We had 15 minutes to escape from Terminus. Only one second separated us from being eaten alive and escaping. What happened to us?
Author: Carmie Dulguime
Cock, cheesecake and complications from the Red Turnip
Is it really that hard to choose between a man and a woman? What does the cock say? In Red Turnip Theater’s adaptation of the Olivier Award-winning play, Cock, John (played by Topper Fabregas) is torn between his gay lover M (Niccolo Manahan) and new girlfriend W (Jenny Jamora). To make things more complicated, M’s…
Audio description: movies for those who can’t see and hear
I closed my eyes, thinking it will give me an idea how a blind person can enjoy watching a movie. A few seconds into the attempt, I wanted to knock myself in the head for even trying. What was I thinking? I realized I could never appreciate the audio description that came with the film…
Okay, pine: a Busol tree-logy
“Buwis-buhay ka talaga (you really defy death),” my friend Suzanne said when I insisted on climbing Busol again after more than a year. It’s been raining for days, and we were told that climbing the mountain would be trickier, if not dangerous. We did anyway, twice: once in June and another in July. Bloom in…
Chasing rainfalls in Baguio
Call me ignorant, but I really didn’t know that the Philippines’ summer capital gets the most rainfall in the country until I read World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Philippines’ climate change risk assessment on Baguio (Business Risk Assessment and the Management of Climate Change Impacts). I learned more about this when I had the chance to…