GUEST COLUMNIST By Nika Llamanzares The effectiveness of the K to 12 system has been a topic of debate ever since it was introduced in 2013. According to the Official Gazette of the Philippines, the system, especially through its addition of the last two years of high school, is supposed to...
GUEST COLUMNIST By Nika Llamanzares I have this red, floral dress hanging in my closet. I haven’t touched it in three years. The only reason it's even in my closet is because my favorite youtuber recommended it. Her videos ended up going out of fashion, and so did the dress. This has happened to...
GUEST COLUMNIST By Nika Llamanzares Before leaving for college abroad, I was invited to a college send-off party. As expected, most of the kids invited were international school students. Their curriculum was built to satisfy international university requirements. However, I did not...
GUEST COLUMNIST By Nika Llamanzares I didn’t really take the anti-animal testing movement seriously. Most of the people I know who want things to be “cruelty free” only care about the animal and how cute it is, not the effects it has on the development of important scientific...
Filipinos love to read in nearly any shape or form. The growing online terrain for the stories we love is a testament to just how eager we are to see more. From Kindle, online manga, to Twitter threads, Pinoys love to read. To give us something new, the latest offering from social entertainment...
Raffles Makati offers Imperial Afternoon Tea with Ayala Museum's Qinghua Exhibition If you're looking to take your afternoon tea experience to the next level, look no further than The Writers Bar at Raffles Makati. This revered institution, known for its earlier luxury brand collaborations with the...
SENIOR BYAHERO I recently visited the Calvo Museum in Escolta and saw one room dedicated to Philippine newspapers at the turn of the century (1900). They are either in Spanish, Tagalog or English and had titles like La Ilustracion del Oriente, La Oceania Espanola and Bagong Buhay. I was looking for...
Make room for good writing even when the times make bad sentences seem good enough “I am a complexly horizontal author,” says Truman Capote. “I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy.” It’s never...
And the tortured writer When these writers, solitary creatures of the night burning the midnight oil, seek to satisfy their nocturnal cravings, what do they seek to fill up—their grumbling stomachs, their hollow minds, their aching hearts, their restless souls? Hunger is a form of loneliness, or...
A tribute to our mothers, who are the beginning of our own personal stories I don’t remember my mother reading me a bedtime story. If she were alive, she would hate me for saying this, but I grew up at a time when distant parenting was pretty normal and, maybe from the excesses of my romantic...
Stephanie Zubiri and AA Patawaran sleuth around the life of the creator of Sherlock Holmes to celebrate the release of Montblanc’s latest Writers Edition pens ICON IN CRIME FICTION Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (National Portrait Gallery London) “It has long been an axiom of mine that the little...
SITTING PRETTY Myrza Sison (Jico Joson for Female Network ) I first met Myrza Sison at an event hosted by the French Ambassador in her residence. It was media night—before we went into stricter regulations once more—and I was enjoying the conversation with the fun and fabulous woman with blunt...
