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Scrambled eggs, Scrambled lives

by Matthew Estabillo - July 28, 2010 - 12:00am

Do you like your eggs scrambled or poached?” my girlfriend called out from the kitchen as I pretended to still be asleep in my room and deaf to her.

To the dearly departed

by Matthew Estabillo - March 12, 2010 - 12:00am

We’ve been through some things together… with trunks of memories still to come… we found things to do in stormy weather… long may you run. – Neil Young

End of a bromance

by Matthew Estabillo - February 12, 2010 - 12:00am

0utside this theater mall in Mandaluyong City stands an erect, low-beam façade of a deli that is frequented by, well, sandwich lovers during lunch hour.

A holiday to remember

by Matthew Estabillo - January 8, 2010 - 12:00am

It was not a holiday season to remember. Aside from the painstaking labors of the family to renovate our home following the ravages of the recent storms, the new business I put up with some friends wasn’t doing...

Besson's last battle is his first

by Matthew Estabillo - December 4, 2009 - 12:00am

Not since George Lucas blew people’s minds with the first Star Wars film had there been a movie as ambitious as French director Luc Besson’s debut feature The Last Battle, which was released in 1983...

A perfect day

by Matthew Estabillo - October 23, 2009 - 12:00am

I had my qualms in writing about this particular episode of my life because thousands of others had the same, if not worse, encounter on the same day.

A filthy masterpiece

by Matthew Estabillo - September 4, 2009 - 12:00am

After weeks of brooding, I finally got the chance to take out a girl who I’d been waiting to become “available” for the last six months.

The turtle diaries

by Matthew Estabillo - August 14, 2009 - 12:00am

Having spent the last two years dreaming about and actually experiencing film school, it opened my eyes to an incumbent terror, the inevitable sorrows of the future.

Something in the way he grooves

by Matthew Estabillo - July 17, 2009 - 12:00am

Being an ardent George Harrison devotee, I thought I’d be too biased to review this new collection of hits, the first to span his entire career as a solo artist.

There's something about Aunt Mary

by Matthew Estabillo - June 26, 2009 - 12:00am

It was inevitable. After years of battling cancer, Mary Maiden T. Chan, one of my favorite and dearest aunties, died of respiratory failure on June 21, Father’s Day. She was 67.

The trouble with camote

by Matthew Estabillo - June 19, 2009 - 12:00am

Couldn’t you hold it in?” she remembered her father telling her three nights ago.

The perfect mate

by Matthew Estabillo - November 14, 2008 - 12:00am

As a child, Ricky Mora’s parents always reminded him of three things: Study hard, get a decent job, and make sure to pick the right girl to marry. In between pushing him at the swing sets in the park,...

Sunday afternoons

by Matthew Estabillo - September 26, 2008 - 12:00am

(Author’s note: To all those left behind by love, and to those still searching for it — may your heart ...

Most valuable customer

by Matthew Estabillo - June 13, 2008 - 12:00am

Things just aren’t going well for me right now, I thought, as I brushed the half-filled whiskey glass across my forehead. The ice in it helped. One gulp… two gulps… three, before I finally had...

Trouble and doubt

by Matthew Estabillo - May 9, 2008 - 12:00am

My dear readers, I shall try to convey a message to you all, which, at first, may not seem like a topic of interest. And though it could actually stay that way for its entirety, rest assured that I shall do my best...

Life was beautiful

by Matthew Estabillo - August 17, 2007 - 12:00am

She tilted her head back and gasped just in time to start breathing again. But, it hadn’t been an easy time for Jem to begin with, following the car crash that took her husband and child almost a year ago....

‘Twas a summer of love…

by Matthew Estabillo - July 27, 2007 - 12:00am

A real fairy tale

by Matthew Estabillo - July 14, 2006 - 12:00am

No doubt the trials of life can harden a man – any man. And while I may not be much of one myself, I can safely say that I am, at the very least, man enough to admit it. This is not, mind you, a prelude...

Chemical brothers

by Matthew Estabillo - March 24, 2006 - 12:00am

Noel Gallagher said a while back that he doesn’t care if they sell another CD or not. I’m sure he didn’t really mean that, but Oasis’ magical influence on the record-buying public has indeed significantly...

Due credit

by Matthew Estabillo - August 5, 2005 - 12:00am

(First of two parts) William Sanchez was sipping the last few drops of his coffee when he glanced at his watch. "Seven-thirty na!" he cried. "Shet, sobrang late nako!" His wife momentarily...

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