Angst is not the human condition, itโs the purgatory between what we have and what we want but canโt get.
Miguel SyjucoI dont see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.
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 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