by Tiffany Louise L. Neri

Now I fully understand how difficult pressure is. It is like a waterfall thrashing on my back.  It is like the times when I jump in the water and go down too deep.  While I slowly start floating back up, I always run out of air and my lungs start to burn.  It suffocates me.  I have so much to do in so little time and it peeves me so. Read the rest…

Tarah Marie B. Aguila |ABMC III, St. Theresa’s College

A one peso coin will give access to these computer games.

Patrick Ozon, 24, a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science thought of having a one-peso computer game, and used an old laptop with built-in games located at T.Padilla and Villa Zacate in Basak, Pardo, Cebu City. For a four-minute game, one only pays one peso. Read the rest…

Parian District was one of the most important spots in Cebu during the Spanish colonial times. Most of the important commercial and cultural activities happened in this place. It also embraced most of the residences of many distinguished personalities then.

The Yap-Sandiego house is one of them. This 18th-century house was built through the efforts of Chinese merchant, Juan Yap and wife Maria Florido. The couple’s eldest of three children, Maria, married Pari-an’s Cabeza de Barangay then, Don Mariano Sandiego. Read the rest…

Admit it. Some of you are bummed out that vacation is over. All the signs are there: it’s been raining constantly, all the department stores are displaying notebooks instead of beach balls and your house is now stacked with paper, pens and books.

Just because you had so much fun over the summer doesn’t mean you’re headed for a boring time at school. School can be cool, too, if you just give it a shot. Read the rest…

Remember that big elephant-like creature in the Ice Age movie? It’s what we call a mammoth.

Mammoths are relatives of elephant, that’s why they look like one. But mammoths are relatively smaller compared to modern elephants. Mammoths are hairy animals with long curved tusks. It stusks could extend as much as 11 ft.

They lived 4.8 million years ago or what we call Ice Age. It stand up to 16 feet on the shoulders and weighs 6 to 8 tonnes. However, male mammoths can weigh up to 12 tonnes. A female mammoth conceives her calf for 22 months! That means only a single calf is orn for every mother mammoth.

Maybe that’s why mammoths only lasted until 4,500 years ago.