tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56077842011-11-28T07:32:43.493+08:00Blogging is an opinionated person's recreationGlennnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607784.post-16644109242324568692011-08-30T00:00:00.000+08:002011-09-17T12:21:58.815+08:00

Statement on the Closure of the “Kulo” Exhibit at the CCP by the Department of Art Studies, UP Diliman, 13 August 2011 No to Closure, No to Censorship! Image via WikipediaWe, faculty members of the Department of Art Studies, University of the Philippines in Diliman, urge the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) to reopen the exhibition “Kulo” featuring 32 works from artists who

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END HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS; STOP THE KILLING OF JOURNALISTS Statement of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication on the first year of the Aquino Presidency, July 25, 2011 BENIGNO AQUINO III became President a year ago on the wings of Filipino hopes for change, and their loathing for one of the most unpopular Presidents in Philippine history. Gloria

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February is arts month, or so a billboard reminded at an LRT station I pass through en route to office. It’s also Pasinaya’s month – CCP’s one-day festival where for a suggested minimum contribution of 20 pesos, one could preview the resident companies’ 2011 offerings. Other performance groups get to show their stuff in different spaces of CCP as well. For resident companies, they have Abelardo,

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Posted by sillypepperchillie at UP Film Institute mailing list, 2011-02-04; image is screen capture of ACPI website. In an earlier post on the mailing list (2011-02-02), poster-making contest for the 2012 festival was announced, details HERE.Animahenasyon 2011 is now accepting entriesThe Animation Council of the Philippines, Inc. (ACPI) is calling all budding and professional animators from

Glennnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607784.post-6816802353657445972011-01-29T12:58:00.014+08:002011-02-05T13:10:04.069+08:00

Before year 2010 ended, my Facebook network was abuzz with this Filipino indie horror-comedy film "Zombadings: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington." No updates I'm aware of so far (or more likely, my usual busyness prevented me from following through). I first learned of the film from Mell Navarro. Then Cholo Laurel made a Wall post on the FabGays Facebook group. For some shameless audience luring (

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A theatrical event that got members of the FabGays Facebook group talking is PETA's "Care Divas" a musical comedy about Filipino gay men who work overseas as caregivers, who also do diva impersonations at night. (I hope to see it, fingers crossed both hands.) From the FabGays' discussions, I gathered that some of the actors actually went around interviewing actual (repatriated?) OFW caregivers

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Koi fish, Chinese dragon, crab and scorpion, all out of folding one dollar bills -- origami artwork by Won Park, first found posted by Catalina on Historical Pictorial mailing list, 2010-08-21. After some Googling, found Won Park's DeviantArt site, after The Design Inspiration article. Images above are part of 14 images included in the forwarded post. It also said Won Park lived in a

Glennnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607784.post-58743077298675640182010-08-21T14:01:00.001+08:002010-08-21T14:03:03.092+08:00

[Posted by Eliseo Gonzaga on Puri Titiwang Presents mailing list, 2010-07-23; poster image on 2010-07-25] TARIMAAng Busilak na Pag-ibig ni FannyNAGBABALIK sa eksena ang gay icon na si Fanny Serrano sa mundo ng showbiz na sa mahigit tatlong dekada ay tahanan ng fashion stylist/beauty guru ng mga bituin at part-time actor/director—dito sa pelikulang “Tarima.”Masasangkot si Fanny sa mga latak ng

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Tagged on Facebook. On 4 September, MCC Philippines turns 19. More information on MCC here.

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[Included in weekly e-newsletter from Change.org, received 2010-08-17]Ground Zero Mosque?Dear Glenn,This past week a simmering controversy over the construction of an Islamic community center two blocks from the World Trade Center reached a boiling point across the country.Republican politicians leading the charge against the center have dubbed it "Ground Zero Mosque," creating the misconception

Glennnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607784.post-59295759740814356322010-08-13T02:06:00.000+08:002010-08-14T02:06:56.472+08:00

[Posted by Regina Layug-Rosero on UP Film Institute mailing list, 2010-08-09. Warning: My browser warned that the MulatPinoy website may host malware. You may download the invite letter and registration form HERE and HERE.]Greetings from the Probe Media Foundation, Inc. (PMFI)!We would like to invite you to a forum and workshop entitled Philippine Population in Focus: Myths and Challenges, from 4

Glennnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607784.post-26661007893925377632010-08-13T00:11:00.001+08:002010-08-21T13:56:30.028+08:00

[Included in a post by Eliseo Gonzaga on Puri Titiwang Presents mailing list, 2010-08-12; four more images included in the original post.] SENSUAL (coffeetable book launch, photo exhibit, fashion show) on August 22, Sunday, 8:00 PM @ Barcino Bar, Greenbelt Mall 2.Not used to reblogging announcements with too little information, I searched around a bit for more information about the event. At

Glennnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607784.post-32088348376156201892010-08-11T12:22:00.002+08:002010-08-21T13:56:55.478+08:00

[Posted by friend Maxie on UP Babaylan mailing list, 2010-08-10; photo attached to similar post on UP Film Institute mailing list] Two films that explore the intimacy, frailty and complexities of human relationships - MAGDAMAG and MULI, both written by Palanca award winner Jerry Gracio, will have a back-to-back screening at the U.P. Cine Adarna (formerly U.P. Film Center) this Friday, August 13

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[Posted this on RH and HIV/AIDS advocacy mailing lists last week. Will appreciate if my one or two readers will be able to forward this to other groups, or maybe contact me if they could refer organizations.] To Organizations of Medical and Health Professionals:Invitation for Expressions of Interest from Organizations of Medical and Health Professionals for Membership in Phil. National AIDS

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[Posted on UP Film Institute mailing list, 2010-07-30]Filming the basic right to live2nd Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media FestivalThe human rights issues of today. These are the subjects of the films showcased in the 2nd Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media Festival.A selection on the theme of economic, social and cultural rights reveal Filipino workers, migrants

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[Posted on UP Film Institute mailing list, 2010-07-25. For registration details, visit the site.] NCCA's Crafting the New School in Philippine CinemaCALL FOR PARTICIPATIONLast February, the NCCA Cinema Committee conducted during the Philippine International Arts Festival a successful showcase of regional films in an event called “Cinema Rehiyon”.  The huge turnout proved to all the presence of a

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[E-mailed 14 July 2010 by Dakila Collective, most likely, friend Van. Got express mail also. Image below is the postcard invitation.] True revolution begins in the imagination.DAKILA - Philippine Collective for Modern Heroism with the support of the Commission on Human Rights, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands and the Embassy of Australia,

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I'm a "people watcher". Sometimes I get my entertainment not from the events I attended but from other people in attendance. At the recently concluded Virgin Labfest 6, interactions I observed from people around me also make for good blogging. I didn't need to be consciously snooping around. The opportunities would present themselves, unsolicited. Snacks On my way to CCP, I made a quick stop at

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For the sixth Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition, I bought three Day Passes, July 10, 11, 17, each day with five tickets, each ticket one screentime. I noticed in the program brochure that none of the entries in competition will ever show at 10:00 AM screentime. In one theater, there's an extra screentime of 11:45PM but not on my Day Pass dates, and the feature films are not in

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It's a big commitment for me. This afternoon I dropped by CCP to take a chance of getting that one thing that eluded me last year, a Festival Pass to Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition. (Dear one or two readers, you know that I even tried my luck in a reasonably exhausting blogging contest that had this as first prize.) When I left CCP an hour later, the Festival Pass remained

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From a flyer distributed on the last day of Virgin Labfest 6. I wonder who will come and "wear" as Arnold Reyes' character in Astig, full-length feature in competition from Cinemalaya last year, preferably, after his make-out scene with a sex worker. (Actually, I prefer Arnold Reyes to do this himself. *grins*)CINEMALAYA 6 COSPLAY (COSTUME PLAY)Join the COSPLAY (Costume Play) in the Cinemalaya

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Since I first got hold of a Jasper Fforde novel, I noticed a growing trend in fiction. I don't know what it's called but you'd see fiction sections in bookstores growing volumes of works that retell classic stories, redevelop/reuse milieus, even fictionalize private lives of historic icons. (Fforde has a series about a detective, who jumps into stories of classics to go after anomalies like

