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May 072017
May 062017
Nick Joaquin [via Inquirer] Nick Joaquin is being honored by Penguin Classics with the first US publication of a collection of his works including the novel, “The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic.” The foreword to the book is credited to PEN/Open Book Award-winner Gina Apostol. The Penguin Random House release includes Joaquin’s best-known story “The Woman Who Had Two Navels,” about the country’s heritage seen through Filipino emigrants in Hong Kong. The Filipino writer’s play about history and change, “A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino” is also part of the selection, along with “May Day Eve” and “The Summer Solstice.” The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic [via Penguin Random House] “Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers, but he has remained little-known outside his home country despite writing in English,” the book description reads. Joaquin’s stories are likened to that of world-renowned writers Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa: “Set amid the ruins of Manila devastated by World War II, his stories are steeped in the post-colonial anguish and hopes of his era and resonate with the ironic perspectives on colonial history of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.” “His work meditates on the questions and challenges of the Filipino individual’s new freedom after a long history of colonialism, exploring folklore, centuries-old Catholic rites, the Spanish colonial past, magical realism, and baroque splendor and excess.” The classic works by the well-known Read More …
May 062017
Filipina Kriesha Tiu is debuting as a Korean-pop artist after her successful performance on KPOP Star 6 talent competition in South Korea. Kriesha Tiu [via Facebook] The 17-year old talent will be launched as a solo artist under Urban Works Entertainment, a Korean agency. Tiu was runner up winner in the SBS television show together with Kim Hye-rin and Kim So-hee of the group KWINS. In her journey to the finals, Tiu was hailed in KPOP press as the Philippines’ pride as she amazed the Korean audience and the KPOP Star judges with her singing and dancing. She was at first eliminated but returned to KPOP Star as a wildcard choice of judges Yu Hui Yeol, Park Jin Young, and Yang Hyun Suk. She went on to the finals with her group KWINS, but were eventually bested by the boy group, Boyfriends. The Filipina K-pop artist is a native of Cebu who migrated to the United States with her family. Tiu has been doing front act performances in concerts when a talent agency discovered her and sent her to a Korean training camp, according to an ABSCBN report. While training she learned the Korean language, and improved her singing and dancing skills. In the network’s interview Tiu recounted the challenges of living away from her family for two years and sent out a message for aspiring artists: "Being a singer is not an easy dream to fulfill pero the most important thing is to be your own cheerleader because no Read More …
May 062017
Contemporary Philippine cinema is getting the spotlight at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) of New York in June. Jaclyn Jose, in a scene from Brillante Mendoza’s Serbis [via Museum of Modern Art] MoMA is scheduled to present its new exhibit “A New Golden Age: Contemporary Philippine Cinema” showcasing 18 Filipino films spanning the years 2000 to present, and calls it the Third Golden Age of Philippine cinema after the first golden age in the 1950s, and the second golden age from the 1970s to early 80s. “The Philippines’ current wave of sustained creativity is unusual in its diversity of genre and style, audacious formal experimentation, and multiplicity of personal, social, and political perspectives. Defying simple description, this dizzying array of distinct cinematic statements makes it an exceptionally unique, vibrant movement,” goes the exhibit notes. The 13 Filipino directors whose works will be spotlighted include “Lav Diaz’s minimalist tales rendered at epic lengths,” Brillante Mendoza’s “gritty realist portrayals of the margins of society,” Raya Martin’s “experimentation with storytelling and form,” Ditsi Carolino’s “stark documentaries following the disenfranchised,” and Erik Matti’s “riveting thrillers.” The films to be exhibited from June 1-25 are: Motherland. 2017. Directed by Ramona S. Diaz Expressway. 2016. Directed by Ato Bautista Norte, the End of History. 2013. Directed by Lav Diaz Ma’ Rosa. 2016. Directed by Brillante Mendoza The Woman in the Septic Tank. 2011. Directed by Marlon Rivera Gemini. 2014. Directed by Ato Bautista Aparisyon (Apparition). 2012. Directed by Isabel Sandoval On the Job. 2013. Directed Read More …
