You make me feel like life has just begun. And yet, a sense of urgency engulfs my heart, envelops my mind where the constrained is set free. I find myself free. And there is no tomorrow. You make me feel like sadness is inexistent. And beauty and kindness is all there is in this world. [...]

I dream. So that I can live a life worth living a life less complicated. I dream to feel my heart’s sweetest desires my mind’s most impossible wishes. I lie. Where I hope to close my eyes and watch everything change. Where the illogical is rational the irrational, logical the unimaginable, conceived the unattainable, within [...]

I was thinking of a good motto to encapsulate the goals and ideals of the new training school that my boss is putting up. I knew it had to be short yet powerful. So I took the “Latin route” and concentrated on conjuring up the perfect three-word motto. I came up with “Develop. Improve. Excel.” [...]

The past few days have been a hodge-podge of the best things that can happen in my life given the recent situation I have put myself in. So forgive me if I end up jumping from one thought to another like a hummingbird in a field of flowers; it’s such a hassle dealing with a [...]

You know the stand I took; you’ve heard my arguments; you’ve seen the results. Chances are, you’ve partied with me and found yourself saying, “He acts like he’s drunk, but I know he isn’t.” Chances are, you’ve wanted to get wasted with me and found yourself asking, “How can he be not drunk when I [...]

A hot Summer night, a wet Summer beach, a clear Summer sky. Try as we might to prolong the “Summer season,” at one point it has to end. At one point, your perfect time with Summer gets interrupted by thunder, lightning and rain. And even if the rains end and the next day begins bright [...]

No, this is not another going-to-the-gym post, but rather one which centers on last week’s Gospel, a Gospel which makes sense of why I’m doing what I’ve been doing these past few weeks: If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to [...]

People want simple things. The problem lies on possessing those simple things. We make choices, compromises. We procrastinate, we rationalize, we re-prioritize over and over again. All these make things far more complex than what they are supposed to be. And those people who only want to attain the simple things in life suddenly find [...]

It’s been a really long period of time since I last shed a tear. Or sobbed or cried like a child, for that matter. So it really came as a huge surprise to myself when I felt the familiar “can’t-breathe-eyes-swelling-up-feeling-lost” phenomenon that I swore I wouldn’t feel again. Minutes after hearing the most horribly painful [...]

I’ve always made it a point to create works using the English language. Not because I am ashamed of writing in Tagalog, but simply because I want my works to be understood by as many people as possible, transcending at least one cultural barrier in the process. And what better way than to write my [...]