02: Awkwardity
The Gallery of the Happy
New Slang has this belief that at our happiest, the camera also happens to capture us in our worst facial moments. You recognize the open mouth, the bugged eyes, and your face morphing like a bad acid trip. It’s the look we get when we’re caught shrieking at the sight of our best friends. It’s [...]
Cover-up
By CAT JUAN DISCUSSED: Awkward teenage years, makeup, and zits (lots of them) Fifteen: an age when I had skin as greasy as a McDonald’s deep fryer, limbs so long and thin that girls in school christened me “polio victim”, and the word ‘pretty’ was the furthest from what I thought described me. I was [...]
The Real Heavy Metal
By RIA REDULLA Illustrated By REG BAUTISTA Discussed: High school, Puberty, Life with a Back Brace, Michele Weinberger is my Hero Puberty is a cruel time to be a female. Skin breaks out, mini-boobs sprout out from nowhere, hair grows in weird places, hormones give you funny feelings for boys, and don’t even get me [...]
“So How’ve You Been?”
BY MIAO RAMOS DISCUSSED: college reunion extras, high school, queen bees, Romy and Michelle, polite interest, small and smaller talk Early on in college, I had always assumed that my high school barkada get-togethers in the far-off future would play out like Gimik: The Reunion. I thought I’d be like Ese (Jolina Magdangal), who kept [...]
Playing the Game
By REGINA BAUTISTA Reg of Cereal Saturdays (“A Weekend on a Weakday”) wanted to draw a comic about the awkward world of dating as a precursor to relationships, until she realized she never really dated. She is, however, awfully familiar with “The Game”, which will be discussed in further pictorial detail in today’s Show and [...]
For You, Rico Yan, I Will Believe
By MARLA CABANBAN New Slang takes a look back at what we have learned from our favorite Filipino love teams and their projects–memorable or otherwise. DISCUSSED: Got 2 Believe, Rico Yan, Claudine Barretto, David Pomeranz Got 2 Believe is a Star Cinema rom-com directed by Olivia Lamasan. It’s also known as the last movie Rico [...]
Dating Encounters of the Awkward Kind
By DAVID LOUGHRAN DISCUSSED: Dichotomy of Good and Bad Haphazardly Applied to Dating, “Get That Retainer Outta My Face,” “I Didn’t Say Nothin’!”, and The Eventual Disclaimer We’ve all been conditioned to think that there are ‘good’ dates and ‘bad’ dates. Some of us know the real difference, but most of us are just touted [...]
Lost and Found
By ALICE SARMIENTO I have a nasty habit of randomly picking up ephemera off the street. If certain things that catch my eye seem suspect, I just stare at them for a long time, maybe I’ll take a picture. If they’re okay, and by okay I mean disease-free, I’ll pick them up and stick them [...]
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