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Honorable Mention in the 7th Japan – Russia Haiku Contest (English Section) : 第7回日露俳句コンテスト結果(英語部門)
(2018)
Honorable Mention in the 19th HIA Haiku Contest
(2017)
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The Man From Her Dreams Drama ⋄ Romance For years, April lived a double life. By day, she was a quiet novelist struggling to complete her next book, spending her afternoons in cafés and libraries, searching for inspiration that never seemed to come. By night, she entered a vivid dream world where the same mysterious man appeared again and again. In her dreams, he was everything she longed for—attentive, charming, and deeply understanding. Their conversations flowed effortlessly, their connection felt undeniable, and each encounter left Isabella waking with a lingering sense of longing. Night after night, she found herself falling in love with a man who existed only within the landscapes of her subconscious. Eventually, the dream became more real to her than reality itself. Then, everything changed. One rainy afternoon, Isabella unexpectedly meets the man from her dreams. He is real. The same eyes. The same voice. The same face she has memorized over countless nights. But there is one devastating difference. The man she meets is nothing like the man she loves. Reserved and emotionally distant, DJ carries none of the warmth she remembers. He barely notices her, keeping everyone at arm's length while hiding behind carefully constructed walls. To him, April is a stranger. To her, he is someone she has loved for years. Determined to understand the impossible connection between them, April gradually becomes part of DJ's life. As she gets closer, she discovers that her dreams had never revealed the whole truth. The man she imagined was shaped by her desires, her loneliness, and her hope. The real DJ is far more complicated—flawed, guarded, and burdened by wounds she could never have imagined. As their paths continue to intertwine, DJ slowly begins to fall in love with her. Yet the deeper his feelings grow, the more April struggles with an unsettling realization: she is still comparing him to a fantasy that never truly existed. Caught between the perfect man she created in her dreams and the imperfect man standing before her, April must learn a difficult lesson—that love is not about finding someone who fulfills an idealized vision, but about accepting someone exactly as they are. Only when she finally lets go of the dream can she embrace the reality she has been searching for all along. The Man From Her Dreams is a poignant romantic drama about longing, imagination, and the delicate journey of choosing reality over fantasy when both seem equally irresistible. It explores the question of whether true love begins when we stop chasing the people we dream about and start seeing the people who are right in front of us.
Between Coffee and Dreams Romance Every morning, Epong Pingpong Galapong arrives at Blend and Cream Café long before the morning rush. Officially, she comes for the rich aroma of freshly ground coffee beans, the comforting warmth of handcrafted lattes, and the nostalgic atmosphere that reminds her of simpler times. Unofficially, she comes for him. The café's owner is an enigmatic white Filipino with warm brown eyes, an athletic build, and a quiet presence that seems to draw people in without effort. He moves through the café with calm confidence, greeting customers with a gentle smile while revealing little about himself. To everyone else, he is simply the owner. To Epong Pingpong Galapong, he is a mystery she cannot stop thinking about. Day after day, she occupies the same corner table, pretending to write while secretly watching him from afar. A poet at heart, Epong Pingpong Galapong fills notebooks with verses inspired by coffee—the way its aroma awakens forgotten memories, the way a single cup can transport someone to another place and time. Yet woven between her reflections on coffee and nostalgia are lines about a man she barely knows. As the seasons pass, her fascination deepens. She never finds the courage to speak to him beyond polite greetings, but her imagination gives life to the conversations she longs to have. Then something strange begins to happen. In her dreams, he speaks to her. At first, the encounters are brief—a shared cup of coffee beneath golden autumn leaves, a quiet conversation in an empty café after closing time. But each night, the dream world becomes more vivid, more intimate, and more real than the life she wakes up to. There, he knows her poems by heart. He understands her fears, her hopes, and the loneliness she hides behind her smiles. Soon, a secret love story unfolds within the landscape of her subconscious. Together they wander through endless cafés suspended between memory and imagination, drinking coffee that tastes of lost summers and unspoken wishes. The boundaries between dream and reality begin to blur as Epong Pingpong Galapong finds herself living for the nights more than the days. But as her feelings grow stronger, she must confront an impossible question: Can a love that exists only in dreams truly satisfy the heart? Or is she falling in love not with a man, but with the version of him her imagination has created? A tender and atmospheric romantic drama, Between Coffee and Dreams explores longing, creativity, nostalgia, and the mysterious places where love can flourish—sometimes not in the world we inhabit, but in the one we carry within ourselves.
