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  • on the rewards of slothism

    I have lived by several mottos through my (19-years-one-week-and-ongoing) life. One is Time enjoyed is time not wasted; another is No regrets, and also maybe You only live once, when I’m feeling especially ultra-dated-mainstream. In effect, my philosophy in life is always to do things that I enjoy for myself (because, perhaps, my life motto…

  • the ephemeral life

    It was a quick affair. My darling mother asked, “what do you want?”. I said a bento box, please, ebi tempura. And in a blink of an eye all I had left was this: This says a lot more about my life than I would like. Fast, furious and quiet; burning moments that fly too…

  • z

    Today I have reached my tolerance for work; yesterday I was beyond exhaustion. Tomorrow I will sleep before the dawn, and on the next I will carry the earth. Sooner or later I will run out of the words to say: I am tired.

  • Life Update #84733

    My life is full of updates. I honestly cannot find the will or the time to write anything more than reactions or five-line poetry. I can’t even write a proper blog post, which is unfortunate. My life is actually really interesting and intense right now. I just don’t want to write about it. I am…

  • 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…

  • In No Regrets, women writers talk about what it was like to read literature’s “midcentury misogynists.”

    This isn’t just about the books. When young women read the hypermasculine literary canon—what Emily Gould calls the “midcentury misogynists,” staffed with the likes of Roth, Mailer, and Miller—their discomfort is punctuated by the knowledge that their male peers are reading these books, identifying with them, and acting out their perspectives and narratives. These writers…

  • An Interlude

    The road to the UADC 2014 Championship ended two days ago for me, but when all has been said and done, there’s not a lot to be sad about the experience. Even right now and later and tomorrow, I am collecting moments, defining places and creating friendships. It was fun (to be beaten by three…

  • Ilocos Norte #Batch2016

    Ilocos Norte #Batch2016

    Time for some local flavor. (I swear it was a legit field trip.) 40% fieldwork + 60% lessons on How To Be a Tourist = 100% FUN ;) Agyamanak, Bio115 and Biology Batch 2016!

  • Maybe it’s time to think about it (Feminist Questions)

    /positively brimming with ideas/ 1. Is there such a thing as false feminism? In a lot of ways, this is answerable by no. False feminism, much like false activism (hacktivism, armchair activism etc.) was coined up out of the tangle of sincere-to-insincere motivations of feminists and the effective-detrimental effects of a feminist action. But if we value…