Category: personal
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[Writing Meme] Day 6: Whatever catches your fancy
I am a workaholic because I don’t like being restless. I also like money a lot, like any person really. I don’t like being tied down by poverty, and I abhor being bored. Of course, juggling labor-heavy jobs such as crew-work and teaching will take its toll on the body. I hate getting sick, and…
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The Aftermath
I’ve only been 26 for four months, but I feel like I’ve turned 40. That’s what seeing your cancer-ridden Mom does, God rest her soul. It really was my Mom’s time. It only made sense on the day she passed, when she showed us the last page of the book she read, when her best…
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Are you there, God?
It has been sweltering in the Philippines. I thought it was just an unusually hot summer, up until I found myself near faint in the heat in my own apartment. I headed out to seek refuge in an air-con mall, something I rarely do, but when that got out old I decided to brave the…
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[Writing Meme] Day 4: Your Favorite Book
I was a funny kid. I was more enamored by a list of banned books than I was by any best seller or recommended library list. Harriet the Spy caught my eye on a list of banned books in one of those almanacs. I was intrigued about the story of the spunky young kid who…
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A Scene from a Cot
My mother’s been in the hospital for the last few days to monitor her anemia. It’s nothing too serious, as she still has enough strength to nag me about the little things. On her second day she asked me to look for her flash disc – “it’s somewhere among the sheets!” When people tell me…