jari m

  • this week, in open letters to the world

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  • Response: U.P. is so iba na

    Originally posted on Sankage Steno: Like I was in the University of the Philippines kanina in Diliman, and I noticed that my Alma Mater is so iba na. It has changed talaga, like a total makeover! Gosh. And I’m not talking about the bagong structures ha or the monorail that was made paandar here and…

  • … I don’t remember much about my dad anymore. But when I watch old videos and look at how he interacts with me, all I could see is the fond look in his eyes, every moment lined with a lot of love and maybe a little exasperation at my kid self. I feel it against…

  • Life Update #4247 | Look at my hair, my long (beautiful) hair

    I don’t know why I have so many life updates recently, when I’ve been doing next to nothing these past few days. . So basically I woke up from my late night nap (it’s not sleeping!! because I’m on my summer biocycle… or something) and I wanted to share my head of bed hair. Haha!…

  • Life Update #43278

    I’m savoring the last few days of vacation. Sue me. In other news I attended this concert with my extended family. It was fun.

  • Moleskine: MyAnalogCloud|It says I’m a Scientific Reporter

    Hovering over the details, Moleskine tells me that I am a: Pragmatist (I learn by doing) Rational (There’s an explanation for everything) Sociable (I like to share and make connections with others) Modernist (The world is a machine for living) Thoughtful (People who care make the world a better place) Nomadic (I’m always on the move)…

  • We are always the protagonists of our own stories. But just once I had hoped you would play the support in a chapter I had written, laughing and rejoicing in the triumph I overtook. It was a high, it was momentous, it was glory overwhelmed. And it also paled against anything you had to say. I’m sorry.…

  • Haikus to Freedom

    I was reading the Inquirer a week and a day ago, and I thought of airing some opinions on Philippine news. With some poetry. I. to think of the world quite odd: easy to clamor easy to forget The Philippines is perhaps one of the few “democratic” countries where a corrupt president –overthrown by a mass…

  • When Having Opinions Brings Rape Threats: A Captain America Story

    When Having Opinions Brings Rape Threats: A Captain America Story I’m just so angry right now. The article boils down to the headline: a woman criticizes the work of a white guy in the comic book industry (Rick Remender) for portraying the Falcon (inebriated, if not drunk) having sex with a 22-year-old woman (who was thought…

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