Notes & Essays

Let's make sense of the Pinoy pageant fandom.

We mourn for the iconic structure.

Having sexual feelings is normal. But reducing women to sex objects in group chats and justifying it is another story.

If pageants are about empowering women, then transwomen, mothers, and pregnant women have as much a right to be Miss Universe as any.

This Filipino gentleman innovated the English language as early as the 1930s.

It’s a clear violation of privacy, isn't it?

This Busog Meal isn't hitting the way it should.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Being a good tipper does not mean being a crude (interchangeable with wealthy) overtipper, or a crude (interchangeable with poor) undertipper. It means you know where that sweet spot is, that intersection between what is decent and what is appropriate.

The former DFA Secretary was 83 years old.