Essays

Creative writing and poetry

• The blog as a medium of writing – In defense of the blog
• The ballad of “Dumas Goethe” – Revisiting Dumaguete City and the National Writers Workshop in May 2010
• In my mermaid form – Conversations with Rowena Torrevillas, May 2010
• “A long update” – Raving about my first published poems
• “Water’s call” – My experiences as a poetry fellow in the 47th National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete, the heartland of Philippine literature
• “About the writing” – About writing, traveling, displacement, and the work of Rowena Tiempo-Torrevillas
• “My first public poetry reading” – Poetry reading at Mag:Net Cafe along Katipunan Avenue
• “My good ol’ days – Looking back on my days as a former editor of The LaSallian

Existential issues

• “Is this what normal feels like? In praise (and defense) of the happy pill” – Coming out as a Prozac junkie
• Prozac update: Still happy – Eight months after going on Prozac
• “Traces” – About wounds
• “Two names for the cold” – On “Noelle” & “Leslie”
• “A bout of cabin fever” – The quarter-life crisis speaks

Hobbies and activities

• “Mermaid lessons” – My love affair with water
• “Too, too funny” – Working out at the gym
• “L’aventure francaise” – Learning French

Living spaces

• My Walden – Getting my first apartment
• What I realized from my friends’ goldfish – About my condo days

Random adventures

• The little girl who had a little curl – Watching Gone with the Wind again
• “In praise of sludge” – About the Ondoy flood
• “20/20″ – Undergoing LASIK

Relationships

• “My two houses” – About my dad
• “US Trip Part II: My best friend’s wedding” – When my friend Les got married
• “Bereft” – When my friend Les left for the US

Travel

• “About the color blue” – First visit to Boracay, Philippines
• “My springtime in Jersey” – My most recent US trip
• “My white Christmas” – With pictures of my visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• “US trip part I: Seeing my dad again” – The first of many US trips in recent years

Work

• “Why I love (and hate) teaching” – My ambivalent relationship with teaching
• “The Lasallista song” – About the Ateneo-La Salle rivalry
• “About this adulthood thing” – Realizing that one is supposed to be a big girl now

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