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Because I was learning how to make GIFs from my twin (lumpofmud/Rachel) and I missed reading verses out loud and the film boy A was too much with me then:

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I went to see the independent film 100 with a friend. I was (as it is turning out these days) yet again a kaladkarin. The movie stars Mylene Dizon and Eugene Domingo, Filipina actors who have a string of good films under their belt.
The film is about dying. Cancer. Everyone seems to be dying from [...]

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Last December 9, 2008 was the release of the first issue of the annual creative writing journal of the UP DECL, & (Ampersand). To my knowledge this is the first UP publication of undergraduate creative writing.
About a year ago a friend from the Ateneo gave (not lent) me a copy of Heights (in full color), [...]

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These days I dislike pauses. I must stay preoccupied. I must not allow myself a moment to think. When I get home from class, I merely have to open the laptop, push in a CD to the drive and I am safe for hours. Anything will do, but I prefer romantic comedies, feel-good movies, slapstick [...]

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Night

I sit silently in my room, in the darkness. I remember that time I came home alone, walking from the highway on the rutted dirt road towards the neighborhood interior, not so much seeing my way through the muddy path as feeling my way by memory. I knew that path by heart, its width and [...]

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