My Writing Rituals
June, July, August, September and October were five runners on a sprint whose approach and departure flashed simultaneously. November quickly followed before I recognized the five had just been within...
View Article10 Minutes to Write, #1
The digital clock in my room just moved a minute forward– it’s now 10:38 PM. For ten minutes, I will let these hands accede to this faucet of thoughts stricken with frequent shortages. I used to do...
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On Observing Christmas
We don’t celebrate Christmas. Replacing the sound of the fit of the fireworks nearby is the collision of the drib leftovers of the brief round of rainfall against the roof of the rear-side neighbours....
View Article10 Minutes to Write, #2: Quick Thoughts After Going Over a Required Reading
Quick Thought 1: When happiness is y dependent on an x, can it not ever exist as a middleway, which, at most, can only satisfy the parties involved, but rather as an absolute, genuine fulfillment that...
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Pagkahumaling sa Fliptop
Medyo may pagkapihikan ako pagdating sa musika. Hindi ko masyadong tipo ung mga mainstream, at lalong hindi ko rin gusto kapag dumadami ang nakakaalam sa mga artist na ayon sa panlasa ko dahil para...
View ArticleAuto-Portrait
inspired by this post written by Ms. Conchitina Cruz In nursery, I wore to my birthday a red dress which I never saw again. In kindergarten, I once went home without an undergarment because I soiled it...
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Day Off
May tumatagas sa siwang ng aking pagkatao. Kung ano man ‘yun, hindi ko tiyak ang ngalan nito; ang pinakamalapit siguro na salitang dumalaw sa isip para mailarawan ito ay sigla. Hindi ako masaya ni...
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Why I Hate Menstruating
If we exclude from the discourse its beneficial and effortless ways of checking a woman’s fertility state, that is either by indicating the egg’s cordiality to the penetration of a male sperm (aka the...
View ArticleDear Sarah
Dear Sarah, You are awesome. I always bear in mind how much you do not like the word “awesome”, yet in defiance of all the reasons you hate it, I do believe that the word encompasses your entirety. It...
View ArticleLife Quests After Graduation
My graduation from the university last April 2013 came as a glorious caesura to a chapter of my story, and left as a grim reminder of the required transition from nonchalance to the urgency to come up...
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