Let me just say this straightaway: I love my country, and I love my countrymen. I believe that were a people of endurance and of wit, and though we sometimes tend to misplace our faith, I believe we ...
For almost a year now, Ive been contributing articles to local teen magazines. I never really thought Id be doing it, but I find myself enjoying coming up with possible problems that young girls migh...
You know how sometimes you have weeks that go by where you feel like you didnt do anything new or exciting or productive?Well for me, this wasnt one of them.From intense workouts at the gym (naks!) t...
I never thought it would come to this. I never even really thought about it. I just sort of assumed--a little pridefully, I admit, but without really giving it all that much thought--that when I fini...
Dear Margaret Atwood, Ill admit it: Ive only read a few of your works. They probably werent even your best, just your most commercial ones. Die-hard fans of yours would call me a p...
Saw the tail-end of the movie Hook yesterday--I think theyve been running it on HBO for the last few days. Im ashamed to admit Ive never seen the film in full, but I like to think the main point of t...
Call it shameless plugging if you want--it kind of is, anyway--but check this out. Notes from the dugout: Boys on the sideVery close to my heart, and all. :)
September 30, 2010. I know that whatever the results of todays events are, this is going to be a day I will remember for a very long time, if not for the rest of my life. My mind is a swirling mess o...
And the holidays are back. Ironic that Im saying it on a holiday, but its true. September has rolled right on in, and people--well, my friends and family at least, I dont know about yours--are gearin...
Some people just dont know when theyre crossing a line. And when you try to tell them that they are, they miraculously turn deaf--even though normally, they can practically hear a whisper from across...
The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut into the earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, an...
Before I get started, a disclaimer for anyone asking why I dont write about Real Issues or The Important Things or The Current State of Affairs: I like keeping my opinions to those things to myself. ...
Everyones a hypocrite--true or false? Ive had the opportunity to think about this statement the past few days. The more I mull over it, the more I believe that everyone does things they say they...
Lately Ive been wondering what it is I look for in a television show. Ive loyally followed so many over the years--from Power Rangers to Alias to The OC to Greys Anatomy to Glee--and I figured I shou...
Fear. Is anything more utterly pervasive in human life than fear?I myself am afraid of so many things: cockroaches, snakes, rats, loneliness, darkness, failure, old age, pain, broken promises, insign...
Worry is a creature that worms its way into the gut; it creeps up the chest, making it difficult to breathe; and then it gnaws at the nerves, fraying them, wearing them out. I had the unfortunate opp...
Everyone has dreams, dont they? And in one way or another, everyone is trying to make his or her own dreams come true. That kid practicing his three-pointer in a street court, for instance: hes proba...
And thus Election Day in the Philippines came and went. An increasingly frenzied media marathon of the events of May 10th, 2010 included a discussion of a berth of related issues, both positive and n...
This is a tribute to the insanity of old age and the absent-mindedness of youth. For a few years now, my parents have availed of dozens of youth-enhancing and age-defying, slimming and smoothing prod...
Superheroes. A concept that has been tackled in so many ways over so many years that I figured no original work can ever come of it again. Until tonight.Okay, that might be a bit dramatic since all I...
It hasn't really hit me yet in full, the fact that I'm graduating. I realized it a little bit earlier today, when I put my toga on for the first time and heard Baccalaureate Mass at school. But even ...
A Dangerous Love Affair The high-pitched squeak of rubber soles on a rubber floor. The echoing thud of a basketball as it’s dribbled across the court. The inarticulate yells of players as they...
We love 'em, we hate 'em, we can't live with them or without them. No, I'm not talking about men (hehe). I'm talking about family.I think if I ask anyone above 12 years of age about how many times th...
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