If you’ve ever read the Bible, or at least had a Christian background, you should have heard the story of Samson. He was the human version of Hulk– he had a big, muscular body and had super strength. But unlike the Hulk, Samson wasn’t green and he had control over his strength. He had a constant size and was a result of God’s creation (or so the Bible tells us); the Hulk’s size increases whenever he’s mad and was from a scientific experiment. Continue reading →
Summer has been quite light. I was planning to take summer classes, but my parents didn’t want to. And since I was in Baguio the whole time during the last school year, I stayed at home instead enduring the summer heat.
I’m fixing my bookmarks now, and it’s been a mess. There are a lot of links I would want to see at a later time, but it seems I didn’t had that “later time”. The internet is full of entertainment and information; sometimes it’s too much. I had lyrics bookmarked (mostly related to Broadway), some about food which I plan to eat in college (I’d like to think that Baguio is a place where I can experiment), excellent articles from news and opinion websites, quotes, pictures, videos, and even pop culture. Continue reading →
It has been almost a month since the start of summer and it has been oh-so-hot. I remember Baguio getting warm at the end of February, though it’s mainly because of tourists flocking to the city. Session Road was full of people in time for the Panagbenga Festival. Bus lines were always full, taxis without passengers were rare, local products such as strawberries were skyrocketing — Baguio was at its most beautiful during this period.
I had been very, very busy for the past few weeks. Hell week in college is different from high school. I wasn’t used to sleepless nights, to continuous intake of caffeine in the form of carbonated and energy drinks, and to absorption of massive amounts of information in a limited amount of time. Nevertheless, I think I did get through my second semester in Baguio better than my first.
I have one major exam left (Yay!), but it’s still on Friday… so I thought of taking a break and watching The Iron Lady for tonight. Continue reading →
Bill Watterson may have given his Calvin and Hobbes book collections prestigious-sounding names like Indispensable and Authoritative as a joke, but in 2012 his cartoons are fetching fancy fine-art prices.
This past Wednesday, a 13″ x 10″ watercolor and ink illustration was auctioned. It featured Calvin and his best friend/stuffed tiger Hobbes taking a nap on a lazy summer day (probably before a water-balloon fight with neighbor, and arch nemesis, Susie Derkins).
Rarely do we like films that aren’t satisfying. May it be any movie genre, an ending where everyone is happy or at least an ending that properly concludes a story, will always leave the regular moviegoer the peace of mind he deserve.
Rocket Science is very different from the stereotypical group of movies that gives you all the answers and the moral story which means you can go to sleep happily. Continue reading →
(I wrote this piece 5:00 AM for my English class at 8:30 AM regarding the video below. We watched it and were tasked to create an illustration reflecting the role of religion to Filipinos today. Our illustration was the yin and yang.)
What we learned from Atheism 2.0 is that though they despise and reject religion, they are attracted to only a side of it. Without religion, an atheist can simply pick and mix religions. He goes on to say the many benefits of organized religions, concluding that there are many things to learn from them – from being profitable and collaborative to changing lives.
In the case of Filipinos, however, where majority of us are Catholics, atheism is not dominant unlike in other countries. In fact, it is very rare. What we DO have are Catholics which do not fully devote themselves to the religion. Those who rarely go to mass, those who hardly pray the rosary and have never done the act of confession. Our group saw striking similarities of atheism to these Filipinos—that they pick and mix what they are attracted to in Catholicism. If this is the case, then what is the role of religion to the modern Filipino? Continue reading →
