Belief

Today, out of the blue, my mom said, "If there's one thing I believe in, it's that love can move mountains." Well, surprise, surprise. I never thought I would ever hear something like that from my usually pragmatic mother. I wonder where she got that, or what made her suddenly say it. But what...

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Someday

A few months ago, I submitted a short story (my very first, actually) for publishing in this year's Dark Blue Southern Seas, the literary folio of Silliman University. It's been months and I haven't heard anything, so I'm not sure what happened with that... whether they'll still be publishing Dark...

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Demon

During his first inaugural address, Franklin D. Roosevelt said that the "only thing we have to fear is fear itself." In his novel, The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho wants us to tell our hearts "that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself." How right they both were! How many times have we...

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The Art of Scent-Marketing

By now, most of of you probably know how much I love perfumes. I wrote an entry last year about how my current obsession with perfumes started, and ever since then, my love affair with scents has been going strong. Lately, I've also been noticing something about perfumes other than their scent--their...

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