The magic of magic realism

Just finished reading “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,”  the Pulitzer-winning debut novel by Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz.  It’s about Oscar, a fat geek who reeks of sci-fi and dreams of becoming a Dominican version of Tolkien and his strange family who are very much alive in their characters that they can live out of the book’s pages.  [...]

Christmastime is here

The weather is cold especially at dawn, traffic at any given time of the day doesn’t move, lights of different colors are aglow in the streets, your favorite malls are flooded with people who are in a hurry to get gifts and what-have-yous, your godchildren suddenly appear out of nowhere, you have a hard time [...]

A trip to Banahaw

Sa Ciudad Mystica sa paanan ng Bundok Banahaw,/Ang mga mata ng Suprema ay nagmamasid sa bawat galaw,/Kibot ng kapaligiran, mga tao ay saklaw,/Ng kapangyarihan ng Diyos, ng kabayanihan/Ni Rizal, at ng kababalaghan sa mundong ibabaw.