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How I ended up onstage in PETA’s Control + Shift Festival

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Piña meets samurai: What a bold move

BENCH FW combines Filipino, Japanese aesthetics. Eala, Samson, Garino create their own fashion narratives

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Miranda & Yolanda gives Floy Quintos back to us, even for couple of hours

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WHAT is it about pickleball that makes me want to live on the courts? I ask myself this a lot. Sometimes when I’m packing my bag for the fourth time that week. Sometimes when a “quick game” turns into three hours. Sometimes when I realize the people I’m with are the same ones I saw yesterday—and I’m still happy to see them again. At first, I thought it was just the game. The thrill of…
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From the mall’s top floor came the distinctive sounds of the gong, cymbals and drums one afternoon. A lion dance was in progress, banishing evil…
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42 years with these ‘paramedics of prayer’ WITH this entry, I’m starting my column here in TheDiarist.ph, collections of random thoughts that…
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I remember the feel of my grandmother’s gnarled hand tousling the top of my head the morning after I came from a haircut supervised by my mother…

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