Ipinanganak at lumaki akong kaliwete, primarily dahil tinamad na ang mga magulang ko na korekin ako tulad ng ginawa nila sa kapatid ko. Hindi ko naman masabi kung for better or worse ang desisyon na ‘yon dahil wala naman akong panilip sa mga parallel universe kung saan right-handed ako. Wala…
Leave a commentThis week was pretty amazing. I did not expect the volume of congratulatory messages I got on my social media announcement, but mostly because I have forgotten that I did know these many people. I’m relatively old. I’ve lived so many lives. So. Many. Lives. One day I will write…
Leave a commentAng aking Tagalog novel (working title: Hoy Pong! previously known as Pangkantong Gabay sa Pagiging Ganap) ay ipa-publish early next year ng My Avenida (publisher ng Trese, Kikomachine Komix, mga libro ni Bob Ong, Eliza Victoria, Eros Atalia at marami pang ibang manunulat na Pinoy)—basically my dream publishing house as…
Leave a commentWell then, I’ve had more social interactions in the past month than the two years that went before it. Yet somewhere people’s worlds are falling apart. It is hard to be perma-happy when you’re perma-informed. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be or that you can’t try. Here, with half…
Leave a commentThere was this scene in the first episode of BBC’s Sherlock where Sherlock does a Sherlock guessing Watson’s sibling’s life circumstances by taking one look at the phone he’s using. The phone had several scuff marks near the charging port and Sherlock somehow deduced that only a person with shaky…
Leave a commentI felt like I needed to write something because this month has been hella weird in the best way possible but I forgot what it was I wanted to say and so maybe for now I’ll just talk about how when I went out to run again I could not…
2 commentsHello, I’m back. I finished the last edits to Pangkantong Gabay sa Pagiging Ganap, a Tagalog novel set in the end-of-the-world hysteria of 1999, and shipped it out to someone who will at some point decide whether they want to edit my work or not. Then comes pitching/querying, yadda yadda.…
Leave a comment(I took this picture in Singapore. It’s a painting by Jose Joya called “A Dimension of Fear.” I saw it and thought, “Yep.”) Sa totoo lang, I don’t really like talking about what happened. Not because it’s painful or shameful for some reason or what pero kasi that for months…
Leave a commentI should probably just get over this push-and-pull of whether or not I should go back to blogging by coming up with something first draft-y to get it over with. Yesterday was my 39th birthday, which was as good a time as any to not start blogging again. I had…
Leave a commentI can’t. I can’t explain it to you. I thought I was doing better. I thought I had a grip on it. I thought I had finally acquired the kind of audacity it takes to actually be in the world, to not just be its wise-cracking commentator and occasional partner…
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