2020’s return
To time travel is impossible and far-fetched. Not until I started hearing these sounds, which transported my consciousness back in...
Flickering memory
I was born in a quiet province where farming and logging were the lifeblood of our people. In the 1990s,...
Postal code 1017–1235
Makati, one of the big business districts in the Philippines, has played a huge part in both my childhood and...
The return
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on October 25, 2005. When I see old childhood friends in...
Love in transit, a sequel
Almost a decade ago, when I was 18, this paper published a personal essay I had written about trains. Today...
Piece of my mother in my wallet
In the corner of my wallet lies a pack of 2×2 ID pictures taken at a studio that has watched...
Time machine in my camera roll
There were moments in my life when I wished that I could travel back in time. I have always pondered...