The most important part of writing is revising, and it’s easier to revise if you have lots of editors working on your story. Fortunately, I have three. The two of them are split personalities of Ja the editor—Ja the debater and Ja the artist.
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The Red Pens of Three
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Analyze This
- -5 Skills a Criminal Can Use to Start a New Life
- -Forced to Sign a Virginity Pledge
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- -High School Play: Heroic Vandal (Scene 11-12: Fighting Tradition)
- -High School Play: Heroic Vandal (Scene 13: The New Vandal)
- -High School Play: Heroic Vandal (Scene 14: Anwaar and the King)
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- -High School Play: Heroic Vandal (Scene 4)
- -High School Play: Heroic Vandal (Scene 5-6: The Public Court)
- -High School Play: Heroic Vandal (Scene 7: Breakfast at Najiya’s)
- -High School Play: Heroic Vandal (Scene 8-10: Blasted Culprit)
- -If I Were to Create Feminist Art
- -Is she white?
- -Learning Commensurability: Why It’s Wrong to Over-Punish Evil Deeds
- -Rockin’ Killing
- -The Filipino Love Story: The Kilig of Disinterest
- -Twilight and Forgiveness: Shocker! A Man Forgives a Cheating Woman
- -Why Americans Shouldn’t Get Angry about the Flavors of Negros
- -Why is religion so obsessed with sex?
- -Why isn’t Jesus the blessed virgin man?
- -Why Women Shouldn’t Sit Properly
Art World
- -98B: Artist’s Library, Creative Hub, Etc.
- -Be Part of The Manila Review
- -Call for Submissions: Writers and Photobloggers
- -Creative Manila: Call for Photography Submissions
- -David Medalla’s Tuloy Po Kayo Exhibit
- -How to Join the Heritage Conservation Society’s Youth Arm
- -One Drawing a Day: Understanding Artists
- -Portrait of an Artist: Betsy Westendorp: Jan 17 to Feb 10
Blogging
- -764 Followers?
- -Age of the Diary on Bloglovin
- -Bandwidth Exceeded
- -Blogging Tip: In-Case-You-Missed-It GIF Sidebar Picture
- -Facebook and Twitter September 2012 Posts
- -Facebook and Twitter: Summary of Posts until Aug 31, 2012
- -Highlights of the Digital Influencers Marketing Summit
- -Highlights of the First Laguna Blogging Summit
- -How I Got 2,000 Hits on My Blog
- -How to Search for Free Images for Your Blog
- -iBlog8: The 8th Philippine Blogging Summit
- -Like Age of the Diary on Facebook
- -Migrating Photos to Imgur
- -Top 10: The Countries Where My Blog Viewers Come From
- -Tweet Tweet: Pentel of America Retweeted My Blog Post
- -What image host site do you use for your blog images?
Books
- -For Sale: The Classics and Other Second-Hand Books
- -My Online Second-Hand Bookstore: The REaD Hunter
- -Sugar on a World: A Review of Mahdur Jaffrey’s Climbing the Mango Trees
- -The Books I Bought at the Floating Book Fair
- -The Story Behind the Bookworm Brigade at Maginhawa
- -What do you love about second-hand books?
- -What I Want to Know from the Back of a Book
- -Why don’t people bring books?
- -Wishing for Cheap and Shitty-Looking Books
Commute to Art
Crafts and Other Artistic Adventures
- -Bus Ticket Tote Bag
- -Christmas Tree Magazine Ornaments
- -Drawing Exercises from the Drawing Lab
- -How to Design Your Tablet Case with Bus Tickets
- -How to Upcycle an Old Bag Using Masking Tape and Pentel Pens
- -How To Use Bus Tickets to Design Your Notebooks
- -My Unfinished Art Projects
- -Splat a Notebook
- -Turn Shoe Boxes into Mini Bookshelves
Crazy and Fun Stories
- -A Summary of Ja’s Pick Up Lines/Jokes
- -A Template Draft
- -Act of Grammatical Contrition
- -Bird’s Nest Hairdo
- -Confessions of a T-Shirt Reader
- -Deep Poem?
- -Doggy-Doggy Sat on the Wall
- -In Defense of My Terrible Handwriting
- -Ja’s New Jokes/Pick Up Lines for Girls and Boys
- -New MMDA Job Post: Taga-Gulat ng Umiihi
- -She Called Me Vanessa
- -The Kalamay Effect
- -The Names, the Nicknames, and Names I Did Not Get
- -What I Do When I Waste My Time on YouTube
- -What’s your weirdest food combo?
