Dearest Bali

Tatay and Mommy's open-love-letters to Balilove

Letters

  • tú primero

    Dearest Bali, It’s my last break. It is also my last day in the night shift, the only shift I’ve worked in since i started in this company. Come Monday, i will be coming to work in the morning and then clock out early in the afternoon. I will also be moving back to a Continue reading

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  • Jollilove

    Dearest Bali and Mommy, After working 12 hours straight, coming home to a jollihotdog topped with sriracha and japanese mayo makes the whole universe sing. Thank you! Nagmamahal, Tatay Continue reading

  • Finally Subic

    Dearest Bali, Do you remember that time (2016) that we were going to Subic Island and we stopped by your Tita Ani’s house at Irosin for breakfast and then after we left, just a mile from their house we figured in a minor accident? How about that other time (2017) that we left Camalig in Continue reading

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  • El Nido

    Dearest Bali, Three giant trevallys were patrolling the clear water, anxiously waiting for the fish feeding that the resort regularly do twice a day, once in the morning and then again in the afternoon. You would give out a yelp of excitement every time you see their silhouettes from above the water. You still didn’t Continue reading

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  • How I Met Your Mother

    Dearest Bali, I hope these words find you well. I feel that my first love-letter to you should be about the story of how your Tatay and Mommy came to be because that is where your own story starts. Your Mommy is pure Oragon, born and raised in a little town in Albay where her Continue reading

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