Mindanao Writers' Blogs - A collection of Mindanao writers' blogs. - Part 5
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sale

I'm decongesting my closet, bookshelf and work space. I am having a month-long garage sale. Items on sale include a Maranao landap malong, children's books (Luis Gatmaitan's Tito Dok series), newsprint copies of my book Children of the Ever-Changing Moon, paperbacks ...

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Meeting of Minds

THE YOUNG MAN, I couldn’t believe it, came unprepared. There he was, clutching a sheaf of blueprints, and barely able to say anything substantial about his principals’ project. It wasn’t anything earthshaking: Sun Cellular was poised to put up a tower inside the APM compound at ...

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The young man, I couldn’t believe it, came unprepared. There he was, clutching a sheaf of blueprints, and barely able to say anything substantial about his principals’ project. It wasn’t anything earthshaking: Sun Cellular was poised to put up a tower inside the APM compound at Yniguez Subdivision ...

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GOIN’ PLACES: Food galore

IT was another night at the badminton court, and another night of starving tummies. Thus Deng and I walked over to the other restaurant that has opened along Mabini Street (the Quirino area Mabini street and not the Boulevard area; why a city will have ...

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The next generation

HER name is Princess but she goes by a boy's name, her short-cropped hair making her appear like a young boy.That's deliberate, she said, in order to minimize chances of being sexually harassed on the streets while she peddles peanuts at night."Naay usa ka customer nagsulti nga maghulat daw siya pag dyes ...

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cinemalaya 2008 ends

Cinemalaya 2008 is over. The winners had been named.Angan-Angan (directed by Sheron Dayoc), one of the two films that I produced in competition at the festival, won the Special Jury Prize in the Short Film category.

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It sucks to be me

imagine being a turtle.. digging you're way up from under the ground in which your mom (or your human intervenors) buried you, and then rushing to the sea with just your siblings, no one else. everyone is just as young as you and yet you have to rush out, with no one ...