Date with zombies

We had 15 minutes to escape from Terminus. Only one second separated us from being eaten alive and escaping. What happened to us?

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…