The LaSallianLast month, I attended a fellowship of campus journalists in Bacolod City and I had the opportunity to meet two people who unintentionally reawakened my empathy for the Filipino language and other local dialects. The two people challenged me to a point that I was compelled to speak on behalf of the participants who are…
The UAAP basketball season may have ended for the Girls in green since September, but they have found themselves busy again in the on-going Dickies Filipino-Chinese Basketball League (FCBL) held at the Philippine Buddha Care Gym, Quezon City. The Lady Archers closed the classification round of the Saturday-scheduled tourney last January 28 in fourth place…
“The purposes [of this tournament] are to unite the varsity team and the young bloods, to harness each other’s skills, and to establish a sense of belongingness as one team,” DLSU Judokas Head Coach Sam Bernales explained. In 2001, the DLSU Judo Team had only 15 members with only one female Judoka. Eleven years after…
It was not sweeter the second time around as the Taft-based Spikers yielded against league leader FEU Tamarraws in the 25-20, 20-25, 25-20, 19-20, 11-15 thriller last February 1 for the UAAP Season 74 Men’s Volleyball competition. Five Green Spikers’ double-digits performance, led by former Rookie of the Year Myco Antonio with 19 points 12…
Time. The word itself screams out many ideas, dreams, systems, methods, formulas, etc,. The subject of time is so broad because people talk about it a lot. One of the most obvious reasons for man’s fascination over time is the thought that it affects everyone. Time dictates our movements; we cannot escape from it. Using…
In the past, a typical scene in our household would often include a small, eight-year-old girl who would tug her mother’s shirt and would whisper, “My chest is hurting”. “How much does it hurt?” “Very much.” “Okay, anak. Give me ten minutes and we will pay the clinic a visit.” I was that girl. Despite…
Based on the novel by Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo tells the story of Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), a man in pursuit of uncovering the mystery revolving around a girl rumored to have been murdered forty years prior. With the aid of professional computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), Blomkvist discovers much…
Many Young Adult novels are full of clichés and are redundant with their boy-meet-girl plotlines. Although it almost always happens, it is not always a bad thing, case and point, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. In this novel, Green, the award-winning author of Looking for Alaska, tells a heart-wrenching tale of a…
Last year, when the World’s No. 1 show announced that it would be calling Manila home for a month, thousands were thrilled. Now that 2012 has come, Benny Anderson and Björn Ulvaeus’ Mamma Mia has, in a similar fashion, drawn a large audience. The story of “A mother, a daughter. Three possible dads and a…
Mountain climbing is not for the faint of heart. Yet, the Philippines is dotted with many peaks worth visiting. This month, the Menagerie gives you a view from the top, on a mountain climbing expedition that you may want to try or die trying. The climb Mount Banahaw is a three-peaked volcano complex located between…
