Month: November 2020
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Causes + Bosses
A French manicure
WHEN PEOPLE LEARN THAT I’M AN ACTIVIST, THEY automatically look at my nails. No matter how much they try, it…
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X+Y+Z
Raised by the internet
It was in 2010 when my tutor made me my very own Facebook account and I uploaded my first profile…
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Revelations + Destinations
One day at a time
DEAR YOUNGER me, When you come to Canada at 21, a recent graduate of the top university in your country,…
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Revelations + Destinations
Wrong decisions, disastrous outcomes
It only occurred to me that Typhoon “Ulysses” was a strong one when the electrical power in our area got…
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Hooks + Books
Master’s degree? Not now
Sometimes, I wonder where my enthusiastically idealistic self has gone. Whatever happened to my 18-year-old self’s plan of getting a…
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Revelations + Destinations
A symbol of hope
I LEFT Manila to live and pursue graduate studies in London until the end of 2009, when I joined the…
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Hooks + Books
Skin in the game
“Kung gusto, may paraan.” Oh how my younger self adhered to that principle, with the “gusto” being video games and…
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Revelations + Destinations
More fun in PH?
THERE WAS nothing that excited me more than telling stories about the Philippines to my American friends. At one point…
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X+Y+Z
For the fearless millennial OFWs
“You are young! You have nothing to lose. There is so much to explore. You are in your best years…
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