This is Car­l­iz­ina Jolec­tron, the lat­est Hol­ly­wood beauty. While she doesn’t look at all like any Hol­ly­wood celebrity we know, she does look eerily famil­iar. That is because she really is a com­pos­ite of three actresses we know: she has the lips of Angelina Jolie, the eyes of Car­men Elec­tra and the nose of Char­l­ize Theron.She is just one of the entries of Worth1000.com’s con­test to find the ulti­mate celebrity. The con­test came a week after a sur­vey by Bev­erly Hills’ plas­tic sur­geons named the most desir­able celebrity body parts …

I hate for­mal dances. The ones where you have to prac­tice for days and nights on end just so you would end up being laughed at by every­body else not danc­ing. I was one of the dancers of our cotil­lion for our Juniors Prom back in third year high school.

Roland Barthes, in his book Mytholo­gies, said that a myth is a type of speech. It is a mes­sage. So that “every­thing can be a myth pro­vided it is con­veyed by dis­course”. [Roland Barthes, Mytholo­gies. 1957. Trans. by Annette Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1987]
The Psy­chol­o­gist Carl Jung, on the other hand, con­nected myths to what he called “arche­types”. Arche­types are “pre­con­cious psy­chic dis­po­si­tion that enables a man to react in a human man­ner”. [Jung’s Arche­types website:http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~davisct/nt/jung.html] Sim­ply put, arche­types are human pat­terns and images–common in all cul­tures and …

In Cagayan de Oro City, where I grew up, our jeep­neys have character.

This. Is. Just. Awe­some.
It’s that time of year again. Happy Valen­tines everyone!

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