ABOUT THIS BLOG
This blog is mainly about the thoughts, raves and random ramblings of a single Filipina woman in her forties. Vayie gives us a witty take on her everyday struggles, lessons from her past experiences and midlife realizations that she wanted to share to anyone who cares to read about it.
Vayie started writing at the tender age of seven, already composing poems and essays and making short stories and even comic strips in the back of her school notebooks. When her parents saw a short poem she had written as a first-grader, they lectured her on plagiarism, as they thought she copied someone else’s work.
She wanted to take up Journalism, but fate and lack of trying brought her somewhere else. Even so, her innate love for writing never left her.
She started blogging in 2004 under the “What’s the Frequency, Vayie?” -blog, inspired by the early `90s REM song. While it was meant to be nothing else but a personal online journal, it did enjoy a few followers and regular readers at the time and Vayie made wonderful connections with many of them. After a 12-year run, she stopped blogging in July of 2016 and archived the site for posterity’s sake.
Vayie’s style when writing can be described as freeform, sharp, spontaneous, unpretentious and often unstructured. It has a unique voice that reading her work is almost like talking to her in person. She writes things as they come, allowing the flows and ebbs of her thoughts, without being overly crucial on coherence and correctness.
During her break from blogging, she was handpicked to be one of the pioneer writers/contributors
for their company’s intranet site and was there since its conceptualization. Vayie has contributed many articles, write-ups, and features but is currently on a hiatus from their Internal Communications Team (ICT) since an exploratory laparotomy that forced her to go on a Magna Carta leave from work in the first quarter of 2018.
Vayie was bitten by the blogging bug again after almost a three-year break when she was selected together with a small group of people, for a writing workshop/masterclass by the editor, author and former blogger, Pam Pastor.
While Vayie knew (and has long accepted) that she is not living a charmed life for others to live vicariously through her, she epitomizes someone who is always full of gratitude to the life and every blessing given to her.
She hopes to publish a book containing her essays, short stories and blog entries someday.
