Archive for June, 2010
My Mother, The Hero
By RIA REDULLA DISCUSSED: Why I fight, the Philippines’ judiciary system, children, mothers My mother is, without a doubt, a fighter. Marching in the streets against martial law despite pregnancy? Check. Refusing to take a critical med school exam from a tyrannical professor? Check. Unleashing hell’s fury on the Kodak staff in the mall on [...]
Fighting the Battle of Who Could Care Less
By ALICE SARMIENTO DISCUSSED: Indifference and the social in social networking I was out with a friend one night when with a wide-eyed look of panic, she grabbed me by the arm, and pointed out the window at “That guy!” She yelped, referring to someone sitting outside the café, “He just deleted me from facebook!” [...]
God Hates a Coward: A mixtape for all of those times that you need to fight
The fight or flight instinct is one of our basest human tendencies. Though modern society has pretty much made sure that our lives are very rarely put in actual danger, evolution has yet to get that memo. Because of this glitch we go through life feeling like running or fighting when we should actually be [...]
Workplace Wushu for Beginners, pt. 1
Illustrations by BUNNY LUZ Words by PAOLO JOSE CRUZ Swipe that ID. Log in to the system. Harness your chi. Enter the arena. For those of us who aren’t blessed with a trust fund, mad freelancing skillz, or a sustainable “funemployment” plan, the average workday can sometimes feel like a merciless bloodsport tournament. Like competitive martial [...]
Somebody to Shove
By YAGI OLAGUERA Discussed: The monster within, regret, violence, pent up aggression I never really thought of myself as an angry person. I’d like to think that I’m pretty laid back and most of the people who know me would agree with me. While I can be pretty moody at times – a curse acquired [...]
Monday Is For Drinking To The Seldom Seen Kid
Like many of you, the relationship I’ve had with alcohol and its consumption has waxed and waned over the years that have transpired to convince me that I am, on most levels, a functioning adult. As I transitioned from the early, degenerative years of experimentation and toxic yolk brain hangovers to the ‘reformed’ dynamics that [...]
Things That Happened Before and After My Valedictory Speech
By OFELIA STA. MARIA DISCUSSED: Annie, vowels, fights that never happened Most of my childhood days were spent crying, breaking things, getting into accidents that led to nasty scars on different parts of my body, or talking to my doll Annie, a blonde who blinked when I told her to. I didn’t read much because [...]
Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But, What The Fuck Did You Just Say?
By CHIARA CUI Discussed: Verbal sparring, decapitated Barbies, playing dead I have never been in a fist fight in my life. Until I was about 10 years old, I thought boxing simply meant repeatedly slamming your knuckles in what could only be described as a series of aggressive fist-bumps, and would end when one or [...]
Ramblings of a Former Fighter (Or Is the Fight Ever Over?)
By MIGS MARFORI DISCUSSED: Childhood brawls, maturity, and how even not fighting is fighting I remember my first fight as if it were yesterday. I was a prep student at Don Bosco Makati, attending the afternoon class. We’d just been dismissed, and several of us were just roughhousing on top of what were supposed to [...]
Definition
By CARMELA GUANZON LAPEÑA DISCUSSED: Odd friendships, Labels, translating all this fuzziness into something concrete When I ask you what are we the question relates to position: absolute, not relative; And location, precise and not an estimation. The last thing I want to hear is a vague catch all with an accompanying sweep of your [...]
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