Blog Posts on personal reflection

Half-smiles by Going against the current on May 22, 2012I know. I know. This world is a sad one and my being sad now will not make it a little less sad. A sad company is still a sad company. It was raining today. I went to school, did my perfunctory role as a student, listened attentively, and sometimes g...

Intent by Going against the current on May 12, 2012Let’s break the ice all over again. I have been absent here for a time that I do not know how to begin a post anymore. Shall I begin by posing a question, posting a picture, quoting a famous person, or writing a sentence or two of gibberish? Mo...

Another tattoo by Going against the current on May 5, 2012I would never imagine getting a tattoo before. Much less having somebody’s name tattooed into my skin. Nonetheless, for some ideas, thoughts, and emotions human language is incapable of succinctly articulating, we still got our body to express...

On old posts by Going against the current on Apr 30, 2012I do not disown them, but as you reread old posts written three years ago, let me give you a disclaimer: they were my thoughts years ago. Then. Some are kept as they are aspects of my core that years gone by simply cannot erase; most, however, were a...

Bio clock by Going against the current on Apr 29, 2012It’s totally disrupted. I planned to spend the entire day reading or writing something but I spent it either daydreaming or doing unproductive things. Recently, I’d sleep late and wake up late. I am sleepy the whole day and wide awake at...

Choosing to be happy* by Going against the current on Apr 25, 2012It has been four years or so since I graduated from college, and the past four years left me a bit disgruntled, dissatisfied, and aimless, even angry. At some point I began to question my motives for staying in Manila, teaching Literature (a subject...

Barok by Going against the current on Apr 22, 2012I am yet to figure out whether the word baroque which refers to “a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architectu...

Visita iglesia by Going against the current on Apr 21, 2012I asked a Mexican student here how the letter ‘s’ in words like ‘iglesia’ is enunciated. Is it like how my History teacher in college would as in /iglethia/ which I still find funny? Or the more phonetic /iglesya/? I breathed...

Death of a grandmother by Going against the current on Apr 11, 2012Much has been written about death — that it leaves a gaping hole, that a part of us is taken away into the pit with the dead body’s casket, that it’s inescapable, that it is something we all have to contend with. Despite the endless...

First day by Going against the current on Apr 11, 2012I woke up this morning seeing a squirrel from my window; the sight of it was dazzling. It was drizzling slightly. The sky overcast. Sleep the other night was shallow and sporadic. The alarm clock near my head sounded off at 3 in the morning; my room&...