I remember lying on the bed in the unforgiving heat of the Philippine summer and found myself in the depths of rage. I was shaking uncontrollably. My body felt tense and on the edge. A bowl of Mama’s chicken macaroni salad would’ve fixed everything or the best of Frédéric Chopin playing on the background would’ve sufficed but I cannot, for the life of...

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Morong, Bataan, December 2017 ‘Hello, World!’ was actually a phrase used in a test run to make sure that a computer language is correctly installed, and that the operator (revered techies and geeks) understands how to use it. In seventh grade (first year high school, circa ’99), I briefly dabbled in the early days of web design (heck yeah, VBScript!) and found out...

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