Scott Lee Chua @scottleechua.com · Dec 16 1 / 2
While reading the new, beautifully curated and typeset Greg Brillantes collection last weekend, I felt compelled to dig through my crumpled college printouts and find the first Brillantes story I ever read: The Apollo Centennial 🚀 The story is about a school field trip to a space museum... 🧵 #STS
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...in the Philippines in the year 2069 — 100 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing, and incidentally, since the Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was reelected president. In Centennial, the Apollo astronauts are capital-H Heroes in the Philippines, like Air Supply or Michael Learns to Rock...