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toussaint 2 Nov 2011 | 10:21 am
I had always associated this day with jovial get-togethers at the family mausoleum. Pleasantries, jokes, and fun memories of the deceased were exchanged amid laughter and bowls of ginatan (sweet cocon...
not your ordinary choir 24 Sep 2011 | 01:29 pm
To compare the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Singers to a typical glee club of the American high school variety is to do them injustice. Sure, they do have the staples of glee clubs: the glitz of co...
before summer ends 28 Aug 2011 | 01:37 am
In Paris, the last few days of summer do not go gentle into that good, somber dusk of autumn. It rages on with aplomb. It’s as if the ageing, dying sun, in its last attempt to make itself felt before ...
eulogy for a friend 12 Jul 2011 | 09:03 pm
When I asked Ali about his skin cancer before the start of Cez's church wedding, he spoke lightly of it. It was as if he just contracted the flu. He said he would be starting chemotherapy sessions the...
sleep over 30 Jun 2011 | 10:39 am
The day was arid and the breeze balmy at the park. People were mostly lazing around on the lawn; the men shirtless and the women in their bikinis. Some half-naked children were cavorting in the founta...
train 22 Jun 2011 | 12:16 pm
After an exhilarating jog in the woods, I head to the train station to begin the anti-climactic trek back home. With endorphin-enhanced senses, I notice everything around me down to the minutest detai...
black bridal car 18 Jun 2011 | 11:04 pm
It all started with a black bridal car festooned with flowers and cheesy crepe paper. “Lucky for them, they found each other,” the fortyish woman sitting beside me at the bus station suddenly blurted...
poetry 16 Jun 2011 | 09:58 am
Returning to an old addiction after three years of hiatus can be exhilarating, to say the least. Like a freshly detoxified drug junkie going back to sniffing cocaine, or like the president of Alcoholi...
eavesdropping 18 Sep 2008 | 11:52 pm
I am in the front seat, beside the driver of a passenger jeep. To my left sits the driver's friend holding fliers of luxury condominiums. He eats peanuts from a tiny paper bag while admiring his acne ...
i died 12 Sep 2008 | 12:59 am
In a dream, I stand at the end of a long hall whose sides are lined with huge glass windows that let in the early afternoon sun. There are two rows of sewing machines. Humped over them are workers bus...
