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The gym versus the books

By cclozano On January 3, 2022 In Experiences, Places, Reflections with 0 Comment

It’s the first week of 2022 and aside from the spike in COVID-19 infections, thus the expected return of quarantine restrictions, there’s a soaring demand for or lack of vegetables in the market, at least in our area. It’s as if we all got tired of reheating leftover food and suddenly have this weird craving for healthier meals. Anything that’s not grilled, or sauced, or sweet. The veggies, perhaps a prelude to our seemingly unending journey to lose the weight we gained from the past holiday binging. Or the gym that we’re not really fond of signing up to but go to anyway to prep up for summer. And why can’t we get our old waistline back just by lounging and reading books?

What to Know Before Moving to Ottawa

By cclozano On December 26, 2021 In Community, Finds, Places with 0 Comment

Canada’s capital city may not be one of its most popular tourist destinations, especially when compared to places like Montreal, Banff, Victoria, and Vancouver, but as one of North America’s fastest growing cities, there are many reasons so many people are choosing to buy one of the Ottawa homes for sale to make their move. If you’re one of them, here’s what you need to know.

Empty sala and word puzzles

By cclozano On June 21, 2021 In Experiences, Reflections with 0 Comment

An empty sala filled with family memories

Whenever I see an empty sala, just like the photo above of a resort’s lobby where I was billeted for a cable convention a few years back, it reminds me of the day I lost my father. I may have had a love and hate relationship with my tatay, but I can’t help but miss the strictest and OC person I know in my entire life. Being the youngest, I would walk at least two kilometers to buy him three newspapers almost every morning, a broadsheet and tabloids. He reads them while in the toilet for hours and solves all the word puzzles, English and Tagalog. Word puzzles that still puzzle me that I couldn’t solve or finish as he did, but I’m lucky to have been influenced by his smarts, especially my interest in reading. My father’s not perfect, he wasn’t trying, but he always made our family his priority, and as we celebrate Father’s Day, I’d like to honor him as the best and smartest in his own right.