SCIFI MOVIE MARATHON

The current batch of SciFict students invites you to the
3rd DLSC SCIFI Movie Marathon.
Five short narrative videos will be shown repeatedly between
9:00 am to 5:00 pm on
April 3, 2007 (Tuesday)
at that
empty room next to the Student Center.

Nood kayo ha. Nominate your favorites for best movie, best actor, best actress, etc. Kita-kita tayo doon! :)

BACOLOD SUMMER WORKSHOPS!!!

Calling all interested parties, individuals, artists, enthusiasts, aspirants...

The NEGROS SUMMER WORKSHOPS (better known as the Bacolod Summer Wkshps) is back and open to those who would like to develop their artistic skills over the break. For their 17th year, classes will run from April 23-May 19, 2007 at the De La Salle-Bacolod Campus.

Short Intensive Courses in the following areas will be offered:

Children’s Theatre (P2,100)
Teenage Acting (P2,100)
Basic Acting (P2,100)
Teenage Improvisation(P2,100)
Film Production for Adults(P2,600)
Teenage Film Production(P2,100)
Production Design(P2,600)
Stage Management (P2,600)
Director’s Apprenticeship(P2,600)
Make-Up for Film, Television & Theatre (P2,100)
Movement for Stage and Screen (P2,100)
Movement for Children(P2,100)

Matitindi din yung mga instructors nila dito:
* Arceo, John
* Benito, Manue
* Fajardo, Lawrence
* Fernandez, Gabby
* Gallaga, Maurice Ruiz de Luzuriaga "Peque"
* Gallaga, Jubal
* Gonzales, Gino
* Hinojales, Rene
* Martinez, Eero
* Montelibano, Manny
* Trinidad, Michelle y Gallaga
* Triño, Jack II
* Reyes, Lorenzo y Ablon "Lore"

Kaya Go NA Kayo! (if you want...hehe)

anyway visit their official site for more details, lalo na yung accomodations.

http://www.usls.edu.ph/nsw/index.html

The event will culminate with a film/video competition,The 10th Crystal Piaya Awards. One may join even without attending the workshops. padala na lang niyo yung videos ninyo and get a chance to win the grand prize of P25,000 (and prestige, of course).

ennui breeds creativity (?)

bilib talaga ako sa creativity ng mga taga-DLSC. yung mga bagay na akala mo walang silbi nagagawang work of art.

let's see that again

something new from google

new google home themes...yehey. ang cute di ba? sana dumami pa.

soundtrip

share ko lang. :)

kakaibang crossword puzzle

i was trying to open one of my favorite user's blog but that silly 'dans guardian denied' notice kept popping up kahit naka anonymous. arrrg. anyway. my efforts led me to this interesting page. yung mga mahilig sa crossword puzzles, eto ang sa inyo. pag eto nakumpleto nyo...kuramchi malaykovich na lang sa inyo.

http://www.tristancafe.com/crosswords/gaylingo/


ito lang natapos ko kasi madami pa akong gagawin atsaka na-pagoda cold wave lotion na aketch. good luck mga lola!

english 2 alternative class: river trek!!!

actually, one can make connections between english 2 (speechcom) and last monday's rivertrek. well, first: bjorn delivered short, intermittent speeches during the trek. second: ... uh, i dont have a second. let's just say that one of the goals of education is to develop students into well-rounded individuals. we, as teachers, are constantly encourage to have alternative classes once in a while. the whole class thought that a morning spent walking in authentic environments, i.e. nature, would do one good. i agree! (heck, first time nga nila maka-experience ng rivertrek eh)...

it's better than talking about it. share ko na lang yung mga ilan pang photos.







we all enjoyed. naalala ko yung LB days na anytime gusto mo umakyat ng bundok anjan lang yung makiling. haaay. miss ko na umakyat. ano kaya naisip ng mga student's ko? napa-haaay din kaya sila?



anyway, salamat sa mga pumayag na samahan kami...sir bjorn and yung dalawang kuya security guards. pasensya na sa mga pasaway. sana nag-enjoy din kayo. next time ulit!

:)

the secret coffee shop

ms. a, sche and i found ourselves 'reluctantly' free one afternoon and decided to take a break from all the checking and writing and reading and obligatory meetings...hehe (my words). just to forget we were busy and stressed. after almost an hour we found the perfect setting...i have been sworn to secrecy so sorry i cant tell the exact location.


what i find fantastic about that place was the fact that it was cozy, far from the busy streets, had nice lighting and cute furniture, comfortable seating and delicious coffee--also unbelievably cheap!!! (P15 for an espresso, P35 for ice mocha latte, iced capuccino and everything else!).
of course, the best thing is that the little secret coffee shop was the perfect place to have a chit-chat. hardly anyone comes in. i dont think people knew the place exists.
i was fixating over their exquisite chandeliers that gave the place this magical kind of lighting.

haha. ang corny ko. baka may halong psychedelic substances yung kape nila. the coffee shop's name by the way is the same as the brand of coffee that they get from the droppings of civet cats. yup, they make it here in the philippines, somewhere in cavite.

