Tag: journal

  • on editing

    In less than a month, I will defend my master’s thesis – a sprawling document written on the flimsy idea of authenticity in the twenty-first century. It’s taken me about a year to write this. This time last year, I was in the research stages of my thesis and now, I am preparing to defend…

  • writing to write

    This is my third blog post that I am posting here which makes it my second most active blog over the course of a decade of making blogs from pathetic Livejournals with copy-pasted themes to WordPress blogs that started with a post promising to actually write this time, I swear. I had one other blog…

  • take me to the sea

    take me to the sea

    The last time I touched the ocean, I hadn’t swum. I had been accompanying my grandmother’s sister on a four-day trip to two seaside villas on the coast of Pangasinan, the place where she, my grandmother, and my mother had been raised by the same woman – my great grandmother who I only ever knew…