Under the sweltering sun, tens of thousands of children wearing party hats and waving colorful flags rush excitedly towards a towering arch festooned with a smiling sun and the words Sonshine Land. As the children ran, shrieking under showers of confetti, a song about a dreamland come true booms loudly from speakers everywhere. Each year […]
You left us seven years ago. We buried you on the second Sunday of June, just as everyone was greeting their dads, pops and tatays on Father’s Day. It was a hell of a ride. It was a deep, unexpected loss. It was like a part of me was permanently lost. It felt like having […]
It’s the 4th of December and I was brought to years back when I was in the fourth grade when we toured the National Museum. Life then was simple yet obscure. I was too young to realize or even imagine the complexity of the big, wide world I was about to get acquainted with. I was just […]
A poor child can only dream of spending a day in a theme park. He can only imagine what it is like ride a Ferris wheel, to buy an extra-large popcorn or ice cream and or to see his favorite cartoon characters for real. But when amusement parks charge P500 for a single ticket, the […]
By Emanuella Grinberg of CNN Living http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/15/living/flats-love-flat-shoes-style/index.html?hpt=hp_bn11
His Daughter by Molly Kate Kestner Everything’s gonna be alright She whispers to herself She was only 6 years old that night As she hid behind that shelf ‘Coz Daddy had a little too much to drink And Mama didn’t want her to feel the pain she felt But she still felt the pain… […]
It was a long drive from CDO to Davao City, the sky was getting dark and we had to pass by some roads under construction. Everyone in the car sang along with the songs being played from the computer. The driver had to stay alert and keen what with the treacherous roads we had to […]
SOJOURNING IN THE UNITED STATES was one of the milestone events in my life. It was a week after the rage of Typhoon Haiyan, when the country was still reeling from its bitter fury, and when death was still sinking in the Filipinos’ collective sense of being – I had to pack up and leave, […]
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Art by Gavin Aung Than
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