LAST KIND OF LOVE

There is something nostalgic about the sound of crickets on a December afternoon when you’re all alone in an empty room. You’re feeding yourself a plate of country music and a bottomless glass of words and emotions. I’ve felt that familiar flash of the past… that rush of memories when I was young, naive, and unaware of the demons of the world. I remember how it was so peaceful when I used to wake…

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Sabog na buhok at bagpack na nakasukbit sa harap ng matabang tiyan Walang kung ano sa mukha, tanging isang pahid lamang ng lipstick Sa labing akala mo’y nagyoyosi, Nakasalpak ang headset sa dalawang tenga Halos sumabog ang ulo sa lakas ng tunog Ng ‘Lagi Mong Tatandaan’ na kanta ng Parokya. Marahil tinawag niyo ako at hindi ko kayo nalingon Kaya inyong tinuran “akala mo naman maganda.” Hindi ako…

"I was never tailor-fit to be her painter. Or so I thought."

“This is not your usual tragic story of a longstanding love that met its ultimate end nor a tale of two people battling all odds in the name of true love. But one thing is for sure, it is a story that starts with once upon a time with an ending yet to be determined. So here it goes… Once upon a time, there lived a boy and a girl. We were your common personalities who you might have been walking…

"Ever wonder what it's like to wake up to the sight of her back?"

Ever wonder what it’s like to wake up to the sight of her back? She wears your shirt, hair tied up in a messy bun. She hums a tune she heard from a commercial ad last night. Her hips move as she gently pours olive oil on the pan. Your eyes are only half open. A smile escaped your lips. You yawn as you remove your crumpled blanket. Slowly, you walk to where she is and suddenly all you want is to…

Summer Rain Written by Excalibur "She was my first love."

“It is raining in the middle of summer heat. A sun shower. Both the sun and rainclouds occupy the same vast space in the sky, putting on an effort to be together for a fleeting moment of both happiness and melancholy. The warm, earthy smell of ground being watered down after a very long time, satiating the thirst of an everlasting drought slowly fills my void room. Tiny droplets start tapping my…

"I wanted to love you all for myself but I learned that it doesn’t work that way."

We are a storm that came one day in the middle of the rainy season. No one was prepared for the level of intensity that we brought with us. Not even the weather forecasters. Not even you. Not even me. We were just both low pressure areas. Feeling low. Feeling pressured. Feeling scattered in different places. We were in different cliques. We were apart most of our lives. We were just plain old…

I can’t help but still feel giddy at the thought of you, carefully approaching at the speed of light. I spent more than half of this year complaining about the long days and short nights, long queues and short breaks, long hair and short breath. I wallowed myself in the sea of mundane tasks and instant coffee. I busied myself dodging people’s glances and escaping smiles. I played with my hair and…

(free verse)   Maganda siya. Matalino at mabait – Kilala ng lahat ng kaibigan at kamag-anak mo Kilala ko at ng mga tambay sa kanto Magalang siya. Palakaibigan at palangiti; Kung iisipin ay magkahalintulad lamang Kami sa ilang aspeto, ngunit ang kaibahan Ay mas nauna syang pumasok sa buhay mo. May ilan pa ngang sumunod sa kaniya At muntik na akong nawalan ng pag-asa- Ano nga ba ang kaibahan ko sa…

I Know You Will Not Read This

​With you, I took the risk. I took the risk of making a fool out of myself by confessing that I like you. And later on, that I love you.  With you, I stopped being the girl who keeps on waiting for the slim chance to come. Instead, I became the woman who creates that chance. That opportunity to make something out of nothing. With you, I learned to say what’s inside my head. To tell you what’s…

It’s beautiful – the strong desire and hunger of the colonized to be free. To get out from the grasp of its captors. That is human nature. You can’t just let yourself be ruled by an outsider. But the desire to be free from the captors is not just about colonized countries. It is also about captured souls tangled in broken dreams. As a human, you crave to get out from what’s keeping you. You crave…

The clock strikes 12. Tick tock.  Tick tock. You close your eyes and imagine that you’re blowing a three tier cake with breathtaking frosting. But you open your eyes and your sight hits the ceiling.  There’s no cake. No party balloons.  There’s only you and your phone. You pick up your phone and read each message. There are long and short birthday wishes from family,  friends and some random…

Pero tangina, landian lang pala.

"Collaborate to Innovate, Share to Contribute"

The Computing and Archiving Research Environment (CoARE), a project under the Department of Science and Technology – Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI), held its first stakeholders forum with the theme “Collaborate to Innovate, Share to Contribute” last June 8, 2016 at the DOST-ASTI Building, UP Technopark Complex, Diliman, Quezon City. For the previous fora, the aim is to…

You don’t have to reciprocate my feelings. You just need to be clear with what you want. Either black or white. Yin or yang. Words and actions are both powerful but each has different impact. So when you said you don’t want anything romantic to do with me, I accepted it until you showed me otherwise. And when I started believing there’s hope, that’s when you acted like a jerk. You want someone to…