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Boston calls

by Gena Valerie Chua - October 30, 2009 - 12:00am

So I am here, finally — Boston, Harvard Business School. The whole place is like something out of a movie. It’s almost fall and the leaves are turning darker everyday; the scorching September sunlight...

My American Ondoy

by Gena Valerie Chua - October 9, 2009 - 12:00am

I do not know Ondoy.

The good, the bad and the 2009 HK sale

by Gena Valerie Chua - July 31, 2009 - 12:00am

I was going to write about the great Hong Kong sale — an annual frenzy held in that city overflowing with brands: Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuitton.

Food Fight!

by Gena Valerie Chua - July 10, 2009 - 12:00am

The turtle cheesecake in front of me is evil. Eviiil. It has two devil horns and a menacing smirk, taunting my salivary glands with its sumptuous calorie overload.

Something wild and precious

by Gena Valerie Chua - June 26, 2009 - 12:00am

What would you enjoy doing?” I stare blankly at the question posted on our school website.

World youth allies

by Gena Valerie Chua - May 29, 2009 - 12:00am

Bratislava. The first (and only) thought that comes to mind is the horror movie Hostel, where seductive Bratislavan women lure teenage tourists into torture chambers.

Harvard is my hump

by Gena Valerie Chua - May 8, 2009 - 12:00am

I was 12 when I first stepped onto the Harvard University grounds.

It's a girl thing

by Gena Valerie Chua - March 27, 2009 - 12:00am

I miss my girlfriends — or rather, my girl (space) friends.

About a boy

by Gena Valerie Chua - February 13, 2009 - 12:00am

He has a baby smell uniquely his, a smell that lingers on you even when he’s no longer in your arms.

This is how our generation chooses to define itself

by Gena Valerie Chua - January 30, 2009 - 12:00am

As a child, I was a tomboy — yes, as in the knee-scraped, cap-sporting, basketball shorts-wearing kind of tomboy.

Gross national happiness

by Gena Valerie Chua - November 28, 2008 - 12:00am

The stock market has been so depressing lately — especially if, like mine, your livelihood depends on its ups and downs. Unless you’ve been hibernating underground with seasonal bears, you have to know...

Pei Pa Koa: The ties that bind

by Gena Valerie Chua - October 24, 2008 - 12:00am

I am 87.5 percent Chinese. The numerical approximation is a result of two things: my being a math geek and the pursuit ...

Little movies that could

by Gena Valerie Chua - September 26, 2008 - 12:00am

Blockbuster hits get reviews all around; it’s high time we start writing about small films. By “small” ...

Quarter-life crisis

by Gena Valerie Chua - August 29, 2008 - 12:00am

And there it was, the mystifying term that single-handedly captured our 22-year-old chaos. At first it sounded funny, but when the thought sank in, we were all quiet for an uncomfortably long period of time.

Charlie and the Rubber Chocolate Factory

by Gena Valerie Chua - August 8, 2008 - 12:00am

They never pronounced my name right. It was my first summer in college, that sporadic time of the year when trees shed their leaves even as the sun burns every inch of your skin. Most of my summers until then were...

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