Life and Culture
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That is lovely, but can someone please just employ me first?
Facebook has a peculiar talent for returning versions of ourselves we did not specifically request. You…
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WE’VE ALWAYS DONE IT THIS WAY… HAVEN’T WE?
There is an old story about a family who lived beside a river. Every rainy season,…
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IT WAS JUST THE CORRIDOR… WASN’T IT?
I was sitting inside the WMI Building, just outside the room where my BLS training was…
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APPARENTLY, HEAVEN HAS NO TIMER.
I was standing in front of the microwave watching thirty seconds behave as though it had…
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THE MANUAL WASN’T IN THE DRAWER.
The kettle clicked off in the kitchen just as something small and plastic dropped onto the…
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Unfiltered truth
Deception has excellent manners. I think that is why we do not always recognise it when…
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Seasons of Becoming
“Put down roots where you are planted.” I did not understand that line when I first…
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THE ROOSTER NEVER SAW THIS COMING.
The morning light in Cebu used to arrive warm and gold, slipping through curtains already carrying…
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I WAS THERE. JUST NOT IN THE ROOM.
At the next table, four people were sitting together and nobody was looking at anybody. One…
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KEEP IT FOR THE NEXT PERSON.
The pound coin was technically mine for about forty seconds. I was walking towards the trolley…
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BREAK GLASS IN EMERGENCY.
The fire alarm went off before anything was actually on fire. That, I realised afterwards, was…
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From Barangay Gossip to Viral Posts
When I was a child, there was one name that could make an ordinary evening suddenly…
