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Category Archive: Music

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A Thirteen-Year-Old Angel with a Golden Voice

    I am a self-made recluse. I have no radio in the house, I rarely watch the television, and I even cringe at the thought of reading the daily broadsheet. Though I’m connected nearly at all hours to the net, my searches are primarily interest-driven, or I’m just trolling on Facebook or in my some other forum. So it is no wonder that it took me more than a year to come across Greyson Michael Chance.

    I wasn’t really looking for … Read the rest

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In Awe of Gaga

    A year ago, if you asked me who Lady Gaga is, I would have looked at you blankly and answered “huh?” and scratched my head in pure bewilderment. To me, Lady Gaga was just another name in the sea of musicians and one not bothering about like, maybe, the Beatles or our very own Eraserheads or Parokya ni Edgar. Then one day, an online friend of mine told me that Lady Gaga gave him wet dreams like he was a … Read the rest

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Songs of the Steel Butterfly

    Our country has been through two female presidents and a smattering of First Ladies. But among all of them, none can rival the elegance, beauty, and the power wielded by the former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos. She was instrumental in her husband’s rise to power in the 1960s; at the height of his political career, she was a very visible public figure both locally and internationally. She personifies the saying, “Behind every powerful man, is a woman,” an equally … Read the rest

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A 9-mm with an Edge

    It’s already February. There is only three more months, including this one, before the presidential elections. The time for forging promises has come. Politicians stand on their soapboxes worth millions of pesos and court voters for their say so. It may look like the same old story; politician gives out promises, politician breaks promises and politician sucks the nation dry. Somehow, from what little I see here in my hermitage, it seems that the youth is finally taking the political … Read the rest