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a goal to nil
you know what i miss? that feeling. that fucking beautiful feeling of scoring a goal. that one moment of glorious perfection when something so desired and so necessary happens exactly the way you planned it, exactly at the right time. that moment when the ball's coming your way, sailing through the air, and your body moves to meet it, and a split- ( Read more... ) -
Nitpicking: Why I’m Against the RH Bill
I like to think of myself as a writer. I like to imagine that I could one day make a living out of assembling eloquently-crafted strings of words, writing them down or rolling them around my own tongue like pearls of gleaming rice. I could subsist on just words; the more words, the merrier. But this only works for literary writing. For other types ( Read more... ) -
Hyperreal
You travel to a foreign country and you think, when you get there, that you'll somehow experience all these profound epiphanies about your identity or how you're supposed to live the rest of your life. It doesn't happen that way, at least not to me. At least not for the first few days. I'm always jet-lagged and exhausted and there's no space in my ( Read more... ) -
If dreams are to be trusted
the world will end in a nuclear explosion and dying will feel like waking up. -
The Importance of Keeping a Journal
I used to think it tedious and unnecessary. Gratuitous, even. It also seemed to me very childish, and whatever I did, I couldn't shake off the image of a little girl lying on her stomach in her bed, a scented notebook open before her, her small voice chirping, "Dear Diary..." while she scribbled the words and swung her legs in the air.
Now I know ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on our country's past
I know we're not supposed to blame former colonizers for our country's present woes, but I'm watching this documentary on the Battle of Manila and all I can think about is how we've been seriously fucked by these people and I use the word fucked because it's crass and it's horrible and that's exactly how it was in those days. Manila was the second ( Read more... ) -
Number 2
I said I would write here more often and I haven't. The truth is, I've been suffering from the writing equivalent of acute gastrointestinal constipation, which means I have to exert an obscene amount of effort just to get through writing a coherent, insightful and grammatically correct sentence which I'm not even sure this is ( Read more... ) -
homecoming
And like the prodigal son, I have returned. I confess I was too easily lured by the bright lights of Tumblr; now that I'm back, I have to say there's simply no place in cyberspace like Livejournal ( Read more... ) -
To the person who stole my umbrella outside the Rizal Library:
It was impossible that you didn’t know it was going to be a rainy day yesterday. I’m sure you noticed, when you woke up that morning, the dark clouds, the cold air, and the GALLONS UPON GALLONS OF RAINDROPS falling from the sky in SHEETS.
So why? Why didn’t bring your own umbrella to school? Did you not have one? Why didn’t you bring a jacket ( Read more... ) -
donut of doom
the good news is the mad scientists at CERN did not accidentally create a blackhole that swallowed the earth. but i guess that goes without saying.
the not-so-good news is nothing life-changing has happened either. maybe it's because they're not done experimenting yet?
still, i can't help but feel totally disillusioned by this whole Large Hadron ( Read more... )