Author Archives: Carmen
True Blood and Serials
While we tend to think of serials as stories in defunct magazines, you know the one where the only thing with color is the magazine, this cliff-hanger type storytelling is still very dominant in today’s instant society. Take for example, True Blood. It runs very much like a, well, a telenovela. Yes. In Philippine culture atleast, the telenovela reigns supreme as the number one serial format.
Summer and the Suburb by Ryann Labad
Deep comfort finds me in a villa porch.
A panorama of blooming field and verdant yard.
There’s warmth in the wind of farewelling March,
Arbor sough and maya strains echo from the orchard,
Blooming are the alleys and the hedges,
The azure above is sweeping those cotton masses.
Not afar, I see the child of my past.
I know how it feels like when this time of the year comes;
Lying on a lawn of bermuda grass
At time when fruit-tress are richly bearing drupes and pomes.
The cheerful flowers sway and dance along
As the orchard sings the gay suburban summer song.
10 Must- Dos Before Graduating College by Julian Savard
- Take a Detour
For sure by now you know how your school looks, it’s no problem for you to find your classes and you could pretty much map the campus on the palm of your hand. But why not try and take a detour down the corridors you have yet to see? Or behind your school, in the nooks and crannies of the buildings and dorms? Ateneo de Manila has one of the biggest forests in its campus, unexplored. You don’t know what secret places you might just discover. For example most P-UPs (students from UP) had no idea there was a lurking carinderia in their neck of the woods that not only serves the best home- cooked meals, but for an affordable price too. So while you’re still enrolled, take a stroll.