Between here and there . . . (part 4) By Emmanuelle . . . one stumbles upon heaven and hell on earth.       Manta graduates from one of the country’s most exclusive colleges, specializing in music and mathematics for kids. Aside from being adjudged by her mentors as a most…

Between here and there . . . (Part 3) By Emmanuelle are moments so exquisite, so intense that though they remain unphotographed, unrecorded, they might as well had been.  The prints they carved in our memory scoured full and deep. In one of her brakes-and-stops, Manta suddenly realized there was…

Between here and there . . . (Part 2) By Emmanuelle   AM I hearing my song? She nodded to herself. Is that a band playing the instruments to my song? Another nod. Then it finally got to her.  She gave up on her intended leap, and dropped down fast…

Between here and there . . . By Emmanuelle is her hollowed self. She speaks just a few words, choosing these slowly, but she provides a more graphic illustration with her hands. She mimes a cave curving inward from her chest to the hips. At the same time, she sucks…

Old and Cold By Emmanuelle AT a particular point of that certain moment in time, a literary group to which this writer belonged, swore to high heavens, and to each other, we will never have cause to insert the words into any of our writings. Though  apt and timely throughout…

Between good and evil . . . By Emmanuelle is the deep blue sea. There, amidst its wonders, are fish and floaters that nip and snip and snap at fellow fish and fellow floaters. And bump ‘em and chomp ’em, as the food chain goes. Where what is shallow are…

The Bossed and the Bossing By Emmanuelle IF you were deaf, you can still hear clearly; if you were blind, you can still see plainly. Only the hopelessly crazed and the very dead have lost their feeling ways. The following may be fun pun, but it is not funny, and…

Beware: Children Crosssing! By Emmanuelle CONNECT me if I were wronged, but did we witness the lower housing stand united for one glorious or inglorious (no Gloria pun intended, please don’t Amparo me) moment in music history? Or did we just see it give birth again to yet another faction…

Babytalk (Part 3) By Emmanuelle LUCKY are those whose every triumph in life are well-preserved in a library of precious memories – baby’s first album, pictures or slides calendared and captioned; honor ribbons, medals, sashes and diplomas framed or laminated and displayed on walls; plaques and trophies dust-free and shiny…

Babytalk (Part 2) By Emmanuelle First thing first. FEELINGS would like to express its appreciation for the calls, emails, and SMS from the regular readers of the hard copy and the webpage – Pangasinenses migrating to the nation’s thousands of islands, overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East and other…