Posted By Neil on March 7th, 2010
The current project of eight Cebuano short film directors would again take on a “from Cebu to the world” ticket this month via 30-minute travel program “Fast:Track” (marked with a colon), on BBC World News Channel. The show offers tips and hints all about travel news and recent developments in the world travel industry.
London-born Rajan Datar (of Indian descent) along with his camera crew Pete Changtongkam and Jim Wygal documented the shoot of a scene in “Balut X”, one of the working titles of an “omnibus” feature-length film partly produced by T-Interlace – the people/crew behind 2009 Cinemanila Young Cinema in Competition winner “To Siomai Love”, and the Best Picture in the 2010 Sinulog filmfest “Kurtina nga Pula”.
Posted By Neil on March 7th, 2010
The current project of eight Cebuano short film directors would again take on a “from Cebu to the world” ticket this month via 30-minute travel program “Fast:Track” (marked with a colon), on BBC World News Channel. The show offers tips and hints all about travel news and recent developments in the world travel industry.
London-born Rajan Datar (of Indian descent) along with his camera crew Pete Changtongkam and Jim Wygal documented the shoot of a scene in “Balut X”, one of the working titles of an “omnibus” feature-length film partly produced by T-Interlace – the people/crew behind 2009 Cinemanila Young Cinema in Competition winner “To Siomai Love”, and the Best Picture in the 2010 Sinulog filmfest “Kurtina nga Pula”.
Posted By Neil on March 5th, 2010
“Cave is a good word…the memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind – With its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, Its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, Its fleeting lights, and above all, its sudden revelations.”
Mark Twain
Posted By Neil on February 27th, 2010
Education is said to be one of the principal means that society employs to carry out its national policies and objectives. Such aims of education are believed to greatly determine the nature of education that citizens acquire and consequently what kind of citizens – and or graduates – the country has.
Posted By Neil on February 27th, 2010
To bring truth into the actors work, he must first of all know who he is, which means acknowledging his own personal points of view about everything and expressing them, feeling all kinds of life, colors, distractions, impulses, and changes of emotions. In short, Morris created hundreds of exercises which worked for the actor to achieve a state of being – feeling and discovering all his life’s elements and doing no more than what he feels. Being is the only place from which one can create organic reality.
Posted By Neil on February 26th, 2010
“Two steps forward, one step back. We’ll come together to praise the ever Living God.” I went singing to the tune of Paula Abdul’s ‘Opposites Attract.’ But no, this has nothing to do with the ex-AI judge. This is part of the fun way of taking a glimpse into our colorful past much like peering into a kaleidoscope.
Historical chronicles had it that “synonymous to the Christianization of the Philippines is the feast of Señor Santo Niño de Cebu,” a festive celebration held every third Sunday of January in the beautiful Sugbu Island, a name which appeared in western travel records as Zubu, Subuth, Cubu, and then later on, Cebu.
Posted By Neil on February 24th, 2010
Cebu City (January 15) – For twenty years, my mother smoked stick after stick of what she used to call “low-class cigarette ra ni ‘day, kadaghan na ni hugasi, di na ni makadaot (this is of low-class quality dear Eleanor, tobacco leaves been washed several times, would do no more harm).”
But last year, she began complaining of numbness traveling from the fingertips of her left hand, to the forearm, to the upper arm, to her shoulders – and that this numbness, she said, already seemed to squeeze her armpit and the left portion of her chest.
Posted By Neil on February 24th, 2010
Down memory lane: An emotional Kadangyan swan song left me welling with tears as they announced of their surge into mainstream Manila music during a performance at then Kahayag Café some five Junes ago.
Obviously, the capital is the niche for opportunities for music artists to be signed up for a major label and this is the direction Kadangyan, said to be godfather of ethno-tribal music here, is heading.
Posted By Neil on February 22nd, 2010
Corruption in government agencies remain high despite efforts to eradicate it, a latest survey by the Social Weather Stations among small and big business firms showed recently.
The Asia Foundation-sponsored survey, conducted from November 3 to December 5, 2009 among top and middle-level managers, found that three out of five managers see “a lot” of corruption in the public sector, unchanged since 2008 and similar to 61 percent in 2007.
Posted By Neil on February 21st, 2010
Basic steps, repeated as necessary, include the bending of knees and reaching out straight with hands as first step. Then, dancer has to lean back hands on hips. Third, he has to turn around and bow. Then, he faces right to do a right hand horizon sweep. Fifth, he bends knees and do breast stroke. Then acts as if picking up something from the ground. Next, he shakes arms downwards and finally flaps arms.
Posted By Neil on February 21st, 2010
To commemorate National Heroes Day is to evaluate the relevance to this day of a Filipino propagandist who was kept in this fortress before his walk to Bagumbayan (now Luneta) to die by musketry.
Fort Santiago, a 16th century military defense structure, stands witness to the valor and heroism of the Filipino through the centuries. Most prominent of this act of heroism is that of Dr. Jose Rizal despite debates whether it was appropriate to install him into national hero status.
Posted By Neil on February 12th, 2010
May alat pa!
Faithful to its purpose, “Asin” is a number of effects.
As a seasoning agent, it improves the taste of food that it comes into contact with. So when the musical values of “Asin” have started to come into contact with society, such have also improved in part the nature of that society. As “Asin” makes people thirsty, their songs which have influenced generations in nearly four decades have sought to create a thirst for improved conditions among people that can be quenched best by political maturity and participative governance. And as a preservative, “Asin” gives food improved length of life. Ultimately, with enough of “Asin”, we would continue to acknowledge the sanctity of life and work to preserve such in all its forms.
Posted By Neil on February 12th, 2010
Ariel Villasanta chickened out. Dunno if his act of backing out was just part of the script or if he indeed feared for dear life with the uncertainty that comes relative to flying onboard a microlight.
Through GMA-7 Kapuso Network’s “Pinoy Meets World”, a travel and lifestyle special aired on a Sunday, the hilarious duo of Ariel Villasanta and Maverick Relova of what was ABC-5’s award-winning gag show “Misadventures of Maverick and Ariel” toured parts of Nepal.