Maria, 3:30am
What if tonight, you were lying beside me? What if I wanted to hold your hand? What if I wanted to kiss you? What if I did all of these? What if you responded? What if it felt right? What if I...
View ArticleDiana, 11pm
There is a moment between sleep and reality. The first few seconds where the eyes welcome the sunlight, where the mind is adrift from the last memory of a dream, or blank altogether. The void state...
View ArticleAdriana, 9pm
Unanswered conversations are much worse than painful confrontations. I pray that you do not make the mistake of refusing him an explanation when the situation calls for it. It takes a lot of courage to...
View ArticleHappy Holidays!
The most wonderful time of the year. Happy Christmas to you and your family! Everything has to have something red. Santa greets you a Merry Christmas. Yuletide! The season with balls. Bought these in...
View ArticleThe Christmas of Loss
A blue and joyous heart. A few months into 2012, I have made it a point to dedicate a majority of my posts to travel and leisure. It has had its fair share of online exposure, particularly my European...
View ArticleSchool Spirit
Ever since the UP Centennial note that was released a few years ago, it has become sort of a habit of mine to set aside any mint that is distinctly marked and save them for both future reference and...
View Article2012
I ambitiously posted 12 goals that should have themselves realized as this year draws to a close. That would be today, the 31st of December. As of this writing, I have no idea if I have been able to...
View Article60% Fiction
I was unaware of any manner by which I could personally convey this without being damned by all means. There is something about chance encounters that make them quite exceptional, even more memorably...
View ArticleGolden
Last Saturday, I have been favored the chance to attend the golden wedding anniversary of my grandparents, Lolo Dading and Lola Charito. They are not from my immediate lineage; Lolo was the brother of...
View ArticleFOOD! Thai Bistro
Robinsons Magnolia has become one of the malls I frequent most because of its proximity to my apartment and the succulent restaurants that are housed inside. One of the latter is Thai Bistro. There are...
View ArticleFOOD! Omakase
Food trip at one of the more popular Japanese restaurants in the Philippines, Omakase. For a meal that costs about roughly Php500 per person, I’d say that the place is worth going (and returning) to....
View ArticleMay, the first of.
I recall you. Here comes the almost end of the middle, with its proud walk in spades Wed to the sun, caught in rain, trapped between breeze and flame The season of androgyny, of ardor, the certainty...
View ArticleThe Communion
Yet I cannot love. You stare at me, a man latched on to his frail Ran rugged from building a tower mighty and high Envied in the sky is my world of ruin Waiting to fall in the arms of the zephyr,...
View ArticleLe Professeur
Couth and greeting. It started with words of couth and greeting The propriety of talk, of things dead or beating My eyes and ears were lovers of your mouth But for reasons known, reasons without doubt...
View ArticleAimless
We wine and dine under the kiss of sky For what is life but The melody of a lyre The flavors of hearth, consumed as requital In the undertow of gastric desire We fly in heights parallel to bliss Swim...
View ArticleBreak
I break everytime I remember your last words. Probably because they were never meant to be the full stop of our journey.
View ArticleUndead
We peel off our skin to reveal nothing but strings of bones and channels of blood. Some regrow their armor drowning in cold steel, others hunt for the lost fragments of their marrows, but most of us...
View ArticleFighter
I fight for the sunset that I lost yesterday, I fight for money that I could lose tomorrow, I am a warrior that has dealt with terrible days. I am my brave sword: I am my own shield. But there are...
View ArticleEmpty
To you, this is an empty room. But to me, this is the space where everything has turned to nothing; Oh how I would give anything to find that something That will tell me that everything may be empty...
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