Well, it is and it isn’t. No spoilers here — at least nothing direct.
I watched Cloverfield last night and while to say that the conception of such a creature is awesome would be an understatement, the movie really wasn’t about the monster.
Surprisingly, it is a movie about people: the person who held the camera to [...]
Entries from January 2008
Cloverfield isn’t a movie about a monster attacking New York
January 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Pinilakang Tabing · Teknolohiya
Regretting EDSA Dos
January 19th, 2008 · 6 Comments
I clearly remember that morning, seven years ago from today, when our professors told us that we’re not required to attend classes.
We can get on the DLSU bus, which comes and goes every hour and a half, bringing students and teachers to La Salle Greenhills, from where we walked short of a kilometer to the [...]
Can just anyone rise up to the challenge of poverty?
January 10th, 2008 · 12 Comments
Around a month ago Sidney Snoeck (who maintains the excellent photo blog My Sari Sari Store) posed a challenge to my blog entry Mariannet Amper and the Gospel of Hopelessness.
In that blog entry, I posited that the “the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer” mantra was part of a “gospel of hopelessness” [...]
Tags: Buhay · Edukasyon · Ekonomiya · Karir at Propesyon · Negosyo
2007 to 2008 are our “Going ’round the Philippines” years
January 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
A wondrous Happy New Year to all!
One of the new year’s resolutions that I’ve been wanting to make is to be able to post more regularly to this blog. To say that this is difficult is by itself an understatement — my work schedule only allows me a few blocks of genuinely free time, which [...]