Archive - spin-offs

You Will Be Called to Your Strength

What I Would Have Told My 15-Year-Old Self

Jun 15, 2023 •

December 2022

"It is our choices, Harry..."

A sleepy, rambling thought on JK Rowling

Dec 29, 2022 •

October 2022

What Pop Girls Might Teach Us About Ourselves

A few weeks ago, I came across a TikTok video that I still think of now: what happened to the “white people indie bangers” of the 2010s? The short video…

Oct 22, 2022 •

September 2022

On Fountain Pens

An expanded version of an essay published in CNN Life Philippines.

Sep 26, 2022 •

From The Archives: A Law Dispatch

A first day of law school reminder

Sep 6, 2022 •

August 2022

“Can you relate to Olivia Rodrigo?”

and other thoughts on music on a rainy afternoon

Aug 23, 2022 •

March 2022

An additional diagnosis

and how maybe I just grew up

Mar 26, 2022 •

January 2022

Originally published on Tinyletter on August 15, 2020. We like to measure things to scale. Maybe it's to remind ourselves of human exceptionalism as we…

Jan 14, 2022 •

August 2021

Undoing my Body: A Triptych

Sometimes I’m convinced that my body does not exist. Maybe I’m a ghost, only perceived by the people around me. That is until I feel my 31-year-old body…

Aug 19, 2021 •

August 16 and what we have to remember

The last novel I read is Yōko Ogawa's The Memory Police. Without so much giving away spoilers, I didn't expect that the last few pages would come to…

Aug 16, 2021 •

March 2021

This showed up in my Timehop today. Exactly a year ago (and after a night of general shenanigans with John Michael and Miranda), the national government…

Mar 5, 2021 •

February 2021

Long Distance, One Day at a Time

I told her so many times how I’m anxious of the fact that she’s taller than me, yet she insists that she should be the little spoon when we cuddle. She…

Feb 7, 2021 •

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