Voting “wisely”…more fun in the Philippines!
“REMEMBER TO VOTE WISELY!” That’s the catchphrase we always hear during the elections. It’s a catchphrase with good moral intentions, but it seems the people who hear it seem to have deaf ears or...
View ArticleDaily Prompt: 56 Quotes from Steve Jobs/Apple, Inc.
Daily Prompt: The Satisfaction of a List (click here) Subject: Who doesn’t love a list? So write one! Top five slices of pizza in your town, ten reasons disco will never die, the three secrets to...
View ArticleChoosing a First Job by Jon Oliver R. Balili
One evening, Algeb, a fellow college graduate from the Financial Management program, posted about her job hunting woes on Facebook. She wrote: “Please help me choose: SMALL COMPANY with job in line...
View ArticleValuing a woman’s secret
Daily Prompt: What’s the most significant secret you’ve ever kept? Did the truth ever come out? It was during my fourth year high school Part I days. Half of our class were not in our room as they have...
View ArticleThree Chapters of Door 10
Weekly Writing Challenge: Through the Door “The door to your house/flat/apartment/abode has come unstuck in time. The next time you walk through it, you find yourself in the same place, but a different...
View ArticleMegumi Entirely (Chapter 1): Nice Guys Finish Last
“Ingats. Haha! :)” Parang weirdo lang ba? Makapaglagay lang ng isang text message ng babae eh ‘no? Pero makinig muna kayo, hindi yan yung point ng message na yan. Anlaki kasi ng simbolismo niyan para...
View ArticleWhen Life Gives You Lemons by Jon Oliver R. Balili
I’m sure we’re all familiar with the old adage that when life gives us lemons, we ought to make lemonade. Fewer, perhaps, know of another way of dealing with the problems life throws at us. The music...
View ArticleHow to make fun runs…”fun”
Marathons, or fun runs as people would usually call it, have recently become a trend in the bustling Cebu metropolis. Last year alone, fun runs were being conducted in the city almost every week. And...
View ArticleDay 1
The movie was great. To be honest, I am sucker for romantic movies and that movie sort-of falls into that category. It was close to midnight when my friends decided to call it a day – except for me. It...
View ArticleMidas
I vividly remember the time the city stopped for a minute. It was about you. It was about how you wanted to put our city in the spotlight. You succeeded, motherfucker. It was your day and I became...
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