Contemplations

Hi and welcome to my blog; the musings of a Filipino-American writer, martial artist and teacher. Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to hearing what you have to say about what I have to say.

30 December, 2012

Evolution of a Flight

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I was never really conscious of the 'flying on an aeroplane process' when I was a kid. Back then, it was just check in, wait in the ...

26 December, 2012

Favourite Books of 2012

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The title of this post is a little misleading because the books I'm going to mention are some of those I read, or re-read, in 2012, eve...

Best and Worst of 2012

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Looking Back on 2012 As the year comes to a close and newspapers, music charts and movie reviewers, to name a few, start putting up their ...

19 December, 2012

New Adult Fiction

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New adult fiction. I came across this term a couple of hours ago, when I was reading the latest issue of Publishers Weekly (PW) on my flig...

08 December, 2012

Character Traits

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"There's nothing better than a fresh plain bagel with butter." When my son and I returned home this morning, after mass for ...

30 November, 2012

50,972

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Let me start by wishing everyone who participated in the NaNoWriMo challenge congratulations. Whether you got to at least 50,000 w...

19 November, 2012

A Writer's Life

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November, being the month of Thanksgiving, and in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, there have been a lot of words of thanks popping everyw...

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Juan Rader Bas: Mabuhay! I'm an Asian American writer (Back Kicks And Broken Promises, Abbott Press, 2012), martial artist and teacher who was born in The Philippines, raised in Hong Kong and ended up in New Jersey.

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