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On cryptocurrency

BY BORDI JAEN WHEN the cryptocurrency mania was hitting one of its “peaks” last time, every mouth I heard was abuzz with words like “Bitcoin”,...

On badminton and striving to be better

BY BORDI JAEN SOMETIME before the pandemic got worse, I used to play badminton with a good friend once or sometimes twice a week. Admittedly, I...

Fruits of labor

BY BORDI JAEN METHINKS this is a fitting epilogue to my previous article entitled “Tempus fugit” where I talked about my journey as a writer. The...

Tempus fugit

BY BORDI JAEN IF A TIME traveller went back in time and told a young Bordi Jaen that he would start writing for Panay News in...

On purpose, Part 2: The essence of it

BY BORDI JAEN ACCORDING to the Stoics, the meaning of life was to live “in agreement with nature”. It’s quite vague, isn’t it? I have always believed...

On purpose, Part 1: The lack of it

BY BORDI JAEN THE YEAR 2021 is special for those, such as myself, who are graduating or have graduated from high school as Batch 2021....

The Old Man and Me

BY BORDI JAEN (Writer’s Note: By the time this article comes out, it will have been a few days since Father’s Day. To all fathers...

Eating books, Part 2

BY BORDI JAEN AS STATED in my previous article, I don’t think I need to expound any further the merits of reading. You’ve probably heard...

Eating books

BY BORDI JAEN ONE OF THE most memorable (and perhaps not in a good way) activities we had in high school were the insane reading...

On death and dying

BY BORDI JAEN IT IS DIFFICULT to write about death. There’s nothing that touches more heartstrings than death. Events that have transpired over the past months...