Conversations on Style, Writing, Travel, Photography and everything else that makes Life amazingly beautiful. Online journal of Sasha Manuel.
If you spend too much time looking up, imagining how it must feel like to be up there instead of where you are, I’d have you know that someone up there is looking down wondering the same thing, only in reverse. It’s funny how surreal an experience can be for an unsuspecting dreamer. Yes, sometimes, [...]
I remember spending time after school and Summers at our store at a public market and grabbing the opportunity to head off to our suking carinderia (favourite food place) to buy take-away lunch or snack so I can put a spare coin in the jukebox. Yes, jukebox. I wonder if many can still say they’ve [...]
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 [...]
Does this make me one? A foodie, I mean? I cannot — for the life of me — discern if the chef added a touch of ginger or cilantro, or if the coriander, paprika, and bell peppers are ingredients that complete the gastro experience. Not that it really matters, but if there’s one reason I [...]
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, [...]
It was a typical day. With only periodic bursts of me going in and out of my room, but mostly me, on my bed and in front of MrBoo. I hadn’t slept yet and couldn’t since I had to mind the housekeeper while my mum stepped out of the house. Like I said, nothing extraordinary [...]
For the past year or so, I’ve been searching for something that will help bring back a bit of what blogging used to mean for me. I had missed the community that genuinely wishes to engage in conversations that aim to share and connect. I missed participating in blog carnivals wherein I revel in thematic [...]
And seeing my hand soiled with lead elicited a smile. It’s not like I’m planning to make a career out of it. It’s just that there have been a series of events that led me to it. From buying a couple of pencils to artistic encounters, the inclination to draw grew stronger. I don’t see [...]
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 [...]
Remember Teri and the story of the 1TB stretch I published a couple of years ago? Well, today’s story is all about stretching once again but this time, it’s half a stretch than Teri’s and a whole lot more mobile. I’d like to introduce one of the latest gadgets to enter my supposedly not-so-techie world [...]
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