A couple of months back, when mom was still pretty conscious of filling the whole unit with an eighty decibel audio from whatever it was that she was watching at that particular moment, I heard Kris Aquino over the tube. It was on one of those considerably less stressful Sunday afternoons, me headset-free and what-not, [...]
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The Faith Factor
Posted in as a college student, as a metaphor guy, as an obscure commentator, tagged the title is something to think about on March 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Still Lives
Posted in as a college student, as a friend, as a metaphor guy, as a traveler, tagged change, disappointment, familiarity, Friends, hyperbole - that's the term, talking on February 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Regardless of what I’ll come to say as whatever else sinks in between tonight and tomorrow morning, I’ve come to believe that it’s the familiarity of others that is refreshing, but the familiarity of myself that’ll ultimately become my undoing. Somewhere, sometime down the well worn road, I’ll have to speak with a petalled tongue, [...]
The Misplaced Preposition
Posted in as a college student, as a metaphor guy, as an obscure commentator, tagged this is not what you think it is on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On cruder times, I would have asked you the age old question; the one that goes ‘what do you do when you find yourself positioned squarely against an idea – do you speak out and hope that it would matter whilst running the risk of being seen as some insufferable killjoy, or do you keep [...]
The Proximity Effect
Posted in as a college student, as a metaphor guy, as a son, as an obscure commentator, tagged bitterness, coercion, convoluted metaphor, disappointment, rejection on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was caught in another traffic jam today – a normalcy, I guess, when you live so close to a mall, a district, even, where the equivalent of mall sales are done on a day to day basis.
For most of the year, I guess, the reasons are pretty straightforward. Of course, there’s the more situational [...]
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Reality Check
Posted in as a college student, as a metaphor guy, as an obscure commentator on June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hello there. I’m Dexter. Twenty. You know, the unidentified flying object floating around in your maths class? Right! I’m the one whose face grimaces like there’s always something foul-smelling under my nose. Remember me? Hey! It’s very nice to meet you, yeah?
So how’s it going? I just thought it’d be cool to get to know [...]
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