The graduation I have been waiting for
I have been waiting for this graduation, but somehow, I feel I have missed it. I was supposed to graduate...
Someone has to build the floor first
Nobody told me that surviving could make you the villain. I found that out on my own, slowly, as you...
Salt air
One moment, you are 18. Your hair is a few shades of purple. Your eyes brighter. Your feet dig into...
Smoke break
The last memory I had of last Holy Week was being drunk alone in the surprisingly empty streets of Blumentritt....
Almost ‘trentahin’ thing
A few days from now, I will no longer be twenty-nine, and the thought of turning 30 feels heavier than...
The privilege of coming home
There is a scene in Hannah Espia’s “Transit” that I constantly think about. The film follows an overseas Filipino worker...
Between then and now
I was listening to “I Have a Dream” by ABBA the other day, and man, it hit me like a...
Hunger
“I’m hungry.” These were my first words on the first morning after my first full eight-hour sleep in 10 months....
One checkbox at a time
I wake up, thankful for another day. The cat is clawing at the door. The calendar says rent is due...
New beginnings in February
Life either gives you so much that you have many things to write about, or so overwhelmingly that you cannot...
