by: Tara Cabullo
Is it just me or were the recent holidays too overrated?
I spent the last four weekends of December holed up in the cave that is my room. With a ration of three five meals a day, lovingly served by Manang, a bathroom I can drag myself into in five seconds, comforters, stacks of DVDs acquired from a recent Astrovision sale and wifi, I came to ignore the world, or Manila, for that matter, while the city spins itself into a web of frenzy over Christmas shopping and parties. Read the rest of this entry »
Crisis situations have a way to bring out the best and the worst in all of us. Though we are faced with the same dilemma, we have different ways of engaging the enemy, so to speak.
When my mother left for the U.S., all she had was a gray carry-on, betraying the fact that she will be staying there for good. It took a lot of negotiations and compromise to fill up the void of her absence. However, the pieces start to fall in its rightful places, together with valuable lessons of a mother separated by 7,000 miles from her daughter. 
Rise. Tumble. Fall. Such are the rules of this universe – hard lessons that must be learned outside the comfort of a university’s hallowed halls. Congratulations graduate, here is the moment you have long waited for, a goodbye kiss to nagging parents and distracting schoolwork. 
