My birthday is happening in a week. Another year has gone and a new one about to come. But unlike other people, I am not looking into an elaborate, booze-and-fireworks-filled kind of celebration. I guess longing for simplicity in things is among the...

 The past few days, I have been feeling under the weather. I am typing this entry in bed while listening to a Senate hearing from last week with a box of tissue and my medicines on my bed side. And whenever I am...