ESSAYS

READING

• 2025 Feb 3 - The Cat Who May Have Started Believing in Me
• 2024 Sept 28 - My Taylor Swift Gym Moment: A Comical Tale of Beauty and Boiled Eggs
• 2024 Sept 28 - Is Pretty Really the New Smart? (A Satirical Yet Objective Reflection on Beauty)
• 2024 Sept 24 - Personal Essay: "It's My Birthday and I'll Cry or Laught If I Want To...and the Song Goes..."
• 2024 June 1 - “Is ChatGPT My New Bestie?” (Or The Real Deal on Getting Rich: Straight Talk with ChatGPT)
• 2024 May 21 - Satire: Why You Will Never Win the Lottery
• 2024 May 21 - In Defense of Philippine English (Revised)
• 2024 May 11 - The Forty-Year-Old Threshold: "Should You Really Be Financially Successful by the Age of Forty
• 2024 May 8 - 21 Things I Would Like to Tell My 21-Year-Old Self If I Could…
• 2016 Dec 24 - Merry Saturnalia or Merry Christmas? (with audio)
• 2014 Nov 1 - Kwento ng isang First-Time Mommy
• 2014 July 7 - Reeducating a Former Evil Manager or Lessons That I Learned as a Manager (A Series of Essays) Part 1: “Are You Acting Like an Elitist Middle Class Prick?”
• 2014 May 11 - Why I Do not Celebrate Mother’s Day and Two Myths About Motherhood
• 2014 Jan 12 - Dalawang Bahagi ang Ating Mga Dasal (Our Prayers Have Two Parts)
• 2014 May 12 - The Dishes that Continually Diss Women or “Why It is All Right to Hurt Your Spouse or Some Family Members If They Do Not Wash Their Own Dishes”
• 2013 Apr 26 - God, the Desert and the Tenacious Cow: Getting Lost in the Sand Dunes of La Paz, Ilocos Norte
• 2012 Oct 30 – “Come Empty, Return Empty.” An Essay from a Travelling Nun.
• 2011 Aug 13 - Ten Signs that Prove that a Guy "Really Likes" You

 

FUNNY TRANSLATIONS

• 2015 Apr 6 - What is “balae” in English?
• 2014 July 7 - What is "Kilig" in English? Ano ang Ingles ng "Kilig?"
• 2013 Dec 12 - What is "Quirky" in Filipino?
• 2013 July 3 - What is "Binara" in English? Problems in Translating Tagalog Words in English
• 2011 Oct 1 - Ano sa Tagalog ang Condom? (What is Condom in English?)