Growing up in a melting pot of cultures has made it quite normal for us to converse with each other using three different dialects all at once, knowing full well that the other persons could understand us even if we were, say, speaking in tagalog interspersed with a few chavacano or bisaya words. But that […]
Independence Day
One more full day and I’ll be off to my hometown. My first time to go back after seventeen months. I feel so excited, but suddenly the thing that had been nagging me at the back of my head comes to the surface this morning when my fellow housemate who had just arrived in our […]
My First Time
It’s my first time. As I lie back my muscles tighten. I put him off for a while searching for an excuse, but he refuses to be swayed as he approaches me. He asks if I’m afraid and I shake my head bravely. He has had more experience, but it’s the first time his finger […]
Too Much Excitement
It is boring at home. Not to mention very warm. So I take a quick shower, change, and head outside the door to go wherever the wind took me. The wind takes me outside, where some guy runs up to a couple of other guys and starts bashing them with a long piece of wood. […]
Outdated
An officemate cracks a joke and everyone laughs. Everyone except me. Huh? I don’t get it. I ask her to explain. “It’s the new TV commercial. Duh.” Oh. Right. We don’t have a TV at home. I’ve endured for half a year without the boob tube. Pretty amazing, huh? I once read an article in […]
Tatay’s Tales
My friend Nald has had several interesting experiences while working in Manila. Gay and I were talking about them and I just wanted to recount them here. Boxing Arena. He was in Quiapo to buy a wallet that a friend of ours asked him to buy when a fight (suspected to be a frat war) […]
Fainting Spell
It must be incredibly boring to be confined in a hospital, I thought as I stared at my legs propped up against the wall while I lay on the clinic bed. This position wasn’t exactly very comfortable, but the nurse had told me that this was a fast way to get my blood pressure back […]
Que Horror!
Gay is busy screaming her tonsils out while she and Chu and Junjun are watching a horror movie on somebody’s laptop in the living room. And it doesn’t help that Chu is startling her as well. People, it’s almost 11. What will the neighbors say? Last night Chu and I watched a movie in Glorietta […]
Can This Be Love?
Our apartment “handyman” was installing a doorknob over the weekend (our old doorknob wouldn’t open from the outside anymore) and we girls were busy watching him when our other housemate suddenly broached an interesting topic: “How can you tell if you’re in love?” It’s a cliché, sure, but that particular question coming from that particular […]
Tears
About a month ago, due to a work related issue, I wasn’t able to keep tears from spilling onto my cheeks while I rode a passenger jeepney home. I kept my face turned outside, so that the other passengers wouldn’t see. I did not expect, however, that the driver of the Fed Ex truck behind […]
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