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,...
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...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS It is with no surprise that on the first week of the year, my social media feed was filled with photos – all, if not most, with an accompanying caption that had to do with resolutions and goals for the coming year. Indeed, the new year is one of those occasions when we...
IT'S THE SMALL THINGS Alex Eduque It is the day of New Year’s Eve, and I find myself at home, in bed, nursing a fever. Definitely not what I had expected, and most far cry to the bamboo forests of Kyoto I had imagined myself looking out to as I write this piece. But everything happens for a...
IT’S THE SMALL THINGS Alex M. Eduque While multiple studies have proven that the arts are indeed a therapeutic outlet, and contribute essentially to full cognitive development, reality has it that not all children, most especially in developing countries, have access. While the public school...
