We did everything right
For over a year now, my uncle, Tito Jae, has been obsessed with cleaning. He was always somewhat of a...
In a perpetual state of ‘figuring’
Ever since I moved into my apartment behind a mall in northern Manila, I have been waking up to the...
The boy who achieved
PEOPLE WHO know me always described me as the boy who achieved. To them, I was the boy who was...
I who cannot forget
When my father asked me, “Sasama ka sa ’kin o hindi?”, I knew the question would haunt me for the...
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...
The black box of womanhood
When I had my first period, I had not known it was menstruation until I spoke about it to people...
My Bohol
EVER SINCE my grandfather passed, my Lola has lived alone in their house in Bohol. She turned 79 last October,...
‘Anak ka talaga ng Tatay mo’
People say I look almost nothing like my mother, but everything like my father. When I came out of the...
Mother’s daughter
MOTHER’S DAY IS STILL SEVERAL MONTHS AWAY, BUT today I suddenly feel sentimental, thinking about my childhood and my mother....
A belated birthday gathering
“What time should we have dinner?” I asked my mom while she was fixing the blue box filled with face...
