bigger than life

It's your birthday and we feel your absence more today here at wonder | wonder | world. It's a day to celebrate you youer than you. 

From our pre-Mahala, pre-Oro, pre-Mother Lily days of being your student, mentee, adoptiva to quiet lunches out, one on one chats, sleep overs - years piled on years yet never enough and all too precious. 

Maurice "Peque" Gallaga, bugal sang banwa

We spent Mahala's first trimester kapit-tuko to Madie and her last Wanggo trimester - while you left us to wage your battles in Manila. Born six months later into a world that shook, rattled and rolled us out of our quiet little lives into the limelight. 

Bright lights, big city blues - green means go, red means stop - but not for us. We made hay and broke those damn rules. Laughing maniacally and sticking it to all those shmoes. 

Years unfolded, folks came and went - friends made and friends lost. Hearts on fire, hearts shattered - boom kaboom! 

Peque birthday tribute

What was all the drama about or for? Scattered pieces gathered slowly and carefully. We stopped the frenzied dance to quietly waltz through life once more. 

We are forever grateful beyond and above for countless highlights of our lives - together and apart yet always shared. We love you mumo! 

endless dream

Neil Gaiman’s beloved The Sandman comic books finally gets adapted into a Netflix TV series and we are all smitten. 

Sandman on Netflix

wonder | wander | world first read his work with DC Comics publication of Black Orchid and The Sandman. By the time he came to the Philippines we were avid fans, reading everything he wrote. 

behind the scenes

Spanning 10 books published between 1989 and 1996, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comic book series features an enormous ensemble cast, including angels, demons, wizards, superheroes, fairies and playwrights. 

All of them come into the orbit of the titular character, also known as Morpheus or Dream. 

Neil Gaiman’s Dream Country: A Dream of a Thousand Cats, No. 18 (August 1990)

Three decades after they were first released, our dream has come true with this TV series that lives up to Neil Gaiman's original work. 

Plus a bonus episode at the end hinting of more to come. What a delight!

moon magic

The Earth satellite, the moon, has long been the subject of all kinds of fascinating legends and myths associated with the celestial body and its cycles. 

Moonlight in Naples / Ivan Aivazovsky / 1842

For thousands of years, people have used its light to guide them in the dark - personifying the moon as a deity. It has influenced the behavior of all living things on earth including the weather, tides, people, animals, and plants. 

Lydia Gaston | actor, singer, arts educator

Bugal sang Banwa is a local term we use back home that translates to pride of our town. 

Whether that is her island home of Bacolod City, Negros Island or Brooklyn, New York; the Broadway stage or on the big screen - Lydia Gaston Greenberg has found her place in the sun and is shining bright. 

Lydia Gaston plays Jo Koy's mom Tita Susan

Actor, singer, and arts educator - she has succeeded where few dare to tread. She has carved a name for herself in bright lights and our hearts. 

wonder | wander | world is proud to have interviewed her recently - as we covered her decades of work on stage and on screen for Negros Season of Culture. 

Catch Lydia Gaston as comedian Jo Koy's mom Tita Susan in "Easter Sunday" #brava #kudos #congrats