Archive for the ‘tHoUghT'z’ Category
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 [...]
For Tita Cory
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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, [...]
Old photo-op
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POSTING old grade school pictures on the World Wide Web, for the whole wide world to see should be a crime.
The act should be punishable by law.
A lifetime of ugly pictures and poorly developed self-portraits should be the punishment. Legislators should definitely look into that, instead of deciding what streets to name after [...]
MassCommpurtable?
By Crischellyn Abayon
University of the Philippines Cebu College
“I WANT to take up Mass Communications because they say it is masscommpurtable (more comfortable)”.
If this is your reason for taking up Mass Communications, then you had better quit.
Mass Communications, as perceived by many, is one of the easiest college courses. There is nothing left to do but [...]