Rummaged from the Shop 18 Aug 2013 | 09:57 pm

Identity Crisis 17 Aug 2013 | 10:31 am

I like it when they call me Germelina. I happened to sit in the poet Allan Popa’s class, “Malikhaing Pagsulat,” in the summer of 2009 and I was not “Ma’med” there. I was with a bunch of undergraduate ...

Reading Rebecca West 15 Jul 2013 | 07:21 pm

When things were becoming almost unbearable, I came upon Rebecca West's "The Fountain Overflows" tucked in a shelf under Karl's table. Paper-wrapped, and still inside the paper bag when I bought it, t...

Blogs That Keep Me Whole 14 Jul 2013 | 03:56 pm

Sometimes when things turn totally insane and horrifying, I turn to blogs. Some people tend to dismiss blogs, but I find some deep sense of connection with these few blogs that I follow. At times, whe...

The Guy whose back was turned to me and Prateesh 14 Jul 2013 | 03:03 pm

Early in June, as soon as we stepped out of the cab inside the Ateneo campus, the puzzle was finally resolved. The man in robes, whose back was facing the windows of the Rizal Library, where Prateesh ...

How I love this Fool! 20 Jun 2013 | 02:04 pm

What am I doing here? 18 Jun 2013 | 07:44 am

For two or three times now, at a particular hour at night, I have watched myself multiply four or five times before the wall as I took my descent from the fifth floor of this university building to th...

Trip to Samal Island 30 May 2013 | 03:07 pm

River Crossing in Barangay Baugo 28 May 2013 | 02:28 pm

Sometime in December 2012, I arrived in this part of barangay Baugo (pronounced by people there as Baw-go), Baganga town's boundary barangay adjacent to Caraga.

The Marble Console that Reflects my Life 28 May 2013 | 02:08 pm