But as a writer you cannot help it. You have to do it. It is in daydreams that your stories originate and then percolate and that’s also where you initially string the words needed to express them. In fact, you can write an entire article or flash fiction in your head. Meanwhile, even your own...
POETIC GENIUS Cecile Licad, 'the best Chopin interpreter,' at her Nelly's Garden concert (Jon Unson) Does sunshine make a sound? Do the clouds in the sky make the softest whisper? At world-acclaimed Filipino artist Cecile Licad ’s piano concert at Nelly’s Garden, the Lopez Heritage House in...
Lan Fong Yuen has day in and day out led a flock of foodies to its lair of old-world charms, replete with the odds and ends of traditional Chinese furnishings SIMPLICITY IS KEY Lan Fong Yuen may not look like much, but it' a landmark for foodies in Hong Kong (Photo from Hong Kong Tourism Board)...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Lamentillo Starlink of Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) is now live in the Philippines. We are the first country in Southeast Asia to enjoy Starlink’s services that is expected to provide download speeds of up to 200 Mbps. The activation of Starlink...
At the birthday dinner she threw for her closest friends at Blackbird, Heart Evangelista looked dazzling in the arm of lost-and-found escort—Senator Chiz Escudero Images Justin Louise Soriano REUNITED Senator Chiz Escudero joins Heart Evangelista for a birthday dinner she threw for her closest...
Falling in love suggests a loss of control, just as a fall, synonymous with tumbling, toppling, collapsing, is often a form of giving in to greater forces, such as gravity WRAPPED IN LOVE A playful update on the iconic symbol of affection, the Fall in Love bracelet by Louis Vuitton is a charming...
And I’m hungering for the sautéed onion in my breakfast omelette or the rings of medium red onion in my pork chop steak a la bistek “…Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I do not doubt but to hear them say it is a sweet comedy,” says the weaver Bottom to the...
The Very Extra Book Club starts the year with generous helpings of the scandals that broke this author and his New York swans apart THE VERY EXTRA BOOK CLUB From left: Rajo Laurel, Pauline Suaco Juan, Marielle Santos Po, Alicia Colby Sy, Stephanie Zubiri, Rocio Olbes Ressano, Jae de Veyra Pickrell,...
The plastic problem What we use for just minutes Will last a long, long time Something glints at sea I squint to see what it is It’s only plastic All the fish gagging Panic at the sea bottom Mass death soon follows Plastic everywhere Microplastics in our drink In what we eat, breathe How is the...
A metaphor for human greed and self-destruction Zombies are no horror genre, they’re a social commentary, maybe a study of hunger or greed. Food is an underlying, if not a central, theme to any zombie story. Like a shadow, it follows every character or, to be more precise, every character follows...
Cheers to the best of this year’s Ternocon—grand winner Yssa Inumerable and runners-up Gabbie Sarenas and Gladys Rose Pantua Images NOEL PABALATE KERCHIEFS AND APRONS Balintawak by Yssa Inumerable. The designer received the highest citation, the Pacita Longos Award Vladimir Nabokov would have...
This obsession for youth is old. As Pablo Picasso once said, “It takes a very long time to be young.” We might have been obsessed with youth since the beginning of time, or at least on record since Herodotus wrote about the fountain of youth in the fifth century BC, but as a cultural...
