I just turned thirty yesterday. I don’t know if that should be cause for celebration.
My mother had me when she was thirty. She was having problems making ends meet then because both she and my father were just university instructors/researchers with 3 kids. They were also pursuing their masters degrees.
I am thirty but it seems [...]

found a new addiction: MANGA
for the past month, i’ve been glued to the computer screen until 5 am in the morning reading scanned and translated manga online. i finished samurai deeper kyo (and the manga–which is 308 chapters long–is waaaaaaaay better than the anime) and now finishing fruits basket. i have other mangas in the [...]

it’s only now that i am seriously thinking of applying for a scholarship…to japan. just to get back.

two weeks after ondoy hit, our subdivision was still underwater

material things are inconsequential. the floods have made my husband realize that it doesn’t make sense to buy a P300,000-living room set (we don’t own one) when it can easily be swept away in an instant by floodwaters. he realized that it’s useless to buy stuff [...]

i don’t know if those who were affected by the floods would be able to go back to their normal lives again. i don’t know what “normal” is anymore for them. many lives and businesses were ruined by ondoy and pepeng.
as of today, the main mode of transportation in pinagbuhatan, pasig is still the banca. [...]