romance

  • I’m gonna be honest here. The first few episodes of this show, I wasn’t really feeling it. But they sorta got me with the ending of the last episode! Let’s see if that trend continues with this new one!

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  • I hadn’t really planned to review or even read this book at all. I was supposed to read another independently published book I bought during the Philippine Book Festival but it wasn’t grabbing my attention with the first few chapters so I decided to look for something else to read instead. I found this book

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  • It’s the final episode! We’ve spent most of our time in Jakarta, with some detours here and there to Seoul and Manila, and now we’re finally going to see how Ha-Joon and Maya’s story ends. Will they end up together? Will they stay in Jakarta, in Seoul, or in Manila? How many product placements will

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  • So, aside from finding The Secret of Derek Guerrero, the Philippine Book Fair also helped me to reconnect with some of the publishing people I knew when I still covered the books and publishing beat for the newspaper I used to work for. After catching up on the literal past decade, I got contact information

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  • I know, I know, late again! But my work life has been keeping me so busy that I often just fall asleep right after. I haven’t even been keeping up with my physical journal! Life’s been hectic! But now I have a day off and it’s raining outside so I have all the time in

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  • A long time ago, when the world was young and the temperature was much lower, I wrote for a newspaper. I did that for 10 years and since my beat was books and publishing, I was a regular attendee at book fairs, book launches, and the occasional Palanca awards night. I used to be on

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  • Unfortunately, dear readers numbering in the ones, this is the part of the series where we dive into That Plot. That I hate. But what can I do about it but just dive in?

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  • I know, I know I’ve been lagging behind when it comes to this show again, but I did caught up with actually following Secret Ingredient as it happens. There’s also been the fact that I’ve had a busy couple of days when it comes to my actual paying job, so I haven’t been able to

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  • I found out about this show completely by accident — while I was scrolling on Twitter the trailer for this series just happened to be retweeted onto my timeline. And you know what, I thought that it was cute! And the fact that it had stars from three different countries? Very interesting! It finally debuted

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  • My goodness it actually looks like I am going to catch up with everybody else when it comes to this series. And by catch up I mean it won’t take me weeks after the finale before I finally finish watching the series. Let’s go!

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