Category Archives: Cogito

On my 7-hour flight from Brisbane to Manila, two particular movies caught my attention. After watching these two — “Troy” and “Doctor Strange” — I could not help but be struck by similar thoughts, which I shall quote here. The first from “Troy”: “I tell you...

“Asa diay imong uyab karon?” (Where’s your boyfriend now?) I casually asked her, hoping she would not be offended by my quite personal question. She just blushed, which made me retreat a little, assuming she might have thought — and she has the right to...

Hugot, in Filipino, literally means “to pull out”; “to unsheathe” or “to draw out something from within”. In the Philippine setting nowadays, hugot (or pick-up lines) is a slang word used to refer to quotable statements that draw out emotions and convey them to others...