Birds migrate not because they want to, but because they have to. Differences between ecosystems warrant that collective species travel across the world to gain access to basic resources and maintain their evolutionary course. It is a lifelong exchange ritual, doing its part within natural equilibrium. What happens if the swarms meet another, rushing in…
Light in darkness, darkness in light. The yin and yang symbol is widely known all over the world. It originates from ancient Chinese philosophy and represents dualism, explaining that contradicting forces really complement each other. In the real world, we know that much is true. There will be goodness in bad and badness in good….
As Getting It Strait publishes its November issue, we are synchronously celebrating the zine’s six-month birthday. We would like to thank the team’s continuous content-creating and you, the reader’s, unceasing support. GIS has been an outlet for us all to stay sane and afloat amidst these trying times, and we hope we have done our…
Some neighborhoods say that it was reflective of their teen lives, while some say it was not, but both sides would agree that the television show Euphoria signaled the coming of something big. Depending on who you listen to, you would get a mixed bag of answers. One partial sitting of the pilot episode would…
Contrary to my lowered expectations, the first half of September ventured by relatively smoothly to the past six months. Six whole months in quarantine. Take your time to digest that. I hope you, the reader, have more or less grown through this stagnant time, but if not, know that that’s perfectly normal as well. Still,…
The busy season has come. I just started college, a lot of us A-Levels graduates are either taking on jobs or doing some soul-searching, and exam preparations are happening everywhere else. Though outside, there are strings of waving flags, colourful posters, and papier-mâché installations, there is an air of solemnity currently going around. The aftermath…
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the half-time of 2020, a year that all of us had excitedly drawn up plans and resolutions for, only to be mercilessly shot down like a queue of glass bottles on the wall (although, by the time you’re reading this, August would already be right around the corner). Succeeding the…
It doesn’t matter if you receive your daily dose of news through the physical newspaper, salon gossip, or the six-inch screen we call ‘phone’. It doesn’t matter whether you’re awake, sleeping, or traversing in limbo; the world continues to spin, and the news continues to churn. It doesn’t matter how the information is presented to…
When the idea of having an online monthly magazine first popped up in my head before bedtime one night, I did not question whether I could pull off such a feat (as any reader would expect an answer to). Instead, I asked myself why this idea did not cross my mind sooner. Watching the waves…