‘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...
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...
Green guilt
I was 17 when I first downloaded the Carousell app, a buy-and-sell marketplace platform that I have used since then...
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...
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...
Priesthood
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on June 6, 2009. If you asked me a few years...
The fight vs propaganda is right here
I finished “Sunrise on the Reaping” in just over a day, and I’m still sitting with it, turning it over...
The yearning youth
Progress over perfection, as they say. The results of the 2025 midterm elections were far from what I expected, yet...
Letter to my future self
Dear Future Me, I hope when you read this, the country feels lighter. That mornings no longer start with doom-scrolling...
The problem with our water
World Water Day, commemorated in March, is not a celebration. It’s a warning, chiming again and again: there is a...
