Para kay Darna*

Hindi ko na pahahabain pa ang maiikling salitang para sa’yo.

Salamat.

Patawad.

Paalam.

*Alam na!

Win Yang!

I-Sing Videoke Contest
March 2, 2007
AS Parking Lot, UP Diliman

This will always be my best APSM moment. I miss everyone. Hope to see you soon guys!

Happy Birthday Tatay!

It was Tatay’s birthday yesterday and I forgot to blog about it. Went home last night and I was glad to see my family bringing its old happy days. I can’t wait for the day we’ll be in one home again.

To the greatest man and father on earth, happy birthday! Saludo ako sa paano mo kaming pinalaki at minahal. Mahal na mahal kita Tatay! Happy birthday!

Stan Walker- The Climb (Australian Idol- Top 4)

I have nothing against Miley Cyrus, but this is bigger and better than the original. Stan gives the song the soul and power that it deserves.  Wow, just wow. (Click here if you can’t see the video.)

The Ploning Experience

Super tagal na pero it’s worth the space!

Ploning’s gala premiere at the Meralco Theater, May, 2008.

Grabbed some pics from my multiply site and thought of sharing them to you for more pagyayabang. Haha. Seriuosly, I want to keep an account of the event in this blog. I was lucky to receive an invitation to a movie that shows what Pinoy filmmakers and artists can do. Thanks for the invite Mr. Estacio.

Was able to take pictures with Ploning herself, Ms. Judy Ann Santos, Ms. Gina Pareño aka Lola Gets, and other cast members. Ploning is a masterpiece, best of 2008!

 

with Ploning or Mara

with Lola Gets

cocktail

direk garcia and ploning

invitation

Juday

patron card

Pinoy sound

Ploning

with beth tamayo

with director dante nico garcia

with Siloy(cast member)

Tuldok at Kuwit*

I wrote this article four years ago (It was my first entry in my old blog.) and was published in peyups.com in 2007. (Click here to see the published article) It was a sudden and random thought to google it yesterday and was surprised to find out that there were people who shared my article through their blogs and some online threads. Here are some of them:

http://euryx.multiply.com/journal/item/35
http://mharcus.livejournal.com/19886.html
http://anirtak.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/tulodok-at-kuwit/
http://www.symbianize.com/showthread.php?t=26494
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=4797697&blogID=357758154
http://ysreh.multiply.com/journal/item/5
http://leysonrusty.blog.friendster.com/2008/01/tuldok-at-kuwit/
http://destined2b.blog.friendster.com/2007/09/tuldok-at-kuwit/
http://akosicha.multiply.com/journal/item/7
http://miguelvaldez13.blogspot.com/2008/04/tuldok-at-kuwit.html
http://silvernitrate.multiply.com/journal/item/6/Tuldok_at_Kuwit_aw_ganda_neto
http://yajeec.blog.friendster.com/2007/12/tuldok-at-kuwit/
http://www.pep.ph/forum/index.php?topic=2446.1200
http://www.filipino.net/blog/view/id_2967/title_man-overboard…./
http://allen-nikesponsor.blog.friendster.com/2008/09/tuldok-at-kuwit/
http://virtualpalaboi.blogspot.com/2007/08/tuldok-at-kuwit.html
http://healeck11.multiply.com/journal/
http://yscah-blue-888.blog.friendster.com/2007/11/tuldok-at-kuwit/
http://jeraii.blog.friendster.com/2008/01/tuldok-at-kuwit/
http://lunatic007.multiply.com/journal/item/2/Tuldok_at_Kuwit
http://nixxielove.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/tuldok-at-kuwit/
http://gottabebrown.blogspot.com/2007/09/superhero-who-doesnt-even-know-i-exist.html
http://nina10.blog.friendster.com/2008/02/tuldok-kuwit/
http://profiles.friendster.com/4651713
http://bratinella-12.blog.friendster.com/2007/09/artiks-from-peyupscom/
http://maja12.multiply.com/journal
http://karezcute.blog.friendster.com/2007/09/
http://shaige.blog.friendster.com/2007/09/tuldok-at-kuwit/

I’m so grateful to know that there are readers who appreciate my writing. This inspires me to write again, to share my thoughts by publishing my works on this blog. I’ll be posting some old and new pieces and I hope you’ll have time to read them. Comments are always welcome. For now, I hope you’ll enjoy reading this small piece of work. To those who are still in search of courage and will to face their past, time will heal all the pains, worries, and sorrows.  You may be crying at this moment, but tomorrow will always be a new day. Smile.

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Tuldok at Kuwit*

Ayokong hanapin mo ako dahil sa hindi mo ako makita, (malabo) dahil sa hindi mo ako maramdaman.(malabo pa rin)

Nitong nagdaang mga araw, nagbabago ako ng anyo. Isa akong yelo, na nakakulong sa bakal na puno ng kalawang. Hindi tumatakbo ang oras. Paano ako makakawala nang hindi natutunaw? Nang hindi nadudumhan?

