A loveletter — Hey you, It is not easy for me to write this, but you know I would’ve rather written than tell. I don’t exactly express my feelings well, outspokenly, so by the time you’ve read this, I might have run off somewhere far, simply because I’ll be embarrassed. …

A poem poem by me me — I miss me when I was young. When summer comes in my home Hold my little finger and draw me to play. I’ll miss me when I was young, When presents were mere happiness, never a reward When my parents were models, and never people Nightmares as dreams And not as reality…

A more thorough read on Philippine Nationalism from my previous article. — In the 19th century, the final cultural factor that has been involved in the inclination towards nationalism was the interest in the Filipino past; Rizal, in the preface to his edition of Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas by Antonio de Morga, indicates the process of dwelling in our historical narratives…

Reform and Revolution Movement of 1896 — One cannot stray away from Rizal and Bonifacio’s concept of nationalism without the context of colonialism. Rizal attributed mainly to reforms while Bonifacio tapped on armed struggle. One linking factor between their expression for nationalism is that — it was evoked from colonization — to defend the land from oppressors…

Early Philippine Politics, thoughts on history — As a sickly child who grew up in the Bicol province alongside my grandmother, I clearly remember my family consulting to a manghihilot multiple times in my childhood years. Inside a glass bottle — a boat, odd man-like figures, oil, and other herbal items; she would use that bottle with…

Bluebeard Themes, Retellings, and Tradition — Mollie: What? You do not need a man, okay? Or anybody, for that matter. It’s just the way we’ve been raised since fucking Disney movies. Noa: Yeah. Fuck Ariel. Mollie: Fuck her. Stupid Bitch. Left the whole sea for a man. Come on, now. Like fuck Beauty. Noa: Yeah, fuck…

To what extent does the text both challenge and utilize aspects of the literary tradition of realism? — Realism in literature refers to the depiction of characters, events, and settings in a way that is considered to be true to life or representative of real life. It is the belief that things exist objectively and independently of our perceptions of them and that we can know and understand…

Half the World Away by OASIS, then again a lovely cover from AURORA — I’ll be inserting AURORA’s lovely cover of the song as the soundtrack selected for a bitter-sweet 2015 John Lewis Christmas advert video — perhaps one of my favorite videos/ads on the internet as well. https://youtu.be/jGY-T4W-BOc What this song means to me I particularly adore and keep this song close to my heart as it brings out…

lost words kept in my phone’s note app — The sun was always alone too, timeless and immemorial; if she were to be human, the great sorrow — to live an immortal life , to live knowing your cycled purpose for a timeless zone, to walk an endless path and to keep these all to herself. but was there a day she ceased to rise and shine? atleast tell me a day in retrospect where no sunset nor a ray of light were seen in the start and end of the day now, do follow and live, for there will always be better sunrises in your each and every day.