The Ward: A Documentary Documentary After being admitted to a prestigious public hospital in the Philippines following a mental health crisis, a brilliant young writer begins to question everything around her. What starts as a routine psychiatric confinement soon spirals into a chilling labyrinth of secrets, manipulation, and institutional power. As she struggles to separate reality from perception, she becomes convinced that influential figures within the hospital are hiding a dangerous network of misconduct beneath the façade of healing and care. Every diagnosis, every therapy session, and every interaction with staff raises unsettling questions: Is she uncovering the truth, or is her mind betraying her? Outside the hospital walls, memories of relentless bullying, social stigma, and discrimination continue to haunt her. The emotional scars inflicted by classmates, teachers, patients, and strangers have pushed her to the brink, leaving her caught between survival and self-destruction. Determined to reclaim her voice, she turns to writing. Through powerful poems and deeply personal essays, she transforms her pain into art, exposing the hidden consequences of bullying and mental health stigma. Her work unexpectedly captures international attention, propelling her from anonymous patient to celebrated literary figure. Blending psychological suspense, social commentary, and emotional drama, The Ward explores the fragile boundaries between truth and delusion, healing and harm, and the extraordinary resilience of a woman determined to be heard.
Hitler Woman Science Fiction ⋄ Thriller / Suspense After accidentally killing Adolf Hitler and becoming Germany’s most beloved leader, a compassionate Nazi soldier descends into obsession, forcing his mysterious mother-in-law to decide whether murdering her own bloodline is the only way to save humanity from a future where history itself is erased. As science, religion, and philosophy collide across a fractured multiverse, a sinister experiment on the human subconscious threatens to reveal that reality may have always been a manufactured illusion.
chaos Thriller / Suspense The crypto market crash, the death of the Filipino president, and the rise of an AI revolution that replaces the democratic government of the Philippines can all be prevented through an archaeological artifact housed in the National Museum of the Philippines. But how can a history class at the University of the Philippines Diliman, led by their eccentric professor, stop a secret cult from stealing the Manunggul Jar to achieve its own mysterious objectives?
Vigan Andres and the Theory of Aswang Fantasy When Vigan Andres learns that he is destined to become the next chieftain of his tribe in an indigenous community in a local barrio, he also discovers that he has been prophesied to lead the aswangs of the encanto realms, for he is half-mortal and half-aswang. Torn between two worlds, Vigan must choose whether to fight against the destructive expansion of a giant mining company to protect the ancestral domain of the Aeta tribe in Tarlac or embrace his fate as the ruler of the aswang kingdom wholeheartedly. Or can he do both, driven by his desire to please everyone? And will he finally learn to say no and choose himself first?
New World Order Mystery ⋄ Thriller / Suspense The pope’s death, the union of China and Korea as a single nation, and the global economic collapse triggered World War III. Or was it all orchestrated by a secret society determined to establish a one-world government and erase Christianity forever?
Gabriel Romance Gabriel is a paranormal romance about an archangel who must choose between his divine mission to fight evil and his forbidden love for a mortal.
The Butterfly Effect and the Fifth Gospel Science Fiction ⋄ Thriller / Suspense Can scientific evidence about history and ancient civilizations alter the course of the future in such an extraordinary way?
University of the Philippines Diliman
(2017-2017)
Asia Pacific College
(2009-2010)