The Boy Who Stutters

I heard those words. I realized I have been using the lines that I hear as my titles - be it from music, movie, conversation, and common expressions. ( Back to Square One ,  Cigarettes After Sex ,  Whatever Helps You Sleep at Night ,  10 Things I Hate About You ,  You Reap What You Sow ...) "Pain is a perfect ingredient for poetry," they say. But I decided not to make poetry anymore. At least not for now. Yet this is poetic. Writing is always poetic. As it must be.  Among all things, why is pain still poetic? What is so poetic about pain? Is it the emotion that expresses what it is like to be human? Is it the beauty of ugly things? Ironic. We have agreed that pain isn't always dull but of the essence. We have perfected the narrative of turning such agony and remorse into motivation and change. How exhaustive is that? Can you imagine? Always learning from a loss. Almost yielding into ordeals. Far from over We are far from over repeating such an unend...

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.” In Chapter XXV - What Fortune Can Effect In Human Affairs And How To Withstand Her of The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, he pointed out the importance of changing one’s course of actions when the time and affairs change. For him, it is very crucial to accord your action to be able to cope up with the changes so that you can still be successful. Machiavelli believes that if a man has been successful doing things in such a way for certain undertakings, then such a man is bound to be ruined when the matters change unless he is willing to change too. With that, he claims that constant success can be achieved if the Prince changes his conduct with the times. Such message was quoted from Machiavelli which has aided people of history and today to be successful and I personally agree with his belief hence it has become my favorite quotation from him among his several significant ideologies. “But a man is not ...

It gets harder and harder. I have been longing to write this but I had to wait for my grades before finally claiming that - TL;DR I survived my first year at the University of the Philippines.  Yes. I guess grades do measure something. We cannot deny that, can we? For a time, I really wanted to be GC (grade conscious). I thought I was, but being one demands more discipline which I realized I didn't have or am yet to have. I'm saying this in comparison with the "truly GC isko" who gets sad at 1.25 because s/he knows flat 1 is attainable. Nothing is wrong about that though for Excellence is the goal. I supposed my first semester was just a "free trial" because the second semester became the true deal. By that, I meant major being truly majors and GE being more demanding as time progresses. Everything is still fun as it is challenging, especially being in film school. The UP Film Institute of the premiere state university is the only international...