“Ding” pops the Facebook chat box. “Hi Ma’am Best!” Sab narrates. “How’s your love life?” asked her acquaintance without so much as a slight prelude. “Next question please!” Sab sarcastically replied, feeling rather nonplussed. At my Ma's birthday dinner, while having a mouth-watering meal that includes grilled tilapia, kimchi fried rice and ensaladang talong, Sab and I found ourselves deep in conversation about...

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After having had hair that ranged from long to super long, I kissed my usual floppy ponytail {that swings behind my head} goodbye in 2010. The one thing that USED to make me feel quite ultimately a girl… my long, straight, might I add, silky, darn hair. This led to four years of various pixie cut inspirations, pliable molding clay/hair styling wax experiments...

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“You don’t talk much, do you?” asked one of the three girls I’m bunking in with for the night I was seventeen, just three months in college and already out on a mandatory study trip in Manila and Cavite respectively, for a class I wasn’t even too keen about. I flashed an awkward smile. Inside my head, I thought of home and how...

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K.A. Easter '14 "Miss Anie!" a voice from a vacant lot with thickly overgrown weeds and bushes across the street echoed. Immediately, I stopped on my tracks, somewhat puzzled. I turned around and glanced at the area and saw 9-year old John Paul in his over worn half-white sando and tattered denim shorts hanging upside down from a tree branch, beaming with glee...

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I turned 29 last Easter. In the world of Mathematics, 29 might as well be 30, if that is the case, why not? I honestly don’t see the need to run for the nearest closet to hide away in darkness and pretend this isn’t happening, so, ya, I’m really down with getting older. Sure, it feels a little strange to say “Hello, my name...

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