on Apr 15, 2013 in:
Inspirational Stories, Life Tips and Reflections, Writing Posts, Arts, confessions of a diary fanatic, diary, diary malady, express, expression, growing up, honest, Honesty, identity, Jessica Zafra, life, maturity, New Journalism, Philippine Daily Inquirer, reflection, repress, repression, self, shy, Shyness, vanity, write, writer, Writers Resources, writing
Honesty has become an integral part of my identity and my writing journey, but I realized that being honest about what I feel for other people is something that I have yet to learn. As you can see through my blog, I am not a fan of privacy. When it c...
Now that I’m writing a lot of descriptions, sometimes I get stuck. I look at something, and I’m like, What kind of vocabulary do I need in order to describe this? At that moment, I would wish that I had some sort of reference that I can l...
If you hear video game gun shots in the middle of the road, don’t worry you’re just in Manila. In this city, jeeps aren’t normal vehicles with honking horns. Instead, there’s the “Fire! Fire!” horn, the “Ahah...
on Apr 1, 2013 in:
My Poems, concrete poetry, head, insane, mind, pain, poem, Poetry, shape poetry, sorrow, stuck
For more poems, click here: She’s on Crack Criticizing Colonial Mentality in Straight English I Become Flesh The Bigot Cream Dirty Smoky Mountain Bonsai (After Bonsai by Edith Tiempo) Age of the Diary by Jasmine T. Cruz. If you like this post, ple...
on Mar 28, 2013 in:
Inventions and Ideas, audio, audio recording, computer, idea, ideas, interview, interview notes, interviewer, interviews, invention, inventions, journalist, notes, playback, press, press play, quote, quotes, record, recorder, recording, tablet, transcribe, translate, type
Now that I’m interviewing so many people, I just wish I had a recorder that translated audio to typed up words. Although there are some programs like this already, the problem with them is that sometimes the written word is wrong. So imagine th...
on Feb 18, 2013 in:
Analyze This, Mary, Jesus, God, religion, feminist, feminism, human-rights, men, Catholic, Catholicism, Catholic Church, virginity, virgin, virgin mary, blessed virgin mary, virgin man, spirituality, celibacy of priests, catholic belief, jesus man, devirginized, easy girl
Jesus never married, and if he followed the Catholic belief that you shouldn’t have sex outside marriage, then he must have been a virgin for life. So why isn’t he the blessed virgin man? His mother Mary is praised to the heavens for bear...
on Feb 16, 2013 in:
Commute to Art, art, art gallery, Arts, Bus, commute, Jeep, mrt, public transportation, tin-aw, tin-aw gallery, transportation
1. Take mrt, and go down Ayala station 2. Take north exit (not the one going to SM) 3. Go to shell, walk to the back of the shell station (Mckinley service road) and you will see jeepneys 4. Go down Ayala Triangle and walk through it. Beside Peninsul...
