As expected of the two authors, the humor displayed in both texts is razor-sharp and has got me quickly exhaling air out from my nose to actually laughing out loud at some points. The most noteworthy being this tidbit from Bob Ong: Tingin ko meron pa ‘kong ayaw sa deodorant…

It was just a normal day. We did our classwork. We ate our lunches. We talked during recess. I remember feeling like the luckiest student in school when the teacher forgot to ask for my assignment I didn’t do and when I came across a 100 peso bill on the…

CNF Online Journal 1: “My Name.” My parents wanted a boy but unfortunately for them, the fastest swimmer was a girl. Angela Reih. Angela from my father’s Michael Angelo. Reih from my mother’s Reihvelle. They called me Andreih growing up. …

The genre of poetry is synonymous with colorful language and pretty prose. Many a skilled poet could paint a scene so vivid and set an atmosphere so heavy that it could capture readers’ hearts and attention through even the fewest amount of words. To achieve such striking imagery, poems make…

Loneliness and the desire for human connection could not be a more topical subject in our times with COVID-19 forcing many into isolating themselves from the world. While it is true that we are more connected now through social media, no matter how advanced tech gets and how fast our…

In my elementary days, I have participated in numerous writing competitions, mostly for essays and short stories, where the highest criteria for judging would be vocabulary and word count. I would be given a certain topic or prompt to write about, I would write down the most intelligent-sounding words I…