tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100219352011-12-15T10:57:48.679+08:00... and so were the Generation Y, IBM PC, MTV, AIDS, space shuttle mission, pac-man, Midgnight's Children, Naya Valdellon, Yol Jamendang, the first American test-tube baby, Alicia Keys, Andrei Kirilenko, Anna Kournikova, Beyonce Knowles, Britney Spears, Elijah Wood, Eric Harris, Julia Stiles, Justin Timberlake, Kelly Rowland, Natalie Portman.ecshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00447007712055472814noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10021935.post-1107999344270363162005-02-10T09:32:00.000+08:002005-02-10T12:40:31.890+08:00

I received this e-mail from a friend. Can anyone verify/confirm this? "dont bring any pirated vcd, copy cd, data cd when you plan to ride the LRT or MRT. they are confiscating cd's unlabled and unliscensed cds. They dont care if it is a data disk for your work or files for school.. pls pass this info to avoid the situation and if ever they tried to confiscate your data cd for work/school purposes

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If you're updated to showbiz news (really: chismis, tsika), you must have been fed up as well with several blind items on various sex videos of undisclosed personalities. The most recent is of Ethel Booba and Alex Crisano (obviously, not a blind item anymore). A video capture is now on the net (see it here). [But of course, it's strictly for adults only so if you're below 18, don't click on the

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(Rio Alma delivers his lecture on Filipino spelling.) (Rio Alma receives a token from TWG officer, poet Angelo Suarez.)Last Saturday, National Artist Virgilio S. Almario gave a lecture on Filipino spelling. He gave out a small flyer with the following usual dilemma (especially of students) on writing in Filipino: Natutunan o Natutuhan? Kayat o Kaya't? Ala-ala o Alaala? Salo-salo o Salusalo?

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Press Release The Iyas Creative Writing Workshop accepts fellowship applicants for the annual workshop, held from May 19 to 24, 2004, at Balay Kalinungan, University of St. La Salle in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. Fifteen fellowships will be awarded by genre and language. Grants will cover board and lodging and a partial transportation subsidy. Interested parties may send two (2) short

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In the latest issue of Newsbreak, Chay Florentino Hofileña talks about the real score on the networks war. A related story presents the ABS-CBN's new tandem, Cito Alejandro and Maria Ressa, who shoulder the task of regaining the top spot in the Mega Manila ratings game that their station held for years. Meanwhile, Carla Montemayor shares her insights on the migration of words and the way they

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Received this call for submissions from Carlos Piocos:Para sa mga humihingal at humahabol... 24/7 (Walang Panahon) Para sa mga makata/nagmamakata/nagmamaganda, bukas ang mga pahina ng Philippine Collegian literary supplement (24/7) para sa inyong mga tula, maiikling kuwento at sanaysay, sa English o Filipino. Maaring ipasa ang inyong mga akdang pampanitikan sa aming opisina, RM 401, Vinzons

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Press Release Five of the winning poets in the first week of TEXTULA PINOY contest are former winners. Ferdinand Bajado, Roger Endaya, Joel Costa Malabanan, and Fernando Gonzales have already won in poem-texting contests sponsored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), UP Institute of Creative Writing, and Filipinas Institute of Translation (FIT), Inc. First-time winner

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Because the internet is about urgency--immediate yet reliable information, this blog will be more up-to-date. What does it mean? Simple: No more daily entries. Yes, updates will now come as soon as something new comes up (only in my fields of interest and areas of knowledge, of course), and that means, in most cases, more than a single entry every day. Visit this blog more often from now on for

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Laura Miller reviews Haruki Murakami's latest, Kafka on the Shore. Read the book's first chapter here.