- -When I Die I Want a Glass Coffin and a Cellphone
- -Words that Ja Can’t Spell
Crazy Dreams
Debate Stories
Fashion
Fiction
Food and Drink
- -A Yummy Mashup: Skyflakes and Condensada
- -Blueberry Cream Cheese, Coco Jam, and Condensed Milk Dutch Babies Platter
- -Buttered Egg with Basil Spread
- -Copycat Recipe: Coconut Rice Pancakes
- -Filipino Health Drink: Talbos ng Kamote (Sweet Potato Leaves) Juice
- -Homemade Taro Milk Tea Using Good Shepherd Ube Jam
- -Ka Remy’s White Biko Recipe
- -My Favorite Childhood Snack: Silk Tofu in a Tube
- -My Favorite Tomato Soup Recipe
- -My Grandma’s Recipe: The Flying Saucer
- -My New Favorite Milk Tea Place: iTea
- -No-Fry Sunny Side Up
- -Recook Tasteless Cookies into a Yummy Chocolate Cake
- -Spruce Up Your Oatmeal
- -The First Time I Tried Jamba Juice
- -Tomato Basil Cheese Stack
- -Why are there so many bottled water products?
Health
High School Madness
Inspirational Stories
- -10 Basic Affirmations
- -100 Things that I’m Thankful For
- -11 Happiness Commandments
- -5 Self-Help Lessons I Learned from Reality TV
- -A Shy Person’s Top 8 Worries and Fears
- -All the Quotes I Love
- -Barbra and Perfectionism
- -Choosing the Non-itchy Dress
- -Do Something Bawal
- -Georgina Chapman Talks about Creative Breakdowns
- -Happiness Tip: Make Good Memories
- -I’m a happy artist
- -Ja Quote: When Hard Work Becomes Easy
- -Ja’s Ukay-Ukay Experience
- -Lessons from Ms. Luque
- -Life Lessons I Learned While Playing Monopoly Deal
- -My Greatest Achievement is Breaking out From My Shyness
- -My Life Ideas Notebook
- -My Life Plans As of Right Now
- -My Mom’s Weird Manny Pacquiao Advice
- -Passion Gives You Time
- -Secrets of Adulthood
- -Snippets of Dreams: DIY Inspirational Quotes
- -That Isn’t Success
- -To Shift or Not to Shift
- -You’re Not a Newbie; You’re a Rising Star
Inventions and Ideas
- -10 Simple Gifts I’d Love to Receive
- -Alternative to Big Bang
- -Memory Theory: Why Old People Trip and Fall
- -Suggestion for My Future Employer: Hire Me as Your Cyberworld Reporter
- -Truth and Niceness
- -What Happened to Lisa Frank?
- -Wishing for a Facebook Filter on Yucky Photos
- -Wishing for a Karaoke Bus
- -Wishing for a Mark as Unread for Facebook
- -Wishing for a New Photoshop Action: Auto-steam
- -Wishing for a New Techie Invention: E-Ink and LCD Tablet Hybrid
- -Wishing for a USB That Says “This Side Up”
- -Wishing for an Online Cellphone
- -Wishing for New Monopoly Deal Cards
- -Wishing that All Chargers Would Automatically Shut Off
- -Work at Home Bagyo Option or Bagyo Bonus
Life Tips and Reflections
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Movies and TV
Music
My Awesome Family
- -A Childhood in Batangas: Eating Mangoes
- -A Childhood in Batangas: My Wound is Bigger than Yours, Belat
- -Annika’s Childhood Crush
- -Annika’s Great Escapes
- -Bike and Bleed
- -Childhood Game: May Butas Ang Puwet Mo!
