Month’s End

It's the end of the month, and depending on the company -- in my experience, there are those who pay on the 5th and 20th instead -- one works for a worker can expect to get their salary today.  That means long lines at ATM machines as well as banks as people either cash out …

A Bit At A Time

I finished reading the play that I'm supposed to do a paper on this week entitled May Isang Sundalo (There Was a Soldier) this morning, so all I need to do now is to write the assignment.  Scratch off one worry on my weekly list.  The peer reading, as per practice, will be done a …

Slow Starts

Slept late.  Woke up late.  No surprise here.  Oh well, it's not like I have any actual work to do anyway, so I guess I can just continue reading the references for this week's set of assignments.  It's a short play this time for one class, and another peer reading of a classmate's poem for …

Too Big

The world is too big.  Its sheer depth and breadth appreciated only by the big people, who can see the larger picture; impersonal and unbiased in scope, where countries are defined by their borders and not by their natural grandeur, and each person in it reduced simply into a number, a mere statistic. It is …

Agendas

Hmm, so what do I have on the plate for this weekend? Other than the usual relaxing, I think I'm going to use today to do some poetry.  Yes, I am well-aware that my verse-craft needs work, but even a little practice goes a long way where I'm concerned. Afterwards?  Maybe I can finally finish …

Nothing to Do

My father would often say that if you don't have anything to do, find something to do to keep you busy.  Unfortunately I can't.  Maybe I'm feeling lazy this afternoon, but it's likely due to the fact that I'm running on just five hours of sleep.  Fatigue and forced industriousness don't really go hand in …

When you least expect it

A close family relative of ours just suffered a stroke the other day, so I'm going to run over to where she's confined.  She's stable for now, but the medicine required on top of the cost for the laboratory tests that the hospital will run on her will cost her family a great deal of …

Musings on NVM Gonzales’ Bread of Salt

In the course of this researcher’s reading of N.V.M. Gonzales’ short story two themes have made themselves apparent, each parallel through the narrative.  The first is how reality doesn’t quite match up with many of the idealistic expectations one might have, while the second is how class differences can be a hindrance to meaningful interpersonal …

Taking Sights

I know I should be concentrating more on this week's Writing Project for my poetry class and putting down my thoughts on NVM Gonzales' Bread of Salt, but I just couldn't concentrate.  All the normal distractions aside -- I'm looking at you, Guild Wars -- I just can't gather up the urge to, well, write …

Bland Optimism

I wish I could say that the job interview that I went to today went completely like I expected, but it didn't; although I passed everything up to the interview with the HR manager, when the subject of schedules came up everything went ploin-shaped.  Apparently, the fact that I can't work Saturdays -- due to …