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digos city

May 6, 2008 – 1:05 pm

why do i keep coming back to it?
it’s simply because this is where i was humbly born, bred and deeply rooted.  
it’s my vessel of childhood memories -of chasing grasshoppers and hunting spiders, of my first garden, of childhood games like tubig-tubig, syatong, tagu-an and bahay-bahayan.
it’s where my first stirrings of adolescence came to pass - girlish giggles, young boys and […]

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foreign trade

April 30, 2008 – 9:49 am

my husband can be so mega-impulsive sometimes.  i said out loud a wishful thought,  “hey, wouldn’t it be nice if we could see niagara falls…” and he ended up adding a one-day Canada leg to our already squashed US tour timetable.  it cut short his stay with me in New York to less than a day.  i was already […]

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scared witless

April 29, 2008 – 2:08 am

travel diary:  feb 04 - Narita, Japan

I just got off a very, very turbulent, hair-raising flight on my way to New York via Narita, Japan.  Somewhere over Japan sea (as our flight path on our tv screens showed), there was so much turbulence that our plane swayed left and right, creaked and rattled, and then […]

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my first time

April 23, 2008 – 4:38 pm

Feb 02, 2008
I watched my first show yesterday in Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall on 6th Avenue - the Chinese New Year Splendor featuring the Divine Performing Arts and Renaissance Performing Arts.
The show features Chinese classical dance and music (in tenor, soprano and contra-alto) conveying the country’s 5,000-year rich heritage and culture. It definitely was […]

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