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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