The Oasis: Nostalgic and Romantic at the Same Time

It was a rainy day but no one could tell us that we couldn’t swim. Life was like a silver lining on that Saturday. It had been about almost a year since December that my Binhi Youth Campers and I re-united over food (as always delicious and grand) and endless stories.

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12 Things that make you a Filipino Teenager

Being a teenager is awesome and it’s more if you are a Filipino. Perhaps, the diversity of culture makes lives of teenagers different from each other yet regardless, being a teenager is the best time in your life because you need not to worry about rent, tax and your bank account.

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Making Stress an Art: Stress Girl (An art exhibit by Dolly Jane Sordilla)

By Royanni Miel M. Hontucan

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“This art exhibit was my way of expressing my stress as a graduating student (Fine Arts Major of Silliman University),” says the artist Dolly Jane Sordilla. In an interview with the Weekly Sillimanian, she described her works (created through various mediums) as “honest and unapologetic thoughts everyone has” under intense pressure and  “overpowering anxiety” that one feels in their last year of college.

Because she didn’t have the option of abandoning her thesis, she opted to formulate her thesis through making stress as an art.

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Cebu: City Lights and Coffee Runs

By Royanni Miel M. Hontucan

Photography by Maribel P. Millares

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This is a throwback travel story from 2013. This isn’t my first time to go to Cebu, Philippines. I’ve been there when I was 13 years old but I’ve only savored the cultural and historical places such as the Lapu-Lapu Shrine.

When I went back, I’ve decided to watch how the city lights could get brighter instead. 

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