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Biting the Hand That Feeds
by MARLA CABANBAN DISCUSSED: emancipation, disappearing off the grid, freedom from scenes and materialism I came across an interview with a lady named Bai Di who grew up in socialist China during the Cultural Revolution. She grew up with only two sets of clothes and a need for nothing more. Setting aside the more flawed [...]
An Exercise in Transparency
By NICE BUENAVENTURA DISCUSSED: LJ Romances, Reconnections, The Loves of Our Lives I won’t deny it. I talked to him first, if leaving a random comment on his lj passes for talking. But I must not deny either, that all I really wanted were the pinback buttons he posted about. They were, after all, for [...]
Soaked to the Skin
By MARLA CABANBAN DISCUSSED: friendship in your 20′s, long distance relationships, home being people Having grown up as a kid who spent a good fragment of your life having no clue what a normal, healthy relationship looked like makes you wonder if that has indirectly caused a strange web of disjointed friendships in adulthood. The [...]
Single-Serving Friends & Other Astonishing Accidents
by OWARD BODIE I. The people I meet on each flight—they’re single-serving friends. Between take-off and landing, we have our time together, but that’s all we get. – Fight Club This essay could be about any number of either dizzyingly fascinating or downright ruinous aspects of friendship and socialization, but I’ve chosen to focus on [...]
My Girls: Breast Friends, Bust buddies
by IRA V I will never forget that time when I was about 8 or 9 and I would feel throbbing similar to little pebbles poking out of my chest. I was in tears when my mother and I finally confronted my then medical-intern aunt about it. They had a bit of hush hush conversations [...]
Post Fiction or: No Push Ups
by PAUL DOBLE They say a man is not dead until everyone whose life he’s ever touched is still alive. I don’t know what they say about women, possibly something about cadaver make-up and being buried in Manolo Blahniks. They, air-quotes, say a lot of things about death. But I couldn’t find one that fit [...]
“Charles Tui, Where the Hell Are You?”
By DUFFIE HUFANA OSENTAL Discussed: Missing thesis-mates, an unhealthy attachment to the ’90s, and giving slackers a chance He was perpetually stuck in the 90s, with his fashion of wallet-chains, baggy pants and loose, Metallica t-shirts. Though one can tag him a clown for his unbending admiration for that decade (and mind you, many did), [...]
The Nostalgia Channel
The List Goes On and On, My Friends By BEA DAVILA Like most people, TV is one of my favorite pastimes. It curbs boredom and stress, and it is my ultimate source of entertainment. I was not at all shocked when my friend Marla asked me to write an essay about TV. We were classmates [...]
The Economic and Psychosocial Merits of Working Seven Minutes Away From Home (And Why We Measure Distance in Units of Time)
By BOBBIE STA. MARIA Faulty title, minutes do not measure distance. But we get what I mean: How far is the airport from your house? One hour. How far is Cebu from Manila? One hour. Distance is only as relevant as the time it takes to get us there. I hope that appeases our intellectual [...]
The Early Stages of Late Puberty
By REDRUM DISCUSSED: puberty part 2, that thing called a “career,” learning by doing, periods Whenever I look at myself in the mirror before I head off to work, I see a young woman with a promising future ahead –carefully combed hair, crisp blouse, ironed-out slacks, hardly-used leather bag, pearl earrings, optimism. Giving my full [...]
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