Category: Features

Enduring Tradition: Chinese Culture within Filipino Life

WHO wouldn’t want to be the luckiest person this Chinese New Year? As 2025 begins, Filipinos eagerly welcome traditions that promise prosperity and good fortune. The enduring passed-down traditions of the Chinese New Year have lasted to this day and even seeped into Filipino culture. Luck or swerte, as Filipino people would wishfully put it, brings a sense of hope and possibility to the start of a fresh year.

Crowns and Causes: Lumagui and Plata bag MMSB 2025

THIS year’s Mr. and Ms. San Beda showcased the candidates’ love and passion for the Bedan community. With 12 candidates coming from different courses, only two may claim the reign. Through their dedication and passion for change, Kara Rafaela Plata (I-BSLM) and Eiram Joseph Lumagui (IV-BSBA MM) paved their way and took home the title of Mr. and Ms. San Beda 2025.

The Unseen Ornaments

HERE we go again, basking in the spirit of Christmas, which, according to the song anyway, is the most wonderful time of the year. Blue-collar working men rattle their decorated shoeboxes, children carol, and the air smells of holiday ham or whatever it is your family has cooking. Capitalism is at an all-time high, with people rushing around with shopping bags, getting trampled in pursuit of that perfect holiday moment. But not everyone gets to chase it. Some are too busy making it happen for others.