Memoirs of an Amnesiac

Someone once told me, "Enjoy your life while you still can. Don't hurry up to become 18. You will only get to be 14 once." It felt like it was just said yesterday when it had been like eons ago.

Fast forward to the present. I have gone through a lot of things in a span of time. There were times when my life took on a swift downward spiral and time was forever frozen in oblivion when I faced my losses: the ending of a relationship with the only guy I loved dearly and the death ...

His morning visits to the market to buy fish and vegetables (the only food he was allowed to eat) would not be complete without his ever trusty bike. He said the first one (that got stolen in church when he chained it near the prayer room) was way older than I am. It had been his companion while he was yet starting his apprenticeship as an upholsterer somewhere south of Cebu. The new bike that he recently got was with him when a taxi cab accidentally hit him last September (because the driver got ...