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Paolo Manalo
@paolomanalo.bsky.social
🇵🇭 up diliman | poetry: posthumous, you already, jolography retconned, happily ever ek-ek, e is for epal
Ordered this physical album from Japan to celebrate all the milestones of SB19 this Simula at Wakas era. Pulled a Stell photocard.
October 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
DUNGKA! sa Simula at Wakas Experience ng SB19.
August 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Received a copy of Conversations with my Self(ies): Poems by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador with illustrations by Wiji Lacsamana.
August 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Found my cat book bag! I'm now determined to finish Jay E. Tria's Playlist series this year. It's Book 1's (Songs of Our Breakup) 10th anniversary.
August 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Finishing the Six 32 Central series of @minavesguerra.com with Totally Engaged. It's one of the few stories in Philippine literature that touch on "aging out" in PH-US migration narratives.
July 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Getting back to my own reading momentum and working on the pandemic TBR pile starting with So Forward by @minavesguerra.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
And my soldiers are SB19 💦
July 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Thank you for being a fiend, a murderous one.
July 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
EDC Kasama fountain pens
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Kasama has a new Kasama
July 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
From The Last Guy You Kiss, @carladeguzman.com's homage to Got 2 Believe: The Tita Claudine character is explaining to the actual Claudine Barretto character the concept of a movie where actress Claudine Barretto starred opposite Kris Aquino.
April 1, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Thank you, @anselacorsino.com, for recommending the Little Birdie notebooks. I will try them this April. No feathering or bleedthrough with fountain pens so far.
March 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Learned from @fantaghiro23.bsky.social that Ichi Batacan's second book is now available, finally. Got my copy. I published the title story last century (1999) in my previous life as literary editor of the Philippines Free Press.
March 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Ugh!
March 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My Manila Pen Show trip was for customizations for my mga Kasama. Thank you, Mark del Rosario. Thank you, Matthew Chen.
March 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Our books are here at the Everything's Fine booth (Philippine Book Fest)
March 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Philippine Book Fest haul: new books of Virgilio Almario, Paul Eric Roco @yvettetan.bsky.social @bentchbites.bsky.social, Siege Malvar, Jade Mark Capiñanes, @kttbri.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
My #MagdamagMonday new books: The Last Guy You Kiss by @carladeguzman.com and Comfortable and Familiar by @bentchbites.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Looks like a breaking LAMY Safari spotted in The Chase, the debut music video of Hearts2Hearts.
March 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Inspiring book talk, reading by @sophianleewrites.bsky.social
Thanks for visiting UPD and the Department.
February 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I read more about it from this poetry collection.
February 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
So happy to be reading @josephweirdness.bsky.social's book of stories.
February 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Today's College Library orientation and tour.

Ended up talking about best desk dictionaries and thesauri for creative writing students.
February 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Today's Festival of Inconveniences. The Department had a counter-mapping workshop and art intervention solidarity walk to show the localized tensions and vulnerabilities within the university.

(Plus my Kasama Pulò fountain pen.)
February 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"The art of losing isn't hard to master..."

In 2016 I lost this clipless Franklin-Christoph 19 black/cinamaroon (at the time they only made 3 of these) with a Masuyama needlepoint. Never recovered.
February 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM