Blog Posts on absurd

Rabid by Going against the current on Feb 4, 2012I would have gone on blaming poverty for what happened: If that area of Mandaluyong had been more affluent, if the houses had been gated, if the dogs in these houses had been vaccinated against rabies, or at least fed well to keep them from being rab...

Today* by Going against the current on Jan 4, 2012We begin to think about the future more, incessantly, when the present becomes shaky, that not even the certainty of the past can ensure that what will be tomorrow is the same as how yesterday’s tomorrow became moments ago. I knew it was meant to b...

On laughing by Going against the current on Dec 2, 2011I’m in the first semester of my second year in grad school. I do not  know whether this is doing me any good or I am ending up more confused than when I entered. I know that I am going somewhere, I should; I do not know, though, whether this s...

Dropping by by Going against the current on Nov 2, 2011From a facebook mobile upload of somebody so dear to me:...

Is the world any better after 25 years? by Going against the current on Oct 31, 2011No one can claim a more privileged spot under the sun anymore. Each of us is assigned a unique number that corresponds to nothing but happenstance, devoid of any divine plan we all are wont in deluding our pathetic selves that we have. And this inter...

Barren page by Going against the current on Oct 1, 2011“Have you already left for Pampanga?” After six attempt to call you as soon as I woke up at 11 this morning, all of them leading to that aseptic “please try again later,” I sent you this text message hoping to see you before y...

Stops and interruptions by Going against the current on Sep 15, 2011I was holding a thick paperback of Borges’s collection of non-fictions on a train going to Boni, reading portions of some short articles when the ride is not too bumpy as to strain my eyes that have gone more fragile as the days go by, or durin...

To you who was not ‘informed’ by Going against the current on Aug 4, 2011It was a rainy morning when you found yourself at the corner of two normally busy streets. Thinking it was your lucky day because of the unusual absence of heavy traffic, save for a body of water that separated you from the other side of the street,...

In a white room by Going against the current on Aug 2, 2011In the corner, just above the glass door is a black, conservative-looking, plastic wall clock that does not seem to be too gung-ho about its presence unlike those I have seen in other rooms and in other places. On the ceiling, are fluorescent tubes m...

A proclivity for the mundane by Going against the current on Jul 14, 2011One is often left to wonder what has become of our world today. We are all parts of a system that goads us to look at the ‘bigger picture’ but often we end up nitpicking about the most banausic of topics and non-issue. Most of the time, o...