What caught my eye was a striking connection between two different articles in one and the same newspaper (one reads anything that comes within grasp, while waiting for a bus or boat). The first about that basic emotions like joy, sadness and fear in western music was shared and recognized by people who had never [...]
Departure schedules are among the causes that I only can have daydreams of having a dip into the deep blue soon. I’m not talking of a quick throw of the bucket to cool a strained body, but a lazy bare foot walk in the sunset with a beer, and perhaps a helping hand to prevent [...]
To have some kind of place, no matter if it’s a garage with oil stains, an attic with mice or a huge-kind-of-closet-room with moulds, it provides you space to accommodate your stuff. When your head’s spinning with matters that can’t wait, you know it will be there the moment you need it again. Think of [...]
This drawing might look a bit weird to you, but it suits the even more weird but true story I came across with and like to share with you. It happens that a man had lost his cell phone walking along the shore. Back home again, looking for a new one in a shop, his [...]
The past months the settling of requirements and permits made me busy. I got the chance to savor the beneficial sunlight despite all that. In January I had visitors and we decided to loaf around Camotes Island. It was Ylan and I who took the advantage of our vacant time. One of the places we [...]
To be charmed by the idea of living on a tropical island is quite understandable. But I’m not sure that all people with waving palm trees and eye blinding white sandy beaches in mind, are aware there’s a number of things hard to get on those pretty isles. Things that they’re used to have around [...]
I-WAS-TOLD-TO-A-PO-LO-GI-ZE-TO-YOU-ALL, THAT-IT-WAS-ALL-MY-DO-ING-THAT-YOU-DO-NOT-GET-ANY-E-CARD-DROP-PING-LA-TE-LY, I-AM TRU-LY SOR-RY…HAVE-TO-RUN-NOW.
Today, being somewhere between harbor and parents’ home with hopes of a soon-to-be-departure, I had to think of the expectations, the rewards and the disappointments we all encounter. All these experiences I saw in the eyes of three of my nephews who got a graduation or passed an entrance examination with various levels of satisfaction. [...]
To grow awareness of where he is, and therefor helps him to understand the things that surround him, isn’t that one of the major first steps a child has to take? There can’t be such a thing as getting too much knowledge of this, or getting it in a too early stage of life. How [...]
As we explore the world around us and beyond, new unexpected niches might be found. Curiousity killed the cat, they say. But it also can be very rewarding. To quote Carl Sagan: ‘Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere’
