Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Bird-Lover

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Don't you think it's amazing how little our very own parents know about us, but where it essentially counts, they're the best pe...
Monday, January 10, 2005

Pedestrians

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It was the afternoon of December 24. Christmas Eve. She and her mother were doing last-minute grocery shopping in one of the convenience sto...
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Snapshots of memories

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Magic show at Folk Arts Theater. Tickets from a scalper. M/V Filipina Princess. Plates of pineapple slices. A deep gash from the sharp expos...
Friday, December 03, 2004

Walking Home

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I found myself yesterday night, getting off the jeepney, still a full block away from the apartment. I had to drop by the small grocery stor...
Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Oh, brother...

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For the past three weeks, our apartment has been at the mercy of our - my brother's and mine - housekeeping skills or lack thereof. We...
Monday, November 22, 2004

Remember your polygons?

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I don't know what's up with my section in Computer Graphics class. I have been ceaselessly teased about knowing my polygons. Our ...
Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Heroism

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"Why is there a Rizal subject in every course?" I was standing alone in the hallway when I heard the professor inside the adjac...
Monday, November 08, 2004

Readings

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After a very long reprieve, at last, I've had the chance to read during the semester break. I didn't have time to read when there wa...
Thursday, September 09, 2004

"Now you see it, now you..."

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I think my existence is slowly being erased by some unknown power. One by one, this sinister force is swallowing my things into the vortex o...
Monday, August 30, 2004

Guitar

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My fingertips are sore. Each time I touch anything, I feel a tinge of pain. It's as if the skin in the tips of my fingers have been hype...
Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Playing Hooky

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I never wanted to go in the first place. I would just like to put that on record. But you know how these things go. First, you have a firm r...
Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Tutoring

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Early last month, my college dean asked me to tutor her niece in Math for the UPCAT (that's University of the Philippines College Admiss...
Monday, August 09, 2004

Growing up, getting down

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When I was younger -- pre-school, I think -- there were a lot of times when my mother would be away for periods of time on business. She ran...
Sunday, August 08, 2004

Curbside Reflections

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I take a twenty-minute jeepney ride every day on my way to school. There's an old abandoned house that I pass by which I always notice. ...
Monday, June 21, 2004

Monday Blues

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There's something wrong with her , I thought to myself. She has been talking nonstop to me for the past twenty minutes. I have been ...
Saturday, June 19, 2004

FIRE!

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You wouldn't believe what happened to me last Thursday night. A fire broke out two buildings away from where I live. Some of you might h...
Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Is there a plumber in the house?

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It happened so fast that I'm not really sure how it happened exactly. Maybe it has something to do with my sleep deprivation and fatigue...
Friday, June 11, 2004

Transition Period

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The past few days, I find myself walking a lot. It's crazy, really. It's like I'm some kind of participant in a walkathon with n...
Monday, June 07, 2004

My (Sister's) Bestfriend's Wedding

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Meet Jansen. He and my elder sister Mae have been friends since their college sophomore year. Back then, they bugged me about their research...
Friday, June 04, 2004

Thinking Not Allowed

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I was fifteen - or sixteen - when a doctor told me that I "think too much". He was an opthalmologist and I came by his clinic to h...