Kung dumating ang oras na maghahanap ka, puntahan mo ang nagliliparang alikabok. Isa ako sa kanila. At kung sakaling mapuwing ka, isipin mong ako ang pumupuwing sa ‘yo para di ka masaktan. Gusto kong maramdaman mo ang aking presensya nang hindi ako nakikita.

Kung madaan ka sa mga halaman, ‘wag kang kukuha ni isang dahon man lang, baka ako ang iyong mapitas, malulungkot ako.

Pag ninais kong muling magbagong anyo, (ayoko pa) ‘wag kang umasang makita ako, mag-iiba ako ng pormat disenyo.

Kung mapadaan ka sa umaagos na tubig, damhin mo iyon ng iyong mga palad. Wag mong punasan, isipin mo ako, hayaan mong matuyo at saka ako maglalaho.

Isipin mo lang akong tumatawa, tulad ng lagi kong ginagawa. Isipin mo lang akong tinotopak, at tawagin mo akong baliw, hindi pa rin ako masasaktan, tulad ng dati.

Hindi mo man ako makita, hindi ako lalayo. Magbago man ako ng anyo, ako pa rin ako. ‘Wag mo na akong hanapin dahil hindi ako nagtatago, pero hindi ako magpapakita. Hayaan mong lumipas ang panahon…hanggang sa naisin kong ilapit ang langit sa aking puso…doon lang ako magiging malaya.

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*hindi ako lumilimot, at hindi ako lilimot. gusto ko lang maglakbay ng walang anino…ng walang kasaysayan

para sa isang kaibigan. patawad.

Movie Anticipation

Can’t miss these movies:

1. [500] Days of Summer
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zoeey Deschanel
Love the indie/quirky/awkward/natural thing in the trailer, and the soundtrack is love! Opens today!

2. Where the Wild Things Are
Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener
That very simple and peaceful trailer melts my heart! From one of the most adored children’s books comes this uber cute movie!

3. Iliw
Cast: Kaye Abad, Hirokuyi Tokashima
Kaye Abad’s first indie film. Love love her and her talent! Iliw is an entry to Cinemanila’s Digital Lokal category. Catch it on Saturday, October 24, 4 pm at Market Market, Cinema 6!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Realizations

I just want to share these random thoughts. I hope they make sense.  :)

1. It’s amazing to think how the things that made you cry before make you laugh today.
2. Sometimes, it takes one super typhoon to realize that it is time for you to move on.
3. Hope gives you the reason to wake up even in your darkest hour.
4. Remembering your first heartbreak always has a sad part.
5. First love is second most powerful to your one great love. And yes, your first and one great love can be one.
6. You cannot choose the person you’ll fall in love with, but staying in love with that person for the next years of your life can be a choice.
7. Making a choice or a decision is never easy if you don’t know the things that make you happy.
8. A friend is a lover. A lover may not be a friend, but when a lover becomes a friend, the lover’s friendship becomes the greatest.

Globe’s IMMORTAL10

*To Globe subscribers who don’t know about IMMORTAL10, I hope this will help.

From Globe’s website: “Globe Tattoo also offers the first SMS service with no expiry. IMMORTALTXT gives Globe Tattoo and Globe Prepad subscribers 50 texts to Globe/TM plus 10 texts to other networks for only P10*.”

Just type IMMORTAL10, send it to 8888 and you can enjoy the promo! What’s the best thing about this? It has no expiry! Best for people who are not into forwarding quotes! I think this is Globe’s most sulit texting promo.

UP Diliman’s take on this year’s National Artist Awards

SPARE THE ARTS FROM SPOILS

 

We artists and cultural workers of the University of the Philippines at Diliman strongly take exception to how the National Artists were named this year.

First, the spirit of the process was not upheld in the final selection of the awardees.  We concede that any subjective decision of this nature gives rise to a range of diverse views. What we cannot accept is the corruption of this already fraught process. The art community judiciously took part in this exercise, with the hope that an evenhanded process would produce truly worthy National Artists. This good faith in government has been subverted. It has made us distrust any effort to involve us in what may ultimately turn out to be a charade, or a farce in fact, and to regard the cultural bureaucracy as helplessly beholden to the contrivances of politicians and their courtiers.

Second, there was a demonstration of significant indiscretion, or even egregious imprudence, on the part of the officials who administered the awards. It was totally amiss—unethical, dishonest, morally bereft, and abusive—that those who oversaw the process ended up being honored and reaping the gains of their own auspice. We, therefore, deplore the utter contempt for the vital value of fairness in favor of personal ambitions of Sicilian proportions.

In light of these sentiments, we call for the immediate review of the law governing the National Artist awards and the rules that carry it out. We are specifically concerned about the power of the President, acting as a patron, to supersede the judgment of art’s public sphere and the unbecoming conduct of those in the civil service who are sworn to transcend conflicts of interest and defend democratic ideals.

Finally, as members of the community of scholars, we demand and expect the full commitment to integrity, excellence, and the tireless toil for the greater good.

National Artists deserve a process equal to their stature.

See the full article here .