It's a well known fact that right after being an irresponsible brat who doesn't care for his or her lessons and being a person who as actual learning difficulties and disabilities, being incredibly, superfluously nervous right before and during an exam is...

Even though it may not seem like it, the times wherein I have the opportunity to write – simply write! – for my own pleasure, for the sheer love of it, have been getting fewer and fewer as the days go by. It used to be that I had the time and the ene...

Like any other girl, I was fascinated with astrology as a teenager. I distinctly remember buying books (which I only partially read) and jumping from website to website, trying to discover more things that apply to being a Gemini – I was born on June t...

I am a self-confessed kitsch fan. There is, I suppose, no point in denying my irresistible compulsion to use my free time to commute all over the city, trying to find bargain bins or second-hand stores to find items that are charming, but bordering on ta...

It is rather fascinating to observe the fact that nowadays, our concept of what makes art and literature had expanded to such vastly different media concepts that it has become difficult to define it as strictly as it had been defined before. For most pe...

It's so incredibly pleasant to know that nowadays, nobody thinks of hedonism – that is to say, the pursuit of the pleasure of the senses – as all that bad. Decades ago, any act that gives you sensual (it need not be erotic; sensuality should not be l...

Why does everything have to be held up to a standard of political correctness nowadays? Lately, it has pretty much become obvious that people are very careful about what they say to certain people, because they will be slapped with accusations of being p...

I grew up in a culture where everything – I'm not kidding, I do mean EVERYTHING – is pretty much celebrated with food. We have fantastically wonderful spreads during the Christmas and New Year seasons, treat each other to a special lunch or dinner on...

It's been almost a decade since the original Matrix movie introduced popular culture to the idea of reality as an illusion. Not that it's new idea at the time – millenia worth of philosophers have been saying again and again that reality as we know it,...

I have been a proper consumer – and by “proper” I mean I pay for my own stuff and have stopped mooching money off of one or both of my parents – for almost a year now, and as most consumers who are thought of as part of the middle class, I am alwa...

My family never really was into plums; as people, we were more into the sickly nectar sweetness of mangoes or the crispy tangy flavor of barely ripe apples. Of course, this may have been because where I come from, there aren't too many places that sell p...

In the past, women had been expected to stay at home and take care of the children while the man of the house would go forth and earn money so that they can all live as happily and as comfortably as possible. Now, I'm no radical feminist – I simply try...

My stomach has this rather unfortunate and annoying monthly habit of waking me up very early in the morning, swirling and spinning with acid that has made it its mission in existence to claw its way up my food pipe and spew out of my throat into the waiti...