In an effort to resolve my existential crisis and discover what I’m truly passionate about, I’ve been volunteering for a wonderful NGO called Likhaan, a strong advocate of the RH Bill and a provider of reproductive health clinics at urban poor communities. On Wednesday, I attended the screening of a heart-wrenching documentary they produced with
Which would you rather be: a) pretty but constantly depressed (and I’m not talking about the “I’m sad” kind of depression. I mean the sort where you spend hours either crying your eyes out for absolutely no reason at all, or staring into space because you honestly don’t care whether you live or die the
The downside of having friends who sometimes read your blog is that you can’t blog about certain real-life events without risking getting kicked out of that social group. I’m going to take that risk anyway and write about this guy I spoke to last Friday. Besides being interesting enough to be blog-worthy, somewhere in here
If the verb “to emasculate” defines the act of chopping off a guy’s nuts, what verb do you use to describe getting your ovaries snipped? By surgeons who learned surgery through the Wii? In front of the kitchen sink? Last Monday, Anne and I randomly decided to cook something for the The Man Blog guys,
There are a lot of disadvantages to being a girl. Besides the hassle of bleeding out of my crotch every month, I can’t always go out in my favorite outfit – a shirt/tank top and a pair of shorts – unless I want to become a statistic. Whenever I attempt to leave the house at
I love bargains. Don’t we all? During a shopping trip at St. Francis Square, I thought I struck gold when I unearthed a hardcover copy of Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus for only 300 pesos. The inside jacket cover promised me a story that involves “Working in a world where a college
I don’t understand why people make such a big deal out of periods and the disposable items that absorb menstrual blood. During lunch outside 7-11 with my friends at work (and by “lunch” I mean chocolate, milk tea, and a crapload of cigarettes), I remembered that I had gotten my period a few hours back
I just realized that I haven’t updated my blog all week. O_O Too many non-bloggable things have been happening at work and in my personal life, and I’ve been around long enough to know that talking about this stuff on a public blog can only fan the flames of the drama and the wankage. So
Sometimes I think that I must be some sort of asexual freak. Despite being female, there are so many moments where I don’t understand women at all, especially when they…. …constantly whine about how fat or ugly they are, and when you say otherwise they never believe you. Okay, I admit that I do tend
My name is Lauren Dado and this is my personal blog. I like nerdy things, scary things, and pretty things. I'm not really always right. (
