Foodnotes and Fieldnotes since 2010
CALL ME SENTIMENTAL, but I am truly romantic by nature. March 11 has always been a significant day for me, as it is the day I uprooted my life from Manila and moved to Singapore. It has been seven years since. Initially a move done in the name of love, this journey has evolved into [...]
WRITING HERE AGAIN AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR feels like coming back to an old lover. It feels familiar and soothing — with just the right amount of uncertainty and awkwardness to keep it intriguing. A homecoming of sorts. I took a personal hiatus because I shifted career paths, and as life eased back to [...]
I am a New Year’s kind of girl. I have always relished the idea of clean slates, blank canvases, the idea of cleansing, healing, a meaningful sweeping away of the past and the ushering of the new (present, future, etc.?). And, of course, I am never not found with my artillery of goals and resolutions. [...]
Apart from my diaries and journals, one thing that I have consistently owned in the past decade is a planner. Yes. I've loved planning ever since I was young, because I liked having the idea of knowing what I had to do in a day (even during my vacations and trips). My days could get [...]
There is a song from the hit musical Hamilton that is entitled, “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story”. I am living, and I am here to tell the story of Rocket, a nine-year-old Maltese who gave us the biggest joy of our lives. Rocket died last Wednesday, the 21st of October at 9:29am. [...]
Hello! It feels so nice to be writing again. So, I guess, this will be the first of its kind on my blog, but I wanted to start writing about my journaling habits and my journaling journey because honestly, it’s a habit that has religiously stuck by me ever since I was a child. There’s [...]
The onset of July brought about another contemplative season. I was forced to put things into perspective, living in this pandemic, and to think hard and clear about what it is that I really want in life. One of the things I am proudest of in my 30 years of existence was to have begun [...]
Hey, there. Wow, it’s been a while since I wrote here, and to think it’s only now in this pandemic that I’ve started writing again. To say that 2020 is a strange year is such an understatement. To be living in these times feels like a dream—I always tell my friends it’s like living in [...]
My first foray with online journaling was possibly around 2003, Blogger/Blogspot era. I’ve attempted many a time to stick to a single platform. However, I kept wandering off to different domains, constantly reinventing, reframing, and evolving with my writing. My journey from LiveJournal, to Multiply, to Tumblr (or was it the other way around?), to [...]
Hello from New York! Winter is approaching and the temperature has been unkind to my tropical-tempered skin. It is a chilly Monday evening in New York City. I have been here for almost ten days, renting out a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn during my time here because I am an adult who cannot wrap her [...]
Mikka Wee 