2010 July | Mindanao Writers' Blogs
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i heart benny lava

This is hilarious. I can still hear the song in my head 48 hours after I first heard it.

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ciao, venezia!

What could be a sweeter vindication! My film Limbunan has been invited as the closing film in the International Critics’ Week of the Venice International Film Festival to be held from September 1 to 11, 2010. No Filipino film has ever been feature...

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i write like

I write like Kurt VonnegutI Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

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what a journey

It has been nine months since the journey started. I remember very vividly the first time I entered the Competition Office in Horseshoe for the selection interview in November. I remember the agitation, the anxiety of all the twenty semi-finalists of ...

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The Four Agreements

One of my favorite books is “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz, “a nagual (master) from the Eagle Night lineage” of the Toltec in Southern Mexico. The Toltec were “scientists and artists” who managed the spiritual knowledge and practices of the “ancient ones.” In “The Four Agreements,” Don Miguel Ruiz describes ...

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rise of moby dick

Whales are making the headlines these past few weeks. Pro- and anti- whaling countries are embroiled in a tug of war after no compromise was reached in the recent meeting of the International Whaling Commission. Meanwhile, a sperm whale carcass was fou...