This post was partially inspired by Anis Mojgani’s “You’ll see me tomorrow” post. Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, and it coincides with National Suicide Prevention Week. Both events have become more meaningful to me than ever before, but it’s not because it’s something I’ve personally dealt with. I’ve never had suicidal tendencies and/or attempts, […]
Author: Ashley Wijangco
2015 Summer Bucket List Evaluation
Now that it’s Labor Day Weekend, it’s time for me to accept that summer is, unfortunately, over (even if it still feels scorching hot outside). And it’s probably something that I should have accepted two weeks ago when I school started back up again, but that’s beside the point. This past summer was one in […]
A First Time for Florida
There’s something about Disney World that occupies children’s minds, pulls them in so much that it’s the only reason they crave a trip to Florida. That’s how it was for me anyway. I’ve wanted to go to Disney World since I was a child, and, for a while, it was the only reason I wanted to go […]
The Power of Words: Meeting Jamie Tworkowski
I’m not one to smile often, and I never have been. I keep a straight face most of the time, and maybe that’s just my being an introvert. But there are rare instances in which I can’t help but smile, be happy, show everyone the positivity radiating inside of me. June 8, 2015 was one […]
Yes, I am both a Bulls fan and a LeBron fan
The first sport I can remember being exposed to is basketball. I didn’t grow up with cable television, so the NBA Finals was pretty much all the basketball I would watch for a good chunk of my childhood. But even then, basketball wasn’t the first sport I got involved with. Soccer was the first sport I actually played, […]
Learning to appreciate the little things
One of the things I was most excited for when I was entering college was writing for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s independent student-run newspaper, The Daily Illini. I was so excited by the chance of potentially writing for it that I had inquired about when to apply for a spot on the staff the April […]
Thoughts on NBA All-Star Weekend 2015
For a long while, I was never able to watch any All-Star events, because my family didn’t have any cable channels that weren’t Filipino channels until around 2006 or 2007, when I first started middle school. Granted, for a while, I didn’t care enough about the NBA yet to really want to watch All-Star events. Obviously, […]
Here’s to you, Captain
I’ve been interested in basketball for as long as I can remember, and the same goes for the Chicago Bulls, but it wasn’t until 2003 that I really cared about the sport. The Bulls have always been my favorite team—it was kind of hard to avoid—but I didn’t have a favorite player for the longest time. […]
Christmas 2014: The gratification of giving (Part Two)
In the first part of this blog-post series, I rambled on about how great and gratifying Christmas is because I love giving people presents and being able to see their happiness as a result of it. For that reason, I decided to compile a list of my favorite presents—Christmas or not—that I’ve given to others. This part, […]
Christmas 2014: The gratification of giving (Part One)
For the past two years, one of the few things that helped me get through fall semester finals has been Christmas. In high school, finals were always after winter break, in January, so there would be an awkward, two-week break from school. Finals wouldn’t be right when school started back up—that would just be cruel—but they’d […]