April 14, 2018 at 11:41 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Filipino Writers, plans, Relatives, Women Writers)
Tags: inspiration, memories, Saturday, The Philippines
Self thinks she’s going to change her spirit animal.
It used to be a turtle.
When she was growing up, her parents gave her, each birthday, a Steuben glass animal. She has a whole collection of Steuben glass turtles. Even, a Steuben glass toad.
She thinks she’d rather be a dolphin.
Dolphins are playful.
Dolphins are not poky-slow animals.
COME ON, SELF! YOU ARE NOT A TURTLE! YOU ARE NOT A TOAD!!!
YOU ARE A DOLPHIN!
Awakening.
Stay tuned.
February 1, 2018 at 12:53 am (Family, Food and Drink, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Filipino food, Manila, memories, nostalgia, postaday, postaweek, The Philippines, Wordpress
First cousin on mother’s side: Maitoni Cu-Unjieng
Home-Cooked Food, with Lots of Fried Garlic
Self is named after this iconic Filipino soup from the central Philippine islands: Batchoy
January 23, 2018 at 11:54 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Filipino Writers, Relatives, Surprises, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: short story, supernatural, superstition, The Philippines, work-in-progress
Self is really crushing the writing. This is her 2nd story in two days.
AMAZING.
#sowoke
It must be her recent trip to the Philippines.
No, it must be her recent trip to London and the Philippines.
No, it must be her recent trip to Paris and London and the Philippines.
No, it must be her recent trip to Ireland and Paris and London and the Philippines.
NEVERTHELESS!!!
The following story is true.
You probably know that Filipinos are considered very spiritual people. Imelda Marcos was quoted as saying that the spiritist attribute that Filipinos have is due to the direct connection of the Philippines with a black hole directly over the islands. Or something like that. Well, this story has something to do with ghosts and spirits.
Back in 1982 (or so), during All Saints Day (or is that All Souls’ Day?), our family decided to contact my Dear Departed Dad by playing ‘spirit of the glass.’
‘Spirit of the glass’ is kind of like a Ouija Board, but instead of a disc, it uses an upside-down glass.
(Story to be continued. Stay tuned)
January 23, 2018 at 6:30 pm (Books, destinations, Family, Filipino Writers, Links, Philippine History, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: causes, discoveries, history, Manila, memories, postaday, postaweek, The Philippines, Wordpress, World War II
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge (as of 17 January 2018) is SILENCE.
I love having time to myself — solitude re-charges me . . . I had never really immersed myself in a long stretch of silence beyond my occasional hour-long meditation sessions. I went to this hermitage on a silent retreat for uninterrupted, unstructured time to think, to walk, to read, and just be.
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
The University of Santo Tomas is the oldest university in the Philippines. It was founded in 1611.
During a recent three-week sojourn in Manila (city of her birth), self had the privilege to drop by the University a visit. Her first stop: the Antonio Vivencio Historical Library, named after self’s great-grandfather.
How her heart ached to see these precious books, 30,000 volumes (which had been carried out of Intramuros by hand, just before the Battle for the liberation of Manila, at the end of World War II).
If she could, she would happily spend the rest of her days in that library.
But she is back now in San Francisco. When will she return to Manila? Who knows.
The answer is: SILENCE.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 12, 2018 at 7:18 am (Family, Places, postaday, Relatives)
Tags: Fridays, Manila, postaday, postaweek, The Philippines, Wordpress
Alice, Who’s Been Working for Tito Tony (with the cane) and Tita Aida Since Forever!
The Manila Metro Light Transit (MRT) is very old and quite weathered. Here it is, above the main artery of Metro-Manila, the perpetually traffic-choked Epifanio de los Santos (EDSA)
Son at Seven: Picture in a (Quite) Weathered Frame
January 11, 2018 at 2:00 am (Books, Dearest Mum, destinations, Family, Links, Niece, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Manila, memories, postaday, postaweek, The Philippines, Wordpress
This week, show us the effect of time and the elements.
— Krista Stevens, The Daily Post
The desk in Niece Georgina’s quarters in Dearest Mum’s house in Makati, the Philippines. Old photos of Dear Departed Dad and sundry folk:
Pictures of the Passed On and the Very Much Alive: Dearest Mum’s House, Makati, the Philippines
The bed in Dearest Mum’s spare bedroom, with kulambo (mosquito net) and handbag tree, conveniently right next to the four-poster:
Four-Poster Bed, Makati, the Philippines: January, 2018
Niece’s pocketbook collection. She has great taste in reading matter!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
December 19, 2017 at 2:18 pm (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, Family, postaday, Relatives)
Tags: art, Brooklyn, exhibits, memories, Obama, photography, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
Detail of a Robert Longo Photo in the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Comic Book Art by San Francisco-Based Filipino American Collective: Don Ellis Aguillo, Rafael Salazar
Dearest Mum as a Young Woman, Early 1950s
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
November 22, 2017 at 6:11 pm (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, Family, Filipino Writers, Relatives, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: fiction, short story, work-in-progress
After I had stolen my mother’s Chopard diamond earrings, the ones my father had given her for their 20th wedding anniversary, I didn’t know what to do. I ended up far from home, on an island clear across the ocean. I found a thatched hut on a narrow beach. Every morning, I heard fishermen pull their boats up on the shore. People would appear and haggle over fish with snub heads, and fish shaped like half-moons and long, silvery fish that looked like sardines, only 10 times bigger.
I was going to do something, but I didn’t know what. I felt brave.
November 12, 2017 at 5:39 pm (Books, Conversations, Memoirs, Recommended, Relatives, Sundays, Surprises)
Tags: medicine, nonfiction, reading lists
Self just joined a Doctors Book Club. So she can participate in the book club discussion on Do No Harm. She even sent a link to her nephew, William. The one who got married in September. The one who works at Columbia-Presbyterian.
Henry Marsh is doing his round of the spinal theatres. In one theatre, he asks the operating: “Why such a large incision? And why are you using the big bone rongeurs?”
Marsh goes over to the operating table.
“I’ll have a look.”
He picks up “a pair of forceps and” looks into the wound. “A long shiny white thread, the thickness of a piece of string — four or five inches long — came up out of the wound . . . ”
“Oh Jesus fucking Christ!”
SELF (Flapping her hands about): OH NO The student’s just cut someone’s spinal cord.
Marsh: The “registrar had completely misunderstood the anatomy and opened the spine at the outer end rather than the inner edge of the spinal canal and hence had immediately encountered a nerve root, which, even more incomprehensibly, he had then severed.”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
October 16, 2017 at 5:29 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Albuquerque, art, Cee Neuner, discoveries, Edinburgh, England, memories, Mondays, museums, music, websites
How SYW (Share Your World) Works:
Create your post answering the four questions below, then post a link to Cee Neuner’s blog in the comment box.
Here are self’s answers:
If you had to move to a country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
The Philippines, since I grew up there.
England, because I adore theatre and everything related to. And because it’s an easy hop from there to my other favorite country: Ireland.
What color would you like your bedroom to be?
A deep red. The kind I first saw in Edinburgh, in 2012.
What makes you happy? Make a list of things in your life that bring you joy.
What inspired you or what did you appreciate this past week?
Eating Bone Marrow Tapas at Mas Tapas y Vino on 2nd in downtown Albuquerque.
Haven’t had bone marrow in soooo long. Self loved it growing up in the Philippines.
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