tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520Mon, 07 Oct 2024 04:22:25 +0000politicsarticlesenvironmentart reviewspersonalinane indulgencesfilmpoetrydearly departeddrawingshuman rightsmusicphotographyscience and technologyshameless plugsanimaliainternational solidaritypaintings::: storage space for stories strewn along the way :::http://arkibo.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-3545612855799550594Fri, 23 May 2008 04:18:00 +00002008-05-23T13:18:05.860+09:00I was on my way back to Manila from Rapu-Rapu island, Albay last Tuesday when I received news of Ka Bel&#39;s death. We will be visiting his wake at the IFI later, an event I wish to delay as much possible. For seeing bluntly confirms with the mind what the heart yearns to evade. While he loved to talk about life, about the problems of the world and the country, his experiences, and everything http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2008/05/paalam-ka-bel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-4179102643190935112Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:26:00 +00002008-02-17T01:26:53.364+09:00In light of the current NBN ZTE scandal, environmental activists from Kalikasan PNE offer seven handy tips for the Filipino people to keep in mind. 1.SEGREGATE the truth from lies, especially in the cases of the NBN ZTE, &#39;Hello Garci&#39; tapes, Jose Pidal, and North Rail scandals, electoral fraud in the 2004 and 2007 polls, the extrajudicial killings of activists, and Presidential http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2008/02/seven-green-and-pro-people-tips-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-754654494804780893Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:25:00 +00002007-10-16T10:37:19.326+09:00environmentpoetry(Or my preachy Hallmarky-cardcontributionfor this year's Blog Action Day for the Environment,October 15--it's still 11:26 p.m.,so I still beat the deadline! hah!)Last year (or was it two years ago?),green was the new pink in fashion.now there'ssomething greenfor everything that isn't: black is the new greenfor web surfers,smokers can rejoicewith organic cigarettes.male voyeurs even havean http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/10/going-green.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-4858285773090675054Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:55:00 +00002007-10-06T10:51:22.254+09:00environmenthuman rightspoliticsAm sharing some amusing news bits I stumbled upon in the course of surfing for mining-related articles. Enjoy!Wikipedia's one of the best things about the web. I heart Wikipedia! But so did six employees from Japan's Department of Agriculture, who apparently hearted it so much that they spent more office hours on Wiki entries on billboard typos, movies, and Gundam than on administrative concernshttp://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/10/agriculture-ministry-is-not-in-charge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-8064436892434335608Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:39:00 +00002007-10-04T17:41:23.964+09:00human rightsinternational solidaritypolitics<!-- Free Burma! Image --><!-- End Free Burma! Image -->http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/10/free-burma-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-4137040080280069164Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:07:00 +00002007-09-30T08:23:24.709+09:00environmentpoliticsAll the while the ZTE NBN deal was being threshed out in the Senate like it should be, Gloria Arroyo been attempting to pass herself off at the United Nations General Assembly as a topnotcher in three fields where her administration failed miserably: the economy, peace process, and the environment. According to Arroyo, her administration is making headway towards making the Philippines a healthyhttp://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/09/crayola-101-green-philippines.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-833349239890452545Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:33:00 +00002007-09-28T00:40:59.548+09:00environmentinane indulgencespersonalpoliticsscience and technology1. Sec. Romulo Neri is making waves without rocking the boat at all! After all the suspense and drum-beating about being "ready to lose his job" on account of appearing before the Senate to testify on the NBN ZTE contract, it was quite lame of him to remain tight-lipped on Gloria Arroyo's involvement in the deal. Sure, Neri dropped a big, stinky pooper right smack on Abalos' head. But he flew http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-things-about-me-and-zte.