Now, being in my senior (and hopefully, last) year in college, I realize that “overworked” and “assignment overload” are understatements. The stakes and expectations are suddenly much higher—the subjects and
For Wang You Yi, 32, the art of creating fashion is a very natural thing. Born and raised in Shanghai, she uses traditional Chinese art forms, and has created modern
New wave nostalgia from the ‘80s. The R&B crooners and the grunge greats of the ‘90s. Alt-punk, bubble gum pop, hard-core metal. Yup, 2011 just won’t stop rocking our world (or draining our bank accounts) until it’s over, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Below is the list of concerts for the ’ber months, enough to make you start hoarding aguinaldos and ang paos this early.
Oh Glee, how we missed thee! With the show’s summer hiatus, fans were in for a treat with the big screen showing of “Glee Live! in 3D.” The added dimension was slightly unnecessary, but it added that pop for New Direction’s 2011 tour. The movie featured the casts’ final North American concert in New Jersey, USA.
There are a lot of things people tell students who are about to enroll in the University of the Philippines (UP). Activists are a regular sight, as well as fraternities and sororities. Food is cheap, and so is the tuition. The school statue is a naked man with his arms outstretched.
After spending a month in Europe watching acts like Friendly Fires, Metronomy, Arcade Fire, The Streets, The Strokes, and Big Audio Dynamite, among others, in two of the biggest music festivals in France and Spain with musician Rico Blanco, I thought nothing would excite me anymore when we returned to Manila.
I’m a normal, average girl. I do okay in school, I have friends and family who love me. I have talents and hobbies. I’m an achiever. People say I’m pretty, too. So I shouldn’t be having a hard time being confident with a guy I like. Sadly, that is not the case.
After the successful release of the first Pinoy Cartoonist Memorabilia collection featuring the work of local comic strip legend Larry Alcala, Solo is back with another big dose of Pinoy greatness.
As a die-hard Apple fangirl, it takes a lot to make me like any gadget that does not have an Apple logo stamped on its aluminum butt, and more often than not, it’s a Samsung device that makes me consider switching over to the dark, i.e. Android side.
Sometimes the best at something are those who came to it first. Even amid the flash mob of all the new writers eager to stake a claim on the young adult territory taken by the likes of Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games,” it should come as no surprise that Rick Riordan, who constructed the successful Percy Jackson and the Olympians franchise—featuring five best-selling novels and a motion picture adaptation—remains one of the most formidable YA talents in the field.
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