Welcome to my Blogspace.

Those who know me well know that I am an irrepressible blogger. In 1999, I started writing A Spoonful of Sugar, which was then an email newsletter sent out to my friends and colleagues at Globe Telecom. It covered anything and everything in my rose-colored world that I felt was worth writing about: idealistic dreams, far-reaching goals, views about politics and society, takes on love and romance, and everything else in between. As the small mailing list quickly expanded, a close friend of mine (and an idol and mentor, really), Palanca Award-winner Christian Vallez, encouraged me to post my thoughts in a blog. So I did.

Four years later, in 2003, when I embarked on a freelance writing career and established myself as a "real writer," Spoonful also took off–although not in a big, commercial way. I started getting emails and comments from people I didn't know. People I had almost forgotten about (classmates and acquaintances from high school and college) would write me, saying how my posts made them realize this, or changed their lives in that way. I was humbled and emboldened at the same time. I knew I had something good to say, and that I should keep saying it. Around that time, too, I was reunited with an old friend–who later on became the Love of My Life and who encouraged me to take flight. Spoonful became an open diary of sorts, a story of our friendship, love, romance, and–as usual–everything else in between.

Now, it's 2007, and it once again has been four years since the time I pursued my passions as a writer, and I'm realizing that my life seems to be moving in four-year cycles. I now maintain (or at least try to) four blogs: A Spoonful of Sugar; Via Filipina, about my search for authenticity as a young woman; Soul Work, about my spiritual journey and the tools that I use along the way; and Niña's Notebook, my online portfolio.

So this blog will be a compendium of my favorite entries, the "best of" everything that I have contributed so far to the blogosphere–a mishmash of spoonfuls of soul work and views of a Filipina trying to make her way around the world. 

I hope you'll enjoy reading (or re-reading) the entries here, and I do hope to hear from you sometime.

~ NT, 29092007