[The Red Dreamer]

Migulho ang mga sekyu gikan sa ilang sakyanan. Murag naay gera nga milusob sila sa lapok paingon sa mga nagtikad. Nakig-uban si Jade sa mga mag-uuma isip tigdokumento adtong taknaa. Nagkatag dayun sila aron maliyokan ang mga sekyu. Makapaso na ang adlaw.

”Gahi gyud mo ha! Unsay inyong gisaligan?”, ang singgit sa nangulong sekyu sa Central Mindanao University. Namalikas pa sila. Bang! Bang!… Continue

The room is an untidy heap of unwashed clothes, cigarette butts, crumpled papers, and one troubled soul. For hours now I’ve been trying to write the best Christmas letter for my parents. I’ve never written a Christmas letter before. I just find it thoughtless to try to squeeze my emotions on a couple sheet of paper.


But this Christmas is different. I fear that this would be my saddest Christmas ever. I need to tell them of my decision, but I simply cannot muster enough courage to tell it to th… Continue

College, it’s an institution of higher learning and infinite opportunity. Or at least that’s what it says in the brochure. Yes, for a measly several thousand pesos a semester, (not including housing, meals, or books) young adults can start building a future. I don’t know about you, but the whole thing sounds a little fishy to me. Nobody can be expected to believe that learning can only happen in a licensed higher-education learning facility. Learning can happen anywhere. Besides, whatever cla… Continue

I walked past myself today. As I looked me over, I came to a rather stunning realization. I love me. No, really. I am luxuriating in this vast sea of self-confidence and the heady exhilaration of knowing. Knowing just who I am, knowing what I want, and knowing how to get there. I hope this feeling lasts forever. I think I’m going to start looking at the sky again. I can’t imagine why I ever felt the need to stop.

The stretch of every human person to his limit must be seen as yet another swirl of twisting waves that strike and burrow underneath your skin…never knowing which way your going but ever turning round and round…spinning, never ceasing as you slip further and further into the insanity that creeps ever close into your unaware mind.

This truly is the push of the human person, the way he will willingly pressure himself to be better but will at the same time willingly give up, wave the white flag… Continue