the Earth-bound adventures of the Lost and Found

lost and found (#22) by Jeneen R. Garcia   In between travels to some island or other, between deadlines and meetings and other must-do’s, there are the ordinary days.   These are the days when I get off work early enough to catch the karinderya near my place still open, and on wonderful rainy evenings have hot soup for dinner instead of the usual late-night restaurant fare. The man there who gives me a discount at lunch (once, even feeding me for free) is replaced by his elderly sister who would frown at his habit, but who now likes to talk to me about politics and work while praying the rosary, and gives me P1 off the rice besides.   As I near home, the three neighborhood cats come running towards me--an almost tomcat with an impressively loud ngiyaw , a purring female kitty-cat, and a cute but scaredy kitten--all looking for love (and perhaps a little food), rubbing against my legs as I try to walk. On ordinary days I don’t have leftovers, but I have more ti...

lost and found (#21) by Jeneen R. Garcia (and this is my new column pic =)   As shadows fall, and the faces of vendors sitting on the pavement outside the church start to darken (candles, roses, peanuts, and apples wrapped in Styrofoam laid out on concrete, waiting for the customers to come out), I wonder if any of them care who will cry out for GMA’s resignation next. (Or who will no longer cry out for resignation). Or if they care at all who’s sitting up there, holding the power to (supposedly) change their lives for better or worse.   I, too, have more pressing things to think about than what’s happening in Manila . Yes, I care about what kind of president steers the country, if her policies are socially just or good only for her allies, if she has enough integrity to actually do things for her country instead of for herself and her family. But even if it’s someone else on her seat tomorrow, I will still have to pay P6 for a jeepney ride, 50% more than what I did last...

http://neenerish.blogs.friendster.com/ Because I have to admit that Friendster is more popular (and hey, i've never tried having a blog before...it IS cute =). But Multiply is still my home. It's just that these days, we have to be everywhere =P

to whoever cares to read, here's a comprehensive (and i mean comprehensive) account of what i've been up to in the last month and three-quarters. forgive the parentheticals. nothing poetic or literary here. ===================== july 26, 2005 so where was i? i believe i left off at the end of summer , and after that, photos of singapore that seemed to come from out of nowhere. that was, indeed, sort of spontaneous. the trip was arranged just a few days before our flight. but unannounced travels have long ceased to disturb me. most of the time, i bring them upon myself. Bukidnon and CDO the weekend before singapore i was even in bukidnon for a wedding. left cebu friday night, took a bus to valencia, then the bridal car to malaybalay, where alma's beautiful, understated wedding was held at the benedictine monastery. was supposed to leave the same day for cebu because the next day was World Environment Day and i had to work, but due to heavy rain and some other physical circ...

Start:      Sep 3, '05 8:00p End:      Sep 4, '05 Location:      Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines SAYAW LIKHANG KIUKOK... isang koryograpiya ni Agnes Locsin sa musika ni Joey Ayala. A tribute to National Artist ANG KIUKOK "Sayaw...Kiukok" is a dance visualization of selected art series from the works of National Artist Ang Kiukok, specifically the series on SITTED & SOLO FIGURES, FISHERMEN, LOVERS, FIRE, MOTHER AND CHILD, FIGHTING FIGURES, CRUCIFIXION and PIETA. Performed by Ernest Mandap (Dance artist performing regularly with the Claude Brumachon and Benjamin Lamarche Dance Company and CIE ESTER AUMATELL in NanteS, France. Gaye Galiluyo (Dance Artist with TANZTHEATER FREIBURG-HEIDELBERG in Germany) Georgette Sanchez (Dance Artist formerly with ABC DANCE CO. in Austria) Alden Lugnasin (Currently Associate Artistic Director of Ballet Philippines) Samantha Martin (Dance student of Locsin Dance Workshop, Davao City Elmer D...

Start:      Aug 27, '05 6:00p Location:      Locsin Dance Workshop Studio Theater SAYAW LIKHANG KIUKOK... isang koryograpiya ni Agnes Locsin sa musika ni Joey Ayala. A tribute to National Artist ANG KIUKOK "Sayaw...Kiukok" is a dance visualization of selected art series from the works of National Artist Ang Kiukok, specifically the series on SITTED & SOLO FIGURES, FISHERMEN, LOVERS, FIRE, MOTHER AND CHILD, FIGHTING FIGURES, CRUCIFIXION and PIETA. Performed by Ernest Mandap (Dance artist performing regularly with the Claude Brumachon and Benjamin Lamarche Dance Company and CIE ESTER AUMATELL in NanteS, France. Gaye Galiluyo (Dance Artist with TANZTHEATER FREIBURG-HEIDELBERG in Germany) Georgette Sanchez (Dance Artist formerly with ABC DANCE CO. in Austria) Alden Lugnasin (Currently Associate Artistic Director of Ballet Philippines) Samantha Martin (Dance student of Locsin Dance Workshop, Davao City Elmer Domdom (Dance Artist of Donlon Dance Co. in Germany) -...

Lipayran is an island barangay that's part of Bantayan town in northwestern Cebu, but is geographically nearer to Negros Occidental than to Cebu. In Cebu, this is where we implement our Community-Based Coastal Resource Management project. I wrote an article on this a few years back after I first went to the island. I have a lot of photos in my files of the people there and their livelihood (fishing, fish drying, seaweed farming). But that was back when I didn't scan my negatives yet. Here are my latest photos from our trip last July 16 to 19. I made a conscious decision to do more portraits than landscapes (actually, no landscapes at all this time). It's great just using my 50mm lens for a change =)

Start:      Jul 16, '05 End:      Jul 19, '05 Location:      Lipayran Island, Bantayan, Cebu

http://www.lomohomes.com/neenerish don't think, just shoot! this is the lomography philosophy. because of three serendipitous events over the course of three days, bought a lomo camera last week in makati: an oktomat. that is, a camera with 8 lenses that open and close one at a time over 2.5 seconds. but don't burn your brains out trying to imagine what it looks like (or what the pictures look like). check out the results of my first roll at my newly opened LomoHome =)