I am your Edward Cullen
Chai Fonacier
“I AM your Edward Cullen,” goes a line in an acquaintance’s great – but embarrassingly awkward (and cute in the original sense of the word, to the point of comedic) – effort at poetry as a love offering to one of my friends. For the sake of convenience let’s call him Idward...
A Crazy Carnival Ride
Janellie Tam
MORE than 19 months ago, I got on my very first carousel ride of a lifetime. The roller coaster. It was a mixture of emotions as I anxiously waited for my turn. I was without a doubt excited, yet fear was inevitable for risks were obviously on the line.
Plagiarism on Facebook
Bernard Inocentes S. Garcia
WITHOUT quotation marks, a friend wrote on her wall: I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I’d rather remember it as it was at...
My Dad, Four Uncles, and An Aunt
Ion Mae Villar
The Lost Boy
Aledel Gonzalez Cuizon Crossline
I WAS cooking breakfast when I heard the news about Michael Jackson’s death. It didn’t sink in until his song “One Day in Your Life” was playing on the background while the newscaster announced the music icon’s passing. I always associated that song...
Ace
Vivian M. Calvo
THERE are windows in this world that enable us to see life in different ways…..
Hmmm…It has already been five long years. I could still remember that one hot afternoon during my high school days.
For my One Great Love
MAYBE everyone has that one person who changes things, that person whose influence is so powerful it divides one's lifetime into 3 different era: Pre, Intra, Post. They call it The One Great Love. But I think it is the love that comes at a time when the heart is still young and vulnerable and...
A Moment Like This
Neil Christian Baring
IF I HAD my way with Kelly Clarkson's single Sober, I would alter a lyric or two and then make it my life's theme song. I will modify the original song which goes this way…
Three months and I'm still standing hereThree months and I'm getting better yeahThree...
I can only look back at the memories
I WAS with my 3 friends hanging around in our school lobby killing time. It was late in the afternoon and the campus was getting quiet. We were talking about our teacher who was a terror because she once tried hitting us during our duty in the health center. ASSAULT!
Bearing witness
Ivy Marie Apa
THE music on the radio is John Lennon’s “Imagine.” The song of the legendary Beatle’s man resonates in the four corners of the room where I sit awkwardly on a spacious couch. I position myself to a better placement and I hear the familiar words croon to rhythm.
On wearing eyeglasses
Charica Roche
On wearing eyeglasses
Charica Roche
Remembering the APO through the apo
Vanette Colmenares
Why We Vote
IT IS this particular time of month that the campaign for office begins, our television sets advertise specific party lists of aspiring politicians, certain colors showcase your support, songs played over and over until it’s almost impossible to remember its original lyrics, certainly a lot of...
In person
Ivy Marie Apa
History Repeated
DO YOU not see, the past coming to life? They’re all over your eyes. Can you not hear them? They’re bringing melodies to your ears with their names, of course, sticking inside your brains.
So I guess you now feel it – the campaign season. It is when runners appear – on screens and papers...
V-day 2010: Making it Count
Neliza Marie E. Dakoykoy
IT'S NO surprise that on the big V-day there is rampant booking of restaurants, hotels, specialty shops and basically everywhere else for people to celebrate Valentine’s Day! It’s one of those days when overpriced flowers, chocolates, and diners actually sell! I...
Questions & Answers
Carlos Moncada, Sr.
I LIKE questions. And I think all questions ought to be answered. Well, even if you don’t give a straight answer in words, at least there ought to be some kind of response. Just so the asker is informed, somehow, by gesture or body language that the question was heard...
Where the ducks go when it’s cold
Richard Joseph Tandoc Abad
LAST January 28, the man who introduced us to the Fat Lady, the bananafish incident and the story of Holden died living the kind of life he literally fought courts to defend. This probably isn’t real news to most, but for some people, it’s important that Jerome...
Snowman next to a Bahaykubo
Michelle Ferraren Gulla
IF I had the chance to fly home to Cebu and experience the sand in my feet, which I haven’t felt for a while except when I change the litterbox for my cat, I would.
Feasting on exotic food while musing on the hidden and forbidden
Desiree L. Balota
What’s New?
Cecile Angalot
HOW was your Christmas Day?
Did you have fun and laughter?
Were you overjoyed?
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