Category: Life

  • Three things i learned from life

    1. The prince smiles at the pauper and he says, welcome home. He removes her rags and seats her on a throne, gives her jewels, buys her gowns and drowns her in the kind of whispers i shouldn’t repeat. These are the kinds of bedtime stories my mother flushed down my throat: poor girl meets…

  • Snapshots: #ArtFairPH

    Snapshots: #ArtFairPH

    08 February 2015 The Link, Makati City, Philippines

  • i:

    Ir.rev.er.ent.

  • #TEDxUPM Ideas worth sharing.

    . Missed TEDxUPM? Watch Rappler’s coverage. (Start around 36:30) A reaction and appreciation post.

  • observations on the self, une.

    i have the kind of earnestness that is manufactured and consumed an honesty that lies over the yellowing surface of gritted teeth (prescribed by doctors and thieves) here is a dress i wear to politics and heartbreak and this dress is the skin i wear everyday

  • Thesis?

    Presenting an art installation showing the intricacies and interconnectedness of the natural sciences. Think of performance art in still motion, biology captured in a snapshot or tableau. The organization of life juxtaposed with the chaos of metamorphosis. Materials and methods include a blank wall, a bit of floor space, and some blood, among other things. The rationale…

  • Super important memo

    To: The Education System, specifically The Very Expensive Education System From: Jari Monteagudo Date: Perpetuity I am not made of money, no matter how much I wish it. Neither am I made of relentless energy. Please change policies accordingly.

  • Circuitry.

    I am composed of naps and good faith.

  • Last Week (A Retrospective)

    Saturday, today: debate training (morning), committee meeting for Global Health Debates finance (noon), TEDxUPM talk (afternoon), IDeA competition (evening), sleep (night). Busy day, to end a spectacularly eventful week.