Blog Posts on random experiences

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...

Reading series 3: Empires of the Word, A Language History of the World by Going against the current on May 7, 2012But the situation compares ironically with the contest of English and Spanish in North America in the same period, where if anything Spanish - in its version seeded to Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and Puerto Rico - is growing at the expense of Engl...

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...

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...

Early spring by Going against the current on Apr 13, 2012This is my first time in the US. So far, the biggest challenge I am facing is jet lag. My mind is actively working at night and I am sleepy during the day. I have already begun my classes. Nothing extraordinary has happened since I arrived which is a...

Boredom series 4 (the last one) [walang babae sa bintana] by Going against the current on Mar 26, 2012...

Boredom series 3 [spare change] by Going against the current on Mar 26, 2012...

Boredom series 2 [yoga mat] by Going against the current on Mar 26, 2012...