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Somewhere someone said that other than having two characters, the featured works of Set B or Pas de Deux of Virgin Labfest 6 shared nothing in common. In my reading there seemed to be. But before the blogging, I had to clarify "pas de deux". I knew it's something related to ballet (there are many French terms in ballet), and "deux" meant two (known to me courtesy of an Eighties soap commercial "

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Just like Ambeth Ocampo, in one of his articles, where he said he had to consult a dictionary for the word "plebeian" for an expository on Bonifacio, I looked up on "pariah" to start weaving my way into blogging Set A or Pariah Paraiso of Virgin Labfest 6. Later in the writing struggle, I realized, the denotation didn't matter. In what shone brightest for me, Balunbalunan, Bingibingihan (Debbie

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There could be several reasons why I had difficulty relating to the featured works in Set E or Banyaga Twinbill of Virgin Labfest 6. I've listed them down. But as I thought more about each reason, I'd have "then-again" ponders, which tell me that one reason is not entirely the whole truth behind my difficulty. Reason 1: They're foreign. The plays, Sundan Natin Si Eversan (Shungiku Uchida) and

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The second time I got the chance to see Virgin Labfest 6 at the CCP was for Set F, three of allegedly the best of Labfest 5: Isang Araw sa Karnabal (Nicolas Pichay), Boy-Gel ang Gelpren ni Mommy (Sheilfa Alojamiento) and Doc Resureccion, Gagamutin ang Bayan (Layeta Bucoy). Three very different approaches in terms of staging and ensemble but similar in evoking emotional perplexities in the

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After the set, I eavesdropped discreetly; I tried to get the drift of reactions from other people around me. While having a last smoke before braving the rain, I overheard two guys mutually spitting venoms about devil-spawn hustlers, somehow the play's outcome afforded them some sick sense of satisfaction a.k.a. "justice". Somewhere else in the buzzing crowd, another pair mirrored the narrative

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"O, di ba mas maganda kung may ART sa buhay mo?" CCP once asked. And I agreed. So much so that one of my "resolutions" for 2010 was to increase on my "culture spending." And 2010 started free actually when BFF Eon and I went to Pasinaya, CCP's preview festival in February. Now the following months will definitely culturally gastronomic (see below). 22 June - 04 July THE VIRGIN LABFEST VI Untried

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To:  THE ADMINISTRATION OF BENIGNO "NOYNOY" AQUINO III ARTS AND CULTURE SECTOR M A N I F E S T O  We, artists, cultural workers, educators and arts administrators from the Arts and Culture Sector of Philippine society, commit ourselves to: Support the new administration in its pursuit of social, political, economic and cultural progress through the promotion of good governance, transparency and

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pelikula@titusbrandsma is a free monthly film screening with dialogue that features fine samples of world cinema. It is an offering of the Titus Brandsma Center (TBC) Media Program under the auspices of the Carmelites in the Philippines. This monthly event is aimed at giving a meaningful experience for film enthusiasts. See Pelikula Titus Website. Showing This Month"Delirious in Pink"June 26,

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IllumiDANCE: The Lunar White PartyTask Force Pride Philippines brings you Manila's 9th Annual White Party on Maria Orosa strip 10pm, Saturday, June 26, 2010.Celebrate LGBT PRIDE under the brilliant full moon! Come in your fiercest and most luminous white costumes and celebrate love, laughter and life in this annual and global celebration of PRIDE!Donate and support Task Force Pride Philippines in

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"Ang init!" We've always exclaimed since end of February this year. I'm always reminded of the heatwave every time I join the rush and crush of human traffic at the LRT to and from work. We've theorized it's definitely much hotter now than before - with unscientific claims of how "cooler" it felt this same season when we were so much younger (than today). I was working for Tropical Disease

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Japanese-themed bargain stores are treasure troves for curiosities. This one is sold at one such in Robinson's Galleria. Strangely, when I saw this, the lyrics "like a string of pearls, pretty girls go sailing by" came into mind. Of course, in addition to the visual humoresque, you just have to read the promotional copy; with this one, "For Kid's: Special use for satisfaction foreign-style

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Purely WTF moment. Found them at a health and beauty outlet while BFF Eon and I were doing our weekend loitering in Greenbelt. The packaging, in fairness, packs an impact. The visual elements have pleasant appeals: bright colors, smiling feminine lips, delicious objects, symmetric patterns. But put together, I found them "pretty scary" (nudge-nudge, chuckle-chuckle). We could use a similar

