the Earth-bound adventures of the Lost and Found

http://www.coaltrail.org PS i took that photo of Mark there. hehe

i just realized i haven't posted any real journal entry since i got back from christmas vacation. my life's been a whirl. so much happening in the real world that i don't have much time to spend in cyberspace. miss writing here. even in my real-world, honest-to-goodness paper journal i haven't been writing as much. wonder when my life will slow down again....

to be published as lost and found column #14 (?) on January 29, 2005 in Sun.Star Weekend Cebu. As a kid who liked being alone, I used to hang out in front of the mirror a lot. When I was about 10 or 11, my mother hung a full-length mirror in front of the stairs, and that was where I would sit on slow afternoons, staring at my reflection for what seemed like hours. It wasn’t that I liked looking at myself. Rather, it was a time of figuring-out, of trying to reconcile the face I saw with the person I knew inside. Most of the time I’d leave with a sense of disquiet, unable to find anything familiar or friendly in my outward self. Which might explain why people generally find me icy and unapproachable at first meeting--even I seem aloof to myself. The past year I’ve turned to taking photos of my reflection in the mirror, still trying to get a glimpse of the person I see inside me, on the outside. Call it vanity, but I now have a whole collection of these to remember my old selves by. The...

Start:      Feb 27, '05 7:00p Location:      Church of the Gesu, Ateneo de Manila Hangad's fourth cd =) Free Admission! For more details, check out www.hangad.com.

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Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. - Ecclesiastes 1:2 I reflect, therefore I am. Perfecting the art of self-portraiture (WITHOUT obscuring my face) using my manual SLR, 50mm lens, and mirrors. I could write a whole treatise on the philosophy of self-portraiture to justify this album but you probably won't believe me anyway. Hahaha. So I won't. You can just imagine what I'd do if I had a digital cam or camera phone ;-)

December 26, 2004. the Xtremz outing, with fiancees. all photos courtesy of Michelle .

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http://www.powerswitch.org.ph/index.htm Let government know we want to switch to clean, renewable energy now!

Description: LIKHAAN: The UP Institute of Creative Writing (UP ICW) has extended the deadline for submission of entries to the 44th UP National Writers Workshop to 31 January 2005, 6 p.m. Postmarked entries will be accepted. The Workshop has been scheduled from 27 March to 9 April 2005 at the UP Baguio. Twenty fellowships will be at stake: 15 for Fellows in Filipino and English, while the other five for writers in Iluko, Bikol, Waray, Sugbuanon, Hiligaynon & Kiniray-a, depending on merit. The grants cover board, lodging and stipend. Ingredients: The textual requirements are: six poems, two short stories or two one-act plays. Mixed genres/experimental pieces will also be considered. All the entries ought to be in one language (English or Filipino, as the case may be). Combined or incomplete submissions will be disqualified. The technical requirements are: only the nom de plume should be on four separately bound, computer-encoded hard copies (font size 12); an MS Word diskette contai...

just some old photos I dug up. Another year to live and love... Happy new year everyone!

Start:      Jan 13, '05 6:00p Location:      MEGAMALL BRIDGE WAY Landscape architect A.G. Saño will hold his debut photo exhibit at the 4th Floor bridge way of SM Megamall on January 13-19. The exhibit will showcase 25 pieces of Mr. Saño’s poster-size photographs, particularly those which capture spectacular lightning displays and the lights of the metropolis. The photos will be accompanied by poems written by writers and popular composers/songwriters such as columnist and Palanca Hall of Fame and TOYM Awardee Butch Dalisay, Gawad Urian Lifetime Achievement Awardee Ricky Lee, Palanca and TOYM Awardee Vim Nadera, Palanca awardee Luis Katigbak, multi-awarded poet Mayo Uno Martin and promising young poet/ authorMarie La Viña, as well as vocalist/guitarists Barbie Almalbis of Barbie’s Cradle and Noel Cabangon, Parokya ni Edgar bassist Buwi Meneses, vocalist/bassist Cynthia Alexander, Radioactive Sago Project vocalist and Palanca Awardee Lourd de Veyra, Phi...

Text and Photos by Jeneen R. Garcia first published in Sun.Star Cebu in early 2004 If you just want a taste of the Big Apple, you can’t get closer to the real flavor than on the NYC Subway. The way the trains come and go every other minute it seems, you won’t be too surprised to find people move just as fast on ground level. Just like the city itself, the subway crowd is a fascinating sampling of the world: blacks, whites, browns and yellows; executives, clerks and janitors; and, in the freezing cold of winter, people exaggeratedly wrapped up like Eskimos and people who insist on wearing tights and mini-skirts. The buzz of conversation is American slang with a mix of Chinese, Spanish, Jamaican and a hundred other accents. But that’s no cause for stares—foreign languages are hardly exotic in a place where practically everyone is a foreigner. At some point, EVERYONE goes down beneath the surface. With the infamous New York traffic, it doesn’t matter if you have ...

A few pictures from my Christmas trip to New York in December 2003. I'll let my article on the subway tell my impressions about the place.

Taken using my tita's digital camera. Same event as the original album , different perspective.