Subtle Deaths in Translation
…With how accustomed our current generation is to the effects of globalization, it may be easy to overlook how often we encounter translated content in our daily lives.
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2GO Masagana: What’s on and below the deck?
In my experience aboard the Masagana, I noticed an invisible division between passengers inside the hotel-like interior of the vessel and those outside on the upper deck.
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eh kasi bakla: The Love-Hate Relationship towards Gay Culture in the Philippines
This is the reality that gay people experience in the Philippines: homosexuality is tolerated more than accepted.
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The Poetry Hour: a spoken word showcase
In a world that is moved by collective ticks of clocks, PALABRA endeavored to melt the passage of time almost a week ago in The Poetry Hour: A Spoken Word Showcase.
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Risa: The Echoes of a Silent Brush’s approach on war and the death of dreams
I was only told moments after the curtains had risen and everything went dark: first, that this was set in 1940’s Bataan, during the Japanese Occupation, and second, that it was a musical. Both were enough to keep me in my seat already.
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Artificial Intelligence and The Value of Humanity
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.
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World Turtle Day
“All tortoises are in fact turtles—that is, they belong to the order Testudines or Chelonia, reptiles having bodies encased in a bony shell—but not all turtles are tortoises.” —Kathleen Kuiper (from Britannica)
Gabii sa Kabilin 2024 And Everything Else
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.
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The Fault In Our Stars: Love In The Time of Sickness
I always wondered, after watching and reading a lot about cancer patients, what gave them so much strength to find love amidst the pain and challenges that they undergo everyday. Love can be unconditional and our own way of viewing it can carry a different meaning for many people.
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World Penguin Day
Make sure to ready buckets of krill, fish, and squid because we are celebrating World Penguin’s Day!