Politicizing entertainment
No matter how hard you prepare for it ahead of time, college finals season is like no other. There are...
Everything is political
At dinner back home, everything is on the table, except for politics. It’s the elephant in the room. We keep...
Letter to my future self
Dear Future Me, I hope when you read this, the country feels lighter. That mornings no longer start with doom-scrolling...
Searching
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on February 28, 2006. I asked myself a long time ago...
Who will clean up the mess you left?
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on February 7, 2006. My generation is admittedly a confused lot,...
Hope and change
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on November 15, 2008. Growing up in Manila, I was cynical...
Quiet desperation
This story originally appeared in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on November 8, 2005. For the past months, I’ve kept a...
Who wants to be a Filipino?
If you were to be reincarnated and given the choice, would you opt to be Filipino again? It was in...
Duterte in the flesh
At a recent dinner hosted by the Inquirer, I was lucky to be a fly on the wall in a...