Entries from January 2007

January 9, 2007

being there…somewhere

It started late last year when my roomates and I would often find ourselves wide awake until three to four in the morning. We couldn’t stop talking nor could we shut our mouths and fall asleep. Funny though, we didn’t feel sleepy in our morning classes. We then started thinking about how we could sleep [...]

January 7, 2007

Metro Manila Film Festival

The Metro Manila Film Festival is a yearly December event that features films that are supposed to be of top caliber and bear values proper to be shown for the general Pinoy public. And every year, this festival is never without a controversy. This year, tons of movie industry people are questioning why and how [...]

January 6, 2007

The New Year

Faced with so many uncertainties last year, I’m surprised many people still consider that year as a good one. Of course, preferrence is relative. But for a lot of people, especially here in the Philippines, 2006 was a hard one.
1. TFI
UP finally approved the tuition fee hike, which has hammered the higher-ups for so long. [...]

January 2, 2007

why being a kid rules

When I was a kid, I used to think that everything I touch was too big. I marveled at how big people could reach the heights I could only touch when standing on a chair. Their hands were big, their strides too fast for my tiny feet to follow. The world seemed oversized and I [...]