Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.
Miguel SyjucoIf our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.
Miguel SyjucoWhen I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.
Miguel SyjucoAngst is not the human condition, itโs the purgatory between what we have and what we want but canโt get.
Miguel SyjucoYou canโt bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. Iโm hardly speaking in metaphor. Itโs the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?
Miguel Syjuco