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July 5, 2020

The Weekend Closing #156: Going Out

It’s about this time when it finally occurred to us that we’re halfway down 2020 and things are not getting better. June waves its final goodbye; for us in the Philippines, it meant new quarantine guidelines (which is given every

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June 27, 2020

Of fireworks in my chest, and signing with my literary agent

If I had to give an award for the craziest week, this week will be in the running. For days, there were fireworks in my chest and I cannot stop the springy feeling constantly rising up my throat. It’s like

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June 21, 2020

The Weekend Closing #155: Honestly, I lost track.

I was that hooman bean who played entire musicals on rotation, because, why not? And I remembered why I adore Ben Platt’s creamy voice and what I loved about Hamilton, although he was a douche. And the final song still

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April 25, 2020

My Quarantine (so far) in Tweets

Just so you know, the Philippines’ version of lockdown is called Enhanced Community Quarantine, because the former term is “intimidating” and would cause our nation “fear.” Turned out, intimidating was what communities needed, because a lot of people were still

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April 4, 2020

Two for the Fourth

Two of my favorite women in the world are celebrating their birthdays today — my mom and her mom — and in the spirit of love and celebration, I’d like to dedicate this post as a temporary job back to

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March 21, 2020

Here in the Luzon, we’re locked in, but not locked out

As of writing this, we are five days into Extreme Community Quarantine (or, just as everybody else calls it, a lockdown). This is applied to the entire island of Luzon, signalling a Calamity status for the entire country. We have