OCs! (Conclusion) By Emmanuelle The following notes are from research on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder conducted within the two weeks this article took to be written: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is not choosy. It strikes people from all walks of life, male or female. Or child. Symptoms may start at an…

OCs! By Emmanuelle Everything must be just-so. This ten-year old child carefully rips-off a sheet of paper so as not displace the red glue keeping the rest of the pad intact. She pairs the paper with the soft cardboard of the pad removed just as carefully earlier. The cardboard-and-paper must…

Sugar-coatings! By Emmanuelle Surely, our penchant to sugar-coat almost all things unpleasant, so as not to seem unpleasant, shall get us as near as can be to being guilty of duplicity. Duplicity meaning dishonesty, deception, unfaithfulness, fraudulence. At worst, duplicity in this sense signals a defeat of the original purpose…

Riding out the storm By Emmenuelle It was the most awful day to have a birthday, but then, no one knew it would turn out so. The cake was bought a day before, two other cakes were to be brought down from the city. She so loved cakes, especially when…

This, too, is life! Shh! By Emmanuelle Friend, if I could, I would take you by the hand and lead you to this place, my place. Enter this gate, and walk through paths that had withstood the pounding of decades – of feet, of cars, of wheeled beds and fast-rolling…

Re-evaluating our values        (Conclusion)   By Emmanuelle Not to be confused with its numerical successors, the first EDSA revolution will always remain a phenomenon in the perception of the international community. The personal experience, however, had awakened us Filipinos to the surprise that the values we had looked for, or…

Re-evaluating our values By Emmanuelle Doctors of the mind claim that our realities are stuff that dreams are made of. On the other hand, they also claim our dreams cross-over to the reality of our days. Usually, the lingering waking effects of these dreams diminish to nothingness. Sometimes though, these…

A kick in time! By Emmanuelle There is this true story of an adorable first grader, with dimples so deep on both cheeks, on both knees, and just at the region of both kidneys. This is not descriptive overkill. We said adorable, didn’t we? To exercise our creative imagination further,…

A ghosting promise By Emmanuelle The young can sometimes lay it on thicker than thick. To them, old is ancient. If so, how ancient can ancient be? Antique! They squeal! How antique? Prehistoric! Primordial! They squeak out, laughter in between. I ask the question idly while the niece and nieces…

Between here and there . . . (Conclusion) By Emmanuelle For a week, Manta would be a special guest of the city and of this man of influence. And Chuck would be one of the local celebrities invited to their late afternoon soirees and evening sorties. Manta learns Chuck and…