No such thing as alternative truth

Is there really such a thing as alternative truth as some people like to call fake news that manage to fool and be believed by many gullible people?

As far as I am concerned, the dividing line has always been light and darkness, right and wrong, and truth and falsehood.

For me there are no alternative truths. There are just successful lies.

Car Park

When we talk about car parks, most people think of an edifice that serve as an area where cars can park.

But to give car park a different meaning, why not be literal about the park part of the word and turn the top floor of a car park into an actual park?

This idea can be adopted by malls and local government units planning to build car parks in their areas. It is a way to hit two birds with one stone. It will give people a place to park their cars but at the same time it will also give them a green open space in the middle of the concrete jungle.

Gentes Inocentes

Procession of Sto Nino images in Pasig, also know as the Bambino Festival

In Catholic Philippines, January is the month dedicated to the Infant Jesus or the Santo Nino. During this period, various activities, especially processions are held in honor of the Santo Nino.

I prefer not to comment on how people express their devotion to this Catholic figure but what I am curious to know though is how some people can reconcile their devotion to the Santo Nino with their  rabid support for a leader who thinks that innocent children dying in the war on drugs are merely collateral damage.

The Gruen Effect

 

 

I have many times gone to a mall intending to buy one thing but ending up buying something else with or without the original item I wanted to buy.

 

Only recently however did I learn that there is a name for this happening and it is called the Gruen Effect.

 

Named for the architect Viktor Gruen who was credited to have designed malls in such a way that the experience of shopping becomes more important than the purpose of shopping itself as a person enters a mall, the Gruen effect or transfer can be a curse to a consumer on a tight budget but a blessing to mall owners and mall based retailers.

 

Many people take mall designs for granted and think that it is only logical for malls to serve as almost like one stop shops but as for me however, this just made me more determined to be more focused on what I want to buy in a mall and to resist the lure of buying things I never knew I needed in the first place.