January 2011
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12:05 AM, Apartment Floor
Moving out of home for college has always been a good thing to me. After the chaos and raging hormones of high school, I’ve always wanted to start from a clean slate in a city where nobody knew my name.
But there are downsides, of course.
One in particular is that I miss half of my friends’ lives back at home. In three years time, they have all celebrated their 18th birthdays,...
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You Should Date An Illiterate Girl
By Charles Warnke
(This is an excerpt. Read the whole piece here.)
Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You with the Joyce, you with the Nabokov, you with the Woolf. You there in the library, on the platform of the metro, you in the corner of the café, you in the window of your room. You, who make my life so god damned difficult. The girl who reads has spun...
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The Stare
There is something about a stare.
One can see so much for only a split second that two pairs of eyes meet.
For that someone who penned the saying that the eye is the window to the soul surely had understood the many emotions that come from a stare.
These emotions, however, evoke confusion, for the feeling one gets from a stare can be of many things – truth, illusion, sincerity, or deception.
One...
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I can’t remember his name but I recall the way he didn’t forget things easily — what dress I wore to class three days ago, phone numbers of rooms for rent on bulletin boards, the crops of local regions we’re made to memorize in grade four. I never asked him if he meant to keep these memories he had no use for, and by choice or not, if he thought it a burden, his...
December 2010
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If I hired an official photographer, and had him follow me around throughout the entire 2010, his portfolio would probably look like this one.
Climactic events of 2010 in Polariods.
Endless on-location shooting sprees.
Exploring Manila.
Anthro 181 and Talim Island.
Surfing in Zambales.
First UP graduation attendance.
Ravibe.
Long-term, godly relationships.
Lovely 19th...