About

Name: Eric Santillan
Location: Makati City, Philippines

Homo Viator and Horizon Chaser. A man on the road. In perpetual advent-ure and pilgrimage. Looking for himself. Used to hate waiting. Spiritual but not religious. Hopeful. Knows there’s more to life than life. Willing to be surprised. Sometimes lost. Continues to walk anyway…

About this blog: I started blogging several years ago using Friendster Blogs (that account has since been deleted). I began out of curiosity (many of my friends were into it and found it addictive) and out of my need to put things down into writing so I can make sense of where my life was heading at that point.

Out of that came my second blog which is also known as Ang Peregrino. It was about my “poetry, songs that captured my state of mind, musings about life, and random thoughts.”

The process of writing was really a search for self more than anything else. And the process of learning HTML and playing around with the template and adding gradually to the design was an adventure in itself. The writing and the blog-making lived true to it’s name: ang peregrino. The peregrine. The pilgrim.

And so we come to this third blog. And starting this is just as exciting and as “birth-pains” inducing as before. I brought a domain: ANGPEREGRINO.COM using my paypal account, using money I got from paid posts I made in the second blog. I didn’t know what to do with it and I didn’t know the next steps at first and so it was trial and error from there.

I had to learn all that on the fly. Which is really what life–and I have been insisting on this in my second blog–is all about. There is no road. The road is made by walking.

I believe that all blogs are–in essence–personal. Even if you write about topics other than yourself and your life, it remains personal. You write about politics–that is your opinion about politics. You write about sports–that shows what you are passionate about. You write about movies–that is what you love. Even writing for money is your way of telling us what your priority is.

All blogs are personal.

It is in this spirit that I begin this new blog. I might not be writing about my life per se. But I will be writing about things that catch my attention, stuff that keep me wide awake at night, books I read, movies I watch, music I listen to. It will be about life in general, but by writing about life in general, I will be showing you a cross-section of my own life.

Welcome to LIFE–pickled and put in a nutshell.

Welcome to Ang Peregrino.

About the Posts: Starting April 2008, the posts will be themed as follows–

Mondays: Ang Peregrino Recommends
Tuesdays: Random Cool Stuff (i.e. newsbits, songs, videos, movie reviews, speeches, pictures, and other ideas)
Wednesdays: Random Cool Stuff
Thursdays: Personal Musings and/or Original Compositions
Fridays: Organize-Your-Life 101