May 062017
Masquerade Concert Sa kahilingan ng nakararami, muling magtatanghal sa isang konsiyerto ang mga batikang Pilipinong mang-awit na sina Martin Nievera at Lani Misalucha sa Pechanga Resort & Casino Temecula, California, sa Mayo 13 sa ganap na 8p.m. Ito’y matapos ang matagumpay na pagtatanghal noong nakaraang Setyembre 2016. Bilang ‘Hari ng Ballad’, si Nievera ay nagkamit ng ‘ Box Office Entertainment Awards’ para sa Best Male Concert performer of the Year noon Abril 17, 2016, mula sa GMMSF, Inc.Sa loob ng 33 taon, inaaliw ni Nievera ang kanyang mga tagasunod hindi lamang ng mga awiting halaw mula sa Original Pinoy Music (OPM), kungdi’y di mabilang na mga awiting isinalin nito mula sa mga pamoso’t kilalang mang-aawit sa buong mundo. Nito lamang Agosto, si Nievera ay naglabas ng bago album— “The best of Martin Nievera—- Kahapon…Ngayon” mula sa pagtaguyod ng Polyeast recording. Isang Pilipinong mang-aawit, manunulat-awit, at aktor, si Nievera ay tumanggap ng 18 platinum, limang dobleng platinum, tatlong tripleng platinum at isang quadriple platinum na mga albums sa kabuuan ng kanyang career. Back-to-back, kasama ni Nievera ang “ Asia’s Nightingale,” Lani Misalucha, ang unang Asiano na bumandera sa main showroom ng Las Vegas strip na nagtatanghal kasama ang Hawaii’s Society of Seven sa Jubilee Theater ng Bally’s. Si Misalucha ay nagtataglay ng napakaraming talento, kung saan ang hanay ng mga awitin nito’y mula sa pop, rock, jazz, soul rhythm at blues at operatic areas. Sa mas pinabuti at pinag-ibayong konsiyerto, si Nievera at Misalucha ay magbibigay sa inyo ng isang patok na Read More …
May 062017
Chinkee Tan Are you always late? Are you always unable to finish your work or assignments? Are you always short on cash? Are you always in debt? Does this conversation look familiar… Why are you late? Traffic! Why didn’t you finish your work or assignment? I was busy! Why are you short on cash again? My salary or allowance is too small! Have you heard other people give these kinds of reasons? Or maybe, have you made excuses like these? Do you want to know the real reason behind being late, not being able to finish your work/assignment, or being short on cash and being in debt? HABIT! Being late is a habit! Not finishing your work/assignment is a habit! Not having enough and always being in debt is a habit! Are you always drinking, smoking, gambling, or partying? Or what about biting your nails, eating junk food, doing Facebook non-stop, or spending too much time on TV? One thing that is common in these examples is that they are all BAD HABITS. Why are they BAD? It’s simple. They’re bad habits because they cause serious damage to a person. They negatively influence a person in terms of work or studies, and in life, in general. I know this one person who grew up in an all-boys school. And then, because of peer pressure, he tried drinking alcohol at the early age of 16. His reason? Well, there’s nothing wrong with just a bit of alcohol. “I’m just trying it Read More …
May 062017
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership — starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers …
May 052017
I am a proud San Franciscan with the honor of being the first Filipino elected to public office in my city serving four terms in the San Francisco Community College Board from 1992 through 2008. City College of San Francisco has a Filipino student population of 3,800 in our main Ocean campus of 38,000 students. In my last term, we had a total population of 110,000 students in our 10 San Francisco campuses, the largest community college in California …
May 052017
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Finance ministers and central bank governors of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members and their China, Japan and Korean peers meeting here on the sidelines of the 50th anniversary of the Asian Development Bank’s Board of Governors agreed on Friday to help each other enhance resilience to financial shocks and to promote trade and investments.
May 052017
A LAWMAKER wants the telecommunications sector stripped of its tax exemption on importations of communication equipment needed for their business, noting that these firms need not be given perks.