Life ain’t saved by killing another

by: Lian Nami Buan

Have sex, abort later? It’s the same as eat unhealthily now, get a liposuction tomorrow. In a night when two people seemed to have ignored all the responsibility that a relationship entails, saying “no” would’ve been a much easier decision to make than, “should I keep it?.”

St. Margaret of Castello was born blind and disfigured, but disabilities and abandoment from her parents wasn’t a hindrance to becoming a woman of God. In the modern times, defective fetuses can be detected by ultra sound examinations. By all means, a mother can give up a disabled child even before she can give the child a chance to live. Had her parents not let St. Margaret be born, the world would have never been able to witness her miracles.

This was among the words of Ms. Jeannine Delos Reyes towards the gift of life that she and Prolife Philippines have been trying to preserve for 30 years. Prolife Philippines is a non-profit organization that offers counseling help to women going through pregnancy problems.

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Keeping your feet firm on the ground

by: Lian Nami Buan

New shoes take a while to hug your feet comfortably, and they say, many things can happen in a while. Like leave nasty foot skin cuts, cause trips because of loose fit, slows down runs or walks because of weight and grip. But we can always go barefoot, although there are only a few who are brave enough to venture the world without shoes on.

Trinoma and Gateway Mall houses Rest-toe-run, a shoe salon which sells Terra Plana, and Sanuk shoes; two footwear brands that can give you the feeling of walking barefoot and stylish look that sets you apart from the mainstream others at the same time.

Not only does these lines, priced 2290, offer wide range of designs that best fits all-around women, they also fight fashion piracy because no way can small-time cribbers produce shoes and sandals that has the same effect on the feet.

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Blue Green Madness

by: Lian Nami Buan

 In Basketball, the fight begins behind the ticket booths.

A day after the Ateneo Blue Eagles and the De La Salle Green Archers earned their respective University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) finals slot, fans found themselves in a needle hole trying to get their hands on those elusive tickets.

Even before the buzzer sounded in the Ateneo-UE Semifinals game that Jay Bondoc was watching, she already had sent messages to friends from Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) asking if they could get her an extra ticket for the Finals. “It’s easier for them to get tickets because the final schools, I think, are given the most tickets by UAAP.” She is a junior student at the Far Eastern University, but remained a Blue Eagle fan at heart. To her and to the other one big fighters, nothing beats experiencing a Blue Championship live.

But she was just a single soul among the thousands that were as desperate for tickets as she was. Ticketnet started selling 9 in the morning of Monday, last September 15, a day after the semifinals declared Ateneo and LaSalle the championship contenders. The slogan ‘Tough Road to Glory’ is probably what the fans had in mind as they jump through fire rings to score tickets. Araneta Coliseum personnels reported that as early as 4 am, there already was a queue for the sales, most of them camped overnight to secure their purchase.

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Flying Super

by: Lian Nami Buan

Caught playing recently in the London 2012 Olympic Visa Party with Abba’s “The winner takes it all”, McFly is maybe the new Beatles, at least according to the Guiness World Book of record who hailed them the youngest band ever to top the UK chart with a debut album beating the record of John Lennon and company.

Although of course McFly would want a different identity, as what all the bands in the world would. But whether they admit it or not, being compared to the World’s most successful band of all times, let alone beat their record is one thing McFly cannot say no to. Besides, they root from the same land, spoke with the same accent, and perhaps rode the same tube trains on their way to the top. Four years of being in the music industry, McFly still has a lot to achieve. But if your country asked you to sing what seems like an anthem for the olympics, you know you’re on the right track.

It was their debut album “Room on the 3rd floor” that sealed the deal for McFly. All the following albums would reach no lower than number 6, and even then, audiences still requested for more. So they came up with an album, titled “Radio:Active”, and gave it free as a supplement for British tabloid, “The Mail on Sunday.” They have had seven singles which topped the UK chart in a span of 4 years. Truly, they, so far, has been doing the Beatles formula right.
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