When colors refuse to land
There is a strange kind of silence that follows the loudest applause. You worked nights when others slept. You turned...
‘Sablay’
I will not graduate on time—not because I failed my subjects, but because I failed to listen to my younger...
The art of disappearing after graduation
I want to disappear after graduation. Not in a tragic way. Not in a dramatic, burning-bridges kind of exit. I...
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...
Home is a plastic bag of ‘sinigang’
I close my eyes, opening them slowly as I look at the sight right in front of me. It was...
I graduated. Now what?
Perhaps one of the greatest milestones a Filipino family could dream of is to witness a family member graduating. In...
One out of 11,000
There is inherent skepticism among those who perceive education as merely a way to produce skilled but mindless workers for...