City of floods
I spent my childhood days in a small barangay. If there was bad weather, we’d often choose to leave our...
University, diversity
My innocence and my sense of adventure were the reasons I chose to study in a university located in Marawi...
It’s not being crazy
I’ve heard someone say that the only difference between undiagnosed and diagnosed mental illness is that the other is undiagnosed.
Pageant dreams
What is one big mistake that you’ve made in your life and what did you do to make it right?
Limbo
In Dante’s “Inferno,” Limbo was the first circle of hell, its vastness housing those who had been excluded from salvation....
Other ways to die in a pandemic
My best friend died just a month before his birthday. It wasn’t of COVID-19. “Na-COVID?” was the initial reaction of...
The rains of August
It is August. The rains of August are almost always strong, like they could wash everything away from you, the...
My last happy birthday
Fourteen years ago, on Aug. 4, 2007, I celebrated my last happy birthday. The memory is still vivid: It was...
Not your usual weight loss story
I have lost a lot of things during the pandemic—my sanity, drive, optimism, will—but perhaps the most noticeable of them...
A kind of daily exercise
The only time I rode a bus that had no air-conditioning was when we got stranded in the middle of...
