Reading Moratorium

No reading of books outside work until the end of the month. Got to rest eyes. Suddenly became nearly blind the previous night. Don't want to wear glasses.

Joker

I don't want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, no! No. You...you...complete me.



Archived--for now, at least. Dropped by a studio and had a new photo taken. --->
(Ugh. All these commas in the proper place eight hours every day makes me want to be some community scribbler in the Stone Age.)

Dynamo

From last-minute replacement to scene stealer. Cyrus Baguio. Superstar.

Photo from PBA Online.

Way to go, Team Pilipinas!

This is just not me, but when you share a TV with college kids, you just have to be stuck with b TV--and get hooked.

Tortured in Santo Domingo

This should have been titled Oscar's Tragic Quest for Pussy. In expletive-laden fragments, Junot Diaz equates love with lust.

Another thing that I don't find endearing is Diaz's portrayal of Dominican Republic. He sets the country's political turmoil as the background of his story. Abuse of power, oppression, and torture come aplenty in the lives of the characters. However, instead of making a point against those ills, Diaz glamorizes them. The book lacks compassion.

American critics, though, couldn't rave enough about Oscar. It won the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times, a b--tch in her own right, says "[Diaz has] written a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices." Distinctive? I see the poetic arrangement of words less as a skill than as a handicap common to non-native English writers. As a reader who is non-English, I appreciate more a prose that glides smoothly in the tongue.

How the Sto. Niño became a dancing doll

Here's Sinug, the grand prize winner of Sinulog 2008 Short Film Festival. Don't mind my anti-Catholic title there. This film is visually dazzling (daw Slumdog).

Friendster deleted

I have just deleted my Friendster account. I long wanted to do it, but couldn't find the delete button. Slow me, I figured to Yahoo! the process just a minute ago. As a remembrance, I'm saving here my primary photo.