This has been quite the time for meeting new people--fresh perspectives and age-old stereotypes.

First I was typecast as the bitchy, freshman-bullying "estudyanteng galing sa kabilang dako ng Katipunan."

I was prevented from playing the lesbian role that I created and very willingly volunteered to play, because I seemed more like "partygirl, ( Read more... )

 I feel like I am dying, again.

And I feel like I can't die because then there will be too much left undone.  I'll be one of those people forever in a coma, forever on life support, just barely hanging on.  Or I'll be one of those people who end up lingering, tormenting the living people by turning on lights that have been turned off, saying hello ( Read more... )

 It is a wonder how someone like me, who does not talk, could possibly be related to someone like Lola Marcia, who talks nonstop.

Mom says she's faster than Yahoo! news updates.  Sometimes, on my way down to the dining room, I hear her already talking--to no one.  I wondered if it was a fear of silence that forced her to fill every second of dead ( Read more... )

 Dear Chuck,

I miss you a lot. My Tuesday nights are incomplete without you.

But you will take forever to come back.
And it looks like your coming back will be rather useless.

Please prove me wrong.

I'll be waiting!

Love,
Cecilia Ejercito


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 That was a speechless night, but now:

Everything's perfect.
Seems like some kind of secret conspiracy made everything turn out the way it did.

So, thank you.
For the Nat Sci test that should've been today, but was moved to next week,
and for making me vomit my entire being out last weekend (instead of this),
and for Swine flu and schedule changes,
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 Dear Swine (if you are, indeed, swine),

Please leave.

I cannot take another day of chicken noodle soup still in its original rectangle shape,
being locked up in my room, with a visitor every three minutes telling me to drink water,
and forced drug dependence (even if I don't want any more Biogesic).

Most of all,
I would like to be allowed to take a bath
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January 24, 2009
Saturday

- spotting thirteen Mini Coopers driving along NLEX


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