Category: places

  • How I Celebrate Mental Health Month

    The activity was long overdue. This is my first year of serving as a volunteer of the Philippine Mental Health Association. I remember that one afternoon wherein I was idly browsing the Instagram and I saw their advertisement for this activity. Frizza and I signed up immediately, chose the schedule…

  • The Opposite of Happiness

    The dialogue discusses emotions, comparing them to flavors, and highlights the therapeutic process of feeling, acknowledging, and letting them pass.

  • Seattle, Cubao

    “Sa Shatel lang po.” There are three ways to get to school from Commonwealth Ave. The first one is via Quezon Avenue, the second one is via Kalayaan Avenue and the last one is through the Kamuning-Arayat road. All of them can take me to that same place; what makes…

  • Pandemic 1

    Streets and people have become quieter and movements slower.

  • Hug Me, I’m HIV Positive

    This afternoon, Sam and I went to the mall to spend some time together. It is like our weekly thing, just to see each other, talk in person and catch up. We were crossing from Trinoma to SM North when we saw a loose crowd on the bridge. Was it…

  • Enchanting Night

    “The sun will set, the day will end, And the darkness will cover us. But the night will cast its own magic, And we will be enchanted by its own beauty.”

  • Death Wish on a Letter

    It was the first time that I heard someone express her wish to die through a letter…my emotional bandwidth almost couldn’t handle it. Our class met our professor for the first time this afternoon. She was in the middle of her speech — telling us her expectations, her requirements, and…

  • An Afternoon in Cubao

    It has been raining for weeks. I met up with friends in Cubao to catch up. One of them seemed to be much happier from where she is standing right now than where she was a few months back. The other is struggling to move on from someone whom he…