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I received two good news today. First, from Glen Maboloc. After almost two years, Ubod is finally in its pre-press stage. Vim, Jema and I will go to the NCCA office on Monday (first Monday of February is an Ateneo holiday) and check on the final layout. Ma'am Beni wrote the introduction for my chapbook in this series. Titled Isa Na Namang Pagtingala sa Buwan: Mga Tula, the chapbook includes 21

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This invitation comes from Mykel: Inaanyayahan ang lahat ng mga kuwentista na magsumite ng kanilang maikling kuwento para sa book project na Erotika/o ng KATHA. Ang KATHA ay isang grupo ng mga makabayang kabataang kuwentista sa Filipino. Layunin ng aklat-proyekto na tipunin ang pinakamahuhusay na maikling kuwentong nakasulat sa FILIPINO na pumapaksa sa erotika/o. Paksain ang lahat ng karanasan

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(Warning: for those who haven't seen the film yet, there may be some spoilers below; better stop reading here now.) A Very Long Engagement, especially with two Oscar nominations, will be a classic film on woundedness. Wounds, I believe, are brought about by two points from the opposite ends of a relation continuum: encounter and separation. The story began in 1917 with five WWI soldiers

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Last Friday, I received an invitation from Kris Berse of Pinoypoets to be one of their "consultants" in Filipino poetry. Months ago, Jonar would tell me about this new--and very active--poets' group that began as a yahoogroup. Its members would comment on each other's poetry over the net, and would then meet regularly to worshop texts among themselves. News like this are always inspiring. For

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I gave Kay Elias the first week of 2005 before I finally moved here in '81 on the 8th, and promised myself to religiously update everyday, something which I still keep to date. This month was almost filled with pop culture entries: John Mayer, Teri Hatcher, Aishite Masu, MTV VJ Hunt, Carlo J. Caparas, Cinema Australia, Spirits, and Star Circle National Teen Quest and Starstruck. I couldn't help

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Press Release The "Textulang Pinoy," is a month-long competition on regional literary forms- Sawikain and Tigsik (of the NCR and Bikol), Paktakon and Tigmo (Cebuano and Hiligaynon respectively). It makes use of the mobile telephone where entries will be received as a text message. General Criteria 1. Originality 2. Fluidity of the stanzas/lines 3. High level of rhyme scheme 4. Content 1.

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Two Philippine reality-based artista searches are about to end: Star Circle National Teen Quest and Starstruck. The former will have its Grand Questor's Night tonight at the Ultra; the latter will have its Final Four Finals next week. Many people say that a female questor will grab this year's 4-million worth of cash and contract as grand questor since Hero won in last season's finals. Of course

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Press Release National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario will deliver a lecture on 5 February 2005, Saturday, 3:00 p.m. at the Audio-Visual Room, Arts and Letters Bldg., University of Sto. Tomas, España, Manila. The lecture is free and open to the public especially to the teachers and writers. The lecture is brought to you by Thomasian Writers Guild and LIRA or Linangan sa Imahen,

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Whoever thought of Chito Roño’s Spirits’ tagline, “Astig maging iba,” hits, consciously or not, into an ambiguous richness characteristic of poetic expressions. Astig comes from the Tagalog “tigas,” which literally translates as hardness or solidity; the more proper idiomatic translation in English, however, is “cool.” Iba, of course, is “different” or “others.” The intensity of the line comes

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PM celebrated his 23rd birthday last Saturday. PM is one of the closest friends I had in high school. I would call his parents mommy and daddy and they’d call me “anak,” while his two younger brothers, PJ and Fritz, would also call me “kuya.” Every year, the realizations remain the same: We’re getting older, no matter how sentimental we become, it is a matter of fact. Seven years ago, we

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Together with Jema, Vim and Christine, I attended the opening cocktails of the Cinema Australia that will run from January 24-28 at the UP Film Institute Cine Adarna. Movie addicts will definitely like this “light” (according to Sir Roland Tolentino) selections from the Australian Embassy. All screenings begin at 7:00 p.m. January 24 (Monday) Japanese Story (Director: Sue Brooks, 2003) January

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Want to have a 1980's Flashback?

