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En Sabado, Hulyo 14, 8 pm @ Instituto Cervantes

En este concierto-recital, el grupo de poetisas Romancing Venus presentan sus obras inspiradas en la figura y arte de Frida Kahlo. (In this concert-recital, the group of female poets Romancing Venus will present their works, inspired by Frida Kahlo.)

Participantes: Kooky Tuason, Charms Tianzon, Ginny Mata, Anabel Bosch, Wawi Navarroza, Aimee Marcos.

The 1st JesCom Media Convention
NON – PROFIT SHARING
Using MEDIA for Non-Profit Causes

This August, Jesuit Communications, Inc. will be holding its first media convention at its headquarters within the Ateneo de Manila University campus. Entitled Non-Profit Sharing, this conference aims to help individuals and organizations that are committed to non-profit causes by connecting them with socially oriented media practitioners. During this 4-Saturday seminar, participants will learn how to effectively communicate their causes through popular and new forms of media. The seminar will have three components:

(1) The Effective Use of Media for Non-Profit Causes Seminar, to be held every Saturday with sessions in the morning (9 AM to 12 PM) and in the afternoon (1 PM to 4PM) from August 4 to 25, 2007 at the The Garage, Jesuit Communications, Inc., Ateneo de Manila University;

Confirmed speakers include Nono Alfonso SJ, Rina Jimenez David, Gang Badoy, Nick Deocampo, Lourd de Veyra, Girlie Garcia, Isa Lorenzo, Kidlat Tahimik, Andrian Lee, Ruby Cristobal, Manuel L. Quezon III, Gary Granada.

(2) The launch of Khavn's internationally acclaimed SQUATTERPUNK with live music by Delakrus & The Brockas (a film concert) to coincide with--

(3) Non-Profit Sharing Networking Night on August 25, 2007 from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M., featuring performances by socially oriented artists and groups.

We would like to invite you to participate in this event. Our speakers are leaders in their respective vocations and have spared their time to share with us their vast experience in media for a cause. With your participation, we will be able bring together a crowd that is both hungry for skills and hungry for change.

For inquiries and reservations, please contact Ken Tan at tel. no. 4265971 or email ktan@admu.edu.ph or Ginny Mata at ginny(dot)mata(dot)gmail.com.

Class dates: August 4, 11, 18 and 25
Time: 9am – 4pm (also 6pm-9pm on August 25 for the Networking Night)
Class size: 60 slots only
Class fee: PhP6,000
Running promo: Enroll on or before July 20 and receive a 10% discount!

*Recommended for Teachers, Students, Media Practitioners and members of the non-profit sectors.

**Please pass this information to those who you think will benefit from this. This is one of the steps that would have to be made for a greater Philippines. Salamat at Mabuhay!

Chromatext Reloaded at the CCP Main Gallery

Some sixty Filipino poets and writers from here and abroad, representing
several generations, get together for a rare visual cum textual art
exhibit billed as “Chromatext Reloaded” from January 25 to February 28 at
the CCP Main Gallery. The show turns a page from the Chromatext I & II
shows in the 1980s that assembled visual artworks by poet-members of the
Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC).

Please direct your browser to my new online digs, Transatlantic Elegies. Muchas gracias! :)

Gosh, I'm so vain I probably think this post is about me.

And it is (as always). But c'mon - Grace Kelly! I wish.

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Sigaw Ni Maria Clara

7pm
esplanade
(across sm mall of asia)

all-female poetry+music+fashion

poets in the lineup:
karen kunawicz, kooky tuason, adelle victoria, kaz
castillo, nityalila, ginny mata, wawi navarroza of
the late isabel, charms tianzon of matilda, etcetera.

free admission

sponsored by:
pldt
lulu castagnette

meme from dizzymoon.

What have I read?
These are the 25 most popular modern-classic books at What Should I Read Next?

