Category: Reviews
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Thoughts on The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
What can be cooler than a time travel story? (Maybe an illusion realised?)
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Free Figures of Speech Infographic
Designing an infographic is addicting. After making an infographic about Phrasal Verbs, my desire to create more useful ESL lessons through infographics just won’t die. In fact, it keeps burning. Today, I’ve finished one infographic about Figures of Speech. I thought it’s delightful.
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Phrasal Verbs Infographic via Piktochart
What do you feel about infographics? For me, they’re fabulous! When I googled “infographics creator” last night, I found Piktochart on top of the search results. I gave it a try and here’s my first infographic! It’s about Phrasals or Phrasal verbs.
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10 Super Awesome Dad-Daughter Movies
No dad is perfect. Yet in these movies, they seem to be the most charming creatures on the planet. None of these fathers would have been super awesome without their charismatic daughters. Both are necessary elements to a unique and unforgettable tandem.
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Watever Family KTV at Mabolo: Cebu’s Coolest Karaoke Hangout?
We, Pinoys, are willing to squeeze ourselves into the tiniest space as long as there’s some food, drinks, and an awesome karaoke unit. Yesterday’s hangout with my co-workers proved this fact. The Ridges, Mabolo, Cebu City welcomed Watever Family KTV as a new entertainment enterprise a year ago. Since its launch, it has enjoyed sweeping support from…
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Back to Back: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Catcher in the Rye
When it aches, just let me read. Like most women, I suffer from menstrual cramps almost every month. Today, I did, but I’m not going to bore you whining about the agony. Your time is too precious for that – so is mine. What surprised me were my book choices when I was in pain: The…
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Vendetta!
You’ll read some vindictive, spicy and sensible lines from Vendetta, which you may use later in your own dramatic life. “Beauty? Mere food for worms—I care not for it! Of what avail is a fair body tenanted by a fiendish soul? Forgiveness?—you ask too late! A wrong like mine can never be forgiven.” – Fabio (or Cesare)…
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: A Review
“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.” – John Betjeman Do you agree with John? “Not completely,” maybe you’d say. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas began with this quote. You’ll easily get some clues. Whether or not you like kids, you’ll love Bruno. Your sympathies…
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The Winner Stands Alone
Igor wants nothing but enjoy a life of financial freedom with his wife, Ewa, whom he’d destroy worlds for. He simply wants to build a home with her in Baikal lake- undisturbed, unperturbed. Yet the arduous path he had to go through transformed him into an “evil one” in the eyes of his angel, Ewa….
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On Board the Nautilus
I forgot to be amazed. I’m sure that’s the reason I get bored. But on board Nautilus, who can ever know ennui? Not me, probably. My daily commute is spiced up by Jules Verne’s company. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, translated from French Vingt mille lieues sous les mers always overwhelms me with indescribable pleasure….