For as long as the Philippines has been aware of the half-Filipino NBA player (currently with the Cleveland Cavaliers) Jordan Clarkson, the country, particularly its sports committees, has dreamed of incorporating the superstar on some iteration of the national men’s basketball team, aka Gilas Pilipinas. Whenever a major international basketball comes up, Clarkson’s name tends…
One of the major selling points put out by Disney for their “Wreck-It Ralph” sequel “Ralph Breaks the Internet”, was the appearance of the Disney Princesses while the main characters were exploring the Internet as laid out in the movie’s plot blurb. Movie audiences were already given a nice taste of how that scene will…
It has not been a good year for The Mighty Thor. His home of Asgard was sacrificed, destroyed to bring an end to two threats to its people, who fled the cataclysm to the cosmos. Then the Asgardian survivors (and his brother) were wiped out by Thanos. Then, although he got a replacement weapon he…
One of the most famous and false superstitions about natural phenomenon in nature concerns lightning supposedly never striking the same place twice. So many fatalities have been chalked up throughout the years due to this mistaken notion. The same principle applies to earthquakes, in the form of aftershocks at the same spot following a main…
First let us take a little history lesson. The Philippine-American War that followed over three centuries of colonial rule began to wind down in the early 20th Century with the March 1901 capture of the first President, Emilio Aguinaldo. But armed resistance continued against American occupation. In September of that year an ambush was launched…
With the beginning of the 21st Century a new sort of media franchise began to rise to a dominant place in motion pictures: superhero movies or rather, superhero film universes. While arguably began by 20th Century Fox with its series about Marvel super-team “X-Men” and Columbia/Sony with its “Spider-Man films, it was Marvel themselves that…
Last March we saw another closing chapter in the sad fall of once-mighty international ride-hailing service Uber in the Southeast Asian market. Following a titanic struggle to compete with regional heavyweight ride platform Grab from Singapore, the American company not only quit the scene but even offered its business there to Grab Inc. in a…
