Category: The 30-minute Writing Challenge

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The thing about being a gypsy is, obviously, you are constantly on the move. It doesn’t really matter if you’re moving countries or locations. The fact is: changing address is an inevitable part of your life  because it’s how things are configured from your end. It’s like the game of …

When I decided to take up my Master’s Degree on Language and Literacy Education,  I was certain that I will be blogging more on this page to share my journey and my learnings. But panic overtook my otherwise sane mind. I did not expect that working on this degree via …

Routine is boring to me. That’s why it is very hard for me to thrive in an eight-to-five job. I always need to take a break. Boredom has started to eat me alive lately and I despise it. I miss those times when I would just drop everything, go to …

So many colors in this ballroom. But not as much life as the bedroom that we left on the 14th floor to join Jeff in this chamber event. All around me, there is some sort of a rap movement going on. We are attending the biggest spring ball organized by …

The weather is sick. I know from the way the leaves move. I can tell. The sky is a shade of grayish blue that invokes a feeling of nostalgia and suffering. It is singing the same ode to Mothers and home-cooked meals that I just sang a few seconds ago. …

I constantly contradict myself. That’s why I’m a writer; not a lawyer. And I don’t plan to make any move from being a ‘W’ to an ‘L’. You’ll know why. The contradiction aspect, I mean. I am sick – with fever and asthma. Everything tastes the same except for that …

I started writing through letters. My Dad was a sailor and he would write my Mom letters on yellow sheets of paper detailing his experience in a large boat filled with people from different countries. Often times, he wrote about how lonely he can get but he chose to bear …

I often wonder why most people only say the nice, flattering things to other people when they’re already dead – and not physically there to hear their generous, positive words. So much negative vibes in the way people are looking at the dead. In the world of the living, gossip …

I did not realize that Dallas Buyers Club would be one of the most disturbing films in the history of movies that I could watch at home. You know that uncomfortable feeling when your photos from adolescent years are shown in public; that you want to see the rest of …