Manila, 1 December—I figured I should do a drive-by update because just like that, it’s already December! Wow. How’s your Christmas shopping going?! Mi…

Manila, 17 November—Céline Sciamma’s French historical drama “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is perhaps the best movie I’ve seen this year. (Spoilers afte…

Manila, 8 November—Among my earliest memories as a child coming of age is riding shotgun in the morning with my mother on the way to school, turning th…

Malay, 30 October—Just dropping this quick note to say I have been spending my after-work hours and entire weekends trying to power through writing ass…

Manila, 14 October—In true Q4 fashion, my calendar for the last three months of this decade has been filled. Yes, just like that. Must be a common feel…

Manila, 6 October—It’s my first time to hear of this metric, but someone on Twitter mentioned that it’s time to countdown to The Last 1,000 Days of the…

Now that we’re on The Last 1000 Days of this admin, maybe this is worth a lookback. After all of THAT—what incidents and issues stand out as the…

Manila, 28 September—How do you introduce yourself first? As far as first days of school go, this is perhaps the one thing I feel most pressured to get…

Scenario: You’re picking up your younger self’s report card and you have ten minutes to spend with said younger self to discuss it. What year wo…

Manila, 23 September—For a change, I thought of posting this year’s round-up of Martial Law reportage on this day instead of Sept 21, which is the date…

Manila, 21 September—And just like that, I’m back in the classroom. This afternoon, I went back to class for the first time in three years. If anybody …

Manila, 16 September—Once upon a time, we had amulets. Like, honest-to-goodness red mini-pillows with stitched-on crosses pinned to our underwear, or o…