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-3907492631279333560Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:12:00 +00002007-09-23T02:02:26.215+09:00filmpoliticsJust when things were beginning to get really exciting, Gloria Arroyo (I refuse to address her as President in this blog. Pwede ba!) backtracks and suspends the national broadband network deal with ZTE. Even the most extreme of morons can see through this diversionary tactic and last-ditch attempt at damage control. By suspending the deal at the last minute, Arroyo and her co-conspirators http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/09/damage-control-diversionary-tactics-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-8039340367464235479Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:49:00 +00002007-09-21T02:32:47.714+09:00articlesfilmpoliticsThe local Philippine censor's board, the MTRCB, has just given an X rating to a film project calling for the release of abducted (and still-missing) activist Jonas Burgos. Like a third-rate thespian, MTRCB Chairperson Consoliza Laguardia unconvincingly tries to justify this outrightly fascist gesture to the public by saying that the film was "unfair" and "undermining the faith" in the http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/09/cut-censorship-shatter-silence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-9119834055884895493Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:24:00 +00002007-09-20T01:13:23.547+09:00politicsscience and technologyLast weekend, no thanks to my husband's insistence, I tagged along the Philippine leg for Software Freedom Day in the ASTI Building of the University of the Philippines Diliman. The event was co-organized by the Computer Professionals Union (CPU) et al.I was apprehensive as we approached the ASTI building. Baka naman hindi ako maka-relate pag nandoon na? I'm not a computer geek, much less a http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/09/software-freedom-day-in-eyes-of-non.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-8263290924273703270Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:35:00 +00002007-09-18T09:58:11.798+09:00art reviews OOOps. My last entry was over a month ago (bad, bad blogger!). Outside the deadlines and gawain -related schedules in the real world, I realized that most of little free post-dinner time I had last August was instead spent on watching back episodes of Eureka, Meteor Garden, and Rome (i.e. consuming hours of story lines premised on science and imperialism, capitalist conceptions of love, and http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/09/on-erotic-art-and-intermittent-blogging.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-5706071629077236051Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:19:00 +00002007-07-25T00:49:58.217+09:00animaliadearly departedpersonalI feel so sad. Our newly-adopted kitten, Neko, has been missing since this morning. Gani woke up to find Neko gone and the door of our laundry area ominously open. Apparently, we forgot to lock it after arriving home from an exhausting day at the SONA rally. While we were sound asleep, Neko must have ventured outside and slipped while navigating the window. The steep drop below runs up to severalhttp://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/07/sad-little-story-and-lesson-learned.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-6798815096880159158Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:38:00 +00002007-07-18T00:55:16.572+09:00personalpoliticsFinally, something happy to blog about!This is a pathetically overdue post, something that I should have written the hour right after it happened, but didn't (fell asleep right upon reaching home). Anyway, Ka Bel, Crispin Beltran of Anakpawis, was released last July 10 after 16 months of illegal detention by the Arroyo administration.It's about time! Ka Bel, his family and colleagues have http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/07/ka-bel-freed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-6580228073436504544Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:18:00 +00002007-07-14T12:50:25.919+09:00personalJuly 11: It was my father's birthday. And our 30th monthsary :)As with the past six years since Papa passed away, I found myself deliberately keeping busy on that day. I remember planning to write a blog entry the other evening but for some reason didn't. This evening I realized that, ever since putting up this blog two years ago, that I have never written at length about events deeply personal http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/07/july-11-it-was-my-father-birthday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-5103057914868760980Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:52:00 +00002007-07-01T19:44:35.616+09:00art reviewspersonalpoliticsI'm posting a short write-up I did for Yasmin Sison's show The Punky Brewster Session held at mag:net gallery Katipunan from May 24 to June 11 this year (hope the artist and mag:net both don't mind) .In the course of freelance writing for galleries, I guess there are times when some art works are personally striking (and exciting) in a significant way: not only in terms of exquisite visuals but http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/07/painting-disappeared.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-4423578358753689280Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:02:00 +00002007-07-01T14:06:29.349+09:00articlesenvironmentmusicGans and I attended a professorial lecture by Dr. Jonas Baes of the UP College of Music yesterday. Normally, I don't get to drop by similar events due to our respective schedules at Kalikasan, but this one was different. It was about the life and music of Jonas' elder brother, Dr. Aloysius "Ochie" Baes.Ochie died last December. We knew him mostly as a scientist (AGHAM founding member!), an http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/06/yesterdays-roundup-of-music-and-mining.