“I’m leaving to become a bum.”
That’s what I told Ibyang to tell the people who are bound to ask her why, in the near future.
“Please come up with something that sounds better than that,” she prevails upon me.
Ibyang wants to protect my image even after my upcoming office demise. She’s hoping I won’t go without having [...]
My father called me at the office some years back, his voice booming over the network’s trunkline. He was thinking of writing a book and wanted suggestions on publishers. As we spoke, the administrators in the next cubicle exchanged strange looks.
Turns out … they were shocked that I actually had a Dad!
“Your father’s still alive?” asked one, [...]
I went back to the Gandhi museum on a Monday … when I knew it would be closed.
I was the only visitor on the grounds that afternoon.
And so the gardener let me walk this path normally cordoned off from guests — the path tracing Gandhi’s footsteps to the exact spot where he was shot in 1948.
I stood [...]
You know those standard ads for gyms or diet pills, the ones with the before and after photos of successful case studies?
I have before and after shots you probably never have imagined.
Just for kicks, here they are.
Believe whatever you want about them.
The first time I had an aura photo taken, it was in 2000 at a [...]
“So the nightingale pressed closer against the thorn and the thorn touched her heart and a fierce pang of pain shot through her. Bitter, bitter was the pain and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of Love that is perfected by Death …” from The Nightingale and The Rose, by Oscar Wilde.
My new [...]
This is the best birthday I ever remember having.
I’m here, in my today, feeling present for a change. You won’t understand because most of you already live in the here and now. It was different with me: I used to live in the future, impatient for things to happen, impatient with myself for not getting where [...]
Really didn’t plan on showing my face on this blog, but what the heck …
These are for Naya, who’s been asking what I look like now.
I entertained myself at the airport yesterday by trying to figure out how to shoot my own close up with the new cam. Of course, the girls in line behind me kept giggling.
“Ang jolog naman nito,” sabi sa [...]
I can’t believe I forgot I was alive.
I can feel my heart beating today, no, bursting actually. The inner noise has been switched off and I can hear my thoughts again. Some of them are funny, such as: I feel like a big, walking wound whose scabs just fell off a few seconds ago, leaving [...]
I finally know what I want to do when I grow up!
I am so, so excited. I’m 34 and it hit me…
I AM GOING TO SPEND THE NEXT YEARS OF MY LIFE AS A WRITER.
I am going to write as I did when I was a kid, a teenager, a very young adult … when [...]