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The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

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The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Atonement - Ian McEwan

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The World According to Garp - John Irving

Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon

Digital Fortress - Dan Brown

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Douglas Coupland

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

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I am currently reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Lovely Bones, both of which I like already.

What have I read?
These are the 25 most popular overall books at What Should I Read Next?

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The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

1984 - George Orwell

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell

The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

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I bought Life of Pi yesterday, which I will be reading as soon as I am done with Kavalier and Clay.

Morning

Salt shining behind its glass cylinder.
Milk in a blue bowl. The yellow linoleum.
The cat stretching her black body from the pillow.
The way she makes her curvaceous response to the small, kind gesture,
Then laps the bowl clean.
Then wants to go out into the world
where she leaps lightly and for no apparent reason across the lawn,
then sits, perfectly still in the grass.
I watch her a little while, thinking:
what more could I do with wild words?
I stand in the cold kitchen, bowing down to her.
I stand in the cold kitchen, everything wonderful around me.

- Mary Oliver

Men See You As Choosy

Men notice you light years before you notice them You take a selective approach to dating, and you can afford to be picky You aren't looking for a quick flirt - but a memorable encounter It may take men a while to ask you out, but it's worth the wait

hrm.

"Hm, I never think about those things."

- Socorro Ramos, talking about love and romance in relation to the book sales of Greg Bernhardt's book, He's Just Not That Into You of Powerbooks Live and NBS GB.

"Ay, tanga sila!"

- Also Socorro Ramos, talking about women who are obssessed with love.

Tonight, during the launch of People's Palace, my boyfriend met my mother. She thinks he is too short for me, and she is not that impressed with him. My gay boytoy for the night thought he was gay. Wow, short and gay. He had to leave early. I also saw old friends - Myrza, JR, etc. - and naturally, one or two ghosts. Because I had four glasses of wine and two sips of a pomelo martini on an empty stomach, I was too drunk to pay attention to them. While I was getting blasted, I spent the rest of the evening playing third wheel to two gay boys who were trying to pick each other up. All the gay boys said I was hot, one wanted to get me as a model, but of course, I got no action.

On the way home, I got extremely dizzy, I almost crashed into a tree.

My life kicks Will and Grace's butt any day.

Oh, a ( survey! )

Playlist Of The Moment

1. "Banana Pancakes", Jack Johnson
2. "Army Of Me" (Reinterpreted by Grisbi), Grisbi
3. "Chariot", Gavin DeGraw
4. "Wordplay", Jason Mraz
5. "Falling In Love Again", Eagle Eye Cherry
6. "Change The World", Eric Clapton
7. "Smile", Chris Rice
8. "Feel To Believe", Beth Orton
9. "Sleeps With Butterflies", Tori Amos
10. "Love Vibration", Josh Rouse

What's yours?

One look at this mess, and I knew it was time to clean up.



I'm selling some of my old books. Most of them will go to BOUND (off Tomas Morato, near Sct. Tuazon).

Here's my final list. If you want to buy any of them from me, let me know before Tuesday (June 14) Thursday (June 16). Kindly post your name, email address and the title(s) you want, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thank you!

( Ye List of Old Books )

Nature's finally coming to its senses.

After this summer's unbearable heat, the rains came towards the end of May, and they haven't stopped since. From 37 C temperatures, now we've dropped to below 20. It's pleasantly cold, but wading through knee-high sewer water is always a bitch. Back when I was in college, there was a time that I found myself stranded on Katipunan after a long, unforgiving downpour: the roads had become rivers, miring vehicles, stray dogs and students. Empty Zesto packets from 1988 re-emerged, forming dirty plastic mats under our feet. While we were wading our way towards Ateneo, a cat-sized rat floated by our ankles. When I got home, I used up a whole bar of soap.

( Here's more about the rain. )

Friends Only.

You'll find the key under the mat, or on top of the door ledge.

Otherwise, leave a message, and our dog will get back to you.