He takes a lancet and dips it into his finger. Blood flows, it looks so red. He feeds it to the machine, looks at the resulting number– 400. ‘It’s too high, time to take out the needle’ he tells me with a wry smile.
It breaks my heart seeing my dad inject [...]
I haven’t read the Marquez novella but I will use its title anyway.
My granny is in the ICU waiting for the inevitable and though we do not wish it, death is something that has overshadowed everyone in our very extended family. We can no longer look at our grandmother and not think [...]
You might be wondering what those people are doing there. Well they’re there because they’ve earned it. That I’m displaying their mugs doesn’t mean I’ve earned the right. But in these days of quickies, fastfoods, and scams, I will provide no excuses. Call it a whim, or anything, just not random.
These [...]
Because I had diarrhea the magnitude of which approximates Ondoy’s proportions, I did not go to the office yesterday. I am still fit to take a cab and go to the business district but there are few advantages to staying home and riding the storm out. The toilet is closer for one, and [...]
