Any Street, Philippines
ALONG the Katipunan Avenue of my youth was a small eatery called Pampanguena. It was run, we can suppose, by the eponymous (and possibly fictional) Pampanguena. We had lunches of […]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
The Center Cannot Hold
All roads lead to Manila but they should also lead out MAGNASANTI, a virtual city created by Filipino architecture student Vincent Ocasla on the Sim City 3000 video game, has […]
Out With The Old: Murphy’s Walk
AS A PLACE, it didn’t even deserve a name. Not a formal one anyway, but given how Jesuits like to give names to everything, it was called Murphy’s Walk. It […]
Out With The Old: 31. The World in a Love Embrace
A FRIEND was recently invited to go on a moonlight ride up to Tagaytay on the back of a motorcycle. She refused, saying it was late and that it wouldn’t […]
Easy listening
There is something surreal about sitting at a faux-French cafe in the middle of a sweltering urban mess and hearing the lamentations of a slave set to bossa nova. “Old […]
Postscript
“Bakas sa mukha mo na kailangan mo ng kasama at karamay sa buhay,” says Palanca-awarded poet and professor Paolo Manalo, dashing my ill-conceived post-break up plan of moving to the […]
