Being Normal Is Overrated

Being Normal Is Overrated

I am never able to use the changing of seasons as metaphor for the changes in my life. For a simple reason really: More than it being a trite cliché, I’ve never been outside the Philippines in my 29 years of being alive. I have never seen firsthand the leaves...

REMISSION!!!

I was diagnosed of Hodgkins Lymphoma in September 2013. Officially in remission, September 2016. FREEDOM! Actually, I ended my radiation therapy in December 2015, so technically, I’ve been relatively free for quite some time now. But I had my post-treatment CT...
When Death Calls

When Death Calls

[First published on July 16, 2014] Often, it is our own stories we find hard to write. Not because we lack the words, but because the words are not enough to describe the intensity of living every second in that situation. But in my attempt to chronicle the hell-paved...