Sleepless in Seattle’s Best
IT WAS 10:00 o’clock on a Thursday night and, not so strangely, we were eating breakfast in Seattle’s Best. Movie buddy Jan and I needed a good kick to resurface back to the real world, and we found it – sweet heaven – in the rich selection of ham and cheese omelet, french toast, corned beef,...
The right words at the right time
THE New York Times bestseller entitled “The Right Words at the Right Time” by Marlo Thomas and Friends is an inspiring collection of stories of more than a hundred remarkable people such as Muhammad Ali, Walter Cronkite, Al Pacino, Steven Spielberg, Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Aniston, Oprah...
Down South
IT WAS perhaps the most depressing two weeks of my life when, like an angel from heaven, my all-time favorite travel buddy Ann offered me a way out of Cebu… at least for awhile. A southern belle at heart, she advised: When you’re losing ground, the least you can do is just ride the wave down...
Chasing Cagayan
YOUR reach should be beyond your grasp
For what is heaven for?
-- M quoting Mr. Cabrera quoting some forgotten writer
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Road Trip
TO escape the heat of summer, my friend purpledsky tweeted us girls on a Friday, "Road trip tomorrow. Be ready at 9am sharp."
It was last minute and as vague as a cloud on a hot summer day. But it never crossed my mind to say no.
Suite 34
IN THIS country, you’ll hear two ways of saying it: “Sweet” 34 or “Shoot” 34. The Mr. & Mrs. AutoCorrects, I know, would grit through their teeth saying that the former is the right pronunciation. For me though, it really doesn’t matter. Particularly when Suite 34 of Alona Tropical beach...
Of politics and handbags
I CONFESS – I hate shopping as much as I hate picking political candidates. Somehow, you always end up with long debates, too many brands and the same lousy merchandise you bought six years ago packaged in a different color.
Catching up
Over brewed coffee and cranberry juice in Starbucks Ayala Terraces, long time BFF Emi and I were catching up on each others’ lives. Although we practically live on the same avenue, we haven’t seen each other in six months.
A Disney Ride
Aileen Quijano
WHEN Aladdin invited Princess Jasmine on a magic carpet ride to see “A Whole New World”, I bet he was talking about Disneyland. Where else can you find a place as magical as this, where every turn’s a surprise, there are new horizons and a hundred thousand things to see?...
The Hong Kong Walk
Aileen Quijano
“WALK, there is no path, the path is made by walking.” -- Antonio Machado, translated
Mean Girls
Aileen Quijano
WHEN I was in my teens, I remember being haunted by the question: why are women in power so mean? From the hair-flipping Plastics who rule the campus, the Terror Teachers who are quick to dress you down over wrong answers; to the Queen Bee – your own Mama perhaps, who keeps...
Dream Girls
Aileen Quijano
IT all started over a lukewarm cup of coffee. One August night, my friends Al, Em and I lamented over life’s quotidian not-so-merry-go-round. Don’t you ever get tired of it all- work, mall, eat, coffee, sleep, then back again? Surely, there’s got to be more to life than...
