I am rice. So colorless, I need colorful toppings. Else, I won't be consumed and worse, get spoiled.

a native Tandaganon, caught in between Kamayo and Cebuano language, a Sagittarian, JR Ackerley & Annie Dillard fan, a swimmer and a dancer in former life, practices celibacy for years, a proud Latagaw, contrasts his fraternal ties by living a prematurely homosexual life.

"I am descended from country people who woke up before sunrise and clambered out of bed and dressed in coveralls or print dresses (curtain-likes) that smelled of fragrant detergent soap and took their porcelain chamber pots to the outhouse and emptied it and washed their faces in cold water from a steel basin and made hot tsokolates and perfectly-baked bibingkas and said a prayer for their loved ones and the President of the Philippines, and then walked out to their work outdoors, rain or shine, raising carabaos, pigs, and chickens, and corn and hay."