- -Childhood Game: Taguan Mo Si Errol
- -Conversations With Lola: Aling Dionisia’s Illness
- -Conversations with Mama: The Binge Edition
- -Cruz Family How To: Bonfire Fun
- -Dare to the End of the Forest
- -Easter Egg Hunting for Grown Ups
- -Finding Jaja
- -Grandma and Good Fridays: No Laughing Allowed
- -I Remember Lola
- -Ja and Annika: The Violent Little Kids
- -Juancho Threw a Rock at Me
- -Little Erinn and the Suggestion Box
- -Lola’s Food Philosophy
- -My Mother’s Top Five Weird Habits
- -Painting an Old Woman
- -Pregnant Pause
My Blogspot
My Virtual Notebook
PJAM Stories
Poems
Published Works
Snippets of Life
Social Media
Squdoo
Techie Stuff
The Philippines
- -Buying from Street Vendors in Jeeps
- -Compilation of Emergency Hotlines and Other Flood-Related Info
- -Cultural Appreciation Resolution: Look at Buildings
- -Filipinos Don’t Say Mabuhay
- -For Filipinos ‘Salvage’ Means Murder
- -I’m Thankful That I Live in a World of Coconuts
- -Normal na Buhay
- -Preacher on the Bus
- -Sardinas Bus
- -Signs and Sensibility: No Parking
- -Stationary Jeeps: Countdown until Take Off
- -The Filipino People’s Love-Shame Relationship
- -The Philippine Love Affair with Bacteria-Filled Milk
- -To Walk the Streets of Manila
- -What post made you want to subscribe to my blog?
- -Why Do Filipinos Name Their Babies “Baby”?
- -Why Do You Speak English?
Today I Learned
Travels
- -Aimless Walking Adventure: China Town, Philippines
- -Aimless Walking Adventure: Muslim Town, Philippines
- -Aimless Walking Adventure: Quiapo, Philippines
- -Carlos Celdran Free Luneta Tour: Art Spaces and Free Concerts
- -Ja’s Solo Adventures: Angono, Rizal
- -My New York Vacation Schedules
- -My Random Luneta Park Adventure
- -New York's Talking Toilet
- -OMG I'm in the First World Moments (So Far)
- -Postal Heritage Walking Tour: A Free Manila Tour
- -Snippets of New York
- -The Curly-Haired Geeky Stranger
- -The Golden Temple of Chiang Mai
- -The Mall Rats: The Lakwatsa, the Fashion, the Food
- -The New York Anaconda Hugger
- -The New York Subway Weirdo
- -The Twin Towers of Asia
- -The Union Square Bozo Clown
Videos
Weird Kid Stories
- -A Little Ja Story: Going to Mama’s Office
- -Childhood Crush
- -Childhood Game: Daganan Mo Si Errol
- -Childhood Randomness: Reading Signs
- -From JASMS to Miriam
- -I Played Mary, He Played Joseph
- -Ja’s Childhood Businesses
- -Ja’s Early Birthday Parties
- -Ja’s Weird Childhood Games
- -Ja’s Weird Childhood Games (Part 2)
- -Jaja’s Weird Fears (past and present)
- -La Usurpadora Beauty, La Usurpadora Personality
- -Little Ja in Pictures
- -Little Ja Singing Laklak
- -Little Ja the Ballerina Baby
- -Little Ja's Emo Test
- -Little Ja’s Budget Christmas
- -Little Ja’s First Cooking Class
- -Little Ja’s Sleepy Daydreams
- -Little Ja’s Worst Day of My Life
- -Mama Make Me a Test
- -My Smile
- -Playing Around the Coffin
- -Shyness and Recitation
- -The Adult World Laughter Span
- -Velveteen Teddy
- -What Little Ja Wrote
Writing Posts
- -Confessions of a Diary Fanatic
- -Creative Non-Fiction Tip: Start Your Article with a Story
- -Descriptive Essay: Think before You Act
- -Evolving Writing Habits
- -Free Writing Adventures
- -How to Write Faster
- -Ja’s Physical, Emotional, and Psychological State: As of Right Now
- -Ja’s Writing Habits
- -My Writing Journey So Far
- -Particularity of I Love You
- -Tell Another Story
- -The Light
- -The Red Pens of Three
- -The Top 10 Posts on My Blog
- -To be Read, To be Loved
- -To Write with Ease
- -What I’d Really Like to Say is
- -Where Writing Exercises Meet
- -Why do you blog when you already work as a writer?
- -Writing Challenge: Write in a Noisy Food Court
- -Writing Exercise: The Morning Pages
- -Writing Exercises: If I Were to Do Something Really Crazy
- -Writing Tip: Break It Down
- -Writing Tip: Create a Notebook of Ideas
- -Writing Tip: How to Remember Contest and Workshop Deadlines
- -Writing Tip: Make a Pact with the Universe
- -Writing Tip: Out before In
- -Writing Tip: Stay with It and Sit
- -Writing Tips from Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark
- -Writing Tips I Learned from Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
- -Writing Tips: Try Writing Prompts
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