the Earth-bound adventures of the Lost and Found

Start:      Nov 30, '07 10:00a End:      Dec 23, '07 9:00p Location:      Gate 1, South Harbor, Manila Pier 13 (near The Manila Hotel) MV Doulos, the world's oldest ocean-going passenger ship (just two years younger than the Titanic), is coming back to Manila with its half a million books for sale, with 6,000 titles covering a wide range of subjects such as science, education, technology, cooking, sports, and children's literature. The Doulos has over 350 volunteer crew members on board from over 50 countries. In its 29 years of operation, the ship has visited more than 100 countires in all continents except Antarctica (and Australia?). It is owned and operated by Gute Bucher fur Alle, a non-profit charity organization in Germany. I still have fond memories of the ship and the Enid Blyton books I got from when the ship visited Davao when I was in grade school :D Entrance Fee: P10 for kids 16 and above :) everyone else younger is free of charg...

lost and found by Jeneen R. Garcia to be published on 24 November 2007   SOME THINGS COME without being called. Like cats. And love letters. Or, happily, a precious poem writing itself in the middle of a crazy, hectic week.   This past year opportunities have been dropping onto my lap, unexpected—people who turned out to be the very ones I needed to meet at just the right time, trips to the remotest places I’d always dreamed of going to, but never thought I’d reach for lack of funds and logistics. Opportunities, too, for sources of income, at the times my own funds were running low. Certainly nothing short of miraculous for somebody unemployed and studying full-time.   It’s been Murphy’s Law turned upside down. Everywhere I turn, things fall neatly into place. It’s perhaps what they say about all things working together for good for those who love God, or the universe conspiring, the fates converging.   To what do I owe this seeming reversal in fortune? ...

Start:      Nov 26, '07 6:00p End:      Nov 26, '07 11:00p Location:      Celebrity Sports Plaza, Capitol Hills Drive, Diliman, Quezon City Nine finalists for the best Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Philippines will be competing for the grand prize, as guests feast on a sumptuous dinner and listen to great music by different performers (Indio I's definitely coming. i've invited Joey Ayala--he said he'll confirm on wednesday. and they're also expecting me to perform. ngeks :P hosts will be the Bb. Pilipinas daw and richard gutierrez. hmm..). You might want to root for your hometown! Please forward to whomever you think might be interested. Call Ms. Rhia Gonzales (or me :) at 981-8500 loc. 2911 for tickets at P500. Attire: Smart-casual. To explain further, I'm posting the PR I wrote for the event. ============ LGUs Reap Awards for Giving Up Seas Sacrifice does pay off. For giving up more than 20 hectares of their fishing grounds for a mini...

Rating: ★★★★★ Category: Other lost and found by Jeneen R. Garcia published in July 2004 In commemoration of the fourth year anniversary of lost & found , I am posting the eight essays that were published pre-Multiply. As it happens, these essays are also among my favorites so far :) This one is also very close to my heart because it perfectly captures my boundless joy for rain :) In Davao, the end of summer is marked by heavy rains, the darkly gray kind that leaves everything smelling of wet, green earth afterwards. This was the rain of my childhood. Sunburned days at the beach ended with dances in the rain then—gleeful splashing around the garden, standing under the shower of a roof gutter, peering through the gate to see the neighborhood children playing games in the flooded streets. I especially loved it when the house got flooded, too. Something about living in a watery house appealed to me. I imagined the whole living room was a lake, or an ocean, or—later on, as we took it up...

Rating: ★★★★★ Category: Other lost and found by Jeneen R. Garcia published in June 2004 In commemoration of the fourth year anniversary of lost & found , I am posting the eight essays that were published pre-Multiply. As it happens, these essays are also among my favorites so far :) Another post-break-up piece haha ;) My father, he loves taking the elevator to the highest floor of the building. Any building. Almost as if it were a pledge, to view the world from the highest places he can find. He even has the distinction of getting his jacket blown off from the top of the World Trade Center, at a time when it was the tallest building on Earth. As the eldest, and with the personality most similar to his, I think I’ve sort of picked up this peculiarity. I’ve scaled dozens of floors on my own, on various types of elevators, in hotels and corporate towers, out of habit, just to get a glimpse of the view from above. But my obsession with heights has developed its own twist. Ever since hi...

Rating: ★★★★★ Category: Other lost and found by Jeneen R. Garcia published in April 2004 In commemoration of the fourth year anniversary of lost & found , I am posting the eight essays that were published pre-Multiply. As it happens, these essays are also among my favorites so far :) As you can see in this piece--nothing like a painful break-up to give a fresh perspective on the world ;) Some people shop and binge. Others drink, smoke or do drugs. I travel. I don’t exactly know why I’m constantly yearning for departures. As soon as I set foot on home soil my feet are itching and ready to leave again. There’s nothing like the mention of “free travel” to get my spirits up and my adrenaline rushing. The farther away the better, of course. But it hardly matters if it’s the next continent, the next island or the next town, as long as it’s somewhere else. To keep each new place from fading, meaningless, into the next exploration, I started taking pictures, and turning my travels into fea...

