Tag Archives: Life

Let’s Write Again.

Let’s write again. And let’s hope I haven’t forgotten how to stitch up with words what’s usually left gaping in life. Let’s write about stuff again. My favorite petty things that have occupied so much space in my mind. Let’s … Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under Life, Love, Random Thoughts

The Real Problem is Gravity

The real problem is gravity. This primordial force of nature that oftentimes subtly, but sometimes violently and mercilessly, pulls our feet down to the ground where we belong. It would throw us savagely against the face of the earth, splattering … Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under Random Thoughts

Cut the Bullshit: The Sanctity of Toil

It’s always been one of my greatest fears that by some twist of fate (not really that strange and even much closer to reality when I think about it) that I’ll end up a beggar on one of the many … Continue reading

2 Comments

Filed under Life, Random Thoughts

Quite Convinced That You Have To

Sitting here, quite convinced that I have to. A pretty girl joined the communist armed forces. They said she helped the farmers harvest their corn while teaching them to do the math. After all, she was a former scholar. She … Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under Life

A Routine Reflection on Routines

You know what they call drinking on Fridays, right? They call it “unwinding.” The connotation is something like, Monday to Friday, you stress yourself out, working on your job, a trapped robot among hundreds of trapped robots along a kilometer … Continue reading

2 Comments

Filed under Random Thoughts

Surfing for Love

How many candidates will you turn down and feed to the lions until you choose the one to spend your life with? This postmodern life has blinded us with infinite options. We’ve ran so far away from the imposed choices … Continue reading

4 Comments

Filed under Love, Random Thoughts

You’re Not an Actor and Life’s Not Hollywood

Seen any film crew and cameras around lately? Bet you haven’t. ‘Cause you’re not an actor and life is not a Hollywood flick. Oftentimes, I feel like we’ve seen too many opening credits, heard too many dramatic dialogues and sat … Continue reading

10 Comments

Filed under Random Thoughts

An Atheist Wants the World (or The Things I Write About When I Get Frustrated)

Look, let’s say that there is indeed such a thing as heaven. Let’s say that this real heaven is exactly like the heaven every righteous, pious adult has been telling us all along — that once you’re dead and you … Continue reading

6 Comments

Filed under Life, Random Thoughts

A Tale of a Fire

We’re like fire born by firewood. Life goes to ridiculous extremes to make our young embers ignite only to douse us with water or shower us with sand to put us out when we’ve already grown hot enough to become … Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under Random Thoughts

The Telephone Tells A Love Story

TED’s TELEPHONE: Life is vicious, like a rabid mad dog, I can tell you that. Didn’t use to be that way but it definitely is now. I think the world might be getting too dense, too suffocating, like everyone out … Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under Life, Love, Random Thoughts