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Instalment XXXV – Wherein our little heroine returns to reality

Tales from the Tropics

The last tale from the tropics. I fly out in twelve hours. How’s that for a deadline? Never fear dear reader, there are plans for this platform. I’m not going to leave you hanging because that is a manipulative marketing strategy that makes the petit rebel in me always thing fuck off I don’t want […]

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December 7, 2017
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Instalment XXXIV – Wherein our little heroine fakes a cake

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Reason 1504 why I love my fucking family- my cousin, the youngest and official black sheep, dropped out of engineering/ was kicked out for not showing up and was punished by being bought a motorbike and sent to baking school. I secretly think that if he knocked up a girl it would be totally fine […]

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November 4, 2017
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Instalment XXXIII – Wherein our little heroine sits with some souls

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I keep making promises I don’t keep like that shit about fear. The thoughts are coming. At least I conquered my fear of death. Wanna know how I did it? Deep spiritual practice. Nup, just kidding! Conditioning. Hung out at the cemetery again. In the Philippines they celebrate the 1st and 2nd of November as […]

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November 3, 2017
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Instalment XXXII – Wherein our little heroine finds a new fear

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In yesterday’s post I half assed mentioned how I live in the present. Maybe death is a bigger thing than I admitted. I guess my fucking friend surprise dying on me suspended me in time. Believe it or not, I’m a fun kind of gal and I think that is directly correlated to my impulse […]

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October 31, 2017
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Instalment XXXI – Wherein our little heroine returns quietly and unnoticed

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Dear Internet, it’s been five days since my last confession. How apt that I hit thirty and just stopped. I’m alive. I’m not really sure what happened. I think writing something not sassy threw me out of a comfort zone and completely paralyzed me. I think I learned sometimes forcing yourself to do something to […]

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October 30, 2017
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Instalment XXX – wherein our little heroine is dirty thirty and keeping secrets

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If I’m learning at least one thing, it’s how to use roman numerals. What a handy skill. It kept Bart Simpson alive once, haters. Happy 30th instalment to me. Now my blog and I are both lying about our real ages together. Forever young. This morning I woke up emotionally wrung out but less crazy. […]

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October 25, 2017
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Instalment XXIX – wherein our little heroine is living la vida loca

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Hello my enduring endeavour to enlightenment. Turns out this is like everything in life. No discipline and you’re fucked. Every time I think I’m not going to do a post the stubborn little part of me just can’t break the streak. You should see my snap chat. Well that’s done. I don’t know if I’ll […]

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October 23, 2017
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Instalment XXVIII – Wherein our little heroine has a little dream at sea

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It’s Sunday, I find weekend writing the most labourious. Maybe because everyone’s up and home and around and I always feel more like the foreign outsider that sits and types at the dining table while my family does their routine shuffle around me. My nightmares are back and I feel a little bit like they’re […]

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October 22, 2017
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Instalment XXVII – Wherein our little heroine selflessly stops asking for answers

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Turns out I might be a one trick pony. The last instalment wasn’t hard. It only took maybe two hours to write which is actually pretty good. It’s just trying to sift through what I can turn into a narrative. Boring. This exercise in mindless talking has really improved my words per minute though. Thank […]

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October 21, 2017
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Instalment XXVI – Wherein our little heroine meets a Muslim and rebukes religion

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In the spirit of change and outrospection (is this the reverse of introspection?) Here is a piece I wrote, not in my sass voice but in my regular writing voice. Because one must practice being more than a one trick pony.   The sky is a hard steel grey. A typhoon has been passing over […]

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October 20, 2017
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