On the Verge of Lunacy

Inday struggles through the door with her groceries as her son Cedric, 3, clings to her and asks for a penny. She has to move fast if she doesn’t want her family to starve tonight. Her sister-in-law helps her prepare the dinner while she computes the previous results of last night’s lotto draw. For her, this routine is a must. “I do not know if this is effective, but I do it every night. For someone who relies on last-two for the daily expenses, I don’t see it as a gambling game anymore.” Without a stable job to rely on, so many people have taken chances in gambling. Small-time betting like last-two is rampant. In this numbers game, the winning combination is derived from the last two numbers of the first prize of the Sweepstakes draw. Depending on the day of the week, the source of the winning combination varies from the 4-digit draw to the 6-digit draw. Like Jueteng, last two is an illegal numbers game listed under Republic Act No. 9287. Yet it still thrives in communities like th...

For Doreen Mariz, a freshman BS Biology student, every morning is always a race to the bathroom. Armed with her blue pail and dipper, she wills herself to get up earlier than she usually does at home. "I have to get there first so I have enough water to use", she said. The finish line is not always a pretty sight to look at, however. Who would have thought that my younger sister would experience the same dilemmas I had just to prepare for the day. "It looks like any other public bathroom", she relates, "The only difference is that they do not have doodles on the walls, you have clothes hanging like bandiritas instead." But is not all about the bandiritas that most students are concerned about. The first few lucky residents who get there in the morning are rewarded with ample amount of water and a fairly decent view of the dormitory in the morning. Scattered plastic wrappers, toilet papers, and - oh yes, sanitary napkins. Scattered artifacts and remai...

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It's not just a game. Five years ago I could not sleep without playing even just one round of it. Five years ago, I walked through dark alleys and endured hunger just to get a taste of it. Five years ago, I could go head-to-head against the toughest gamers. It was the best thing the world has ever created. And it took me months to stop playing Counter-Strike. It's not just a game. Few people realize that virtual games are no different from books, music, movies and other forms of media and recreation. They all have the same function: an escape. We watch television, listen to music and read because we want to experience what it's like to be in another world as a different person or place. I'm a CS addict, but I also know that life will be so boring without it. There is an art in playing. All people have the ability to learn how to do it but not everyone can be good at it. Battle Realms and Generals require strategic and tactical skills. Counterstrike requires pr...

Analysis of the movie "Babel" based on Stanley Cavell's "Audience, Actor, and Star" and Alexander Sesonske's "Space, Time, and Motion in Film" Brad Pitt became famous as a screen actor when he played a starring role in the Dark Side of the Sun in 1988. Like most famous "stars" he is well-known in some of the roles he played in his movies. According to Cavell, "the screen actor is essentially not an actor at all: he is the subject of the study..." In popular culture the roles these stars have played are overshadowed by the fact that they played them. The audience knows immediately what to expect from the movie through the actors' names.The characters they play in the story are created by them, not unlike in plays where the characters roles have already been established. In the example given in the essay, King Lear has been portrayed in flesh just like he is in the story. While in some movies, the roles are specifically ma...