Essays
Why I No Need Angry
By BONG STA. MARIA DISCUSSED: dodging spiritual awakening March 10, 2011: Sivagiri Nagababa gave me a six-faced rudraksha in Pashupatinath, Shiva’s temple in Kathmandu. This was the morning after I witnessed a bloody motorcycle accident on my way to Bhaktapur. First night. I can’t hold a chillum to save my goddamn life, so baba held [...]
Fuzzy Logic or, Excerpts from the Hysteric’s Anecdotal Encyclopedia
By P. RAFAEL MERCADO 1. A note on cross-reference: Terms in SMALL CAPS have entries of their own, to which one may confer. 2. The word panaorios occurs only once in the Iliad: It is GREEK for untimeliness, which is at the axis of kairos in the two axes of Greek time, which are chronos [...]
The Bitter Taste of Freedom Fries
or, What A Cartoon Taught Me About How To Make the World A Better Place By ERIN SINOGBA DISCUSSED: Standing up, Unrest, depictions of Mohammad, South Park‘s Cartoon Wars I don’t like reading the news sometimes. Let me qualify that. I don’t like reading the news lately, particularly when it involves violence and incorporates buzzwords [...]
A Matter of Seeing and Not Seeing
By ALICE SARMIENTO BIG TALK!: faith vs. religion, knowledge vs. belief, quantum physics, light Elephants feel the fatal footfalls of poachers a hundred miles off. On Sunday mornings, you won’t find me in church but at the coffee shop outside church, trying to work as the Bible study group beside me proclaims their joy at [...]
The Menu
When I Get Married, We Will Eat My Heart Out By LIZ LONGBOURN DISCUSSED: How I thought I had a type, but apparently I don’t. Dear Significant Other, Submitted for your approval, our fantasy wedding menu. Sincerely, Your Favorite P.S. I want a 25-foot-tall inflatable slide for the fantasy wedding. Our flower girls will forever [...]
Mr. Jesus and the Meat Grinder
By P. RAFAEL MERCADO 1. It happens once in a while, some adult, who, upon having their own dreams dashed by some engrained reality principle, decides to ask you at a party your parents are throwing because it’s Christmas or something: “What are you going to be?” Then you say something inane. Doctor, lawyer, chemist, [...]
The Weight of a Polar Bear, Madame? Why, Enough to Break the Ice Of Course
By KATHERINE LIMCAOCO DIAZ DISCUSSED: The criminality of a life plan, what ambition is really about, how to properly answer a terrifying first-date question One of the most terrifying questions on a first date has to be, “So what do you want to do?” It’s hard enough to decide on the night’s outfit, an entree, [...]
March 25, 2021
By JULIANNE PASCUAL DISCUSSED: Paranoia, the next ten years, standards of importance, and immersion in the nothingness of things Morning I wake up to a serenade of sorts, “Sugar pie, honey bunch, you know that I love you!” Sadly, this profession of love is coming from my iPhone that’s only doing its job as my [...]
What I would do with a BA in English
By PAIGE OCCENOLA DISCUSSED: Perpetual Students, The next five years, Careers in fashion Five years from now I’ll be twenty-four, and I hope that means “grown-up” but not quite. I’d be renting a place my blockmate’s family owns, and every month we’d be using my share of the rent to buy booze. I hope to have a [...]
What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?
By BETTINA ROC DISCUSSED: Success? Uncertainty. Almost a month ago, after defending my undergraduate thesis, my dad asked me what I wanted to do after graduation. We were on the way home from my school along Katipunan, traversing The Other University I’d Wanted to Get Into. I remember brushing him off and telling him, “People [...]
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