Category: Overdays
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I know things now – or not
30) While in school, don’t opt for what’s “easy”. Take what interests you, but put effort into the subjects that don’t interest you. Despite what the teachers might say, struggling doesn’t mean you’re stupid – struggling is a part of it. 29) It’s fine if you want to take up a course for fun. It’s…
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Don’t date a director
Written during a very bad time with Nikki, my boyfriend of two and a half years as of writing. We’re generally okay as long as his shoot sked doesn’t hijack our dates. The ‘Don’t date a…’ series has run its course online, but If anyone deserves a ‘Don’t date a…’ entry, I think its directors.…
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Clean Hands, Pure Hearts
Ever since I’ve been a little more active as a Christian, At least one person asks me, “Why do you celebrate Holy Week? Is it because of family?” Funny thing with me, it’s not because of family. My Mom practiced Catholicism and Christianity, but we had our journeys at different times. I started my journey…
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I am the horcrux
I had written this after an unexpectedly emotional reaction to Deathly Hollows part 1. It is now mere weeks before Mom’s death anniversary, and just days before Deathly Hollows part 2. Harry Potter was with me throughout high school to the tail end of college. Funny as always, how the end of the movie series…
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From the Notebooks: Almost like the movies
This is the first assignment I submitted for UP Film Institute’s summer workshop on screenwriting. Before we learned the nitty-gritties of a script, we were tasked to write a non-fiction composition about a favorite memory. I picked the memory of my first prom/grad night. It is, I think, one of the happier moments of my…