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PETA's Bona: A Study on Devotion
Some twelve kilometers northeast of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, where Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera will be haunting audiences with a falling chandelier for the next seven...
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My First Ever Two-Show Day
Leon, Iloilo, November 2007.Let's not talk about the present. Congratulations to the UP College of Medicine Class of 2012 for being the top performing school in this year's August Physician Licensure...
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The Journey to an Ateneo-La Salle UAAP Game
I write this in the ungodly morning hours of Sunday with my mind still on Saturday; ergo, I shall refer to Saturday night as 'tonight' and Sunday night as 'tomorrow night'. Tonight, the 2012 Palanca...
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To CPR, or not to CPR?
Last Friday during Art of Medicine class.The topic was "pain, death, and dying" under adult medicine. An interview was conducted in front of the class between our lecturer and a patient with acute...
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A Grand Welcome for the GI Module
How much longer 'til sembreak? Let us count the weeks...(Lame attempt at Shakespeare right there.)But to answer the question, it's three - all devoted to the gastrointestinal system. And right now, I'm...
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Notes on "The Mistress"
1. Finally got to see The Mistress, the it girl of local screens for the past three-and-a-half weeks – of course, word-of-mouth is ever the irresistible tool to get the hoi polloi to fill the cinemas...
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Nine, The Seagull, and Other Matters
i. The Journey1. Last Friday, friends and I watched Atlantis Productions' staging of Kopit and Yeston's Nine (which closed yesterday) at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City. How I...
View ArticleCafé Comforts
It’s out! My poem “Café Comforts” is part of Issue 15 (Autumn 2012) of Diverse Voices Quarterly, an American literary e-zine. The entire issue (which includes my somewhat self-indulgent author’s bio –...
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Iloilo Invaded, SemBreak 2012
My classmates Terence, Jim (who follows this blog with his fat heart - hello there), Jereel, and Jer came to pay me a royal visit, Oct 22-27. Here, in fifteen photos (because I'm too lazy to follow the...
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Sembreak 2012: A Short Retrospective
1. A wedding took place. It involved lanterns ala Tangled. But most of them just ended up unlit on the outdoor hotel pool (the lighting took place in the surrounding area). One actually made brief...
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Song, Dance, and Some Poetry for November
#awesome_modeFor two of the productions that populated the recently concluded 4th National Theater Festival at the CCP: Rerun, please!"Stageshow" (Nov 8) by Mario O'Hara is first and foremost a...
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If Only the Tooth Fairy Got Raped
We saw Rise of the Guardians yesterday. If it wins over Wreck-It Ralph for Best Animated Feature in the Oscars next year, I won't be jumping up and down.1. This film must be a headache to watch in 3D,...
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Yes, I Survived 12-21-12
Nasty little joke, those Mayans pulled on us, they did. Now roll in your Mexican-earth graves. Nostradamus is so 20th century. But preparing an underground hideout in the case of an apocalypse wasn't...
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57 Hours Before 2013
Full moon, Dec 28, 2012.Last night, we were told via Facebook that the research presentation originally scheduled for January 4 has been moved to a later date, owing to a unanimous decision by the...
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A Requisite "Les Mis" Post
When I last wrote here, 2012 was almost over. Now, it's three weeks into the new year, or nine weeks to the end of second year of med school. Within the first ten minutes of 2013, our neighbor...
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Sunday Afternoon, Rain Ain't Falling
Iloilo City is sweaty and dirty today with the Dinagyang Festival. I used to run around those streets as a kid, to relish that freedom from cars afforded us once a year. Back then, the city was still...
View Article'Katy' - from first note to last, an actor's show
My review of the 2013 revival of the Filipino musical "Katy" is in the theater section of today's Philippine Daily Inquirer! Once again, my alter-ego Vincent got the better of me. Ugh. The online...
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Bacopa, Boeing Boeing, and ESU
Outstanding news from the Everglades! My poem, "Forgetfulness: A Series," has been accepted for publication in the 2013 Bacopa Literary Review. It's a literary journal by the Writers Alliance of...
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Like Crazy
I didn't go to class today. This module doesn't take attendance anyway, so why go to school and risk falling asleep to the lullaby of boring, unenthusiastic lecturers when you can stay at home and...
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The 4-Show Oscars Weekend
What a weekend. Four-day weekend! And the four shows: "Ibalong" by Tanghalang Pilipino at the CCP Little Theater, "Collection" by Dulaang UP at Diliman's Guerrero Theater, "Spring Awakening" by Blue...
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