Category: Life

  • Perhaps I am no longer a phagocyte, busily and calmly devouring microbes (with bluish temples and freckles). Perhaps I am a microbe, and perhaps there are already thousands of them among us, still—like myself—pretending to be phagocytes… Twenty-second Entry We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)

  • It’s coming to a close

    The first day of classes this 2014 is right around the corner [AND TRUST ME I WANT TO CRY] so I’ve decided to recap my awesome (not really) holidays.  + + + first post of the year (fireworkssss) Family and Friends and Stuff Fast-paced Christmas. Christmas Eve | 8PM Christmas delights at the Paranaque home | 9PM/10PM Travel to…

  • aside/ a nice healthy outpouring of emotions

    tweeted “in the mood for murder” that is to say, i would like to kill every single member of humanity i encounter in the next couple of minutes, and in all honesty it is only the tediousness of clean-up and law evasion that restrains me, because: there are people who speak so loudly or who enter…

  • Pope Francis Condemns Racism And Declares That “All Religions Are True” At Historic Third Vatican Council

    Originally posted on Diversity Chronicle: For the last six months, Catholic cardinals, bishops and theologians have been deliberating in Vatican City, discussing the future of the church and redefining long-held Catholic doctrines and dogmas. The Third Vatican Council, is undoubtedly the largest and most important since the Second Vatican Council was concluded in 1962. Pope…

  • i am a strong independent woman who will not hide from you or from anything except, you know the parts where i’m broken or the times when i cry those,  are just mine)

  • the opportunity is out there

    the opportunity is out there; you just have to take it. Several people have asked me: Why AIESEC? Why Exchange? And sometimes I answer that it’s because I want to change my life and the life of others. I want to put myself in a different world, even if it’s just for one summer. I…

  • On Ken

    THE MOST FAKE THING ABOUT KEN IS NOT THAT HE’S PLASTIC. IT’S THAT HE’S “STRAIGHT.” Screenshot from http://fckh8-tees.tumblr.com/post/67279559310 Not all of our social constructs —like gender roles— are entirely digested and understood by even my most “enlightened” university friends (and not even by family). Here in the Philippines, being a male homosexual is almost always…

  • On Marriage

    Some days, why. Others, why not? Marriage,  1 a (1): the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law (2) : the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a…

  • i feel wild and eighteen