Revelations – Follow-ups

And in our last few minutes with Jopz, right before we parted ways, she told us, on why she was at the building at that time, that she came to dance.
“If I can’t even do something I love doing,” she said, unmistakably sincere about what she meant, “what else, then, could I do?’
Cue: thunderous applause.
My [...]

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Pending Incoherence

Picture courtesy of mysza831
Had the world been exactly the way you wanted it, you need not worry: handing you perfect scores across every subject in the board would be my prerogative.
But it isn’t. I’d put myself in the shoes of an employer and see myself skimming over resumes and ditching more than half of it. [...]

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Revelations – Too Late for Whatevers

And just when it happens that we finally see each other (virtually, of course) – a rarity after, what? Two months? – something like this comes along. But I pinged her anyhow; and yet unlike every other time that it ever happens, this time, she’s not replying, for whatever reason. And so it makes me [...]

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The Road Not Taken

Picture courtesy of fd
I came to school earlier than usual to find two pink candles lit just at our building’s entrance. An engineering professor from our university passed away over the weekend, shot dead in San Pablo (Laguna, I’m assuming) while apparently shopping at a local mall.
Life is fleeting, indeed.
Before I left the house today, [...]

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If Thou Doth Only Hadst A Clue

Picture courtesy of Bohman

 
Betimes methinks a clue an thou’st
For seems to me that thou hath nay,
The passion for thee that aroused
Grows more and more each passing day.
I wonder now if ‘twas unclear
When I hath showed that I love thee,
Always, thou naught, I uttered ere
So thou shan’t for eternity
To notice that my [...]

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