IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque If there is one thing about myself that needed the most adjustment in 2020, it was flexibility in terms of making plans. I finally had to embrace spontaneity to an extent, and had to let go of the obsessive compulsive nature of writing everything down in my...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque I write this on Christmas morning in a little corner on my dining table as Christmas wrapper, ribbons, and undelivered gifts have taken over most. This past week has been pandemonium. Considering that I spent months on end at home, I procrastinated more than ever...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque One of my favorite Christmas songs opens with the lines, “Do you remember me? I sat up on your knee. I wrote to you in childhood fantasy.” This song, “My Grown Up Christmas List” has always made me nostalgic. It has reminded me of so many aspects of...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque As the first day of the last month of the year came around, I could not help but think about the year that’s been. And while I suppose I have done much more pondering this year than any other, I could not help but go through my Instagram account to find that...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque I write this on Thanksgiving Thursday. To say that 2020 has been a year like no other would be a total understatement. Redundant even if you will as I personally feel I myself have said it many times over in this column alone. Yet, in the spirit of Thanksgiving...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque On Thursday is American Thanksgiving. Although by custom it is not celebrated here in the Philippines, more people have adapted the tradition of serving turkey and gathering around the dinner table to give thanks on this day. Falling right smack in the middle of...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque As the weeks pass us by, and as things seem to become more “normal,” I cannot help but look back and reminisce at travel plans that were supposed to be, but did not push through this year. Then, I fall into the black hole of reminiscing and looking back at...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque Here we are, still in the midst of the world’s longest quarantine. Yet, on most days, it no longer feels any different. I guess as human beings, we are adaptive creatures by nature, and so eventually, despite initial resistance, we all adapt and assimilate into...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque Slowly, but surely, the economy is opening up. Restrictions are being modified, if not lifted. To some extent, we are going back to some semblance of normalcy. Halloween season is about us. That means, All Saints and All Souls Day too. But many traditions this...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque God’s plan 2020. If I were to summarize, or put a theme to label what the year has been thus far, it would be that. By the third quarter of last year, I thought I had this year planned down pat – it would be travel clad for the most part as I was in the midst...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque When I turned on my television last Sunday, and tuned in to a variety show, the opening number was a medley of Filipino Christmas carols. Although we are well into the "ber” months, I must admit that the past month has been excessively busy for me for personal...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex M. Eduque Just when we thought the world has started to slowly re-open, and as economies are trudging to recover, news that cities such as Madrid in Spain is back on some sort of modified lockdown, and that the president of the United States Donald Trump and his first...
