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: 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 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”!









