“After 14 years of being a Lasallian, I’m finally here and honestly I’m going to miss it. I don’t know if I’m going to cry later.” — A graduate by the steps Before entering PICC, a mother takes a picture of her kids huddled together. Her daughter fixes Kuya‘s robe for the photograph. …
Author: Jose Felipe Montinola
How can you not be romantic about baseball? It is an odd game with odd rules and very odd means in measuring a man. And all the oddities boil down to a single concept – timing. You can scatter 1,000 hits over the course of a player’s uneventful career while a single hit could make…
“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible.” What a lovely day for remakes—300 million dollars lovely to be inexact. Less than a month in and that is how much Mad Max: Fury Road has made worldwide. Released one week later, Disney’s Tommorowland, starring George Clooney, is already projected to lose…
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A vandal no more
Gone are the days when art was confined to a paintbrush and an 8×10 cotton canvas. In this day and age, people have come to embrace life itself as an art form—whether it is the things you draw, the songs you listen to, the clothes you wear, or even the way you make your coffee.…
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The LaSallian’s Staff picks
With the start of a new year, our staffers take their pick of some of the best television shows, music, film, videogames, and books that came out in 2014. Josef: True Detective Season 1 Do not watch this show. The eight episodes are not worth it. People shouldn’t be watching shows where the antagonist…
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Renegade music
Rap music is what-is-on-your-mind music; unlike EDM, and pop which somewhat have to stick to a certain formula of I-love-you. Rappers have a lot on their minds ranging from turf wars to obsessions of derrieres. While people may put it down and its listeners here in the Philippines since it may seem hard to relate…
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Anti-equality
I became an expert in women’s rights and sarcasm at the tender age of ten. It was quite easy to be one for both when growing up with an older sister. Whenever I was with her, I would see everything split right in the middle. One half for me, One half for her. When it…
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All I want for Christmas
“What do you want for Christmas?” is a question that has been asked among friends, family, and colleagues as soon as the ber months came strolling in. Christmas, after all, is a time for giving, sharing, and saying thank you to the people who have been there for you in the year that has passed…
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Terminal expectancy
Terminal: the word used to describe eventual death is the same word used to refer to students in their fourth year and above in De La Salle University. Endearing is the last word that comes to mind. While it seems like the scariest thing about college is whether or not you can get in, the…
On April 25, 2014, the trailer for Richard Linklater’s American drama, Boyhood, was uploaded onto YouTube. In the 93 seconds that it played, the casual viewer only needed to see the first 22 to get pulled in. It was not explosions, rap music or a girl that would grab your attention but three lines of…