IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque As much as a lot got put to a halt and many plans got cancelled, toned down or altered, 2020 to me will always be most memorable. Across the globe, it will be remembered as the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, which, to this day, remains unresolved. On many...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque It is without a doubt that in the last six months, a lot of things came to a halt. Most plans were cancelled all of a sudden, while others were delayed and/or postponed, as the world seemingly shutdown all together for a few weeks. When I think back to March...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque Thirty. A milestone I welcomed in the most muted of ways, but a year which I know will compare to none. While initial plans may have either been delayed, toned down, taken a bit of a setback, or transformed into an enhanced version of the original, what is...
When I was two years old, I memorized, from cover to cover, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids . I was read to every night before bedtime. A creature of habit, even before I could talk in complete sentences, I would pick the same book over and over again. Whenever I would hear the last few words of...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque Twenty-four weeks into quarantine, and today, I celebrate my 30th birthday. What is most definitely considered a milestone birthday though will be celebrated in the most muted of manner – sans fancy, fanfare, let alone a fiesta – but in the presence of and...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque This month of August is buwan ng Wika – the month we celebrate our language, and in our unique case, our many dialects because the Philippines is much more than one monolithic language and culture. In our household alone, we have native Tagalog, Bisaya,...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque Here we are at the end of our 21st in quarantine, and at the tail end of the second week of the re-imposed Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) to heed the cry of health workers and other frontliners. I would say that the re-imposition of MECQ was met...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Twenty weeks into quarantine, and we are back on Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine. As someone who used to thrive and live a super-fast-paced everyday life, five months of being at and working from home would have been unimaginable in the past. Yet, here we are – 140...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex M. Eduque Last Monday was President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA). Though very different from the norm given the current situation, it forced me to ponder not only about the current situation in the Philippines, but also about the...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Looking back at the week last week was, it most definitely was one that saw a lot of anxiety, uncertainty, fear, and emotions. Amidst the rising COVID-19 cases came the decision of Congress to junk ABS-CBN’s franchise. While every person reacted to the ruling differently,...
Major American corporations back Harvard and MIT’s lawsuit against the latest restrictions on international students studying in the US The biggest names in the tech industry have backed up higher education institutions in their ongoing lawsuit over the Trump administration’s latest...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Sixteen weeks later, and I feel like a sense of normalcy (if we can even call it that) in terms of human behavior, despite the climbing number of cases, is crawling back into our lives. While it will take a while for things to return to how we knew it (if it ever really...