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-341465535557169850Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:16:00 +00002007-06-28T00:47:42.075+09:00art reviewsHere's something I wrote last week for an exhibit at the Intellectual Property (IP) Phils, a government office whose purpose for existence, correct me if I'm wrong, revolves around the processing of patents, copyrights, and trademarks. They set up a spacious gallery at the first floor of the IP building, called the Alab Art Space. Since its located at the lobby of the building, fronting the http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/06/creativity-in-context-and-experiment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-4322588680098441309Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:43:00 +00002007-06-02T13:20:20.646+09:00politicsIt's about time!Yesterday the Supreme Court thumbed down the rebellion charges against the six progressive solons. In a strongly yet lucidly-worded 21-page decision, the SC finally affirmed what Atty. Romeo Capulong, Ka Bel, and the Batasan 5 have been saying all along, over and over again, for the past fifteen months: that the charges of rebellion by the Arroyo administration and the Departmenthttp://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/06/free-ka-bel-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-114664626655465977Mon, 28 May 2007 19:19:00 +00002007-05-29T04:36:23.083+09:00environmentpoliticsAs if one mining disaster by an Australian-owned firm in the Philippines weren't enough! This time, President Arroyo plans to woo bigger and more mining projects during her upcoming trip to Australia. Among the firms that she'll be meeting up with is BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company whose main headquarters is located in Melbourne. Compared to Lafayette Mining, that junior http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/05/down-under-for-sure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-7161521405333406873Sun, 27 May 2007 14:47:00 +00002007-05-28T14:02:33.142+09:00inane indulgencesmusicPV of Boku wa Kuma (I'm a Bear) by Utada Hikaru.I am a bear bear bear bear I am not a car bear bear bear I can't walk but I can danceI can't talk but I can sing I am a bear bear bear bear.http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/05/utada-hikaru-boku-wa-kuma-pv.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-7682240671672226367Tue, 22 May 2007 15:27:00 +00002007-05-23T00:44:57.713+09:00filmI'm reposting excerpts from something I've written for a friend's thesis, which chronicles the production of an independent animated Filipino film Saving Sally. It has a simple but well thought-out story, wonderfully-rendered visuals, and an (ongoing) production period so bloody that all of the young artists involved in this collective project probably deserve a state citation for slugging it outhttp://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/05/blurbs-and-saving-sally.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-5959925348159924807Sun, 13 May 2007 06:02:00 +00002007-05-22T17:02:23.890+09:00articles(Published in Issue No. 6 of Ctrl+P. To access the entire contents, please visit http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/17531_lzsdc/Ctrl_P_AnniversaryIssue6.pdf)Birthing women artists:Norma Liongoren and the Walong Filipina exhibitionFor 17 years, the annual Walong Filipina (Eight Filipinas) exhibition of the Liongoren Gallery has collectively shown the works of close to a hundred women artists http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/05/birthing-women-artists.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-6259008833075367841Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:41:00 +00002007-05-23T00:49:37.941+09:00environmentfilmshameless plugsIn anticipation of Earth Day 2007You are invited to CineKalikasan 1.1Environmental film screening at mag:net KatipunanApril 10, 2007 (Tuesday) 5:30 – 7 PMMag:net Gallery and CaféAGCOR Building , 335 Katipunan Ave. (fronting Miriam and Ateneo), Quezon City Cinekalikasan is a project initiated by Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE) aiming to http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/04/n-anticipation-of-earth-day-2007-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-8616664687987659605Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:12:00 +00002007-04-04T18:14:44.878+09:00politicsKa Satur is finally free! Albeit temporarily. But what the heck, it's still a victory. On the right is a snapshot of him taken a few hours after his release, during the solidarity night of the Week of Rice Action 2007 Philippines forum on the environmental, health, and economic effects of genetically-engineered rice. S.O. dropped by to thank the delegates, partake of the modest (rice-based) http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/04/starstruck-by-satur.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17907520.post-4474592372311226873Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:00:00 +00002007-04-04T20:26:46.314+09:00art reviewsarticles Exhibit notes for Walong Filipina: Daragang Magayon March 30 - April 21, 2007 Liongoren Gallery There resides a devastating beauty in Mt. Mayon's gentle slopes and smouldering facade: how it possesses the capacity to evoke the most serene and picturesque scenery on one day and bring about wanton and terrible destruction on another. These intertwined realities make the will to recreate http://arkibo.blogspot.com/2007/04/volcanos-children-there-resides.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1