Every new year is often seen as a symbolic reset, catalyzing attempts to scrap past mistakes and construct a redefined self. In 2025, I vow to be braver in the face of adulthood, stepping out of my comfort zone and shaking hands with change.
The sitcoms I binge-watched over my college years, like Friends and How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM), portray idealized friendships, with characters sharing every facet of their lives with little interference from work or family. They constantly sip coffee at Central Perk or chug beers at MacLaren's Pub. I envy the characters' closeness, hoping to have the same kind of connection with every person in my circle. Yet the show's final episodes reveal that changes in their friendships will always accompany life's transitions.
At some point, I had a friends-come-first mentality like HIMYM's Lily. I'm reminded of the scene where she catches her friend Robin sneaking out early during a farewell party at her and her husband Marshall's old apartment. Disappointed, Lily confronts Robin, saying that the whole gang has to be present in big moments like this. Robin's admission that she has outgrown their friend group is a hard pill to swallow, but it's an unavoidable truth: it will never be how it was.
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BOI eyes release of new SIPP within H1
The Board of Investments (BOI) expects to release the Strategic Investment Priority Plan (SIPP) for 2025 to 2028, which will identify activities eligible for incentives, within the first half of the year.
ENZO PINEDA PROUD OF BEST ACTOR WIN AT 2025 EMIRATES FILMFEST
Kapamilya actor Enzo Pineda bagged the Best Actor award at the 11th edition of the Emirates Film Festival, held at the Emirates Training Academy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, last Jan. 18.
Perpetual spikers favored in NCAA
The University of Perpetual Help System Dalta Altas men’s sand spikers and their female counterparts from Letran gun for grand slam championships in the NCAA Season 100 beach volleyball that unwraps on Tuesday at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone’s sand courts.
Bureaucratese
When accurate communication could prove ruinous, bureaucrats often resort to confusing euphemisms to smooth the harshness of truth. They call it “bureaucratic subliminal.”
Comelec holds mock polls in 30 barangays
To better prepare for the May 12 elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will hold mock polls today in 30 barangays across the country.
Trade gap widens to $54.2 B in 2024
As imports pick up while exports continue to drop
A new epidemic
There is a new epidemic permeating the local basketball community.
Dialogue eyed with Boracay LGUs on ‘excessive fees, delays’
The Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) plan to meet with local government officials of Aklan province and the municipality of Malay, home to the famous Boracay island, to address complaints from tourism businesses regarding alleged “excessive fees” and delays experienced by some tourists.
PSA offers toast to MVP Group
One of the fervent supporters of Philippine sports won't be missed out in the San Miguel Corp.-Philippine Sportswriters Association (SMC-PSA) Awards Night at the Centennial Hall of the Manila Hotel on Monday.
Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship
A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order to end automatic citizenship for babies born on US soil, dealing the president his first setback as he attempts to upend the nation's immigration laws and reverse decades of precedent.
