A NOTE TO SELF, ACCORDING TO HER
“Sorry about the late response. I just flew back from a trip,” writes Sarah Lahbati to the email correspondence that sat untouched on my inbox for a few days. Typically, the standard, mundane exchange of electronic messages straddles the fine line between sincere and detached, often falling trap to presumptions of reception. Sometimes it can be curtailed by the connection of two punctuations to form the stylized smiling face that have become insulations to many conversations on the daily. While this straightforward, matter-of-fact reply was indeed affixed with the textual representation of cheer, there existed a color of genuine warmth to the pleasantry that belied the typical internet conversations.
She is of course talking about her recent trip to the lush tropical escape in one of Philippine geography’s gleaming gems, one that has invaded via virtual postcards on her usually carefully curated Instagram page. Taking over the snippets of unapologetic fashion, unerring glamour and unparalleled beauty were aww-inducing slices of her life at that moment in El Nido, Palawan with her constants: Richard, Zion and Kai. Instead of precise posing and
