Relationships

If you are a regular kind of person like me, then you start to forget the dates of memorable events, although the emotions linger. We remember the stories behind an object we received from an event but often find ourselves grappling for the exact date (or at least the year) of when it happened. It Read more

Maybe you lament how futile it is to make friends only to part ways later once your engagement with them (in the form of studies, work, or something else entirely) is done. You may be thinking, “What’s the point?“ Is it really worth fostering friendships in engagements you know would only last while it is Read more

If you’ve never heard about pamamanhikan before, it’s a word that describes a Filipino tradition where a groom-to-be goes to the bride-to-be’s house and asks her family for her hand in marriage. Then his family sponsors the food that would be shared among those who attended the pamamanhikan (family members only or with extended relatives) Read more

Catching up with a loved one you’ve longed to be with is such a joy. And the stories bubble up like the fizz you get after opening a bottle of soda, oozing up to the brim. I can remember how it felt when my then-boyfriend, now fiancé, came back from a week-long work travel. All Read more

I could have asked you, even though I already knew. Yet I never said a word and so did you. But it would have been nice to hear about them from you. This blog post, like a coincidence (more likely a gut feeling that I’ve already written about this before), is a variant of this Read more

After all the meals you shared with your family, you may ponder how your relationship has strengthened over food. Even the misunderstandings were discussed over meals, convincing you that most of your engagements were done at the dinner table. Food really brings people together in ways that other activities can’t. The rich, the poor, and Read more

We used to tell our friends that we’d keep in touch with them even after we moved on to our different careers. We tell stories about how we’d attend one another’s weddings, be godparents to each other’s children, and bond with our families. But add a decade or even a half, and like unvisited paths, Read more