A Foster Home for Old Stories
Gian LaoStories from my past: a love affair with Japan, writing for a President, and being a poet on the side.
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Sooner Rather Than Later: A Delayed Dispatch from PNoy’s Government
(The following is a republished version of an obit I wrote for PNoy for the now defunct ANCX. I was his speechwriter from 2010 to 2016)
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In the waning days of the Aquino presidency, President Benigno S. Aquino III called his speechwriter...
What got me back into writing was spite
You know, I used to write. And I mean—really write. Once, I spent an entire morning outside the TV5 studio in Reliance, just so I can interview the people lining up to request assistance from Raffy Tulfo. Every time I would pass, I thought...
Packing Up Vol. I
My grandmother celebrated her 90th birthday last week and, tasked to deliver a speech, I said: “This is why we hold 90th birthday gatherings, guama—to make things easy to remember—easier to recall all your old friends who came out, and to t...
An argument against the favorite person
In the hotel elevator I chanced upon a young lady and her mother. She must have been around eight or nine years old, carrying an adult bag, and dressed for an adult vacation—linens and florals. She looks up at her mother, and says in an acc...
The Sound at the Bottom of the Ocean
Before the world ended he longed for a stereo
that would keep going. The water rose quickly
but slowly, relative to our living. Three weeks,
the news said, before we were swallowed whole.
The ship is sinking, group yourself into yo...
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