The DLSU Green Archers continue its road to recovery in its recent tight win against the feisty University of Perpetual Help System DALTA squad 75-67 in the continuing 2012 FilOil Pre-season games. Spurts and rallies between the two teams in the first 20 minutes of play kept the scores close. The UPHSD Altas came up…
CORRECTION: The Henry Sy Sr. Hall will be blessed on June 15, it won’t open yet. Despite this, students eagerly await its opening as it is expected to give them better facilities and more study halls. The LaSallian tried to get further details on the construction’s progress from the Physical Facilities Office, but the officials preferred…
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Perkins leads Archers against Knights
After his debut in the Green Archers’ win last Sunday against Ateneo’s Team B, Fil-Am rookie Jason Perkins delivered a clutch performance to turn back the Letran Knights, 70-62, in a game that was marred with double fouls and ejections. Perkins poured 15 of his 18 markers in the fourth quarter to fend off attacks…
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…
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…
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…
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Surviving Agno 101
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…
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A trope addiction
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…
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…
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Rant and Rave: Magnum Ice Cream
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,…