Tag: Island
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Missing Siargao
It’s raining outside and the sky has been grey since early morning. My planner is lying open-faced on my desk, reminding me of the Super Important Things I have to do today, but my mind is somewhere else completely. The other day my brother asked me why is it that there are people like me…
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Getting to Know Bohol
Before this trip, I had a tourist’s image of Bohol. Chocolate Hills. Tarsiers. Stunning beaches. It’s typical behavior, something everyone does – to compress an island, turn it into bullet points or sparse paragraphs in a guide book. But I’ve heard so much about it and I was yearning to know what I’ve been missing out on all these years. So when…
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Damgo: 54th Silliman Writers Workshop
Damgo is the Bisaya word for ‘dream.’ I do not recall anymore who came up with the name for our batch, but I do remember why. We write because we dream – it’s as simple as that. These days, whenever I try to come up with a good enough reason for why I write, I’m…
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To the island of Culion
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently…
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Back to Cebu
People have something against revisiting places. When I ask why, they say that it’s because there are so many other destinations to go to – you could use that time to go to new, exciting places instead of returning to the same old location. I totally get that and I’m all for exploring and experiencing…
Trish in Transit 