The November Escape: Life and Death in Bali and Sayang Ice Cream

Instead of staying in the Country to celebrate All Souls‘ and All Saints’, I ran to Bali.  I ran away.  It was the best place to end up in. The lotus flowers rose… Continue reading →

Teachers’ Day, Baguio and Two Strawberry Ice Creams

I took my Creative Writing class to Baguio as I had always done every year for more or less eleven years.  This year, it really was more important to return, to find my… Continue reading →

Zen in the City. Hokusai Ice Cream. Ice Cream is Wabi-Sabi. Tea, Tranquility 1

Elegant Things A white coat worn over a violet waistcoat. Duck eggs. Shaved ice mixed with liana syrup and put in a new silver bowl. A rosary of rock crystal. Wistaria blossoms. Plum… Continue reading →

Living in the Gray City and Oreo Marshmallow Ice Cream

Surrounded by skyscrapers, I catch myself always looking up.  Between elegant and not so elegant buildings, some creamy clouds float by filled with much light. Dress coats, in this weather and in true… Continue reading →

Passion Fruit Ice Cream drizzled with Coconut Honey Over a Slice of Dragon Fruit.

  Flowers in the Sagada cold are stronger. They push out their lips and are totally petulant. Take this lush Bougainvillea. In Manila, it would not be this passionately alive. Cold, tangy, perfect.… Continue reading →

Tablea Ice Cream with Caramel Honeycomb Chunks. (Cold Sepia – 1)

This ice cream tastes like a scene through a wooden capiz window and feels like waiting. Dark tablea in all its smooth and grainy moods is spiked with shards of amber honeycomb. This… Continue reading →

Coconut Almond Ice Cream (Visayas Cold Series- 2).

Guimaras‘ blue skies had these powerful white clouds. Angel’s feathers rippled through the horizon. Blue ocean, blue sky, angel’s feathers. (You must be up there too, my love.) Thank God for the Trappist… Continue reading →

Bañadas Ice Cream Sandwich. (Visayas Cold Series – 1)

Guimaras Avocado Ice Cream between my childhood cookie of choice. The sweet white cookie and rich avocado ice cream is an experience in flavour and texture. I had always never liked the unappealing… Continue reading →

Guimaras Mango Ice Cream and My First Post.

This was the post that started the album on Facebook, The Lady is Cold. The gift of warm heavy Guimaras mangoes in the last days of my depressing summer inspired my weekend trip… Continue reading →