Three Stars and ASAN?!

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Published in the Angelenean Pioneer’s Piola, 2009-2010 Literary Folio
Angeles University Foundation

Walong sinag ng araw na naglalagablab.
Napapaligiran ng tatlong bituing tanglaw.
Mga dayuhan ay dumating at nasilaw,
Mga dakila’y ‘di ka hayaang mabihag.

Perlas ng Silangan ika’y maituturing.… read more

Complexity of the Simple

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Life is simple. In a sense, that’s what Robert Fulghum wants to tell his readers (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten). He said the things that you need to learn to survive are the things that … read more

Lobotomy

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Published in the Angelenean Pioneer’s Piola, 2009-2010 Literary Folio
Angeles University Foundation

What are you waiting for? Put that thing on my forehead already.

Let the scalpel be my last memory. I’m going to leave this world already. I’m but … read more

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Imagine this. You’re in a competition where the latter part of judgment depends on the votes of the audience. A friend of yours is also there to participate. You fairly like your contest piece (whatever that is, you like it … read more

Steps

Whenever I see a group of college students that are about to graduate, I can’t help but to think, “Wow, how did those people do that?” Each time we gather and celebrate as a whole college, acknowledgements are being given read more

Hope + People = Ideal

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I was so blank that I cannot write anything. I was so desperate that I checked my archive that contains all my literary works all these years. I was planning to just get one that was not published anywhere yet. … read more

Sunako

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge

I know a girl. She’s one helluva girl.
One helluva girl that defies beauty.
She defies beauty in the sense that she
can’t explain it herself. Lives an odd world.

A girl with unparalleled substance; she
looks at beauty in … read more