Harum-Scarum

Creating memories is a great way to invigorate friendships. And that surely is what I and my oldest friends hoped for. Taking advantage of the long weekend, we have decided to take a quick roadtrip and dip in Laiya, the nearest white beach down South. Fun is not even understatement; okay yeah, it’s a word, but surely it brought more than fond memories I could only gather. I suggest taking the time off work and have summer, be with people you love, and let them take care of you when you get piss drunk. That’s what friends are for. Really.

It’s almost May sweeps and to a fangirl, that equates the Super Bowl. TV finales are everywhere and before you take a second look, you have just been invited to weddings, births, break-ups, hook-ups, deaths. The idea is for these shows to shock and sustain that shock value all throughout hiatus. Yes, season’s endings of TV shows can be very chaotic and oftentimes it is fueled by sudden twist against canon.

Speaking of shocking twists, how about Lost this season huh? Or the always exciting Damages. Breaking Bad blew my mind this season. 30 Rock and Bones will never fail me should they put on their worst seasons yet. They haven’t. It took awhile but I wasn’t really surprised of Don and Betty divorcing. I can go on and on and on...


Seems that the much-publicized and controversial automated elections lived up to its name, both good and bad: good, in ways that the conduct and results of the voting proved credible enough and bad, with the ungodly long lines that welcomed us to the polls. But the good greatly trumps the bad, as the mere inconvenience of incurable queues was no match to the triumph of the Filipino electorate exercising a united stance for political modernity.

While in the past no politician ever loses (everyone claims to have been cheated), the almost incontestable polling system reciprocated an education in peaceful elections. That politicians respect and respond to the sovereign voice of the Filipino voting public; that the polls graduated from obsolete mechanisms; that fears of massive polling irregularities took a back seat, the surge of all things updated is a great addition in the pages of history.