since im parking memories here, mostly for myself, might as well mention that trike driver who ms. alona and i thought had beeeyoootiful eyes. of course wala akong picture, najahe ako. but i did get a snapshot of that ad he had in his tricycle. it was pretty..uh, disarming if you ask me.

naloka sa 300

hay nako. manonood na talaga ako ng 300 hundred mamayang gabi. sa last full show kami magtu-toos ng mga papa spartans (or spapartans) habang wina-wharlalu nila ang mga big-bad-persians. sista sche has gone totally gaga over the film, and we had this long drawn out analysis on the way home last night based on the question "what if 300 where to be produced again and the actors were to be people from DLSC, and we (I and sche) were to be casting directors: who would get to play who?"
it was fun. i asked her if she could join the community and start the discussion, sabi niya simulan ko daw muna at itutuloy niya. o di ba, production-level na i-tech. anyway, the categories would be SPARTANS (of course), PERSIANS, THE members of the COUNCIL, SPARTAN WOMEN (sche and i casted ourselves here already, at walang aangal. sige ka "only spartan women give birth to real men", hehe), yung mga OUTCAST (or mga reject na spartan babies na tinapos sa wilderness).
haha, sige, next time, sisimulan natin.


in the meantime, take a look at this. natawa ako--mega! sana lang mabasa nyo kasi mejo malabo. if not, click nyo na lang. hehe.

getting over a stolen wallet/fone

my mother lost her fone/got her fone stolen last week. but, from what she told me it seemed like she wasnt devastated at all. she has this habit of writing down all of her contact's info in an addressbook. she got a new fone, a new number and went on with her life. when i lost my fone a few years back i was devastated. it was like those times i have lost wallets and filo faxes and crashed my pc. i just dont have backups.

anyway, i'd like to critic this article some time when i have time. it's pretty comprehensive a "how-to" for when you lose your wallet, and i'd like to see something for when you lose your cellphone and other essential things like that. there seems to be something missing still. something more practical, or something redemptive.

newbie, noob, ?

hello students, former students, future-students, etc... its my turn to be taught.
pano ba maglagay ng widgets?
yun lang, hehe.

to jordan

dear jordan,

i just read your post. malalim ba? actually minsan nakaka-conscious magsulat ng mga ganun sa blog kasi nga ia-anticipate mo na sasabihin ng ibang tao, "wow pare nagpapakalalim ka nanaman." kaya may mga disclaimer ako eh...yung mga maarte kong "okay i'll stop before my nose bleeds." my nose wont bleed, i like the discourse.
madalas kasi iniisip ko hindi naman sa malalim, kundi sa pagiging "kakaiba" lang kaya ganun naiisip ng mga ibang nakakausap ko.
example, pagkagising mo sa umaga, ano iisipin mo? di ba kung anong oras na, o kung mabaho ba hininga mo at magmumumog ka muna o magkakape ka na lang derecho, tutal mag-aamoy kape din naman hininga mo magmumog ka man o hinde kasi nga magkakape ka pa din ano man mangyari?
What if nagising ka isang umaga nagkataon ang unang pumasok sa isip mo ay kung paano nagkaroon ng mga levels of meaning ang mga dating monolithic na sistema at konseptong nagaadhere sa "singularity" ng kahulugan. example, konsepto na zion at babylon na originally galing sa bible, ngayon ay inaapropriate na ng mga rasta at iba pang mga nasakop at nasasakop ng kultura. ang sarap isipin di ba?
hindi siya komplikado, hindi siya malalim. kung pilipino ka at alam mo ang relasyon ng inaapi/naapi at nanlulupig, madali mo itong maiintindihan. hindi ako nagpapakalalim. minsan tanungin din natin kung bakit kailangan ikahon ang pag-iisip. hindi ko din naman sinasabi na lagi natin tong gagawin, pero minsan i-analyze natin, bakit may naiinis kapag sa umaga bigla kang magtanong ng kakaiba? bakit sa umaga maraming mga taong ang gusto lang lagi isipin ay kung magtutoothbrush ba o magkakape muna sila?
urs trulily,
dianne

choices

it's always a stunning moment to run into kafka every now and then. his elusive spirit manifests in brief moments, where you least expect it. like people you hardly know or get a chance to talk with. those hours i used to spend with my students at a lone gazebo near the fertility tree just musing about existentialism and the essence of making choices.

"so, is kafka and the rest of the existentialist saying that without choices one ceases to exist." that seems to be so. having choices at the basest level is the least common denominator among human beings in order to call themselves "people" or "person." be it choosing what to wear, what to eat, or if you have to comb your hair or not in the morning before you go to work.

the essentialist would think, "there's a reason why i am the person i am today." thinking that divine intervention or fate would lead him/her to a predetermined situation. the existentialist would think "i am the person i am today because of the choices i have made. so that if i have never had choices before or other people have been making them for me, then my existence does not belong to me. i am pretty much worthless to myself."

anyway, before my nose bleeds, i saw kafka again briefly in a former student's journal entry.

Of course, you could read more of Kafka online.