Or why we must swallow our regrets like a bitter pill Eat your words. As an idiom, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Because it means you’re wrong, take back what you said, admit to have had your foot in your mouth. But regret is food for thought. It is a bitter pill to swallow, but swallow it...
It's quality entertainment whenever an online troll gets owned in his or her game. P3PWD Party-list Rep. Rowena Guanzon helping a Negros Occidental brand gain traction on social media (Screenshot from video shared by Guanzon on Twitter) P3PWD Party-list Rep. Rowena Guanzon did just that on Twitter...
DOUBLE EXPOSURE World-renowned writer Sylvia Plath known for credited advancing the genre of confessional poetry How does one write? People ask me. Honestly, I don’t know. Maybe it’s as simple as putting words together, one after the other, but I think that devalues the work of many exceptional...
NGITING TAGUMPAY A colorized photo of Jose Rizal by artist collective Kulay Colorization. The hero seemingly in a state of kilig On a scale of one to 10, how proficient are you in the Filipino language? While it may be true that majority of Pinoys are English speakers in this day and age, life gets...
How its and it’s, the singular they, subject-verb disagreements, inconsistent tenses, and other elements of bad English drive us crazy Mind your language. And I don’t mean it as an idiom, meaning to speak politely. But if you must pepper your language with invectives, the more you need to mind....
Can’t believe we’re still taking this lesson in 2020 I love sharing all kinds of dumb, Filipino humor memes on Facebook. If I find something off and below the belt, I report it—racist, homophobic, bigot memes that amplify nonexistent edge cred, and sentences with the wrong usage of “ ng ”...
