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DISNEYLAND FOR GAMERS
ONE are the days when gamers were seen as anti-social freaks. In fact, most gamers today probably don’t remember the times when the maximum home multiplayer game involved two people (yup, those were the days of Contra and Double Dragon and Altered Beast) and for a four-player game you had to head to you local arcade.
Dollcraft that holds the eye and heart
DOLLS have been a staple in almost every girl’s childhood—whether Barbie, Cabbage Patch, Polly Pocket, Bratz or even teddy bears, these dolls in all their shapes, forms, and styles (and eventually, collector’s and market values), have each been formative in many a girlhood. They even eventually gain cultural currency in that each type of doll reflects the trends, culture, cumulative thought, and even image of women of each their own times.
LOST AT THE TOY FAIR...
WHEN I was a gangling seven-year-old playing "jolens" (marbles) right in the middle of our neighborhood’s very own version of Payatas (though the mountain of dirt was composed of discarded carbon material from ordinary alkaline batteries) back in good ol’ Mandaluyong, life was an absolute joy.
Sale Addicts
SALES are everywhere, and it’s getting more and more confusing as to which stores to check out. And we usually find out too late about the sale, and there are not much good finds left. Don’t fret, shop addicts! I did a text brigade earlier this week, asking store owners when their sales are scheduled. So, here they are and happy shopping!
ANIME CHIC
IT’S no secret that fashion trends have taken their cues from the streets of Japan at one time or another. A stroll down one of Japan’s most famous districts, Harajuku, will reward the fashion fanatic with an overwhelming stream of extraordinary and out-of-this-world interpretations of every style imaginable. Here, Goth baby doll dresses, camouflage legwarmers, immensely oversized overalls, teeny-bopper ponytails, bright pink hair and purple lipstick make green-haired punks and Wednesday Addams goth getups embarrassingly passé. Indeed, high fashion is a part of anything and everything Japanese, and perhaps one channel through which it is best flaunted to the rest of the world is its animation—or Anime—whose many characters more often than not do indeed seem to be the brainwork of frustrated designers rather than animators.
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