Editor’s Note
When I was a little kid, every Sunday morning my grandfather would always have our radio on full blast because of “Slow Rock Sunday”, a segment which plays his favorite songs like “Words” by the Bee Gees, “Sa Mata Makikita” by Roel Cortez and all the other jukebox hits that I eventually fell in love with I would stop whatever I’m doing just to listen to the melodies and understand the lyrics of every song because there is no playback button on the radio and we still didn’t have CDs and CD players that time. The next time I could hear the same songs would be the next Sunday. Fast forward to today and slow rock is still my favorite but now there are streaming platforms like Spotify and YouTubes to play those songs on repeat. The songs are still as heartfelt as ever, but the feeling is a little bit different. With the overwhelming number of options I am given, the excitement has gone because it was made too easy. Such thoughts lead to how this issue of this magazine was made—a little touch of some old school melodies and how the way we live today has changed the way we appreciate them, which is a way of pointing out how we use, waste or utilize the things in this world where everything we want, every resource we need, seems more available than before. Shortage, ampleness, change and how to balance them against each other are what the articles in this issue of L Magazine revolves around in. This issue is also dedicated to Fidex, a daughter, a student and a friend who lost her life in heinous circumstances last year, just two weeks before graduation. May her memory remind us to spend our time doing what makes us happy the most, as she did with the time given to her.
Ryan Emmanuelle Rico Editor-in-Chief
