Isn’t it funny how Filipinos get offended? If you ridicule someone’s intelligence, someone’s intellectual capability, it’s alright and usually the person wouldn’t mind you ridiculing him. Even if you say that a person is bobo, he wouldn’t get offended as if he doesn’t care about his intelligence, intellectual capability, or at the very least intellectual stature. But if you ridicule a person’s looks—say the color of a person’s skin or a person’s face—that person would…

Writing is a refuge for crazy minds. If I didn’t start to write a long time ago, I would have been in a mental hospital right now. Just kidding. XD Mostly , I write about ugly and shameful things. I know I would not attract a lot of readers because of this. But it’s okay. I do not write to please men. I write about things that I think are wrong within the society, within…

Recently the film blog community Pinoy Rebyu undertook a poll among the Filipino ‘film community’ to determine the 50 Greatest Filipino Films. Critics, scholars, directors, screenwriters, producers, and even blogger were asked what are the ten films they consider the best of best. There is a scoring system based on number of times certain films were mentioned and ranked. The results is interesting, I don’t really have a problem with it. Here is the link…

There’s a fire inside my heart. But bright red is not consuming my whole soul. It just makes my heart glitter. The sparks are only a few, because I hold them back. There’s a fire inside my heart. But I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know where to start. I feel I can make a change. I feel I can make a difference in this world. But whenever I stare at…