This Star Child...

"I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After." - Ms. Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs In my last post , written almost a year ago, I shared my apprehension about growing up and letting go of my being a "young adult" and transitioning to being just an adult. It felt like I just went on with my life thinking I was still in my early 20's and then boom -- I just woke up and realized that I already belonged to the category of women in their late twenties.  And I was like, what have I done with my life? That was me, a year ago. Everything else that happened from that time up until the very early stages of 2014 --- are things that I have learned to label in my mind as My Before.  But before what, exactly?  I feel like it was before I read this:

Today, I asked myself to slow down. (I don't really know how many todays its has been, this post is taking me three days to finish.) I only have 3 years left before I reach 30 and though that shouldn't be such a big deal in this day and age, at this point in my life, it is to me. Three months after celebrating my 27th birthday, I've had encounters with people who've had interesting things to say about age and so I've started thinking too much about my so-called incoming "glorious thirties." One conversation I had about this was on the topic of Age Appropriate Fashion. Now for the longest time, ever since I could remember, my go-to outfit on laidback days (and in Cebu we have a lot of those) would be a comfortable shirt, shorts and my Havaianas flip flops. I specify the brand because for me, the brand changed the way we see flip flops and made it okay to wear them almost everywhere (at least in Cebu.) So going back to the topic on Age Appropria

In order for me to be credible in this subject, let me give you a brief background about my experience on this topic. I went to boarding school when I was 12 years old. Well boarding school sounds too fancy, but it was basically me, living in a dorm located inside an all-girl school. I did not have relatives in that area, I had no cellphone and my allowance was more or less Php 500.00 a week. My only connection to my family who were miles away was through a payphone where I’d dial 109 and make collect calls. I stayed there for 4 years.  In college, I transferred to another city, this time much further from my parents. I stayed in a dormitory outside of the school this time. Then transferred to a less strict dorm (READ: Not run by nuns). After graduation, I decided to work in that same city where I live until now. Currently, I rent a little studio space which I lovingly call the P-hut, short for Pizza Hut because for some strange reason, my room is shaped like a triangl

CHAPTER 1: Paper, pen, guitar “Geng check your mail. I finished a song.” It was recorded via a regular audio recorder so it was really raw and I may even have heard a dog barking in the background. But I was excited. It was the first song that she finished writing after almost a year’s hiatus. While listening to the first part, I was like…oh it’s a happy song. And then she sang the first line. “Hello tears, you’re back so soon.” This song eventually became Track # 5 in the album 0:00:00. It’s not every day that I get to witness an album unfold before my very eyes. And that’s why I am thankful for those seemingly mundane events that led me to become part of 22 Tango Records – a registered independent record label created by Cebuana singer and songwriter Cattski Espina. I first heard Hello Tears about 2 years ago. We knew she was going to make a fourth album but we didn’t know when it would happen. We were working on other projects that time a