but it’s only fooling you!) On the plus side […]

Nexus is moving to its new nexus soon

From our friends at Nexus: On 26 October, Nexus celebrated the topping-off of the Nexus Center, the new headquarters of Nexus Technologies. The new HQ is along Metropolitan Avenue in Makati City. By early 2019, the entire Nexus and Nexus subsidiary bneXt will move to the 11-storey Art Deco building with eight floors of office […]

Nexus is moving to its new headquarters soon

From our friends at Nexus: On 26 October, Nexus celebrated the topping-off of the Nexus Center, the new headquarters of Nexus Technologies. The new HQ is along Metropolitan Avenue in Makati City. By early 2019, the entire Nexus and Nexus subsidiary bneXt will move to the 11-storey Art Deco building with eight floors of office […]

Auschwitz and Its Monsters, an excerpt from Twisted Travels

On a gorgeous spring morning, so early in the day that the hotel hasn’t started serving breakfast, my guide picks me up for a long drive to the suburbs. It is the perfect day for a field trip. The sun is shining, but there is a cool breeze. The trees are a lush green and […]

The Bibliophibians Reading Group selection for January is Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

Our last Bibliophibians Reading Group discussion for the year was held at Tin-Aw Art Gallery last Saturday. We watched Nicolas Roeg’s film of Don’t Look Now, then had a brief discussion of the Daphne Du Maurier story. Shortly afterwards we learned that Nicolas Roeg had died. My useless clairvoyance strikes again. (And then Bernardo Bertolucci […]

Podcast Episode 4: The lowdown on mindfulness with our guest, Lord Fernandez

Lord went a little overboard with the filters. In this episode, our guest explains mindfulness. What is it? Is it a kind of meditation? I’m an overthinker—will mindfulness make my brain explode? Do I need it? What can it do for me? Our podcast is powered by WeSellIt. We know IT, we sell IT. Post […]

Get your copies of Twisted Travels Central Europe at all Fully Booked stores, Shopee, and Lazada

And then get copies for everyone you know! (Xmas is coming…) To buy Twisted Travels Central Europe online use these links: Shopee Lazada You can also get them direct from Visprint here. Use this link for foreign orders. Read our interview with Don Jaucian here. To set an interview for your newspaper, magazine, blog, zine, […]

Come to our Reading Group discussion of Daphne du Maurier’s Don’t Look Now on 24 November

Tin-Aw and Jessica Zafra invite you to the Bibliophibians Reading Group discussion of Daphne du Maurier’s DON’T LOOK NOW. Saturday, 24 November, 4-6pm at Tin-Aw Art Gallery, G/F Somerset Olympia, Makati Avenue, Makati (beside the Peninsula). Wine and popcorn will be served. The film adaptation by Nicolas Roeg will be screened. Everyone who has read […]

“You Better Work”: Why We Need to Challenge Filipino Companies to Make the Workplace More LGBT-Inclusive

The Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce launches its #ZEROto100PH campaign to educate companies on SOGIE. This is from Evan, who is project lead on this report. You say LGBT workplace discrimination isn’t real? Thirty-year old transwoman Grace (not her real name) begs to differ. While she now runs her own beauty business, she had to […]

On our Podcast Episode 3: Krip Yuson talks about writing, the jeproks 70s, and martial law, and comes out as a Freddie Mercury wannabe

Episode 3: Last Days at the Huremana Cafe with writer Alfred Krip Yuson. Huremana is the name of a cafe he owned in the early 70s with 19 friends from college. Huremana is what someone’s lola called weed, as in “Hoy, naghu-huremana na naman kayo diyan.” The podcast was recorded at Krip’s house last month. […]