“You know,” i say to no one in particular. “this had better be worth it.”
the faceless crowd continued milling past me. cars zoomed and buses chugged by, leaving nothing but trails of exhaust. it was moments away from rush hour, and from experience, i knew a sea of people was about to descend upon one of the busiest streets in the entire damned country.
I stared at your name, beside it was NO REPLY. ‘Yet,’ I added in my head. No reply yet. I’m sure you’ll attend, won’t you?
My wedding is in two weeks. It’s in two weeks, and here I am counting the seconds before my feet stop feeling so cold and I have to sign myself away.
Maybe you haven’t checked your mail, haven’t checked the e-vite, or haven’t logged in on Facebook and haven’t seen the event invite there. Or maybe you have seen and ignored it. But you can’t have, you know it’s RSVP. It means you have to reply if you’re coming or not.
Mayari ran the back of her hand across her forehead. It was hot, the baking sun almost at full midday when she finally finished her task. Her hands were tired and sticky from the effort; soot and blood and sweat encrusted under her nails and between the creases of her palms and fingers.
My hands would never be clean again, she thought vaguely. Not after today, not after she’d sent her tribe on a giant funeral pyre to Bathala.
Mr. Eugenio Perez, Gene to his friends, Asshole to everyone else, sat quite content at his usual spot on one of the bar’s couches. He was having a pleasant time alone when a woman plopped on the seat across from him and said, “You’re quite the destroyer of dreams, aren’t you.”
She had already placed an order before he could think of anything to say. His usual quick wit was dampened by the 5 Rum Cokes and the woman’s arresting beauty, though he made up for the delay by being curt. “I’m sure your intended audience would have found that dramatic,” he said.
I’m back on my desk, back to work, and back to breathing Metro Manila air so thick that on some days, you can almost touch it. I’ve just come back from a week-long break in the hopes that I’ll be able to leave my stress on a baggage conveyor belt at NAIA Terminal 3. On said trip, I went on a Cebu-Bohol DIY tour with two of my most trusted travel companions, Remi and the Overlord Noreen. (They make for great travel buddies because Remi is cowboy and is willing to try nearly anything at least once, while the Overlord comes prepared with maps, instructions, and other helpful documents should we find ourselves hopelessly lost in the middle of nowhere. Also, both have been on Cebu-Bohol trips before and know at least some of the spots.)
As a belated happy birthday gift to myself, I bought myself a wi-tribe 4g modem. I could’ve bought myself a toy or a book (priorities of a 28 year old), but since I work and play on the Internet, I thought the heck with it, right? Plus, they’ve announced that they’re increasing the speeds across the board – PHP 998 for 2mbps, yeah! – and that new subscribers between November 2 to December 2 are exempt from the subscription lock-in period.
It’s been quite a decade for MOVFest, and this September, the triennial tradition continues with the 4th .MOV International Film, Music and Literature Festival. What started out as a platform for the pursuit of and education on the digital medium as a tool for filmmaking has now evolved to include music and literature into one full-fledged celebration of the Filipino creativity and talent.
Do you have notebooks (word documents, sketchpads, notepads) filled with stories, escapist escapades to other worlds and other realities? Well, I’m looking at you, Bub. The Antithesis Collective Publishing Co. is still on the lookout for kickass manuscripts and short stories for inclusion in its first ever book. Read the rest of this entry »
UPDATE: Scanlations of Kiniro no Corda Chapter 75 are out! 
In chapter 74 of La Corda D’oro, we saw Hino get pretty emotional, and Tsukimori saying some pretty mean albeit honest stuff. If you read that chapter, then I bet you’re pretty stoked about the next one, chapter 75. Fortunately for us La Corda fans, Kiniro no Corda;s Chapter 75 raws are out! Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve been waiting for this for a couple of weeks now, so I’m really excited to see La Corda D’oro Chapter 74, mostly because Tsukimori’s in this chapter. It seems like he’s in the country with the other musicians making up their quartet. Just, wow.
There aren’t any scanlations up yet, but our usual raws source site has La Corda 73 up. Leave a comment if you don’t know the URL of our raws source.
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