The Night My Phone Stayed in the Room
"Let your phone rest a bit now; don't go out with it," one of my sisters said when I reached for my phone one afternoon when I was charging it. I had gone to visit my…
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The Part Nobody Sees #305
I have gotten to realize that my courage does not usually come in a completely brave way. In most cases, it looks like waking up some morning, getting out of my bed, and…
The Space I Stopped Giving Away #305
The very first thing I noticed was my voice getting smaller. I was sitting in a room with some groups of people I so much respected while having a conversation on…
The Things We Stopped Doing
Seeing this question made me think deeper, and if I had the power to bring just one thing that has gone extinct back, it would not be dodo, or an old product I once admired, or…
The Door That Wasn't in the Picture
"I would like it if you left the chair and didn't move it yet," I said to one of the carpenters standing in one of the nearly finished dining rooms. He glanced at my face, then…
The People My Children Should Know
Though I have some kind of relationship with my auntie and uncles. But not all of them. And the very first time that I got to know how strange family can become was when I was…
The Room Was Saying Something #304
“Why did you put the window there?” I could remember after I finished rendering a drawing, I got to realize that I had no good answer. I have decided to place it there because…
The Letter Under the White Face Towel
"Please, I need your help with this letter.. I don't want it to get lost." He said it in a very way that I almost burst into laugh. It was a very hot Sunday afternoon, and I…
The House I Would Rather Not Have #303
“Is this all for one person?” That was the question I asked when I visited a newly finished house. The length and breadth of the sitting room were so massive that when I…
The Things My Brain Refused to Understand
The first time I got to learn about AutoCAD, I was so amazed by how quickly my hands and mind understood what to do and how to go about it, maybe because I was so passionate…
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