Rebel Heart
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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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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Wherefore my love-hate relationship with scientists begins… [Insert score: Dark Matter: An original piece designed to evoke emotions of uneasiness, quote from You Tube] May 21, 2011. I huffed and puffed up the three flights of stairs to the command…
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Is it just me or it’s too hot in here? It’s been hotter than usual, Ma’am. Er…how can we make you feel more comfortable? The friendly hotel staff held on to her glowing smile while she eyed me nervously as…
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Reflections on (some) Cultural Theories of Communication By Apples Jalandoni We often assume that the words we speak reflect social reality, meaning, what already exists. However, theorists in Cultural Communication argue that the process works the other way around. That our…
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