I Am Buraot

I was driving on this road to nowhere. I was passing through more than just the places and faces of people I met, oftentimes I get lucky enough to know them, to be with them, be them.
I was born from the country. Small town, big family, rough life. You know the story, short in [...]

Since there are lots of places I have lived my entire life, I naturally have a lot of friends. Friends that over the years have remained my buddies, my brother, my sister. I am so lucky to have found them, and I thank them all.
I am not trying to be optimistic here about friendship. In [...]

This year comes as a new dawn, the beginning not just of a new year, but of a new life. But as always, not without the remnants of the baggage past.
This time last year I was in and out of the hospital. Teams of doctors were trying to figure out what is that thing that [...]

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Five little squirrels sitting on a tree, the first one said, what do I see?
I gazed past my little angel giggling and mumbling her little rhyme. Behind her was the face that launched me to sail my sunken ship, straight up the northern shores where the majestic auroras are kept.
Its inner glow radiates outwardly and [...]

I don’t want to be in an airport terminal.
Except when I’m the one who’s flying, I never really liked the airport scene. The atmosphere is usually… well… frantic.
You could tell the Filipino travelers apart from the rest of the pack of thousands. They always have their balikbayan boxes for a luggage. Inside their “luggage” you [...]

Summer’s almost over. The days are still hot but the nights are getting cooler. Outside, I can see that it was beginning to rain. It was just enough to wash away the haze that’s hovering over my head.
Even without the aid of beer, my belly begins to flab. My legs, now embedded with gout, are [...]