Rating: ★★★★★ Category: Other lost and found by Jeneen R. Garcia published in March 2004 In commemoration of the fourth year anniversary of lost & found , I am posting the eight essays that were published pre-Multiply. As it happens, these essays are also among my favorites so far :) As I write now there is a rainbow, no, TWO clear rainbows, the larger one above the other, stretching across the whole expanse of the sky. It is rare that the weather is cool enough to work outdoors. The sight is so incredible, I want to shake everybody around me to make sure they don’t miss it. “Look,” I point out to a one-year old boy practicing how to walk, “do you see that in the sky?” He flashes a toothless grin that says I’m the last one to know. Funny how rainbows fascinate me more now that I’m older, as if I can hardly believe something so amazingly larger-than-life still exists. When we were children, rainbows were as real as Rainbow Brite and My Little Pony, which we could always count on to ...

Start:      Nov 6, '07 11:00p Location:      ABS-CBN, Channel 2 Please watch The Correspondents tomorrow night, November 6, after BANDILA. It features the 1,500-km walk of the Sumilao Farmers from Bukidnon to Manila to reclaim their 144-hectare land. Click here if you want to know what this is all about. Tell your friends about it!

Start:      Nov 7, '07 11:00a End:      Nov 7, '07 4:00p Location:      USC AVR, Cebu City The Japan Petroleum Exploration (JAPEX) has had its eyes on the nationally protected Tanon Strait, feeding & breeding ground and marine corridor for whales and dolphins, since more than two years ago, when it started initial explorations. This month JAPEX wants to do actual drilling. The Department of Energy (DOE) is inviting all concerned (that means YOU) to attend the meeting on Wednesday, November 7, at the University of San Carlos in Cebu. Sec. Angelo Reyes and USec Roy Kyamko will be there. Please don't be late. Surely this is important enough to be punctual for :P

Rating: ★★★★ Category: Other lost and found by Jeneen R. Garcia published in February 2004 In commemoration of the fourth year anniversary of lost & found , I am posting the eight essays that were published pre-Multiply. As it happens, these essays are also among my favorites so far :) My photos often elicit one of two reactions from my viewers: narrowed eyes, because they’re trying to figure out what my subject is, or a quick flip to the next photo, because they don’t see anything worth their attention. Though it bewildered me at first, I understand now why this happens, and have learned to forgive them—my photos have a distinct lack of human faces. What human images I have are of strangers, with their faces bowed, turned away, or obscured by shadows. A shrink would think I had a fear of people. Honestly, all I want to do is capture beauty on film. Although based on my viewers’ reactions, beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder. I started taking pictures out of fascination with...

Rating: ★★★★ Category: Other lost and found by Jeneen R. Garcia published in January 2004 In commemoration of the fourth year anniversary of lost & found , I am posting the eight essays that were published pre-Multiply. As it happens, these essays are also among my favorites so far :) When I wrote this one, I was already starting to get stuck on what to write about for my new column. I wrote this with a dry taste in my mouth, but surprisingly this third piece was the one that got very positive responses. Which just shows that even if you don't have the heart for what you're doing, you can still bluff your way through it hehe. I had prided myself on being a light traveler, always with the smallest bag. Then one night I found myself sitting on the floor of JFK Airport in New York in the midst of five “small” bags and an extra-large shopping bag, desperately repacking and re-repacking my handcarried luggage up until forty minutes before my flight. In that crazy moment I finall...

Rating: ★★★★ Category: Other lost and found by Jeneen R. Garcia published in December 2003 In commemoration of the fourth year anniversary of lost & found , I am posting the eight essays that were published pre-Multiply. As it happens, these essays are also among my favorites so far :) When I was four years old, I knew exactly what my future self looked like: twenty-something and striding confidently in a power suit, breezing through the world, totally unfaze-able. Even then I knew I wanted to be independent, career-minded, everything that epitomized the “working girl” motif of the 80’s. Twenty-four was the ultimate grown-up age. When you’re four years old, twenty-four sounds like a good time to settle down, get married and be a perfect mother to three adorable kids, all the while holding that top position in a Fortune 500 company. I don’t know why my standards demanded that Adulthood come so early. Maybe it was growing up as an eldest kid mostly around adults. Maybe it was having ...

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Rating: ★★★★★ Category: Other lost and found by Jeneen R. Garcia published in November 2003 In commemoration of the fourth year anniversary of lost & found , I am posting the eight essays that were published pre-Multiply. As it happens, these essays are also among my favorites so far :) This first one is especially close to my heart, and explains everything. Only the Lost & Found section would greet me every morning just outside the Guidance Office as I rushed through the empty halls, as always, late for class. Nobody could miss it. It was a wooden cabinet with glass doors, and it never lacked for uniforms, lunch boxes, wallets and handkerchiefs—a testament to the honesty (and carelessness) of the good Catholic boys and girls in my grade school. Most claimants were regulars: the scruffy little boys who did nothing but play and forget their homework. Losing something always seemed to come with the label “irresponsible”. As a generally good girl, I never dreamed I would get one o...

Category:    Real Estate looking for a place near UP Diliman that isn't dangerous. good for maybe four or five months, starting on the second week of november. preferably P2k or less. thanks!

http://www.panoramio.com/user/1059096 I've long been wondering how those photos of places got into Google Earth, and tonight, I discovered how :D Panoramio is basically a photo uploading site. But its edge over all the others is that you can map out your photos and maybe even get them posted on Google Earth if the photos pass their standards. AND even if your photos don't get worldwide recognition in Google Earth, you can post a Google map of your photos on your website ! Well. If that ain't cool, I don't know what is :P (although i'm still figuring out how to get the map to work on Multiply)