2008 May | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 2
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Tambay

One thing about staying home is that you notice more details. A picture looks better on the piano top, instead of the hallway. A throw pillow button is missing. The chirping of the birds ...

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aiyayayyyyy!!!

And the seventh season of American Idol is finally over. For the past three months, Wednesday evenings would be punctuated by shrieks ranging from "Kampat ang funda ni Randy!" (The foundation in Randy's face is not applied evenly) followed by calls for the swift assassination of the show's make up ...

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the flight of songs

I have just completed my new 60-minute documentary The Flight of Songs. Here's the trailer.

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Land conversions ail Bukidnon farms

Bukidnon is losing its rice and corn farms at alarming rate because of the increasing expansion of banana, pineapple and sugarcane plantations, an agriculture official said. Engr. Alson Quimba, Bukidnon provincial agriculture officer-in-charge, said the province “is still a staple food basket in Mindanao but if left unchecked, the fast expansion could affect ...

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cannes 08

There are three Filipino films (Brillante Mendoza's Serbis, Raya Martin's Now Showing and Paolo Valdez's Bulong) at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Serbis is featured on the front page of the official festival site today. Also featured are the following actors who are in attendance ...

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grey

Shadowsform a heavy veillooming above me.What destitutionThis rage, this loneliness --Dark and deadly it consumes my soul.Oh God,shelter me from this curse.-Verses sponsored by Remeron

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Riding jeepneys is dangerous to your health

I WAS up to my head with work and was cluck-clucking in impatience as not one empty taxi was passing by Bolton Street when I had to rush back to the office yet.I walked to Rizal Street where there seemed to be more traffic and waited by the corner of Ponciano Reyes ...