Soundscape It's a beautiful Sunday evening. Is that time, right after the sun is finished with his half cycle on that deep blue sky, and is going to give light to the other half of the world. I am sitting on the picnic bench in front of the yard of my girlfriend's house, which by the way is one...
Are Romeo and Juliet really in love? Humans react differently and more passionately to situations when there is conflict in their way. The way Romeo and Juliet act and react, it reveals how unready they are to be dealing with the mature feelings, and confirms to the reader they are not in l...
Accidents are inevitable for me. I am probably the most accident-prone child out of all my siblings. When I was ten years old I dismantled my newly grown "big girl" teeth. Prior to the accident I was having an amazing day and creating childhood memories with friends, when the accident happened I was...
As Ronda looks at Gregorian she gave a quick point to the right. I had noticed this but nobody else had noticed it except for Gregorian. I was very disappointed in Ronda. I thought she would be a good sport and let fate do what it wanted to do to Gregorian. Now that Ronda had done this I was very upset. ...
As I've grown older, I've argued with myself with what love is and why we fall in love. Is it because love is an innate feeling that we express for people like our family and friends? Or is love something that we express in actions and words, or rather, something that develops over time? We know t...
About the Author Quijano de Manila is the pen name of Nick Joaquin. He started writing before the war and his first story, "Three Generations," has been hailed as a masterpiece. He has been recipient of almost all the prestigious awards in literature and the arts, including the National Artist Award for Literature in 1976. He was also conferred, among other recognitions, the Republic Cultural Heritage Award for Literature in 1961, the Journalist of the Year Award in the early 1960s, the Book of the Year Award in 1979 for his Almanac for Manileños, the national Book award for s...
