Causes + Bosses
Advocacies, jobs, independence
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Every vote counts
Never again will I fail my country like this. I often pinpoint 2022 as the year I began to care…
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Rejected cents and sentiments
I thought it was just a usual night walking back home from a tiring day at school. While climbing up…
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My curious self
They say curiosity killed the cat. But they forget the second half of that saying—“satisfaction brought it back.” I was…
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‘Pilipinas, ang hirap mong mahalin’
Last night, I witnessed one of the scariest moments of my life. My best friend spent her only day off…
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Not for the faint of heart
Working students belong to a different breed of animal. They waste no time. They study even if they are already…
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Green guilt
I was 17 when I first downloaded the Carousell app, a buy-and-sell marketplace platform that I have used since then…
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Bylines and bullseyes
My first threat arrived on July 3, 2020—the same day the Anti-Terrorism Act was signed into law. I had just…
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My father: leader, farmer, advocate
The day I was born, my father rushed out to buy a newspaper, a tangible tribute of my arrival in…
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Priesthood
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on June 6, 2009. If you asked me a few years…
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