About

Name: Eric San­til­lan
Loca­tion: Pasig 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. More spir­i­tual than reli­gious. Hope­ful. Knows there’s more to life than life. Will­ing to be sur­prised. Some­times lost. But 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.

After 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.”

Why AngPere­grino?

The process of writ­ing down my thoughts is 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.

Ang Pere­grino is the Fil­ipino word for “the pil­grim”.

And so we come to this third blog. And start­ing this was just as excit­ing and as “birth-pains” induc­ing as before. I brought a domain: ANGPERE​GRINO​.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 and so it was trial and error from there.

As with many things that came in my life, I had to learn things on the fly. Which is really what life is all about: There is no road. The road is made by walk­ing.

Pil­grim­ages are like that.

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 Feb­ru­ary 2010, the posts are themed as follows:

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

Get Started

There are many ways to get started in Ang Peregrino:

1. You can start by check­ing out the HOMEPAGE, then scroll down to what­ever inter­ests you. You have sev­eral choices in the home page. There is one HEADLINE arti­cle and four (4) FEATURED arti­cles for the week (this is changed every Sat­ur­day). There are five sec­tions fea­tured in the Home Page. You can browse them at any­time, and they will show you the lat­est arti­cles from each sec­tion. Five of the most recent arti­cles are there as well.

2. You can also check out The BEST ARTICLES in Ang Pere­grino. These are the ones with the most page views and I’ve also listed down in that page my own per­sonal favorites.

3. On the side­bar at the right, you have sev­eral choices as well. Check out the Daily Pop­u­lar list of arti­cles. These are the Top 10 list of most clicked/viewed arti­cles for the day.

4. At the end of every arti­cle, there is a dark­ened sec­tion con­tain­ing a quote for the day and a list of posts you might want to read that is con­nected to the topic. You can check those arti­cles out as well.

5. You can also search for any topic at the upper right hand cor­ner of the blog.

So there. Those are the dif­fer­ent ways you can do to enjoy this blog more. Just click on and enjoy the “ride”!