Halangdon

Sublimity in print.

Author: Samuel Mendez II

Breathless from your sight and also my pneumonia.

Artificial Intelligence and The Value of Humanity

/ Features

I enjoy science-fiction, specifically those of the optimistic kind. As an idealist myself, I am deeply interested in a future wherein humanity thrives and technological utopia. Such stories depict a world wherein robots perform all the menial tasks that normally would eat a sizable chunk out of a person’s time and energy, and humanity is then left with whatever artistic passions and scientific developments are gained with such newfound time and energy. How depressing it is then that in reality the robots are making poetry while human people are clocking in at the factory lines.

Gabii sa Kabilin 2024 And Everything Else

/ Features /

The plan was simple. Visit every single one of the 22 museums participating in this year’s Gabii sa Kabilin, an annual one-night event where museums all across Metro Cebu have their doors open until midnight for people to stop by. In my USC branded tote bag were a plastic water bottle, a Tupperware of Chips Ahoy cookies, a pair of brown khaki shorts, a blue journal riddled with stickers, two black ballpens, my P300 GSK 2024 premium ticket, and an accompanying fold-out brochure. The ticket, which was worth two days of my allotted daily food budget, was required for a class and entailed discounts on food and merch, a one-time tartanilla ride, and free bus rides going to every museum that spanned past Cebu City and into Mandaue, Talisay, and Lapu-Lapu.

SOLARES’ Sulyap sa Sining First Day Exhibits Local Cebuano Arts

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SOLARES held its first art festival titled ‘Sulyap sa Sining’ at the Ayala Central Bloc Activity Center, featuring DCLL student writers, painters, filmmakers, and photographers alongside other Cebuano artists in a celebration of artistic expression. The event began its first day on Thursday, April 18, 2024 and is set to conclude today Saturday, April 20. The festival featured a colorful variety of booths selling stickers, pins, art prints, paintings, photographs, books, and other creations by artists found all throughout Cebu.

EDSA 38: A History On Repeat

/ Features

“I told you so” are four words that flutter so easily out of my mouth and anyone who knows me even a little is fully aware that I will take any opportunity to vocalize how I was in fact right.

A Century of the World and Enrile

/ FRIDAY FEATURETTES, Uncategorized

100 years ago today, the tenth anniversary of the start of WW1 was four months away. The Philippines, in the middle of its first and second republic was under American rule in the roaring 20s, the Korean Peninsula had been under Japanese rule for over a decade, and Germany’s Weimar Republic will arrest Adolf Hitler in the coming month only to release him by December. In three months J.Edgar Hoover will be appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and a month prior Vladimir Lenin died. The Summer Olympics will be held in Paris and the Chinese Zodiac was the year of the Rat. It was Valentine’s Day and Juan Ponce Enrile was born.

LCS Freshies Concludes Semester with Literary Fest

/ NEWS, Uncategorized

Last Thursday December 7, 2023, the first-year students of the Literary and Cultural Studies with Creative Writing (LCS) held a literary festival on PE13C, alongside a continuation of PALABRA’s Pages and Threads Book Sale in the basement halls of the PE building.

A Eulogy to Litfest

/ THE CEBUANO MEMORIAM /

Dearly beloved we are all gathered here today to mourn for a dear companion. A sorrowful demise but to those that knew the departed well, not an unexpected one. Join me as I detail my personal experience witnessing the final days of a friend.

This is a eulogy to Litfest.

In Search for Martino Tinong

/ THE CEBUANO MEMORIAM /

Picture this, I sit on a crowded 13C jeepney on the way to Colon and I use “sit” very generously because three quarters of my rear end are sat upon nothing but air molecules. The anachronistic hands of my tablet’s clock app read 2:00PM, the horizon remained to be tinted blue with orange bronze hues a few hours from engulfing the sky. The museum closes at 4:30PM, forty minutes had passed and the jeep had only just now passed Country Mall, this is bad.

Wika ng Kamatayan

/ THE LINGUA FRANCA COMPENDIUM /

Matalinghaga ang mga Pilipino, mahilig sila sa mga mabulaklak na pananalita, sila’y isang mala-tula na tao. Kahit ano man ang pinag uusapan, sa mga karaniwang bagay-bagay hanggang sa mga pinaka matindi’t mabigat na usapan, lumalabas talaga ang espiritu ni Balagtas. At ano pa bang makaraniwan ngunit mabigat ang mas nakaka higit pa sa kamatayan.

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