Month: March 2021
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Revelations + Destinations
Paper street, paper town
You’d know that summer was coming when the bougainvilleas around the old Spanish White House at Bayani Street were in…
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Revelations + Destinations
Homecoming tales and religion blues
I'M an NPA and I'm glad about it. (NPA, as in, no permanent address, get it?)
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Hooks + Books
Together and apart
It has now been over a year since we left the normalcy that was pre-COVID-19 life. If I squint, I…
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X+Y+Z
The boy who achieved
PEOPLE WHO know me always described me as the boy who achieved. To them, I was the boy who was…
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X+Y+Z
I who cannot forget
When my father asked me, “Sasama ka sa ’kin o hindi?”, I knew the question would haunt me for the…
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Hooks + Books
UNO and life
I have many fond memories of the popular card game UNO — of the many afternoons spent with friends and…
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Causes + Bosses
Being one of ‘them’
SINCE I was a kid, I have always been fascinated by the thought of what priests do in their day-to-day…
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X+Y+Z
I don’t want kids
This year, I am about to marry. What I dread aside from the wedding planning are the questions that come…
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Revelations + Destinations
Danger in the dark
I HAVE always loved darkness. I love staring at the various shades of twilight, as the shadows of the trees…
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