Jay E. Tria
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Jay E. Tria

  • Healthy Living - Makeup and Skincare

    Review: The Best and The Meh of Serums

    October 5, 2013 - By 

    I admit I gave in a little late to the magic of serums. Well, late at least in the beauty industry timeline where serums are pegged to be that miracle formula that repairs and brightens skin, and overall, stalls its aging. The marketing blurb these days is not even to start using serums as early as age 25, but to start investing on one in your 20s. Simply, to start as soon as you can afford it. Obviously I am not one to condemn this, having spent a dominant chunk of my disposable income on skin care and cosmetics. Besides,…

  • Music Dance and Lyrics

    LSSing: The Way it Was

    October 3, 2013 - By 

    I don’t think Brandon Flowers has gotten more honestly sentimental than this. The track starts will the type of easy beat you twirl your prom date to, then Brandon lays down the scenery of a lonesome thoughtful drive through the desert. Elvis joins the song as the doubts are told, and the song builds — as Killers songs only do — If I go on with you by my side can it be the way it was when we met? Did you forget about those lonely nights? The drum slows down and you twirl again in a slow dance in…

  • Music Dance and Lyrics

    Music Inventory

    September 29, 2013 - By 

    So I was looking at my brand new, post-concert Battle Born CD — the first one I’ve bought in years –, and one thing led to another, as they are wont to do on a rare lazy Saturday afternoon. I found myself squatting in front of our CD/DVD rack and there they all were: physical, non-digital, non-iTunes Compact Disks with actual cover art taking up actual space. The covers were not dusty because someone actually took them out for a good wipe, but the labels were upside down and the order was all wrong. OCD and fuzzy sentiment kicked in. I plopped…

  • Music Dance and Lyrics

    ‘Battle Born’ Tour 2013: Sa Wakas, the Killers are Here!

    September 28, 2013 - By 

    “Thank you for not giving up on us,” charmingly begins the Killers‘ front man Brandon Flowers when he finally stopped dancing for an intro and a hello. I had the graciousness to feel guilty because I kind of did give up on them, nursing a hurt spot for when they cancelled the Manila leg – among others – of their Day and Age tour last January 2010. There is no pain like an excited fan returning a worthless ticket. After waiting in vain for “further details on tour scheduling”, I had to let go of the dream since the next few months…

  • Book Review

    19 out of 100 as of 9/2013

    September 14, 2013 - By 

    The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. I don’t think I will be able to finish this list. A lot of the material honestly seem to be beyond my depth and (to be completely frank) my interests. But I’ve gotten through 19 as of this month, so I guess at the very least I am not most people 🙂 Besides, I also feel that other worthy books are not included in the 100 must-reads. To be fair though, the literary world is an ever changing, evolving space and no list will ever…