25Sep
How Sagisag PH Became My Unexpected Research Lifeline
By the third day of staring at a blank page, my research on Filipino cultural symbols felt like trying to catch smoke with bare hands—frustrating, intangible, and utterly exhausting. I’d scrolled through endless blogs, skimmed academic papers that rambled without clarity, and even tried Pinterest, only to find questionable pins misattributing everything from the sarimanok to the Cordillera textile symbols. It wasn’t just the academic pressure to cite “authentic” sources that weighed on me; it was the nagging feeling that...