• New Slang is a trio hailing from opposite corners of Metro Manila.
• We love fiction, but we prefer to talk about what really happened.
• We got tired of living in our heads so we started getting together once a week to pick at our brains through writing.
• We are guilty of oversharing, but we try to do it eloquently, and with taste and tact.
• We strive to have a point.
• You’re welcome to join us.

Email your comments and contributions to: because [at] new-slang [dot] com

Who We Are

ALICE SARMIENTO
alice [at] new-slang [dot] com

When she’s not busy as an instructor at a national university, Alice is the managing editor of New Slang.

She moves deadlines around so everybody wins, bugs contributors, and shamelessly recruits people to join the family. She eats a lot of greens, spends all her money shopping on eBay, and recommends traveling by train. This year, she has resolved to replace envy with fanmail and stop shoving her feelings in other people’s faces. She posts random songs here and projects oversharing here.

JATON ZULUETA

jaton [at] new-slang [dot] com

Jaton is the managing editor of New Slang, runs a free tutoring center for street children, and works in a non-profit somewhere in Makati. He enjoys anything with pork, replying to your email, and making mixtapes. He writes sometimes for other places, but mostly, he overshares here.

MARLA CABANBAN
marla [at] new-slang [dot] com

Marla is the one-woman art department of New Slang, meaning she handles most of the stuff that makes your eyeballs go “Yay!” A recovering wild child—recovering in this case from her cloistered, fundamentalist Catholic upbringing—Marla thinks she finally found a balance between the two extremes (but not really). She is everywhere and nowhere, sometimes laughing, sometimes stuffing her face, and sometimes jotting down mental notes for the next story she can spin out of the world’s inanity. She also loves hearing her friends speak in fake German accents.