“Instead of following a clear path from courtship to marriage, individuals are choosing to engage in romantic ties on their own terms — without the guidance of social norms,” said Tyler Jamison, a researcher in the university’s Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
via Young adult dating trend slows road to marriage | ABS-CBN News | Latest Philippine Headlines, Breaking News, Video, Analysis, Features.
rePost::Jessica Zafra: Notes on the Death of Amy Winehouse – Interaksyon.com
Wala lang malungkot.
7. Amy Winehouse was 27 at the time of her death. Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain were also 27 at the time of their death. By dying at age 27 Winehouse has bought mystical cult status.
Astrologers say that 27 is the age of the “Saturn return”—the end of childhood, a time of chaos and confusion. One is tested to see if she can go on with the rest of her life.
The 27 Club didn’t.
via Jessica Zafra: Notes on the Death of Amy Winehouse – Interaksyon.com.
rePost:: 25 Truths About Men That Women Already Know But Many Men Still Don’t::Pinoy Penman
Like Jessica’s List. PSHS alumns represent!
8. Men will never admit to staring desirously at other women in the company of their mates. They were just gazing at the scenery. To provide deniability, they can practice and will perfect that “gazing at the scenery” gaze, with the distant mountains at 12 o’clock and the luscious babe at 3 o’clock.
via Pinoy Penman.
rePosat::25 'truths' we put through – EMOTIONAL WEATHER REPORT By Jessica Zafra – The Philippine Star » Lifestyle Features » Sunday Life
Fun sage filled advice read. Read the whole damn thing!
23. “Someday your prince (or princess) will come.” That would be nice. And if he (or she) doesn’t, you can be happy anyway. You can hang out with your friends. You can take off at a moment’s notice. You never have to synchronize your schedule with anyone else’s. Your time and money are your own. You have your own bathroom. And if your prince/princess arrives late, remember these words of infallible wisdom: Separate bathrooms.
via 25 ‘truths’ we put through – EMOTIONAL WEATHER REPORT By Jessica Zafra – The Philippine Star » Lifestyle Features » Sunday Life.
rePost::::Your Brain in Love “A new meta-analysis study… – Lapidarium notes
Addicted to love is not a figure of speech it is physical reality.
Results from Ortigue’s team revealed when a person falls in love, 12 areas of the brain work in tandem to release euphoria-inducing chemicals such as dopamine, oxytocin, adrenaline and vasopression. The love feeling also affects sophisticated cognitive functions, such as mental representation, metaphors and body image. (…)
Other researchers also found blood levels of nerve growth factor, or NGF, also increased. Those levels were significantly higher in couples who had just fallen in love. This molecule involved plays an important role in the social chemistry of humans, or the phenomenon ‘love at first sight.’ “These results confirm love has a scientific basis,” says Ortigue. (…)
The study also shows different parts of the brain fall for love. For example, unconditional love, such as that between a mother and a child, is sparked by the common and different brain areas, including the middle of the brain. Passionate love is sparked by the reward part of the brain, and also associative cognitive brain areas that have higher-order cognitive functions, such as body image.”
via Your Brain in Love “A new meta-analysis study… – Lapidarium notes.
rePost::News of the World: Rupert Murdoch and his minions really did lower the tone of Britain's tabloid press. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine
The comparative fallout of the scandal on Britain’s two main political parties is probably fairly even. Successive Labour governments maintained much the longer and warmer relationship with Murdoch, while Conservative Party leader David Cameron did employ a former News of the World editor who is implicated in the phone-hacking scandal in a senior government media position (and Cameron has, aside from professional politics, himself pursued no career except that of a PR man for TV companies). The most neglected aspect of the entire imbroglio is this. Most of the allegations of shady practice against the Murdoch octopus have come from another newspaper. Under the editorship of Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian has been engaged in breaching an old unspoken code of the British press racket—that “dog does not eat dog.” The prime minister’s office showed itself incapable of conducting an investigation; the courts and the prosecutors appeared to have no idea of the state of the law, and the police were too busy collecting their tip-off fees. Admittedly, it isn’t usually the job of these institutions to keep the press honest. (Indeed, I could swear that I read somewhere that the whole concept was the other way about.) Still, it’s encouraging to record that when the press needed a housecleaning, there was a paper ready to take on the job.
via News of the World: Rupert Murdoch and his minions really did lower the tone of Britain’s tabloid press. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine.
rePost:: ::Philippines vs Kuwait leg 1 preview: Underdog Azkals remain confident | InterAKTV
Filipino support
From the freezing tundra of Mongolia to the desert heat of Kuwait, the Azkals have experienced it all. Through everything, they have relied heavily on the support by their countrymen abroad.
The Filipino diaspora has not only produced Younghusbands and Greatwiches for Philippine football, it has also ensured that strong support from the Pinoy community is present in almost every part of the world. Nowhere is this support more evident than in the Middle East.
The team in was met with such fervour and enthusiasm in Kuwait, from training sessions all the way to the formal visit to the Philippine Embassy, that players remarked that it was like coming into a “home game” for them.
The players’ confidence appears to be also high, a must for any team facing such daunting odds. That confidence comes as a result of the team’s recent string of success, according to striker Ian Araneta, a longtime member of the national team.
via Philippines vs Kuwait leg 1 preview: Underdog Azkals remain confident | InterAKTV.
rePost::Captain America: The First Avenger Review by Nordling of AICN
Color me excited!
When I review a film, I like to sleep on it before I write it up. Sometimes that’s not possible, such as a press screening the night before a film opens. But I think I’m a better reviewer once I’ve had a sleep on a movie – I find that it’s easier for me to look at a film with that distance, and if in the morning I still like what I saw then it gets a positive review. Reviews of films right after seeing them tend to skew hyperbolic because I’m so eager to put down my thoughts and get them out. So you should take that into consideration when reading this. I’m under no time pressure to write this review, although I like to have my reviews out by opening day. But I really felt the need to share this one, because I’m just that excited over CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, which shoots to the upper levels of superhero films. In fact, I’ll probably make bold statements throughout this review, like “It equals THE INCREDIBLES and SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE in sheer filmic joy” or “CAPTAIN AMERICA is the RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK of superhero movies.” Again, take them how you like. I’m confident I’ll feel the same way in the morning.
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rePost:: Loved Reading THIS ::Brian Eno and Rick Holland Release ‘Drum Between the Bells’ – NYTimes.com
“In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person,” Mr. Eno said. “I take the same walk every day and I eat in the same restaurants, and often eat exactly the same things in the same restaurants. I don’t adventure much except when I’m in the studio, and then I only want to adventure. I cannot bear doing something again, or thinking that I’m doing something again.”
via Brian Eno and Rick Holland Release ‘Drum Between the Bells’ – NYTimes.com.
rePost ::The Pain – When Will It End?
I was talking about this depressing turn of events last Friday at a somewhat misnamed happy hour with my friend Ellen, who just about slumped forward to the point where her forehead was touching the icy rim of her martini glass, so demoralized was she over the prospect of the end of America’s space program, with all it symbolized—the ebbing of American optimism and enterprise, our supremacy in science and technology, the inexorable decline of the country. “And all because we couldn’t get our shit together to tax rich people and quit fighting expensive wars,” she said. Which gave me the idea for this cartoon.
via The Pain – When Will It End?.
Keep thinking about the xkcd strip about the universe littered with civilizations that died out because they didn’t choose space. So sad.