Archive for November, 2006
"Nakiki-baka"
It’s not that I don’t like the principles of activism. The idea of mobilizing a large group of people to right an infamous and despicable wrong is certainly a value that I appreciate. The principles of the local “activist” party in the university are also principles I can reasonably stand for. Who isn’t against greater [...]
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As those of you who do read comics know, Marvel’s big inter-company cross-over for the season is “Civil War”, where Mark Millar makes a thinly-veiled attempt at political allegory over the current state of the US government using superheroes.
The basic plot being, the US government institutes a “superhero registration act” which divides the superhero community, [...]
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An Age Old Secret Garden
Since HBO Asia has been showing Jerry Maguire regularly in the past few months, I’ve been able to watch and rewatch this movie everytime I flip on over to HBO. Upon watching it for the umpteenth time, I suddenly realize,
Holy shit! This movie’s TEN YEARS OLD!
That decade went by pretty fast. Didn’t seem as if [...]
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The Cost of China’s Development
A short video that shows the extent of the human rights violations currently happening in China. There may not be any massacres as large in scope as Tienanmen Square, but that’s been replaced by hundreds of small ones that affect a lot more people.
The building boom in China might be great for architecture, but it [...]
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Inexcusable
Sometimes, something newsworthy happens and it barely registers in the public consciousness. Other times, something that should only be a blip gets blown way out of proportion until it becomes the talk of the town weeks after the incident has happened.
Pacquiao and Alcano notwithstanding, the recent victory of three Filipino students from First Asia Institute [...]
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