“Uyy, kayo na no?” It was a constant greeting from Josef every time he saw Che and me around campus together 18 years ago. Ever since he learned that I liked Che, he would make it a point to tease us as his way of getting us together. One day, he asked again, and we...
The Inevitable Finiteness of Life: My Personal Reflections And Challenges In Our First Months In Vietnam Last month, I celebrated my 37th birthday, which puts me closer to the end of a human’s average lifespan than the beginning of it. And I am terrified more...
29 November 2004 was a rainy day. I know because there were no classes then in UST. But I was in school. Too quiet when there are no classes, but always a busy part of the school when there are For the second year in a row, I was selected to be among the pool of...
The race for the 2022 Presidential elections is officially on. There are a lot of people who filed their candidacy, but there are true contenders in the race. In my effort to justify which one I would choose, I looked at each of the candidates, and why I think they...
I wasn’t much of a reader growing up, but I would see my sister reading her Sweet Valley High (SVH) books and wondered how she could enjoy books without pictures. Once, she had a Halloween SVH story which I got intrigued by because it’s not as girly as her other book....