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Here's what I wrote in my other blogs:The writing's on the wall, so they say. I've a propensity for writing long stuff, but this last chance, I'll try my very best to keep it short and sweet. I'm closing doors to blogging. Maybe on this blog. Maybe for my other Liwaliws as well. Maybe temporarily. Maybe permanently. There's no big drama here. I'm just stopping. So there.Then I found my way back

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They may not have known each other prior this. This unfortunate predicament in a harsh environment. Though, they may not have anything in memory to compare, but to be caged and looked at/passed over? Well, you get the idea. I was romanticizing a Dumbo-esque narrative when I saw these two huddled like it was a cold winter night (it was in fact a very hot and humid June). Accompanied mujacko to

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One of the meetings with the executive committee back when I took on coordination for Asia-Pacific Rainbow. Kozui, along Morato, seemed newly opened then, designed to be fashionably laid back, at the same time Tokyo-metropolitan. Couldn't resist the cute roundness of the retail display. I think these were for sale (am not so sure now). Oh, and they have this cold soba that I found absolutely

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Imagine yourself: you promenade in a mall on an ordinary working day, shoppers too few and far between, cleanliness almost antiseptic, displays static, precise, pristine. Then you see this all dramatically lit installation - you couldn't make it out from a distance, so you go closer. Now what do you make of it? A papier mache, no doubt, carelessly accentuated by possibly manila hemp given to the

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Just one of those impromptu drunken nights with friends in Malate. En route from Nakpil alcohol-driven fabulosities to Aristocrat gastro-binge, at the edge of Remedios Circle, Gregg and his bagbag, in a spur-of-the-moment strange, emoted inspiration with (and for) the "real horrors" of Manila streetlife. Technical information on original version: width=1632, height=1224, resolution=72dpi, taken

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Colleague Noemi patiently waited at the check-out queue for her family pasalubong, and I was letting my camwhore eyes survey more of this Bangkok mall's goodies. I would argue that there is simply no way that one could ignore this oddity cum novelty. My imaginative inner eye was debating whether potential fascination with turning this lamp on and off is playful innocence for the "patutuy," or

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Maybe it's selective perception, or I'm seeing too much teddy bears in Bangkok's stores. As colleague Noemi shopped for some nifties for kids back home, after our Bangkok civil society meeting on UNGASS in May, I found myself loitering and "salivating" at rows of brightly colored teddy bears (and I wasn't even over yet from wanting a teddy bear from Jim Thompson's). Didn't have much shopping

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Early in May, got a chance to travel to Bangkok again. Colleague Noemi from HAIN and I attended a meeting of the region's civil society to report on the country's experience in preparing the UNGASS progress report. I've seen most of the city (though not the usual tourist fare) because of various regional meetings and conferences; Noemi, curiously, seemed to take the tourist shopping bug to the

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Last April, on just one of those day trips to one of our project sites, Gumaca in Quezon (GFATM HIV and AIDS project). I was invited as resource person for the municipality's local AIDS council's "re-orientation." Had time to pay a short visit to the San Diego church with colleagues Ferdi and Marv. Image treatment here was an exercise of tweaking on Photoshop's oh-so-many functions; hands-on

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A glitch potentially for packaging of a miraculous event? Gregg and I took a short pilgrimage at the Pink Sisters' Convent, just a brief, healthy stride away from the Red Lion, where he, I and his bagbag stayed for an April Baguio vacation. After that, we made another "pilgrimage" for the more Eastern spiritual-philosophical variety at the Taoist Temple. This image, The Virgin of the Poor (

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Gregg and I, specially on our campy, casual walkarounds, have this obsession of point-and-shoot of real life "artfully" framed. He calls them "accidents" and sometimes we could get quite, uh, competitive. Above is my response to this of Gregg's "accident". It was a sunny, cool morning in Baguio - during our quickie vacation with bagbag - when I happened on this: they were obviously in a hurry,

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I dunno, I've shown this pic to other friends, and some felt some kind of "dread" about it, almost like a build-up sequence or foreshadowing shot of a b-grade scream flick. It's actually embedded on Session Road's sidewalk, short distance from Pizza Volante. Taken during my quick vacation with Gregg and his bagbag on April. Technical information on original version: width=2048, height=1536,

