(a critique on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film)
Is it Voldemort or Snape? Or was it Snape’s past that Harry and Professor Dumbledore views in the pensive? Or does the movie revolved around Draco’s transformation? These are some of the questions raised by HP regular viewers who haven’t had read the book and especially [...]
Idiot Board: Harry Potter and the whole-bloody film
Breakaway
Tic-tac-tic-tac-tic-tac…goes Mr. Clock reminding each one that a human’s life ends like an alarm clock. We need to freeze the monotony of life and start breaking free.
Summer is supposed to be the season of fun and enjoyment, especially for students, but not me. Since the start of this year, I didn’t remember a time spent [...]
Against Democrazy
(a post-Edsa baby’s thoughts on democracy)
Luis A. Quibranza III
“Around 60 percent of this present generation wasn’t around during martial law,” a news anchor commented on their news program Monday morning, following the death of former president Maria Corazon “Cory” Cojuangco-Aquino, the country’s and Asia’s first female president.
Though this alone is already a great feat in [...]
For Tita Cory
elisabeth baumgart
inkblots
FOR the past weeks, the streets of Manila were painted yellow.
Yellow ribbons of all shapes and sizes were tied around streetlights, fences, trees, posts, side view mirrors and antennas of cars, and bridges and walkways.
When news spread that former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino has passed on, people came out in waves of [...]
Yellow Revolution
Kara Mae Muga Noveda
I was days old when the Missis of a national hero became the first female president in Asia.
Cory, to me, belonged to a golden, however distant past—the decade of shoulder pads and big glasses, grainy documentaries and poignantly, just a three-paragraph mention in my history textbook. She, of the landed gentry’s family, [...]