If America has 9/11, I have 9/23. I’ve been commemorating 9/23 of every year since 1999. 9/23/1998 was what I called as “The Bonding”. Remember what I told you about the schemes my friends were making? This was the biggest scheme they’d ever done! The greatest effort in fact! But only those who were there…
After bumping into him with another girl, I told myself that it’s already hopeless. Efforts of my friends were already made. I had also shown him what I felt. But he didn’t seem to acknowledge everything. And sure he knew! He just ignored it for he didn’t see me the way I was seeing him….
In one way or another, we love. We long to love and be loved in return. Whether it be reciprocated or not, we still desire it, want it, and hope for it. Just as this poem is conveying: Still Hoping Tears that I can’t hide Keep hurting me inside I found you to be my…
Time flies so fast and another September is here. For most people, September marks the beginning of the “–ber” months meaning, Christmas is already in the air. For some, September is a dreadful month, a reminder of the New York twin tower attack. For others, it’s just “30 days has September”. And for me, September…
A scary word, isn’t it? I don’t understand why nine out of ten people make a very big deal out of this word. They consider it as a misfortune, an outcast, and worst of all, a scare! When a woman stays single, people immediately think that she’s not lucky in love. That she has been…
In a luncheon party at my friend’s house, I happened to encounter a 30-something married woman. She wore a loose T-shirt, knee-length pants, rubber slippers, and a gloomy face with scrunchy on her head. In short, she was a sore eye to me! She was undesirable to talk to but she talked! She worried a…
I’d like to share my very first poem. I composed this when I was still 12 – first year high school at ICC-La Salle. Do Love Do not change your love That fly like a dove It’s a thing you can keep That many people peep Everybody knows Everybody shows Loving forever Can’t change to…
2004 – T’was the year that I first read a blog of Atomic Girl at Blogdrive.com. I was searching for Atom Araullo and her blog appeared wherein she talked about seeing Atom in campus. Well, she’s another Atom fanatic. Good for her, she also went to the same university as Atom was. Bad for me,…