Similar to July, the month of August has been a flurry of activity! (But flurri-er.)
My blog is suddenly extremely popular in Iloilo. One blog post made me an online correspondent overnight. It is a strange and humbling feeling.
I dressed up as Kaywinnit Lee Frye from Firefly, and tricked all my other friends to dress up [...]
Posted in film, video on June 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Dad came home yesterday with this story from his Speculative Fiction class (lit majors, in their junior year).
A student was in front, assigned to report about the film The Matrix.
Reporter (asking class): “How many of you have seen The Matrix?“
(Two students in class raise their hands.)
Reporter: “How old were you when you saw it?”
Two students: [...]
Posted in film, photos on May 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My parents are Trekkies. They don’t attend conventions or anything like that, but they loved the Original Series, and my dad taught a science fiction class at the University of Maryland that only discussed Star Trek, week after week. (This was before I was born, and supposedly the class was packed!) I became a fan [...]
Posted in film, news on April 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Legendary Filipino film actress Paraluman passed away yesterday. I wasn’t actually named after her – we just happened to share the same unique name, and she just happened to be very famous – but the old-school folk always asked me about her, and spoke of her beauty and fame. The new-school folk (i.e. kids) thought [...]
Posted in film, games, music, personal, video on April 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This morning, I watched writer Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk on creativity and how we humans regard it (in a quite unhealthy way, she thinks). Please watch her talk first before reading the rest of the post – if you are a writer or any kind of creative, you will enjoy it.
A rambling Sunday morning post [...]
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