Outside Mister Donut

At 3 AM, the ferry boat arrived at the port of Surigao City. I wanted to stay on my bed until I could see the sun rays from the tarpaulin curtains of the vessel. “In a few minutes, this vessel will leave to Nasipit Agusan,” a woman’s voice said in the intercom. I didn’t have a choice. I had to get off the boat despite the heavy rain beating....


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Outside Mister Donut

Why Me?

Why me? A question of doubt…

Good morning fellow toastmasters. In front of you is a person full of doubts and questions of life. Why me? Why do I have to go through all those challenges in the past and even in the present?

 Sharpening of the diamond, the making of a leader, part of growing up, and so on, these are stories that might answer to my questions. But there are times when all those stories don’t really make sense to me.

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Torn Between Two Great Women

I have two Lola’s. Everyone has of course. I always hear from other people that I’ve been their favorite grandson. I do not know if it’s true, though. I thought being a favorite doesn’t mean anything at all. I didn’t feel different. I didn’t have any special treatment compared to my siblings and cousins or so I thought.

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Chasing Dreams

I open my eyes and everywhere I see emptiness. I stretch my hands and I feel no walls around me, no floors beneath me. I was nowhere… “Where am I?” I said. Is this heaven? No, heaven should not be filled with soaking darkness….

I turned to the other side and I saw a glint of light. Though it seemed too distant from me, I walked on my knees to approach it. But when I was about to gain an ounce of hope, the light seemed to fade away.

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The Magic of My Favorite Shirts

Some shirts can simply make you feel like a celebrity. They can make you feel good for awhile. Believe me, they can.


When I was strolling at the beach, I noticed some girls turning their heads on me. At first I felt awkward about it. I saw their amused faces looking back at me. I thought maybe it was their first time to see a guy on their beach as handsome as me. Ahem. The thought bothered me though. Maybe I had some dirt on my face that made me look ridiculous. Still I continued walking as if I was walking on a delicate floor.

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Drama in Beer

It was an awfully dry sunny Sunday. Almost everybody got no work and had no choice but to get wedged in the box-shaped rooms. But when the sun got higher and higher, everyone got out like ants poured with hot water by a human intruder. Being allergic to boredom, each one had his own antidote.

The occupants of room #16 busied themselves to do the laundry though their intention was obviously not much of the laundry itself. There were a couple of ladies wearing something that showed off their delicately semi-porcelain legs. There was even a suspicion that they just took their clean clothes from their closet so that they could have coy chitchats with those girls.

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I'm Not a Baby No More

I’m not a baby no more!

I don’t know if I should get flattered or what. People I meet in the jeepneys, on the streets, or anywhere I go to treated me as if I were a high school boy.

Do I look younger than my age or do I just simply have a baby face. Yucks! No…! I can’t accept such foolish assumptions.

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