multi-masking

A few days ago (I’m guessing this fell on the day the Azkals were playing against Sri Lanka), my officemate Gail** started asking who Phil Younghusband was. “Sino ba sya? Bakit ba ilang beses na syang nababanggit today?” I was about to answer her question when our friend Daniel, looking red-faced and puffy from waking [...]

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From afar, I gaze at him. I turn away momentarily to talk to a friend, and when I look back, I find him looking at me too. Unable to hold eye contact for more than 5 seconds, I pretend to shift my attention elsewhere before stealing another glance — shit, could it be, really? This [...]

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Conversation between me and a friend who just smoked weed: Me: Uminom din kayo? Friend: Oo, pero isang bracket lang. Me: Friend, bucket. Friend: Oo nga, ano ba sinabi ko? Me: Bracket. Friend: Oh shit!

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On my way back to the 30th floor, I took the elevator with a rich-looking couple in their late teens or early twenties clad in branded sporty clothes. It was hard NOT to eavesdrop on them because of the way they talked (mildly conio — can’t really blame them since they definitely looked and acted [...]

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From my Friday night shift, I logged out 7AM on the dot (well, maybe about 2 or 3 minutes later) and went straight to Makati to meet up with one of my dearest, truly dependable chums Mia. We downed beer after beer and ate chicken wings nonstop, until we realized that it was about 2PM. [...]

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I was really late for mass last Sunday. As in the homily type of late. I didn’t bother finding a seat inside the church (duh!), so I just settled on standing by the side entrance. There was a family standing there as well. One of the members, a sweet-looking girl who was about two or [...]

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richard, our country director, walked into the room just the other day, fresh from, i think, a week’s worth of vacation. after a few minutes of chitchat, he declared that he would be going home to his wife. it went a little something like this, i think: rose, me, and jane: stay a while… you’ve [...]

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