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Prom sex: To put out or not to put out?

by Francesca Ayala - February 3, 2012 - 12:00am

Those of you still in high school are probably gearing up for what must seem like the most magical time of the school year.

My 16-year-old self

by Francesca Ayala - July 15, 2011 - 12:00am

Just last week, I was having a night in at the Electric Avenue apartment with my flatmates and a few friends.

How a single, slightly bipolar bachelorette found roommates

by Francesca Ayala - June 24, 2011 - 12:00am

I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize for my three-week hiatus from writing, but things have been quite hectic over here in the fragrant harbor.

Sunday funday scavenger hunt

by Francesca Ayala - May 27, 2011 - 12:00am

Imagine getting on the subway at 5:30 p.m. on a rainy Sunday afternoon to find that your particular car has been invaded by a petite brunette singing and playing the ukulele to accompany her long-legged friend, swinging...

Eulogy for a patriarch

by Francesca Ayala - April 29, 2011 - 12:00am

My grandfather, Atty. Jesus V. Ayala, known best as the godfather of agri-business and development in the Mindanao region, passed away last Tuesday when he finally succumbed to multiple organ failure.

Cheap thrills for the 'funemployed' in summer time

by Francesca Ayala - April 15, 2011 - 12:00am

As my luck would have it, my stint as an office temp came to an end (no, it’s not because they caught my semi-striptease on CCTV from that one day) just as summer started to roll into Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Hangover

by Francesca Ayala - April 8, 2011 - 12:00am

It was around eight o’clock in the morning on the Monday after Hong Kong’s infamous Rugby Sevens weekend and I was in a hotel room with three guy friends, drunkenly listening to one of them—in a...

The bitch switch

by Francesca Ayala - March 25, 2011 - 12:00am

To continue in celebrating this section’s one-year anniversary, I’ve decided to bestow upon our readers the very heartfelt gift of not talking about my personal life for an entire article.

Disgrace in the workplace

by Francesca Ayala - March 11, 2011 - 12:00am

Let’s face it.

Powder room talk: 'Bitch' is the new 'bro'

by Francesca Ayala - March 4, 2011 - 12:00am

How’d that blind date turn out for you?”

Digital love: Lessons from a serial online dater

by Francesca Ayala - February 4, 2011 - 12:00am

It was 7:01 p.m. on a Tuesday night and I was standing outside the Good Luck Bar on Hillhurst Ave., waiting for it to open.

Will report for visa: An unemployed writer's quest

by Francesca Ayala - January 21, 2011 - 12:00am

Ten decisions shape your life, you’ll be aware of five about.

'Cause breaking up is hard to chew:The break-up cure: A recipe for the brokenhearted

by Francesca Ayala - January 14, 2011 - 12:00am

No matter how the delusional optimists of this world may be, the cold, hard truth is that there is no easy way to end a serious relationship.

The ex-factor

by Francesca Ayala - April 4, 2008 - 12:00am

And when you said I could not stay with you That’s not the way you would have wanted it to be. Convince yourself that everything is all right,

Alternative time killers

by Francesca Ayala - March 14, 2008 - 12:00am

Two weeks after I flew home from my grad school tour of America, I realized I had turned into a zombie. No, not the vicious, disfigured flesh-eating kind one would find antagonizing entire towns in Hollywood B-movies...

In the waiting line

by Francesca Ayala - February 15, 2008 - 12:00am

Back to (un)cool

by Francesca Ayala - January 25, 2008 - 12:00am

An artist of the frozen world

by Francesca Ayala - August 10, 2007 - 12:00am

In the art world, which is more often than not criticized for creating borders across the elitist’s cultural caste system, it’s refreshing to find exceptional work that doesn’t take itself too seriously....

Malapascua? Malissimmo!

by Francesca Ayala - July 13, 2007 - 12:00am

Cult of personality

by Francesca Ayala - June 1, 2007 - 12:00am

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