by Karl Angelica Ocampo

If you are treading the highways of Quezon City, you can spot a small bar erected along Visayas Avenue, where people who have the passion for love and life gather to celebrate music and appreciate one another’s art. A sanctuary hidden beneath the city lights and the noise of the metro, The Conspiracy Garden Café fuses together good food and good music along with Philippine culture and art.

By Eloisa Lopez

Same old workout making you snooze? 

Even though we all know we should make time to exercise regularly, we often find ourselves making excuses not to go to the gym. Often, we overstuff our schedules, but sometimes we skip gym because it bores us. Well, boredom with your exercise routine can be one of the biggest obstacles you have to overcome. When you’ve adopted a fit lifestyle, it helps to try something new every once in awhile to keep your workouts fresh and to keep challenging yourself. While many fitness fads come and go, there are a few fun workouts that will keep fitness-minded people engaged to the game. Instead of your usual cardio classes and treadmill routines, you may want to try these new fun workouts that will surely help keep your boredom at bay. These fun new workouts might as well help you prepare yourself for the coming yuletide season. 

By Eloisa Lopez

With juice bars popping up in almost every corner of the city, it’s no secret that juicing is one of the latest trends in health and weight loss these days. Whether you’re in a gym or a supermarket, there is some form of juice everywhere. Local celebrities like Anne Curtis, Isabelle Daza, and Georgina Wilson all swear by the benefits.

by Karl Angelica Ocampo

Thomasians love a trip down the food lane every now and then. Whether you’re on the side of Lacson, Dapitan, España, or P. Noval, there is always something to stop every tiger’s stomach growls. Here are some of the well-loved food establishments around the university:

by Karl Angelica Ocampo

New kinds of movies are slowly emerging in the Philippine cinema. They are more or less characterized by starring budding artists, most of them not well-known but are promising; bolder themes depicting scenarios of poverty and abuse among others; and are devoid of clichés running in the mainstream. This is independent cinema, the one we’re all beginning to patronize, the new breeding ground for Filipino films.

By Frances Gutierrez

The people stand firm.  They want to have the pork barrel abolished.

The call for the scrapping of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel continues to draw support, this time, from the Philippine President’s “bosses.”

Widespread public clamour has been sparked by the alleged Janet Lim Napoles-led multi-billion peso scam that also involved some lawmakers who supposedly funnelled their PDAF to bogus non-government organizations.

By Maraiah Meily

If you’re the very much sophisticated type of person, Cubao Expo also known as Cubao X might just surprise you, but in a good way. This was then called Marikina Shoe Expo and is composed of quirky and mind blowing galleries, exotic restaurant, trendy accessories shops, and bars that will charm you off your feet. Those novelty shops have rare and passionately created products, and events that will keep you awake all day and night.

By Dada Grifon

"Gone are the days when internet is only viewed as an  entertainment locus, but it has evolved as a platform for academic and political interaction."


Type. Click. Post. Interact. Share whatever you want and you can haply change the world! 

“Blogging is a powerful avenue to influence. If you want your voice to be heard, if you want your writings to be read, blog,” John Emmanuel Ebora, known as juanrepublic urged, as he discussed his viewpoints on the power of posting ideas online.

Expressing all kinds of sentiments and thoughts online can actually have a larger impact not only toward  initial audience but to the world. With the quick flow of information, a collective goal can be obtained through a “collective action” even if it is a long shot, he said.

Known for his sociopolitical commentary and self– proclaimed “social pakielamero,” juanrepublic was steadfast when he said that blogging is an effective avenue to trigger a progressive development in society.

By Frances Gutierrez and Dada Grifon

“Hilaw pa lang kami, sinusunog na nila kami.”

Dismayed by the ‘rotten’ local political system, Sangguniang Kabataan Chairperson of Barangay San Jose, Rodriguez Rizal, Rose Ann Gonzales forwarded her disposition on the defects of the baranganic governance.

Some solons have branded the SK as a breeding ground for traditional politicians and corruption, an idea Gonzales thwarted for she believed that the SK constitution itself has become distorted because they are hindered by larger bureaucratic scale.

