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This is the blog of Ian Rosales Casocot. Filipino writer. Sometime academic. Former backpacker. Twink bait. Hamster lover.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

entry arrow12:00 PM | Grrrrr

They’re implementing a new online system for faculty loading. And I was like, yey. Then I find out they’re making it three times more difficult with all these roundabout way of approvals and signatures. And I was like, grrrr.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

entry arrow7:00 AM | Poetry Wednesday, No. 297.



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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

entry arrow7:00 AM | Poetry Wednesday, No. 296.



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Monday, June 15, 2026

entry arrow6:47 PM | Hinay-Hinay Lang...

Finally letting my mindscape, and my life, return back to normal after the beautiful tumult of the past two weeks: a workshop and a home improvement project following each other was an upheaval I had no idea would take so much out of me, I actually ended up sick for a day or two, mostly from the stress and the unbearable heat. But I’m happy with the results, and I’m about to pick up where I left off…

Truth to tell, when I was in the middle of the grind, of the mess of home improvement last week — for example, bringing out all my books slowly, by small batches, to a corner of the anteroom so that the carpenters and painters could do work — I had to summon all the patience I could muster, despite being so tired and stressed out, by repeating a simple mantra: "Hinay-hinay lang." [To translate: Just surrender to the slowness.]

It helped.

It kept me sane.

And that is what I'm also telling myself right now as I return back to normal: hinay-hinay lang.

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Sunday, June 14, 2026

entry arrow11:00 PM | Apartment Reveal!

Finally done! After nine days of repainting, renovating, reshelving, and replacing things where they should be, I’m finally done with my small home improvement project. [My scheme of red and black together feels like me, now.] Spent two days of those nine flat on my back with fever, however. But today, I finally got my new bed, and the last touch I needed was flowers to brighten up my small apartment. But everything’s done, and tonight I hosted a small dinner for Renz and Tita Melisa to celebrate. This 50th birthyear has really been something.















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Friday, June 12, 2026

entry arrow9:00 PM | Shelves Reveal



Everything’s in place. Red walls, black shelves. It took four days of painting and carpentry and three days of arranging everything. This is the Filipiniana part of my library, and for the first time all the books are in their rightful places, arranged in alphabetical order by author. My new bed arrives on Sunday, but for now I’m done. But then suddenly I’m also getting feverish now. Oh, man.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2026

entry arrow7:00 AM | Poetry Wednesday, No. 295.



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Friday, June 05, 2026

entry arrow10:21 AM | Lutang, Post-Lutang

I am resolutely not a morning person, but starting yesterday, my body finally adjusted to the early schedules of the past few days because of the workshop. I have been so lutang since Sunday, and the worst of it was Tuesday when I excused myself in the afternoon because I was crashing out hard. But now my brain has begrudgingly started to function. I finally have some energy to also take care of other things, thank God.

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Wednesday, June 03, 2026

entry arrow7:00 AM | Poetry Wednesday, No. 294.



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