Dedicated to my Uncle Gary by Jyna Giselle Y. Trumata Swish. I hear the crashing of the waves to my right, begging me to turn and praise the beauty the sunset has to offer. Whoosh.Continue reading
Category: Features
Para sa Bayan ko
By Vince Tiu (Class 2024) Para saan ba ang lahat ng pagkabigo? Araw-araw parang unos sa luhang tumulo. Rendahan ang lungkot at pagdududa. Aral ito para sa mga susunod na kabanata. Sabay-sabay tayong bumangon atContinue reading
Five Unconventionally Strong Women in Fiction
by Thei Roy (Class 2026) March is National Women’s Month, the one month when you’re legally required to worship women! (That’s a joke; you’re always legally required to worship women.) It’s mainly a reminder forContinue reading
Beyond the Great Wall
By Jillian Uy (Class 2026) Photo by Markyn Kho (Class 2020) — The Filipino Chinese are Filipinos who descend from the Chinese diaspora resettled in the Philippines, many of whom are from the Fujian ProvinceContinue reading
and you shall breathe tomorrow
By Mark Teo (Class 2023) and you shall breathe tomorrow yet hold your tongue today until the storm has run its course and the nimbus rolls away concealed in rain the voice of thousands thatContinue reading
Spook-tacular Scares For Your Spooktober Needs
Just in case anyone needs reminding (as the months of being cooped up inside have addled all our external markers for time), Halloween, also known as the last day before Michael Bublé’s Christmas album canContinue reading
Tao Rin Pala 47: Voices.
By Sean Sy (Class 2023) “Omg. TRP na.” That line feels a bit different this time around. This year, there won’t be any scrambling to get chorale pieces perfected in time for the night ahead.Continue reading
Fornix, Fornicate, and Fascinating Etymologies
By JE Mariano (Class 2023) It’s in class that I first encountered the word fornix, which in neuroanatomy is a bundle of nerve fibers in the brain. Automatically I thought of fornicate (they share theContinue reading
Twists: Realizations During the PLE Season
by Arobe Shiek Goling II, MD (Class 2019) It has been several months since I successfully hurdled one of the greatest battles of my life – the September 2019 Physician Licensure Exam (PLE). To describe the weeksContinue reading
Aromantic Valentine’s
by UP Medics and contributions from the UPCM Community art by Josh Christian Protacio (Class 2023) We have once again reached that arbitrary point in time which many cultures around the globe choose to celebrateContinue reading