Tag: nostalgia

  • Lights, Camera, Action!

    Only one thing made me stay up late during high school. Study? Wrong. Writing love letters? Partly wrong. Partying? Super wrong. Okay, you’re forcing me to say it – script-writing! (Mood: Reminiscent) Oedipus the King was my teacher’s pick for the class stage play presentation. We had to divide this popular Greek myth into five…

  • Elan Gurl

    Look at the girl, isn’t her smile so refreshing? That familiar face, Filled with expectations, Of great things about the future, Without care in the world, Unburdened, Undisguised, Nostalgic. When she cries, she’s unstoppable. So it is when she laughs. Contagious. When I’ve seen this picture, I feel like my essential self, the child in…

  • Our Brown Envelops

    “Who would you be 10 years from now?” was the theme of our Values Education writing activity under Mrs. Bernardino (III-Rizal) sometime in 2001. Of course life-altering questions could only be brought up by Values Education teachers back then. To be honest, I forgot what I wrote and hid in that brown envelop yet Madeline Piloton…