10: Book of Friends
Then and Now
By JATON ZULUETA DISCUSSED: Childhood Friendships, Growing Apart, On How to Be a Man The last time we talked was at your wedding. You got married at 21, and I was your best man at 20. Even on your wedding day, I couldn’t understand why you wanted to get married. Your girlfriend wasn’t pregnant, you [...]
We Don’t Dive, We Cannonball!
When placed under the microscope of pop culture, the four years that make up high school are more intensely observed than any other period in one’s lifetime. These are the years we feel immortal and invisible, and we convince ourselves that the friends we have are the friends we will keep. But that was not [...]
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 [...]
A Sad Enterprise
or, Various Friendships That Happened In School By P. RAFAEL MERCADO A Friendship with a Being Higher Than Myself 1. A picture of Mao Zedong hung on our wall, while other classrooms had pictures of Jesus Christ, Mary Mother of God, or Saint Benedict of Nursia. Before our first class in the morning and after [...]
“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), [...]
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