the Earth-bound adventures of the Lost and Found

This is just a peek of what we did last Earth Day . Will post better pictures once i get the whole cd from CCEF , the sponsoring org. I wrote a press release on the activity. Unfortunately, the news version isn't online. I wonder why. I still want to write a feature/ essay on the experience. All photos by Evangeline White, wife of marine biologist Alan White and co-founder of CCEF. That's me in the neon yellowgreen "shorts" and blue fins ;-P

BACOLOD CITY--it's the second day of the IYAS workshop , and (i didn't think i'd say this) i'm actually happy to be here. yes, it's my first time in bacolod, and this is the last national writers' workshop i can attend (hmm..maybe they'll still let me into the UST workshop in tagaytay...), my first one in a long while, but i DID have to give up a free trip to go whitewater rafting and canopy walk(ing) in cagayan, and the talaandig tribal wedding in bukidnon, among other things. what makes this workshop worth all those things i missed is that it's the first time this format is being used. instead of the usual plenary critiquing where everyone discusses a work, with the author revealed at the end, here we've broken up into groups according to language and genre, with a panelist assigned to each group. and we not only discuss our own work but also get inputs and handouts and homework (just as if we were in a graduate class). marj evasco and elsie cosco...

Start:      Apr 20, '05 8:00a End:      Apr 20, '05 5:00p Location:      Talibon, Bohol A workshop for municipal coastal law enforcers and their official information officers. There's a lot of exciting things happening in the Danajon Double Barrier Reef!

Start:      Apr 24, '05 9:00p Location:      Handuraw Learning & Leisure Cafe

Start:      Apr 25, '05 End:      Apr 30, '05 Location:      Balay Kalinungan, DLSU, Bacolod City a week discussing poetry, critiquing each other's work, and yes, actually writing. my first time in bacolod =)

Start:      Apr 22, '05 7:00p Location:      Kahayag Cafe, MJ CUenco Ave, MAbolo, Cebu City A free concert with bands playing, people (including you, if you bring a poem) reading poetry, and a film showing. Sponsored by ELAC, WWF and the Cebu Alloance for Renewable Energy (CARE). In celebration of Earth Day .

Start:      Apr 22, '05 Location:      all over the world Help save the Earth while you're having fun. Read how . I myself will be diving for crown-of-thorns starfish in Sumilon Island.

Let’s face it: saving the Earth is a serious job. But who says it’s all work and no play? Here are 10 ways to help the environment WHILE you’re having fun, brought to you by the Environmental Legal Assistance Center (ELAC).   1. Go on an ecotour   It’ summer and the perfect time to go on a vacation. If you’re still planning one, why not go on a nature trip that helps the environment and marginalized communities while you’re having fun?   Ecotourism is a kind of tourism where resident communities themselves entertain tourists and show them around. Who better to give you a fascinating tour of the sights and indigenous customs than the locals themselves? What you pay not only contributes to their income, but also helps them keep the environment clean and beautiful.   For starters, try spotting migratory whales and dolphins in Pamilacan Island , Bohol with the Pamilacan Island Dolphin and Whale-Watching Organization (PIDWWO). Since whale sharks and manta rays were decl...

Description: haven't been posting any jobs lately because i've been too busy (and there have been too many job postings coming along, i jyst can't keep up). but here's one i've found time to post: > COPY/SCRIPT/CONTINUITY WRITER Ingredients: > A. Occupational Summary > 1. Develop, write and edit material for > reports, manuals, briefs, > proposals, instruction books, catalogs and related > technical and special > publications. > 2. Write copies for print ad, mainstream > advertising and > below-the-line activities > 3. Consult with sales media, and marketing > representatives to > obtain information on product or service and discuss > style and length of > advertising copy. B. Organizational Management > Responsibilities > 1. Write commercial and promotional copy in > support of client's > marketing and promotional efforts. > 2. Wri...

to be published as lost and found column#18   It was that fateful night, when I was home alone, extremely hungry, and on the verge of tears trying to open a can of tuna alternately with a knife and a can opener, that I decided I had to learn to cook.   It used to be a strange source of pride for me that I was a girl and couldn’t cook. I figured I could always earn enough money to eat out every night. And once I had a family to feed, I’d just make sure to marry a man who knew how to cook. Simple.   But when I realized that all the guys I knew could feed themselves, while I couldn’t even open a can of tuna, breaking the mold of female domesticity didn’t seem so cool anymore. With my natural inclination to sleep off hunger instead of attempting to find my way around the kitchen, I knew I was doomed for starvation.   Cooking, I decided, was not a gender issue but a basic survival skill. I was a human being: I had to know how to feed myself if I ever got stranded...

first published as lost and found column#17 on April 9, 2005   The last day home after a vacation is always the most hopeless day of the year for me. Nine years living away from home, and I’m an expert in transience. Still my heart isn’t used to it.   The day before my departure, my heartbeat races twice as fast, I snap at everyone in the house, and I am lost, wandering inside my head like a wild tiger in a cage far away from the jungle. I lock myself in my room, or go out in the garden, so no one can find me. Already my mind is moving away, bracing itself for detachment in the next 24 hours.   In a fit of panic after Christmas, I told my father flatly: “I need to go shopping.” We drove out of the house in silence. But as the mall came into view, I decided I wanted to eat instead, on a restaurant on top of a hill. “Ok” was all he said. Then a few minutes later, “Do you mind if we stop by the cemetery first?”   I shook my head. I didn’t actually care where we...

My first time in Bukidnon, March 18 to 21, 2005. Stopover on the way home to Davao. This time I did the touristy thing and posed at every spot I went to. Tour around Malaybalay and the Talaandig village in Lantapan courtesy of chico , who was the perfect host =) This is a sampler of my tour (I used up about 5 rolls of 38 shots for the trip). "Art" and "documentary" shots to follow, after i've written the stories about the trip.