I Am Cathy Roque. And I Acknowledge
I am Cathy Roque. I am Cathy Roque and this is what I am dealing with right now. The month of August 2021, I have fully accepted that I am defeated within. Yes, I can acknowledge defeat. I was never [...]
To the Guy I Liked Since 2016
To the guy I liked since twenty sixteen. Twenty sixteen is the year we matched on Tinder. I can’t anymore remember the exact month and day as I lost my first neon orange pink Huawei mobile phone under the sea [...]
Birth Month Reflection
It’s Day 7 of December 2020. It's my month. I have a push and pull kind of relationship with birthdays and birth months. As you see, I used to love greeting people; incorporating something personal and as to my relationships [...]
The Beauty Pageant Industry. A Tall Tale From…
I think today is the perfect time to collide and share my life in writing and pageantry. Both aids to help me handle life in quarantine; as for those that doesn’t know, I need arts of all mediums, stories, people, [...]
Easter 2020. A Day I Realized that I’m…
April 12, 2020. Easter Sunday. The last day of our Holy Week. The last day we practice our religious beliefs as Roman Catholics. The first time we experienced our Holy Week in ECQ (enhanced community quarantine) for COVID19 (coronavirus). [...]
A student at 55! Old by age, young at heart
His little fatigued eyes full of invisible tears, his stooped shoulders tired of carrying burden, wrinkles on his face depicting a 70 year old man, and 365 days of continuous sweating were not enough to make him lose the battle [...]
Cinderella – A contemporary tale
Cinderella, an aesthetically beautiful girl, lived with her cruel step mother and jealous step sisters, who constantly mistreated her as a maid. She lived a life of boredom and anxiety. One day, when there was a big royal ball in [...]
Some Stories Don’t Have Happy Endings
Once upon a time... It's how usually a story begins. But this story isn't from ages ago. It's a simple but a tangled love story, that never ended. A story of Family, Friends, A girl, Her dreams and Life. Once [...]
With wish and hope
"We can't do her operation, her sugar level is very high", the doctor said to my mother about my maternal grandmother. After having tried and failed throughout the year, she was determined to make her mother's pelvic joint replacement operation [...]
A Letter To Myself: This Time, I Choose Myself!
Remember me? I'm sorry we didn't talk in a while and I know things have felt a little different lately but among all the sacrifices done for adulthood, not being able to spend time with you feels the worst. And, [...]
