| May 18, 2012 | By Jonnah Dayuta under Headlines, Menagerie |
Fun runs have been sprouting in every corner of the Philippines for many different causes. Some aim to save the Pandas or Dolphins, while others are organized for someone with a terminal illness – all good causes, of course. Motivation, however, is still a big problem as sometimes, the thought of doing good is not enough of an incentive, but what if the run had…
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| May 18, 2012 | By Christopher Chanco under Headlines, Menagerie |
Aptly named Think of Me As Evil? Opening the Ethical Debates in Advertising, it wrote, “while the evidence is not conclusive, it seems that advertising may be encouraging society to save less, borrow more, work harder and consume greater quantities of material goods.” That may seem obvious, but its effects run deeper than that, transforming social norms and values and even stiflingsocial change, in particular…
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| May 18, 2012 | By Alsonfo Dimla and Shi Ailyn under Menagerie |
The sun rises and sets – day after day, time after time – splashing its little avenue of camaraderie with shades of amber and mauve. The haze of aromatic smoke wafts through the whistling russet leaves of shady boughs –carrying with it the intoxicating scent of freshly-cooked food and of caramelized nicotine. Footfalls stir up clouds of dust in the bone-dry lane and echoes with…
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| May 18, 2012 | By Ronnel Tumangday under Menagerie |
It looks simple and harmless, but little did I know that clicking a link as inconspicuous as thousands of other links I encounter online a few months ago would change the way I see fiction forever. And the scary thing is that it really did. Tropes are, simply put, elements authors add to their works of fiction to spice things up. We all have different…
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| May 18, 2012 | By Betina Libre under Headlines, Menagerie |
This month I tour you around The Mind Museum, one of the most awaited sites of its kind in the country. Five years in the making, it stands along J.Y. Campos Park in Bonifacio Global City, less than an hour away from De La Salle University. The Museum’s architecture sets it apart from the rest; it draws one instantly to a futuristic façade inspired by…
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| May 16, 2012 | By Jonnah Dayuta under Menagerie |
Book ★ ★ ★ ☆ Often, the only excuse novel haters need to convince them to throw a book back in the shelf is, “they’ve got no pictures in them.” To the verbally challenged or the outright lazy, looking at pictures is easiest way to grasp a story. A picture is worth a thousand words, after all. If that were true then Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo…
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| May 16, 2012 | By Alsonfo Dimla under Menagerie |
Food ★ ★ ☆ ☆ The Magnum fever has hit the Philippines. And no, it is not from the heat, but from a sweet frozen treat. Selecta’s “must-buy for the in-crowd” epic marketing attempt, tided over by a short-lived social networking craze, has whipped up a mid-summer storm for its Magnum bar. At fifty pesos a stick, Magnum is hardly on the price or calibre of Häagen-Dazs,…
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| May 16, 2012 | By Jonnah Dayuta under Menagerie |
Book ★ ★ ★ ★ Bookshelves are chockful of love stories with the same plotline of ‘boy meets girl and they fall for each other. Love is everywhere – or so the cliché goes in every song, story, poem, and work of art since man first found words to express a malady so painful “and yet so fair”. But what if love were precisely that, a disease (no, seriously)…
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