A good part of my teenage years was spent hanging out at videogame arcades at malls in Manila. Every once in a while I would stumble upon a broken game. It would have the terms “SLAVE UNIT ERROR” or something like that flashing on the screen. I liked the term. One day I thought that we are all slave units to a master unit in one way or the other, whether you like it or not. Since then, the idea and the term of a slave unit has been my motivation to withstand life obstacles or my basis for compromise with societal norms