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Gregg's bagbag got some time-off last April from his humanitarian work overseas. Gregg and I joined him for a quick vacation in Baguio. We made sure that we go to the most exotic places in Baguio; on the first day, we went to SM City. Baguio, almost always the brightest of the plantae variety, seemed to have a new commercial obsession (since a year or two back) - cacti. This bunch just a

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A meeting on monitoring and evaluation of HIV and AIDS was called at the Imperial Palace Suites in Quezon City. I've noticed that effort's been given at detailing avante-garde swankiness in the hotel, including this, uh, vase(?) I must have missed the fashionable interior decor train. It's at least a humongous ensemble, definitely commanding some attention. Technical information on original

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Nope, it isn't some abstract artwork. It's definitely not a zebra borne of inter-species mating. It's a detail from a trunk of a tree inside Sycip Garden, where us neighbor-friends had a Sunday photoshoot. You have to admit, though, the patterns are quite compelling. And the image has very good potential as desktop wallpaper. More images HERE. Technical information on original version: width=

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A candid shot of emanon during the Sycip garden promenade and photoshoot with friends. The garden was peppered with bronze plates of quotations from Washington Sycip (who else) such as on the bench beside emanon. I don't remember what the plate quoted, but from this frame, it looked like emanon was speaking with the bench, the bench teleprompting its reply via the bronze plate. More images HERE.

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Asianchubi invited us neighboor-friends for a Sunday promenade and photoshoot. We ended up at the Sycip garden in Legazpi Village, Makati. We were supposed to help him build up his photography portfolio. Of course, we went clicking away as well with our respective cameras. There were so many interesting things in this park to frame and capture such as this stone turtle, nicely placed at the head

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April 9 was just another lazy, mostly nothing day. I couldn't quite recall why I was just being a lazy oaf at home; it's a weekday. (Then again, my office is just across the street from my place.) Even the welcoming committee at my doorstep forewarned would-be visitors of the household sleepiness. Technical information on original versions: width=2048, height=1536, resolution=72dpi, taken with

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I dunno. I'm such a sucker for cuteness and color. In store displays, I'm easily drawn to "rainbow" line-ups. I discovered these inside Surplus Shop in SM Makati. The subject matter was kinda apt at the time as well: I was on my way to meeting up some BM guys at yet another SM mall, Megamall. Bridging two malls, there's the MRT. Technical information on original versions: width=1536, height=

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There's really so much blue glow around Music Match in Tomas Morato, where BM have spent several of its videoke-cum-socializations recently. Stole a quick snap at true-blue chaser raiko, who for much of the night kept on doing this: drink, laugh, chatter, sing along, then walk out the door, pose and chat on the phone. Must be bluffing on his whereabouts or some sorta. In fairness, whoever was on

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My homage to Dan Flavin. (Or simply yet another spur of the moment snap on a specially drunken, chockfull of videoke night out with the guys at BM.) In my light reading moments, usually care of coffee-table art books bought at Booksale, I once discovered what really minimalism really meant and Flavin's work could probably be the best examples for appreciation to heretofore dunzo on anything art.

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Went with BM neighbor-friends for dinner in Megamall. Passed by an exhibit at the Art Center. Found the sculpture striking, not solely for its menage a trois starkness, but also probably for how seemingly it represented some "unpleasant" experience and interesting juxtaposition of meanings offered by other works in the collection. Technical information on original version: width=1536, height=

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More of that experimental, peephole-frame shot. Dramatis personae: bioman, wisigoth and blindnes, roommate-pals, who have taken residence at the "Pink Apartment," which was under the care of hunky-chub-young-daddy (and "honorary" BM) Paeng. Taken at People's Park in the Sky in Tagaytay. More pictures HERE. Technical information on original version: width=1536, height=2048, resolution=72dpi,

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'Nuff said... that's worth the "wholesome" print. *lol* tiny gamely posed for an "experimental" peephole-frame shot during this day trip to Tagaytay with BM-based neighbor-friends. (Was he aware of this at all? Not so sure now.) Taken at People's Park in the Sky, a.k.a. Palace in the Sky, a failed Marcosian project ca. 1980's - "hubris!" my hunny says. More pictures HERE. Technical information

