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Marriage Is Apparently A Thing That Happens

By New Slang ⋅ December 16, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

By DANIEL DARWIN My baby brother is getting married in July. He’s not the first one, either. To get married, I mean. It seems to be a thing that happens a lot. From what I can gather through various Google searches and Wikipedia, millions of people before him have also gotten married. And included among [...]

Ambition, Noun

By New Slang ⋅ June 1, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

By REGINA BAUTISTA This comic was originally published in Cereal Saturdays. Regina Bautista recently abandoned a cozy corporate day job, churning out puns for an ad agency, to write and draw her life in comic book form. Rough drafts of ruminations on her daily existence can be found here. In case it hasn’t become dead [...]

Golden Rules: So Easy, a Child Could Do Them

By New Slang ⋅ April 26, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

By REGINA LAYUG-ROSERO DISCUSSED: How the world really should be a better place Fast times for fast food I walk down the street, past the McDonald’s with its drive-through lane, and there’s a little island between the arrows that mark the entrance and the exit. As I walk, groceries in hand, a Benz tries to [...]

Principles of Flight

By New Slang ⋅ April 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

By LJ SULIT DISCUSSED: The notion of soulmates, and why believing in them goes against common sense It was set to be the last fragment of this semi-requited love affair; the final straw of drunken kisses, sober platonism, and the undefinition of their overlapping; the ultimate confirmation of non-affection felt via unanswered calls, and the [...]

March 25, 2021

By New Slang ⋅ March 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

By JULIANNE PASCUAL DISCUSSED: Paranoia, the next ten years, standards of importance, and immersion in the nothingness of things Morning I wake up to a serenade of sorts, “Sugar pie, honey bunch, you know that I love you!” Sadly, this profession of love is coming from my iPhone that’s only doing its job as my [...]

Lists of the Collective

By New Slang ⋅ January 25, 2011 ⋅ One comment

By JULIANNE PASCUAL DISCUSSED: List archetypes, the point of lists, and why we keep making them Listless, according to the omniscient Merriam-Webster-folk, describes a state “characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit.” In a way, being listless implies lacking in essence. It’s one step closer to dehumanizing one’s self – becoming an inner clone, [...]