This is my Tagalog translation of “The Necessity of Sadness” by Mikael de Lara Co Hayaan mong ilarawan ko sayo ang pananabik.Hayaan mong isipin kong may bagoakong masasabi tungkol dito, […]
Month: April 2021
Book Summary I have read the Modern Library edition of the book, which contains an introduction by Gregory Hays, from which I quote: “The questions that the Meditations tries to […]
-CONTAINS SPOILERS- What is it about? Imagine “Starship Troopers” meets “I Am Legend” meets “The Maze Runner”. Basically a teenage sci-fi movie, it tells a story of the protagonist, Joel […]
Thinking randomly is like randomly splattering paint on canvas expecting to produce a Mona Lisa. Or it’s like randomly chipping the surface of a block of marble and expecting to […]
Book Summary We default to truth and assume transparency and we disregard context when talking to strangers. One of the stories used to explain the concept of “defaulting to truth” […]
I feel like there is a central premise to writing that we are getting wrong. And this might be preventing writers on writing more(stories, essays, books, etc). And it is […]
Words have power. Not in a mushy Instagram quote-of-the-day way, but in a literal sense. Something tangible. Like a glass of water that can quench a thirst. Or a hammer […]
