Category: Non-Fiction

  • Impact Analysis (or How I Also Paid for Christ’s Death)

    My morning drive is usually a familiar kind of boredom. I wake up just early enough to resent it, slide into the car, and resume my long-term relationship with capitalism. I open my navigation app like I don’t already know the way to a place I’ve been going to every day for the last two…

  • Ako ang Simula: Looking Back at the Beginning

    While reopening this blog, I came across this in my drafts. I’m sure it was meant to be a longer tribute, meant to have photos attached. But I’m too lazy to fix it, so I’m publishing it as it is—a tidbit of my life from *gasp* 15 years ago. ***** Five years ago today, we…

  • Quarter-Life and Crisis in Cape Town

    “Anong gagawin niyo doon, sir? Magvo-volunteer?” That was the bank teller’s response when I told her I needed my bank statement for my South African visa application. I get it. Maybe she pictured famished villagers seeking help from a UN relief camp. Maybe she imagined lions casually crossing roads while people in tribal attire beat…