Category: Intramuros

  • Intramuros 3

    I will turn 61 in less than three months, and it is quite amazing — this feeling of being released from obligations and desires that drove me crazy — is liberating. At this age, I am carefree in attitude and careless with expectations. Especially social expectations. This is the age it doesn’t matter anymore if…

  • Intramuros 2

    I lingered on the bench  to rest my tired feet in front of Manila Cathedral. An ice cream peddler stood patiently alongside me,  beside him was another peddler of  sour mangos. I tried the mango earlier in another area of Manila.  The fruit gets peeled and is sprinkled  with salt or salty shrimp paste to…