The most annoying version of 12 Days of Christmas ever! (Apologies to Alvin, Simon, Tyrone or was that Tyrese? and of course, their … Chipettes) Chipettes. Please allow that to sink in for a moment. Thank you. Sorry I had to post the…
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Like the true athlete that I was, Okay, he he he, I’m not really an athlete, or at least I haven’t been in a long long time but… During the stellar event that was the Manila International Book Fair…
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I was at this joint Harvard-MIT conference on climate change. The speaker, a world-renowned scientist and climate activist, was going on and on about the devastating effects of climate change to living beings and our habitats. A new…
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PART I : Thank You! I braced myself for yet another hospital trip on my birthday last February, especially since I’d spent my last couple of b-days, confined for busted lungs in 2013 and last year, for breathing issues. My…
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Among all the baddest ideas in the world, and I mean baddest as in unpleasant, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, inadequate, inferior, miserable, cray cray, the baddest idea would be for me and my mother to “hang out”, as in, just the two…
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I have a cousin named New Year. (New Year, if you’re reading this, PEACE ü ) He is the son of my dad’s first cousin so technically, he is my second cousin. We don’t see each other all that much…
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Years ago as a crime reporter, I got a tip from some concerned citizens that a 12-year-old boy was found dead, hanging by a rope inside a shanty in one of the poorest parts of Manila. Body still there, wanna…
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I’m so rude. My baby sister, Natasha, celebrated her birthday last November and I didn’t even have the decency to greet her, here. Happy Birthday Tashing! I get along with my sister so well, she’s a Novemberian — Novemberians are…
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