Honestly, ask any person who knows me really well and they'll probably tell you that I am very sensitive to anything that seriously disrespects and degrades anyone based on gender, age and more importantly, ethnicity or race.

As a person of Filipino- Chinese descent and as an Australian-Filipino citizen, I find it very offensive when people ( Read more... )

It was on a Thursday night, shopping night in Australia, which is the only night when shops and malls remain open for business until around 8:00 to 9:00 in the evening. They close around 4:30 to 5:00 pm on normal days.  Don’t ask me why it’s on Thursday instead of the weekends. I don’t even comprehend it myself.

Anyway, I was enjoying a ( Read more... )

By: Cecile Ann Sy

On the night before Halloween, October 30, 1938, thousands of unexpecting Americans who turned on their radio for an evening programming, erupted into panic, after listening to a radio play, simulating a news broadcast about alien invasion.

Depicted as a live news report on Martian attacks, Orson Welles' radio performance caused  ( Read more... )

I am not really into sports. I can’t even say I follow any sports though I enjoy watching some events in the Olympics. I like water sports, gymnastics, pole vaulting, figure skating, volleyball, badminton, and of course, the sports that all Filipinos are expected to love: basketball.

‘Though when I was younger, I used to follow NBA but that ( Read more... )

The recent global financial crisis and election of the First African-American President of the United States brought about a phenomenon of epic proportions: OBAMANIA, which is defined as “the national obsession with Barack Obama.”

There must be something in the air because this obsession seems to be spreading like a super strain of the flu and ( Read more... )

Do you want to eradicate the entire species of TALONG?

A lot of people tend to use the word HATE loosely. Dictionary.com defines the word as “to feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward” or “to dislike intensely or passionately”.  To dislike someone or something with passion would probably mean that you would genuinely wish this “ ( Read more... )

When you're feeling a bit lonely... Or when you're feeling a bit cold... Oh, mateys, there's nowhere else you'd rather be...but UNDER BARACK OBAMA. Ey Ey Ey... Hahahaha.

When life gets too stressful, I try to unwind by watching the funniest videos on Youtube about the US Elections. I want to share the love, my dearest friends. In fact, I love y' ( Read more... )

I have always considered myself to be nocturnal. My brain seems to be more alive at night, and trying to go to sleep when your mind doesn’t want to is quite challenging. In fact, many of my works were written on those sleepless nights, and I’ve written about this constant struggle to get undisturbed slumber. On top of that, judging by my dead beat ( Read more... )

This was probably one of the busiest weeks of my life.  Not that I’m using it as an excuse but I missed two weeks of gym for this. ‘Missed last week because I was stressing out too much about the following week, and I missed this week because, well, it's THE BIG WEEK.

World Youth Day 2008 officially started in Sydney on July 15, which was Tuesday ( Read more... )

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