The Digital Age

In my first attempt at using my phone's sketchbook, she came out. 

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faith

June 14, 2014

Somewhere Street

I wrote this back in '12 for an online Halloween-themed story writing contest. And I thought Halloween in The Happy Cafe could use a throwback. The piece won second place, mind you. Anyway, hope this gives you the chills...

October 18, 2012

Before you start reading, I would like to introduce you to my main character. He is a young man named Charlie whom you will soon get to know more of.

The Problem with Living

If only we were with God before birth

Just as how it would be in death,

Then I would've asked Him to let me stay

Behind the golden gates of Heaven instead.

Logic vs. the Divine

If God created everything, and everything includes all that is evil in the world, then God created evil. Looking at this if-and-then statement, it seems to be very logical, right? This is a perfect example of logic being very dangerous in understanding the divine. So what’s the error in this explanation?

Flower Power

Gosh, midterms week is coming! But rather than studying, why not take some time off and look at these photos of flowers I took during a recent trip to Tagaytay? Aren't they just lovely? (P.S. I'm semi-proud of these photos especially this one up here ^ teehee)

Yesterday

The poem below is inspired by 
Haiku/Touch

By Jim Moore

Do not feel lonely.

The disappearing world longs

for you to touch it.

Lessons Learned During Freshman Year

Tomorrow looks bright and beautiful. Rock on! Photo taken in Tagaytay City. 

It’s been quite a long and memorable school year, but I'm no freshman anymore. I'd wish to remain one a little longer, though, so I'd have an excuse as to why I don't know where certain places in the campus are or how things work in college. Being a little clueless would be forgivable then.  Still, I'm moving on, learning new things in the process, and improving into my sophomore self.

Silence

I remember the time I read "Murke's Collected Silences" by Heinrich Böll for my Literature class (my professor required us to read awesome works like it). Set in the background of post-World War II, Germany, the protagonist, Murke is a young man who works in a radio station and exhibits strange habits. First, his morning begins with riding the lift all the way up to the highest floor of the company building and down to the floor where his office is located. Second, is his fondness of collecting snippets of silence from recorded tapes, thus the title. "When I have to cut tapes, in the places where the speakers sometimes pause for a moment—or sigh, or take a breath, or there is absolute silence—I don't throw that away. I collect it." He then splices it together to form recorded silence. Third, he listens to it at night in his home as a sort of relaxing meditation.