Daydream

Manila – A certain tune stopped me dead in my tracks one day while waiting for a jeepney ride. I figured it out from the cacophony of...

Manila – One annoying Monday as I was doing online research, rather resentfully, I came upon the music video of a young Bob Geldof and...

Manila—The New Year greeted me with the flu. I had chills the day after the last sound of firecrackers died down. It got worse in the...

Manila—On this same month last year, I quit grad school. It was my second attempt at getting a master’s degree in a social science field....

Life Daydream By Diana G Mendoza All that noise Manila—The jarring rumble of jeepneys, the ground-shaking drill of jackhammers of...

Manila – Every time I declutter, I stumble onto old stuff that I thought I had thrown away. The most recent is a stack of reporter’s...

Manila – In recent weeks, photos of the stars of “Sex and the City” have been popping up all over Hollywood news while filming their...

Manila — During a chat one day with an elderly neighbor as I was coming back from an errand, she vented about the mobility restrictions...

Manila— In the summer of 2014, I walked around with an eye patch after an eye surgery to correct retinal detachment. Apart from the...

Manila—I’m wearing lipstick as I’m writing this. It’s a Sunday afternoon and I just finished discussing health journalism during this...

Manila—Thoughts about mortality have never been this constant as we are stuck in a pandemic caused by the most destructive virus in...

Manila— While walking one day during my routine errands, I saw street maintenance employees of city hall trimming one of my favorite...

Manila – I cried on the second week of the hard lockdown in mid-March last year. It was the first time I cried in public, on a roadside,...

Manila— The year 2020 was the end of the world, or so I thought. But as I kept reading happy essays listing the best places to live in...

Manila— I realized that things became different the moment I looked at the items on the table during my first coffeeshop visit six months...

By Diana G. Mendoza Manila – I went out more often when Metro Manila’s lockdown restrictions were relaxed at the beginning of the year’s...

Manila — Death happens — if not to someone we know — to us. The only problem we have with it is how we pass its test on our level of...

Manila— Every time I passed by the dimsum restaurant in my neighborhood, it was being torn down bit by bit, until a few weeks later, it’s...

Manila – Truths, realities, epiphanies. This coronavirus pandemic is such an unprecedented ballgame it made many of us come to certain...

Manila— I took the opportunity of the relaxed quarantine to visit the family of one of my siblings, the one who lives nearer to me, to...

Manila – When a tropical storm and its nonstop rains darkened Metro Manila for days in early June, I realized that, in ordinary time,...

Manila— I just came from a walk in the rain. The Philippines was experiencing its first typhoon that was devastating a number of...

Manila— Every night at eight, the police cars sound off their sirens as they go around neighborhoods to signal the lockdown curfew. The...

Manila — Two pylons and an iron chain in front of Ronald McDonald caught my attention as I walked to the supermarket. The fast food chain...

Manila—I’ve had two dates on a Valentine’s Day. It may look like I’m one lucky girl for having experienced that, but no, I’m not fond of...

Anyone who grew up reading Time Magazine, when it was just one of the few printed publications and before the arrival of multimedia and...

Manila— My most recent journey would have been perfect except for a glitch. As I was preparing to leave Africa after attending an...

I am visually disabled. My left eye didn’t make it after a surgery last year to correct retinal detachment. It can only sense faint...

Manila— Ernest Hemingway was said to have spent time in coffee shops writing. I read up somewhere his story about how he went to a...

Manila— At the start of the millennium, I had the chance to work overseas in an international organization. I was chauffeured around in a...

Manila— I spent my birthday with a trip to one of my favorite places in the world. I was not celebrating a milestone birthday. I was just...

Manila — A month ago Facebook reminded me, through a video, of the date when I joined the social media platform 10 years ago. Surprised...

Manila — When I do my morning walks, I watch people walk with their dogs. A few people bring their cats. I grew up with cats and dogs at...

Manila — I went to Catholic schools for 14 straight years of my young life, from elementary (basic or primary in other countries), high...

Manila — A few weeks ago, work required me to be on the road. There was a writing workshop I had to attend in an upland city; the other...

Manila — I have vague memories of when I first read a book, but what I can recall is that some time when I was in grade school, I got...

Manila — In the movie "Sweet Home Alabama," Reese Witherspoon has marched down the aisle to marry Patrick Dempsey when her lawyer came...

Manila — I'm an early riser. I always wake up at 5 am every day, even earlier. On some rare occasions, I wake up past that time when I...

Manila — I don’t remember any one memorable Christmas during my childhood, but most of it was replete with dreams about Santa Claus. My...

Manila— As I write this, I just read somewhere again that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wears the same style of sweatshirt every day...

Manila — In my last column, I wrote about growing old with "the one." As I was writing it, I thought about the people who didn't make it...

Manila —What is likely to happen today? What's my future like? What happens when the planets party? What does it mean when they align?...

Before I celebrated another birthday last month, I attended my seven-year-old niece’s Barbie-themed birthday party at a pizza restaurant....

Manila — I was born in the sign that is ruled by the moon, which, according to birth sign readings, makes me a sensitive and emotional...

Manila —"Have you ever experienced sexual harassment? In what form? From whom?" A male journalist asked me this question for his article...

Manila — Love, just like nicotine and other stuff that are inhaled, drunk, eaten or felt, can be addictive. And so scientists have said...

"Every day is a new beginning and a chance to blow it." Cathy, the comic strip character, has this perfect spot-on description of the...

I read somewhere that some people's addiction to Facebook shows up in their brain scans, especially the types who can't stay off the...

So goes the funny print on a shirt that I saw in a department store that featured three checkboxes with the options "single," "taken,"...

Coming home from a one-time, month-long job posting with an international humanitarian organization that has a team deployed in a...