Tag: Musings
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Baguio City: A Pause in the City of Pines
The morning air in Baguio carries a kind of stillness I haven’t felt in weeks. The scent of pine wafts through the faint fog that drifts between the mountains. The heat of March is settling in, but the air still carries hints of the chill. There’s a kind of peace that should be comforting, but…
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Walking Down the Trinity Memory Lane
After a few days in Illinois, we finally go back to where it started for us … 36 years ago. In December 1986, my dad started his masters at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, which is under the Trinity International University. The a campus is in Deerfield, a quiet town north of Chicago. He brought…
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Down with a Liver Sickness
A lot has happened in the past weeks that led to my absence in writing, and unfortunately it has nothing to do with traveling. I’ve been sick and was even confined in the hospital for 9 days. Plans were cancelled, budgets had to be realigned, and I had to leave work far ahead of schedule.…
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Back in Makati
Let’s get this out of the way first: I started a new job. Yep, I am now working for an international media company. We all have dreams, and I guess, in some ways, we all have our own idea of how to achieve those. For the most part of the past 10 years, I wanted…
The Tourist Gaze 