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I'm sure kids would have ogled and tugged on Mommy's skirt for one. My inner-kid eye was stimulated. But my outer-adult sensibility kinda argued - there is something disconcerting about this. The blazing yellow-and-red logo on translucent blue could have made the point... why need to add the, uhm, "belted underwear"? Oh, there's a Batman version of this as well. (Joined newly found

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On February, some members of Bigger Manila, with mujacko as lead, trooped to far-flung Tandang Sora, Quezon City for a mini meet-up of aquarium fanatics. (I could claim, at least, I'm a non-practicing fanatic at the moment.) Visiting a somewhat guru on the topic, we were treated to a free-wheeling lecture on planted aquarium setup and maintenance, all the while admiring multitudes of plants and

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On my last night in Davao, together with staff of Tropical Disease Foundation (who through the GFATM project organized the RAAT training-workshop), PNAC and DOH, went for dinner at one of the City's popular restaurants serving inihaw na panga. It was one fine night, a bit cooler than Metro Manila, despite the usual all-too-familiar citylife hum around. The stray cat seemed to agree; it found a

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Went to Davao City in January to assist Philippine National AIDS Council as resource person for the training-workshop of the Regional AIDS Assistance Team. One night, for dinner and socials, the trainers and organizers went to Jack's Ridge. Upon arrival, we got a briefing of the Ridge's geological history (topmost), and greeted by the "welcome committee" (above). Technical information on

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Went to Puerto Galera for our organization's mid-term assessment meeting and company outing on January. My last vacation here (which was actually a special outreach project) was 2003. So much has changed, I noticed, including this early morning panorama from the veranda of the cottage where I stayed. Just then, this scene just felt like I never left Metro Manila. Fortunately, the urban smog

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It was a sad New Year's Eve for my sister and the in-laws. Her mother-in-law passed away just before new year; the wake was at a parish church in Las Pinas. While loitering about the churchyard, this frame formed in my mind's eye. The clouds seemed to take form mimicking the treetops. Then again, the treetops also seemed to "breathe out" the clouds. Technical information on original version:

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While waiting for Makati's New Year celebrations, just loitering around Greenbelt. In a newly opened wing, I peered in one of the new shops. Glam femininity to the hilt, but the symbolisms offered sobering thoughts - I was having a "Mona Lisa Smile" moment. Technical information on original version: width=2048, height=1536, resolution=72dpi, taken with SE K810i, taken on 2008-12-31, filename:

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While waiting for Makati's New Year celebrations, just loitering around Greenbelt. It's the top view of one of the newly installed lamp posts. [Technical information on original version: width=2048, height=1536, resolution=72dpi, taken with SE K810i, taken on 2007-12-31, filename: DSC01023.JPG]

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One of the old theaters along Avenida Rizal in Manila, somewhere between Quiapo and Recto. I loved how the facade looked. Took this picture back in August 2004, when Gregg and I first walked through the area that then Mayor Lito Atienza closed to vehicular traffic. The theater's gone now... well, so has the Mayor Atienza's pedestrian enclosure. Incumbent Mayor Alfredo Lim restored vehicular

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In September 2004, I attended a short course on HIV and AIDS sponsored by Japan's ministry of health and welfare, Research Institute for Tuberculosis and Japan Foundation for AIDS Prevention. The night I arrived in Tokyo, the Ikebukuro district was celebrating some kind of harvest festival. I was trying to get a picture of the parade when I realized the guy blocking my view was the better

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Burnham Park in Baguio, one time when I was invited to lecture on peer counseling for the LEAD for Health project. A specially misty afternoon, accompanied by one of the peer educators, Ayie. I extended my stay for a few more days, and I thought I made the right decision.

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View from my room in Zenith Sukhumvit in Bangkok in 2005. I attended a workshop organized by FHI for MSM workers then. I was impressed with the "very diagonal" horizon in this small patch of the cityscape.

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Sometime March 2006, I took a quick break and headed for Baguio with family and friends. It was unseasonably cold then, and Burnham has just completed its transformation into an Atienza-inspired light show. The green-ness somehow reminded me of alien invasions - either simultaneous hatchings of body-snatcher pods or the tommyknockers were comin' a-knockin' on our doors.

