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Of Floating Women | Jerry Morada
To celebrate our country’s upcoming Independence Day tomorrow, I began posting images of my favorite Filipino artists. Yesterday, it was the charm of Old Manila by Dominic Rubio. Today, it’s the...
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Independence Day | Mabuhay Ang Pilipinas!
I may not be home to commemorate with the rest of the Philippines, but today’s work is a tribute to our nation’s Independence Day today Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! Trivia: When I was starting out as an...
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From The Sketchbook: (Dirty) Ice Cream
I never really understood why it’s called “dirty ice cream”. It sure didn’t look and taste dirty to me My afternoons as a child, at around 4pm, was filled with the music of ice cream bells. The...
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Our National Hero’s Birthday | June 19, 1861
So I’m posting this a day late (but I did put this up on my Facebook yesterday As a tribute to our country’s national hero, Jose Rizal, thought I’d make a little caricature in honor of his birthday....
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From The Kitchen | Oven-Simmered Adobo With Roasted Garlic
Thought I’d experiment with our family’s adobong puti (white adobo) recipe. As of today, I’ve already cooked four kinds of adobo: 1. soy-based adobo — which is the the most common recipe back home,...
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The Scholastican And The Magical Pocket Of Possibilities
This is what/who I used to draw more than twenty years ago (my god, I can actually say that I was doing something significant 20 years ago!!!) But yes, this was what we looked like back then. I went...
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Paper Bags | A Lesson In Manual Typewriting Skills
This was a day in our lives back in high school (early 90s!). We used a manual typewriter for typing classes simply because there was no other option. It didn’t require electricity, the ink were...
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From The Sketchbook | Where Is This Jeepney Going?
Wishing our athletes extraordinary victories! I know I’ve posted this drawing last month for our Independence Day but I’d like to post this once more today in honor of the Philippine delegation. Go for...
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What Half A Storm Looks Like
Almost everyone I know in Manila had posted status messages on Facebook about the storm that was lashing at the city shortly before bedtime. Many also worried about the inevitable: power blackout...
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It Was August 21, 1983
His face is splashed on my country’s P500 bill. His famous words, “The Filipino is worth dying for”. It was August 21, 1983, I was 6. But I remember the screams from a grainy TV, a shocked household....
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Jolted
Is it possible to wake up early dawn due to lightning? Apparently so. It’s happened so many times this year already that I wake up to blasts of bright light while morning is still very dark....
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The Philippines Needs You! | #RescuePH
There was a very long pause the moment Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines. No one knew what was happening because most forms of communications were severed due to the Category 5 typhoon...
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It’s More Fun In The Philippines And Singapore :)
It was my first trip back home where I felt already like a visitor For the first time since the 80s, I woke up to a smog-less new year’s day in Manila. The airport that has been getting a lot …...
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What Prawns In Crab Fat Looks Like
And here we have what we call back home “Sugpo Sa Taba Ng Talangka” a.k.a. prawns in crab fat. Chunky prawn pieces stewed in pure crab fat (yes, that orange gravy is made from those little nuggets you...
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Calligraphy | There’s Only One
Thought I’d write some modern calligraphy in Filipino as well :) So here’s a line that stuck with me from a song by Bayang Barrios called “Nag-iisang Mundo” (meaning ‘one and only world’). I love her...
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Of Floating Women | Jerry Morada
To celebrate our country’s upcoming Independence Day tomorrow, I began posting images of my favorite Filipino artists. Yesterday, it was the charm of Old Manila by Dominic Rubio. Today, it’s the...
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Independence Day | Mabuhay Ang Pilipinas!
I may not be home to commemorate with the rest of the Philippines, but today’s work is a tribute to our nation’s Independence Day today :) Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! Trivia: When I was starting out […]
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From The Sketchbook: (Dirty) Ice Cream
I never really understood why it’s called “dirty ice cream”. It sure didn’t look and taste dirty to me :) My afternoons as a child, at around 4pm, was filled with the music of ice […]
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Our National Hero’s Birthday | June 19, 1861
So I’m posting this a day late (but I did put this up on my Facebook yesterday :) As a tribute to our country’s national hero, Jose Rizal, thought I’d make a little caricature in […]
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From The Kitchen | Oven-Simmered Adobo With Roasted Garlic
Thought I’d experiment with our family’s adobong puti (white adobo) recipe. As of today, I’ve already cooked four kinds of adobo: 1. soy-based adobo — which is the the most common recipe back home,...
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