Rome: Taking Up My Grandmother’s Mantle
Last month, I fulfilled my dream of visiting the Vatican. This came not-so-close on the heels of my 2022 pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
The Spectrum of Success
In 2015, I posted a 4-part blog series called “Illuminative Ilocos” which went on to appear on the website of the travel agency
Elusive No Longer
Why Infotainment May Be a Remedy to the Underdeveloped ASEAN Identity
Blessed Are the Privileged
“Check your privilege!” gained traction on social media at the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns when “the newly emergent dichotomy between the information rich and the information poor” (A. Flor, 2009) instantly became apparent by a person’s social media feed.
Grown-Up Decisions
I distinctly remember the first time I asserted my first grown-up decision.
From One Writer to Another: An Interview with a Newspaper Columnist
After more than a week of working from home, I’m now struggling to pry myself away from my laptop after official office hours.
Binge-Watching Bridgerton: A Scandal-icious Take on Jane Austen’s Beloved Tropes
Is it just me, or is there really something about finding out that people from hundreds of years ago shared our morbid fascination for drama and scandal?
Homebody Review: Nutricook Rapid Egg Cooker
About a month ago, I was catching up with a friend online (the only COVID-19-proof way of catching up with friends these days), and she asked me if I was still blogging.
A Vaccine for Normalcy
By now, more than half of this year has been disrupted by a pandemic I purposely chose not to write about… until now.
Positively Medieval: A Day Tour of Old Cairo
Previously, in Part 1 of my Larger-than-Life Luxor series, I blogged about our almost 1-hour ordeal to secure round trip sleeping train tickets at Cairo’s Watania ticket office.