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Jeez, I could just imagine this right up there with the hula girl for the dashboard and the snow globe paper weight. Taken from a souvenir shop at NAIA 2, on my way to Bangkok last July.

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I'm reviving my blogger site. From now on, this blog will contain snapshots of curiosities I encounter while going around the city as well as my other travels. Earlier, I experimented with moblogging with my phone; it didn't work, unfortunately. For my regular ruminations on whatever "Liwaliw," I still have my I.Ph blog.

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Kid you not, I took this pic while beside a group of giggling girls, swooning over its "cuteness." I don't get it: menacing eyes and flesh-tearing fangs are cute now?

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En route home, after a meeting, just stopped and snapped - Queen Isabella in amber glow.

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Before anything else, I'm posting this now: http://glenncruz.i.ph I've signed up with Blogger in 2003, but really got into blogging 2005. Blessing in disguise, this recent Internet outage due to the ongoing repairs south of Taiwan has made me consider other options. For the past weeks, US-based services like Google's and Blogger's were dismal, and that's understating it.I've first got

Glennnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607784.post-88245438688441173312007-01-27T17:22:00.000+08:002007-01-28T03:14:23.853+08:00

I told the receptionist that I was there last the night before. Is it okay to have a massage for two consecutive days? Opo, okay na okay lang yun, sir... Yeah right. I could see pesos signs in her eyes. But I wanted to relax, specifically to get into relaxing mood towards slumberland without the introductory twists and turns caused by hyperactive problematizing mind. I had several options:

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I don't want to harp more on this; several blogs back I've already dissected my financial woes. But I had the opportunity to reverse this deppressing situation a bit, and just in time for the holidays. If there's one of the joys I experienced this year, that would have to be (re-)discovering music that I like. More precisely, that would have to be Limewire and uTorrent. Music downloads have

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I thought I'd never get the chance to blog again. Well, I wasn't able to towards the end of the year. But now I've got a bit of "free time" to myself. No, not really. I just decided not to work for awhile; to say that the last days of 2006 (and consequently, the first weeks of 2007) was quite toxic is an understatement. If I made some good hits in the better part of 2006, I'd say that

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A battle to pass a human rights measure penalizing discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders is raging in the House of Representatives, where the incumbent Chairperson of the Committee on Human Rights, Rep. Bienvenido Abante (6th Distict, Manila City), is ironically blocking the bill's passage. In a controversial speech delivered last Monday, Rep. Abante, who is also a

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[LAGABLAB Press Release, November 16, 2006]Resign from Human Rights Committee, Rep. Abante urgedThe Lesbian and Gay Legislative Advocacy Network (LAGABLAB-Pilipinas), a network of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender organizations and activists, condemned today Manila Representative and House Committee on Human Rights Chair Bienvenido Abante for "his homophobia and atrocious ignorance of the

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Late breaking news: I first got a text message from indefatigable Jonas. Then this e-mail, providing the full details. In between rushing some documents, packing my things (I'm going to Legazpi today), I've been mumbling profanities - what a jerk!- - - - - - - - - -Hello folks, our dear friend from the sixth district of Manila did it again. inq7.net's Maila Ager wrote about the incident briefly,

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I'm essentially doing nothing, I texted my hunny. He must be in his usual busy self in the office right now, he might not even have a wee bit of time to text me back. It's okay, I also do that to him sometimes.This is a rare occurence for me, blogging in the middle of the day. Having nothing else to do, I might as well let my fingers do some keyboard talking. Ordinarily my workload is such that I

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In the TV series "24," the lead character portrayed by Kiefer Sutherland will save someone or resolve something in a narrative time-lapse worth 24 hours every episode. There are days like this in my so-called professional life. Such was October 20 when I had again one of those marathon trips in line with official work, and some more for volunteer work, i.e. work to help out friends. I was up and

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Gregg was right. I was totally the different person when we met later in the night, after I wrote that awful, desperate and whiny post about I having nothing of urbane civility left almost a week after Milenyo. Writing seemed to have purged all the angst. I asked him to join me in Malate while at home, enveloped in the now-familiar sticky heat darkness, after realizing that I don't need to