Dada Grifon, Chrixy Paguirigan and Milky Vargas

The supposed to be new boulevard towards improved access to triumph and development for San Pedro, turned to a dead road construction, with hazy vision- and hopeless.


A busy highway serves as the main transport avenue of vehicles as it bridges six major Barangays to the town plaza in San Pedro, Laguna. While it provides easy access to the urban proper, where central transactions take place, it had also become an escape route if there is heavy traffic in the national road. For several decades, citizens had benefited from it as they commute with money-saved and hassle- free ride. 

By Anjeanette Manuel 

Living in a fortress, donned with flashy jewelries, wearing posh clothes, drowning in a pool of gold and adorned by all; these are just few of the characteristics of a princess and not to mention, a tiara in her head with a stunning prince charming kissing her hand. But things are different for the princess living beside the edge of the mountainous area at the province of Capiz. 

By Aikea Aguirre

Loud cheers reverberated inside San Juan Arena as the battle heated up between the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Growling Tigers and the University of the East (UE) Lady Warriors. The shrieks intensified more as a young woman on the UST courtside stole the spotlight with her game reports; but more than just an icon in the field of courtside reporting, Ma. Kristina “Tina" Marasigan is more than just a courtside beauty.

By Frances Gutierrez, Justin Blancaflor, Rose Ann Gonzales

The influx of foreign artists indeed has become significant and noticeable as they help keep the Philippine concert scene alive.

International superstars like Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Jennifer Lopez, had already set foot in what is being considered as one of the best places to hold a concert in: Manila.

By Chrixy Paguirigan

Kabang, a hero dog whose snout and jaw was ripped of when she saved two girls from an accident, ended up in Davis hospital in 2012 after a fundraising campaign to bring her to the U.S. Veterinarians reached $27,000 through donation all around the world.

By Anjeanette Manuel

When you say Paris, Tokyo, New York and London, it would be a big joke if you forget about the most expensive metropolitan in the Middle East and the only Muslim city with a booming 9.89 million overnight tourist this year; Dubai, the city of infrastructures beyond the imagination, the hub of rapid modernization that competes with the top cities of the world and of course, the place where Lamborghini, Aston Martin and Bugatti are no big deal.

By Anjeanette Manuel

Jolan begs for leftover food as she carries her black puppy in front of the students walking on the side walk. Her mother, lying on the ground was unaware of what’s in store for this month.

She said, “We are poor, hopeless and

By Eloisa Lopez

The government stresses the need for a reproductive health program over an alarming UN report that pregnancy is most common among teens in the Philippines.

The report, released at ABS CBN new.com, said the Philippines now ranks first among ASEAN’s (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) 6 major economies in teenage pregnancy with a rate of 53 in every 1,000 women aged 15 to 19.

Data showed the country not only has the highest teen pregnancy rate...

By Anjeanette Manuel

23% of the world’s population consists of Muslim and approximately 4.2 million are Filipinos. This year, July is considered as a holy month for them yet a lot of people are clueless as to what it signifies among the Islamic community.

The term “ramadan” comes from an Arabic word meaning scorching as this event falls on a hot season and on the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. According to Islamic tradition, the month of Ramadan is when Allah (God) revealed the first verses of Qur’an, the holy book to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). 

By Chrixy Paguirigan

“At some point in time, history takes its rightful place, and makes it to the spotlight – leaving people without a choice but to look back”

In a scale of one to ten, how much do you know about your history? In a generation where people get too occupied with what the world presents and offers, history blunts to the least of people’s interest and is given superficial attention.

Though there are those times when history becomes an issue to the public, a recent example is when the Komunisyon ng Wikang Filipino (KWF) proposed to change the name Pilipinas to ‘F’ilipinas by reason of its origin and history.

By Chrixy Paguirigan

How many people grew up believing fairy tales existed? That they can somehow break through the thick line dividing reality and fantasy? Wherein there are magical nights with people wearing shimmering outfits while being serenaded with mystical harmonies, breath-taking scenes and heavenly feelings?

And how many beliefs have been shattered as many of us got to know the world?