“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....
When Vino learned to talk, we would sometimes ask him random questions to better understand his thoughts. One time, we asked him if he wanted a baby brother or a baby sister. He would always answer “no, just only Vino.” Recently, that changed. He would now say he...