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I've been meaning to post this e-mail update from Jonas regarding the Anti-discrimination Bill. I received this last October 13. Early morning today, in between deliberations on the 2007 budget, Rep. Nograles (House Committee on Rules Chair) and AKBAYAN Reps. Risa Hontiveros and Mayong Aguja (Etta was in Mindanao) tried to have the Anti-Discrimination Bill passed on Third Reading. It would have

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I'm on the brink of despondency. I'm now at an Internet cafe somewhere in Greenbelt. I decided to log in again after growing tired of wandering aimlessly in the mall, which was preceded by an absent-minded ride at the MRT, which was preceded by an earlier Internet cafe visit at a different mall in Pasay City. Two more days left and I will soon be commemorating one week since Typhoon Milenyo's

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I've been writing a lot lately. Not that anybody else notices, considering how I've blogged nothing at all recently, but... I've been writing, in fact, most furiously just last week. I wrote a paper on HIV, AIDS and men who have sex with men in the Philippines, on behalf of the Philippine National AIDS Council, as part of the country's contribution to the conference on MSM and HIV in Asia and

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We, members of the Lesbian and Gay Legislative Advocacy Network Philippines (LAGABLAB-Pilipinas), wishes to thank Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Isagani Cruz for giving us yet another proof that homophobia still exists in our society today. His column ("Don we now our gay apparel, August 12, 2006, Page A10) tells us that, indeed, a law penalizing discrimination against lesbians, gays,

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Last 9 August, LAGABLAB went to the Senate and participated in the first hearing for the anti-discrimination bill. To support the passage of the bill, our organization sent a position paper. Friend Ferdie (who is also an officer of the organization) and I were in Angeles City then for a planning workshop organized by the Philippine National AIDS Council. We drafted the position paper, sent it

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It was a nothing day, meaning, it was a day that consisted of my usual run of things. If I was not in the office trying to solve a million and one things, I would be at home trying to rediscover the Internet or cable TV, or yet still, I would be in the mall buying stuff and paying bills. Which was what I was looking like doing for most of the day that day - paying bills. I even thought, maybe

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In between e-mailing, phone calls, writing "stuff" and the usual rounds of blogs and sites, a few weeks ago, I discovered somewhat belatedly the addictive pleasures of Limewire. In between oohs and ahhs, and some tsk-tsk's, I no sooner delved into downloading music of my youth, ano pa nga ba, new wave. But what ELSE to download? I've already amassed several "underground" and new wave mp3

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It's been almost two weeks since I bought a book entitled "Rainbow Boys" from Fully Booked at the new mall to top all malls - what else? - the Mall of Asia. It's an exceedingly easy read, but of course, it's intended for young adults. I have to commend Fully Booked for getting this book's classification right. Actually a friend (from way back), who turned out worked for the store, confided

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It's been almost a week now since I first felt it. Vertigo. I first mistaken the feeling as persistent headache. When I had myself checked up, the doctor concluded it must be benign positional vertigo. Some fancy way of saying that I feel all woozy when I abruptly shift the position of my head or body, much like the light-headed/swimming/swirling feeling one gets on roller coaster or ferris wheel

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I finally got to watch the Ron Howard/Tom Hanks billed "Da Vinci Code," and boy, was I so right in feeling more than a year ago not to read the novel until I see the movie. I was with eon last Saturday when I saw it, and he admitted that it would seem that it was better seen without having to have read the novel. I enjoyed it a bit, save for the clumsiness of some dialogue and scenes. Then I

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May has flown so fast like it was shorter than the its own three-lettered name. Not quite the end of the month, but days before, I was almost ready to call it quits. My TTD's (things to do) was being stuffed like a thanksgiving turkey (or for more local color like rellenong bangus) as days wore on. May was, and is, a blur, and I actually turned 33 last week. I made a simple reminder alert on my

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Jimmy Somerville and Marc Almond together! What a precious find!

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I think I've always been fascinated with the dark secrets of Catholicism. I wanted to find an angle for my blog entry about the Gospel of Judas, that fine piece of documentary-cum-expose shown by National Geographic before the Holy Week. Initially, I asked myself, why do I feel so compelled to write something about it? Then some impish alterego voice in my head chided: "Wrong question. The

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