Doon po sa DepEd, Part 1
OVER THE weekend, I was again the toast of Facebook for my notorious exploration (or invasion, depending on your point of view) of the...
Dear Secretary Briones, Part 3
THIS IS THE concluding part of my open letter to the DepEd Secretary calling for academic freeze.
This was originally posted on Facebook on Nov....
Dear Secretary Briones, Part 2
IN MY last column, I explained the genesis of my open letter to the DepEd Secretary that demanded an academic freeze.
The first part of...
Dear Secretary Briones, Part 1
WHAT does it mean to be a relevant writer in the 21stcentury?
What does it mean to be a relevant writer in the time of...
The Adventures of Peter Valentine, Part 6
WHEN Valentine joined the girls in the Ochenta y Seis group chat, the conversation was still about the old gossip about which batchmates hooked...
The Adventures of Peter Valentine, Part 5
LUKE and Valentine had been on the Messenger video call for over an hour (one hour and 19 minutes according to the log of...
The Adventures of Peter Valentine, Part 4
VALENTINE takes his coffee black. To remind himself that certain things in life are meant to be tasted, or experienced and accepted, as bitter....
The Adventures of Peter Valentine, Part 3
LUKE@ME is a clever name for an account, Valentine thought. Although it’s really more for Grindr or Blued. Valentine knows because he had been on those sites. Been...
The Adventures of Peter Valentine, Part 2
PETER Valentine woke up early the morning after his novel-in-installments debuted on Wattpad. He stayed in bed for a while, and prayed for global...
The Adventures of Peter Valentine, Part 1
THE WIDOWER Peter Valentine, all of 51 in the first year of the COVID plague, began writing a novel on Wattpad on Nov. 1,...