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SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2017 Isah V. Red, Editor
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Young Life
Bernadette Lunas, Issue Editor isahred@gmail.com.ph
LIFE IS FUN WITH PUNS Scan this icon to view the PDF
COFFEE OR SAVINGS?
WE LOVE a good pun, especially when it’s on point and somehow relatable. This retail brand now makes it possible to wear a pun or two with their modest selection of T-shirts. Linya-Linya is the one responsible for some pun-ny statement shirts we see online. What started as an “idea factory of puns and illustrations” on Facebook, became a retail brand when the group Yabang Pinoy turned Ali Sangalang and Panch Alvarez’s (Linya-Linya founders) creations into tees in 2012. “We create relatable entries out of our shared ordinary experiences such as getting giddy in love, feeling exasperated, or even dreading Monday, and post them on our social media site,” said Linya-Linya on its Facebook page. Here are some of their witty tees that can make your and other people’s day better.
By Bernadette Lunas
having dinner,” she told Manila Standard Young Life. “It’s psychological, I guess, because I HERE is a mug on my table in the office that says, “But can’t seem to function very well without first, coffee.” I bought it because that’s exactly what I do having my first coffee in the morning,” before I start working. Drink coffee. Then do the things. she shared. Much like many others, drinking coffee also serves as her meditation, she It’s caffeine dependence, I admit. But as about 44 percent of US coffee demand, said. “Having my morning coffee is also a it turns out, many people of my age are so with more and more young individuals means of savoring time for myself. In the dependent on caffeine—or in love with it consuming coffee (48 percent increase afternoon, when I take a break over cofthat their daily caffeine fix is literally drink- among ages 18-24, and 51 percent up fee, I take it as a time to reaffirm the positive events that took place earlier and to ing the world supply dry, and they are also among 25-29). spending more on a cup of java than putFor 29-year-old Joanna*, drinking cof- motivate myself to do more and be positing money in their retirement savings. fee is part of her daily routine. “I drink cof- tive for the rest of the day.” Millennials’s love for coffee is evidently In an October 2016 report of Bloom- fee in the morning before going to work, berg, it stated that millennials account for after having lunch and before or after Turn to E2
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A CUP THAT CAN COST YOUR RETIREMENT. According to a commissioned survey by a micro-investing app, 41 percent of millennials spent more on coffee in the past year than they invested in their retirement.
Damndamin
Feelings are a good thing, but they can also be a bad, damning thing.
Weight loss, Wait lang
Aching to get that Summer bod but a plateful of crunchy sisig staring at you? Yes, weight loss can wait.
Eat Girl
With those always put-together look, stylish OOTDs and lean physique, we could only imagine how possibly hard it is to be an It Girl, so let’s stick to the more important thing in life: Eat!
One More Tiyans
If Basha gave Popoy one more chance, then there’s no reason to fuss so much about your bulging tiyan. Turn to E2