The Entropy Blog

Super-Reunion feat. the Romanovs

2012-02-05T13:32:40Z

… will be the name of my next band. The descendants of my great-great grandparents Blas and Blasa Monteroso had a family reunion last Saturday in Cabadbaran City. That’s about five generations, so it was a pretty huge gathering. We had shirts that were color-coded according to which Monteroso sibling we were descended from. Great [...]

Pintakasi victory party and The Lam-Ang Experiment sort-of launch

2012-01-30T08:31:31Z

We thought we were in the wrong place. Mike invited us to the launch of a graphic novel he wrote, a re-emagining of the Ilocano epic “Biag ni Lam-Ang”. But when we got to the Collective (Malugay St., Makati City), all we could find was a party for some movie. Obviously, I should learn to [...]

Finding Jeremy Renner: He’s eating a burrito, all your arguments are invalid

2012-01-30T08:50:30Z

This is from the series of posts about stalking fangirling at The Bourne Legacy filming here in Metro Manila. You know how once in a while, you wake up and say, “Hey, maybe I’ll go to Luneta today”? Well, the Bourne Legacy has been filming here in Metro Manila for about a month now, and [...]

Finding Jeremy Renner: It’s not stalking if the SWAT guys don’t take away your camera, PART 2

2012-01-30T08:51:43Z

This is part two a fan account of a visit to the filming of The Bourne Legacy in Navotas fish port last January 25. You can read part one here, and the previous entry in this series here. So, yeah, we went all the way to the Navotas fish port and got photos of Jeremy [...]

Finding Jeremy Renner: It’s not stalking if the SWAT guys don’t take away your camera

2012-01-29T11:32:49Z

I usually prefer doing my stalking in nice places with A/C -- press conferences in hotel function rooms, bookstores, etc. However, when this isn't possible and it's been three weeks yet you could not find the time to hang around the hotel till your, uh, target shows up (what with stupid stuff like work getting in the way), you get creative. And by creative, I mean take a 2-hour bus ride to a fish port in the outskirts of the Metro.

Blue Bananas

2012-01-23T20:35:38Z

Introduce your child, or your niece/nephew/inaanak/little bro/little sis to the wonderful world of art. Mae Astrid Tobias’s talent as a storyteller has been recognized by both the Palanca and the National Book awards. Her story, Blue Bananas, has just been published by the Crucible Gallery. It is about a boy who meets the painter Mauro [...]

I needed the extra sushi to make up for the calories I lost walking around

2012-01-21T19:58:32Z

If you really think about it, the buffet is the worst way to eat. You’re stuffing yourself with more food than you really need because it’s, well, there. All those flavors are so mixed up on your palate that you can’t really make sense of them all afterwards. Each dish becomes a fleeting memory overwhelmed [...]

Eating my way through the holidays: Crisostomo in Eastwood

2012-01-16T11:34:51Z

The dish is called Noli Me Talong (PhP 195/$5), which I assume translates to "Don't eggplant me" which we all remember was what Jesus said that one time they tried to serve him vegetarian pasta.

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Finding Jeremy Renner: It’s not stalking if the MMDA gives you a map

2012-01-29T11:33:05Z

Fresh from my monumental failure to get a close-up glimpse of Choi Siwon and his legendary dimples while he and a couple other members of Super Junior were here to shoot a commercial last week, I’ve decided that Jeremy Renner will not escape me. He, Rachel Weisz, and Edward Norton will be in Manila till [...]

Publishing in Pajamas, a talk on successful e-book publication

2012-01-18T17:59:47Z

Ever wanted to self-publish your work on Amazon and other e-publishing websites? Learn how from one successful author. From the panitikan.com.ph website: KUTING (Kuwentista ng mga Tsikiting) invites writers to attend PUBLISHING IN PAJAMAS: HOW I SUCCESSFULLY RELEASED MY BOOKS TO THE WORLD. This is a talk by Mina V. Esguerra on Saturday, 4:00 p.m. [...]