Most Recent Articles by

Rosa May M. Bayuga

Rosa May M. Bayuga writes for a living and for the love of writing. She has won the Palanca awards and the National Commission on the Arts and Culture Writer’s Prize for her fiction. She explores the “dark side,” whenever she can. She cares for cats and roses, talks to long dead and dying stars, and writes when her spirit compels her to do so.

Ninay and the Spirits

The summer Ninay turned ten, her elder sister told her that she should learn to help around the house. Housework should be done the...

THE EXILE

It was Christmas break. Susie and I had all the time to do whatever we wanted to do. The one thing we had long wished for, since her uncle told us the man’s story, was to see the bearded exile who lived in the house across our homes. The front of the exile’s house faced our front door. Its back side faced Susie’s huge window in their house along the bay.

- Out Now -

spot_img
2 Articles written

The hook, the hustle, the hurt: Inside the Philippine crochet boom

Loop, pull, wrap, another pull. The crochet hook moves with a rhythm both meditative and mechanical. Crochet, popularly known in the Philippines as gantsilyo, is a traditional needlecraft that involves creating items by hand using a hook and yarn. For the thousands of Filipinos who have picked up...

Thank you, Universe: bitagcol celebrates a 30-year journey of traversing fashion, photography, design, and art

It has been three decades since bitagcol’s first foray into fashion. Her creative journey began in 1996 on the runways and on the set of the most iconic images in Philippine fashion.  Life as a model brought her to the world’s fashion capitals and into the ateliers of...

Team Philippines wins gold, places 6th overall at first Asia-Pacific AI Olympiad

The eight-member Philippine national team won one gold, one silver, and two bronze medals at the first Asia-Pacific Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (APOAI 2026), securing a historic tie for 6th place versus over a hundred of the best secondary school students from across 18 countries. Locally hosted at...