Conversations on Style, Writing, Travel, Photography and everything else that makes Life amazingly beautiful. Online journal of Sasha Manuel.
Try to picture a wide grin on my face. Did I just happen to stumble on a good-looking copy of Anne Rice’ The Vampire Chronicles at a local NBS? Oh, my. I believe I did. Hard-bound, sterling paper, gold-trimmed pages, it’s own ribbon marker, and best bit, it’s only a few pesos over a thousand. [...]
Book bandwagon, jumped. Fifty Shades. Of Grey. Darker. Freed. With talks of the movie and a fresh conversation thread on books got me all curious about the trilogy. What to expect? Wait. Don’t tell me. I’d like to find out for myself. I hope this reading won’t be an Anne Rice repeat. Oh, have you [...]
There are days when my own thoughts are not enough to satisfy what message I feel I’m compelled to say. Those same thoughts are too chaotic and the restlessness it causes in me would only quiet down when I pick up a book and read what others have got to say. These stringed words serve [...]
Ah, don’t you love the smell and the feel of a brand new book? I do. I love looking at it and feeling the paper under my fingers. The idea of spending countless hours immersed in a story, getting acquainted with the characters and caught up with plots. Reading has always been a fantastic escape [...]
That’s what makes life a whole lot more interesting. Expecting that currents do run deep, tides indeed change, ripples turn into waves then back into ripples again and that it’s not sunny everyday. We even know that the sun doesn’t rise nor set at the same exact moment each day. Nothing is constant save change. [...]
Travel back in time and imagine horse-drawn carriages and muddy roads. Get a glimpse of a miracle unfold in an otherwise ordinary life. Experience the magical encounter with someone great. Spend your nights in Rodanthe. Traipse around Sandition. Immerse yourself in the life of Alexander The Great. There are days when I don’t feel like [...]
“I’M SIGNIFICANT! … Screamed the dust speck.” — Calvin Life can be utterly and taxing-ly overwhelming. I’m barely halfway through the entire length of it yet I’m already tired, aren’t you? It’s all the falling, the detours, and the countless disheartening wrong turns. Lost and just about ready to throw in the towel. Yes, quit [...]
A perennial note-taker, an avid journal writer, a lover of the arts, and having a general fondness for literature. How else can I describe the stuff I busy my hands with outside the usual tapping on the keyboard and fiddling with the camera? I guess I’ve most of them covered. Notes Writing is my friend. [...]
I know it’s been more than a month since you heard anything from me. It’s been quite toxic, really. I’m not sure how busy you guys are on Boxing Day, with all those day-after-Christmas thing-a-ma-jigs you busy yourselves with, I’m adding to it by making you read up on what you may or may not [...]
Dear Sassa, I knew you weren’t expecting a gift from me, much less something as elaborately prepared as this one, but I wanted to give you something personal to mark the occasion since you truly wanted to celebrate your 30th year. I decided to put together a gift that I hope will make you laugh, [...]
I guess this is my way of taking full note of a new routine. I know it’s not uncommon for anyone to go to the movies on a Friday night, it’s just that this time around it weighs more due to certain circumstances that surround it. Welcome to one of the new series here at [...]
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