For acrophobiacs like me, standing at more than a hundred feet above the ground takes a lot of guts. But the exhilarating view from the Busan Tower of the city’s well-preserved mountains, amid the hustle and bustle of the metropolis, replaces fear with bliss and amazement.
Just a few meters from the main Tokyo train station, the new Shangri-La Tokyo is like a welcome oasis for the weary traveler. An escape from the hustle and bustle of downtown Tokyo, it is a place where one is welcomed by warm hotel staff and surrounded by the elegant ambiance synonymous with the Shangri-La experience.
More often than not, people are carried away by the novelty of it all. In a luxury resort, you pay a fee to fish a baby turtle out of a tank and “release” it into the wild. In Oslob, Cebu, people are going wild over the “touching” relationship between fishermen and the whale sharks they habitually feed.
Is it hot in here, or is it just them? Sitting a mere centimeters away from British pop-opera harmony group Blake, one can’t help but think that even the most hard-bitten female journalist would have a really hard time staying immune to male charm. Especially when she becomes the lone subject of this handsome thirtysomething quartet’s attention for a good fifteen minutes.
My inability to draw has always been a great frustration of mine. I don’t even mean draw well—when I say I can’t draw, I am not exaggerating. I really can’t, which is why when new social game Draw Something began making its buzzy rounds on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, I wasn’t enthused. Why play a game I was sure to suck at?
What we’re looking for is original, something we haven’t seen before,” said Marvel Comics’ C.B.Cebulski, senior vice president of the company’s Creator and Content Development, during his recent visit to Manila.
David Finch is the current artist of DC Comics’ “Batman: Dark Knight.” He is the Shuster Award-winning illustrator of, among other things, Marvel’s “New Avengers” and “Ultimate X-men.” Thanks to Fully Booked, he was able to visit the Philippines for a talk, and Duy Tano of The Comics Cube (www.comicscube.com) was able to spend a few minutes with him for an interview.
Our electronic devices are becoming more intelligent by the minute. Some of us might even be dreaming of the day we can talk to our TV sets, boss our vacuum cleaners around, wirelessly control our appliances, or use our smartphones as LCD projectors. Unbelievable? Yes. But impossible? No.
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