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In the Oxford American Dictionary I bought while I was in freshman college sometime in 1998, “google” is not yet a word; after “goofy,” you’ll have "gook." Now the internet search site becomes a verb becomes a habit: most people google first before going into serious, i.e., traditional, research. But before you go googling your next query, you may want to hear what Daniel Brandt of Google Watch

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Carlo J. Caparas began as a komiks writer, worked on classics such as Ang Panday, before the late Fernando Poe Jr. decided to turn this opus into the widescreen and made him its director. The brilliance of Caparas, though, was at its peak, not in his fantastic universe, but in the translation of realistic action and drama into film, in his most critically-acclaimed Pieta in 1983. His downfall

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Adarna House celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and began the celebration last night at the Conspiracy Bar. I shared the table with (Kuya) Bodjie Pascua, and famous children's story writers Luis Gatmaitan, Augie Rivera, Christine Bellen, and Rhandee Garlitos (with his Korean student/friend Karl). Joey Ayala was still performing when I left Conspiracy (my class today begins at 7:30 in the

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Saw my Friendster Bulletin being crowded with sloganized individuals. So I went there myself and tried being sloganized, too--not just once, but ten times, to check whether a slogan would be repeated (or if I'd like any of them). Nothing was repeated (and yes, forget that thing about liking them). Here are the results in order: The Egay Drinker's Lighter Egay. Egay, the Other White Meat. Keep

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Last night, while switching channels, I got a glimpse of a familiar face. I went back to channel 9 and there she was, the Lois Lane of my late childhood and early teens: Teri Hatcher. She was receiving her Golden Globe for Best TV Actress in a Comedy/Musical (besting the four-time Golden Globe winner Sarah Jessica Parker) for Desperate Housewives, which also grabbed the Best Television

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Do you have what it takes to be one? More info here.

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The Young Critics Circle opens the series of movie awards this year with another unpopular choice for Best Film of the Year, like last year's Babae sa Breakwater, in Armando Lao's Minsan Pa. I haven't seen the two films, which hardly survived their first (and probably, only) week of regular screening, at least here in Metro Manila. I hope YCC initiates/sponsors a viewing of those two films. Press

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San Pablo, my homecity, celebrates its fiesta today. As it was in the previous seven or eight years, I can't be there. I've long recognized and accepted this separation with the city I'd known too well in my early teens. Today, San Pableños have another reason to celebrate because one of our own, CJ Muere, avenged and survived once more in last night's Starstruck. I saw the hype over CJ when I

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Earlier, I removed my stuff in the bathroom I share with another dormer and put them in my room. I had a suspicion for several weeks now that someone else was using them--mouthwash, toothpaste, shampoo, facial wash, and even my body soap! It was confirmed this morning when I found my soap on the wrong dish. Aaarghh! On many occasions, this same suspected dormmate, a Vietnamese, would feel

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After Pacita Abad, another Filipino artist just passed away: Papo de Asis. I don’t want my personal lack to be a deficiency of every one born in 1981 (and thereafter), but it can be observed how the rise of multimedia, beginning with the introduction of PC and MTV, both in 1981, and its dominion in the lives of many Filipinos, divorce us from the appreciation of art. Art demands time. Art asks

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Shame on me, I haven't heard of Pacita Abad until this invitation came. Know more about her here or see her name googled.

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William Deresiewicz, in a recent essay (“You Talkin’ To Me?”) published in The New York Times (January 9, 2005), problematized the relations between class and language, especially in what he observed as the apparent equivalence of upper-class English with what the grammarians “prescibed” as Correct English, marginalizing the other englishes (meaning, the english spoken by the non-ruling classes)

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In an entry in the previous incarnation of my blogging self, I argued, having watched all the eight entries, that Aishite Masu: Mahal Kita, 1941 (directed by Joel Lamangan) should have won the Best Picture in last year's Metro Manila Film Festival, and not the overrated Mano Po III: My Love (incidentally, directed by Lamangan as well). Julie L. Po, in behalf of the Concerned Artists of the

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While listening to 103.5 K-lite the other day, I heard that John Mayer is nominated for "Best Male Pop Vocal" in the Grammys, along with his "Daughters" (for "Song of the Year"). The result comes out on February 17. Will he win his second Grammy this year (his first was in 2002 for "Your Body is a Wonderland")? I'm sorry to Josh Groban fans, but if he gets the award over John, I'm gonna hate him

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I just left my old blog, Kay Elias, which lasted for a record-breaking five months. I’ve had several other blogs before that one: Kundiman, Kalye Kundiman, Kanto ng Kundiman, in the different phases of my fascination with streets, crossroads and destinations. Now that I’m finally (I hope this one’s really final) done revising Pag-aabang sa Kundiman: Isang Tulambuhay, the first poetry collection I

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