Mega Man November 2020

I’ve become a germophobe. I’m afraid to touch anything outside of my house and it has become so bad that I don’t want to leave the confines of my home. Since the lockdown in March, I’ve only left the house less than fifteen times. I’m afraid to touch the elevator buttons in my building. I’m afraid to push and pull doors. And I’m scared to touch the handles of my car. My paranoia has hit an all time high. Apart from being afraid of getting the virus, I think I’m more terrified about the potential bill that I would have to foot if I did get the virus because a one-to three-million peso medical bill is not a joke. And because I constantly interface with the family driver and the…

It was certainly a moment of jarring disconnect the moment an airplane was not only in plain sight, but within arms length one Saturday morning. As known of a fact as it is, one cannot contest that the absence of liberal travel is definitely something that hit us hard in this pandemic. So, in the continuing access to anything nostalgic, this fortunate interface in a repurposed vintage plane in the middle of the sprawling Palacio de Memoria complex in Manila was quite the experience, especially for the men who filled the space with a distilled but distinct energy. The sun filtered through the windows of the airplane, casting a light on LA Aguinaldo and Marlon Stockinger that was both mysterious and illuminating, revealing only what was necessary—a spot on the…

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1 TOM FORD At this point, it is almost difficult to separate the name of Tom Ford from the enduring discussion of scents. As persistently provocative as he is with his fashion point-of-view, he is equally as deliciously daring when it comes to his fragrance formulations. Perhaps taken by the same almost erotic fascination to the peach in Andre Aciman’s gripping tale of a tender first love, Call Me By Your Name, Tom Ford releases an explicitly sweet and dangerously voluptuous Bitter Peach, an intoxicating swirl that enthralls with a burst of bright Pêche de Vigne (a thoroughly French favorite) and Sicilian Blood Orange Oil, before giving way to a lash of luscious Cardamom Oil. Full-bodied by nature, it builds to its climactic core of Heliotrope, Davana Oil, and a…

The world as we know it is governed by nature’s abundant inevitabilities. Every morning, just as it has always been, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. On good days, we wake up to the sight of a blue sky and the scent of dew on the grass at morn. As night falls, we bask under the faint glow from a moon that has hovered over our planet for millennia. But if past cataclysmic occurrences and the feverish recent times have taught us something, it’s that nothing in this world is quite certain. The habitual experience of waking up to a blue sky can instantly change to become a deep amber from forest fires, or a gray blanket of soot from a volcanic eruption. Seasons stay…