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Mystery of the Universe
Nowadays, I spent my time playing games, doing nothing at all. My life is a total waste. I do nothing but consume. I consume food. I consume video games media. I consume social media.…
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Intramuros
MY MOTHER—THE BEST I NEVER HAD—INTRAMUROS—BALUT—MANILA CATHEDRAL My mother, despite her faults, which I occasionally find myself despising, truly despising as one would the faults of one’s worst enemies, is a good, loving person.…
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RE: The Future
THE PAULINE LETTERS—WINGS PLACE—THE SCIENCE MUSEUM—A BABY “A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.”—Proverbs 13:25 I found this verse. The way it was written seemed…
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Chinese New Year, 2026, Part 1
My psychiatrist Dr. Taluntunan-Guyavera, who I called Dr. Tal, sat across from me in his office, and he smiled. Sometimes, we run out of things to talk about, and I think keeping quiet was…
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Valentine’s Day, 2026
For Valentine’s Day we decided to go as a group, even if neither of us were couples, except for Danny who brought his lover, a woman he met at the office. We had hotpot,…
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IKEA
Today, I went to the IKEA in Metro Manila. I was surprised to hear that it was the largest in the country. “Larger than Sweden?” I asked Emily. And she said yes, and I…
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a dream
been dreaming of a very specific chinese restaurant recently. located in a small tenement in a very large, dirty building in the very guts of manila. there are multiple floors, and you can climb…
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Cloned, Part 1
My friend Elmer is something of a genius. Like me he prefers to stay inside and read, but an important distinction between us is that he is an engineering genius. He has made his…
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New Year, 2026
1 For New Year’s Eve, my family had a party, like they always did. All sorts of people came by, mostly people who wanted to eat for free. I hated it. I hated how…
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Christmas, 2025, Part 1
PROP. VII. Existence belongs to the nature of substance. Proof.—Substance cannot be produced by anything external (Corollary, Prop. vi.), it must, therefore, be its own cause—that is, its essence necessarily involves existence, or existence belongs…
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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6: The Petrov’s Defense
1 In the Other Place, The Grandmaster and I are teammates in the Amazing Race. He is semi-retired. We decided to start a family, and we adopted a boy and a girl. It had…
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U-Turn If You Want To: The Senior’s Not For Turning
In S24 of the Amazing Race, Brendon U-turns Dave & Conner, and everyone hates them for it. I don’t understand that. It’s a game, and everyone is trying to win that game. If they…