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I want that Mirror Ball too. :)

It hurts for me to say that Donald Driver won the Dancing With the Stars Season 14 Mirror Ball Trophy. I was rooting for Latino William Levy. But anyhow, congratulations to everyone in DWTS. This season was just full of fun, breath-taking and groovy moves.

I just want to compliment my favorite pro-dancer Cheryl Burke, who was/is paired up with suave William this season. She has been my dancing idol the moment I watched her dance, well not up-close but just online and on the TV. Rob Kardashian was her partner last season and they ended up 2nd. Needless to say, she is a very good dancer. Not everyone appreciates ballroom and not everyone can understand the value of dancing. That’s why when I see Cheryl dance, she kinda gives me the feeling of freedom through dance.

I wonder what Cheryl felt during the performances with William. :) They look good together by the way. lol

Alright, I said what I have to say. Stoked for DWTS All-Stars. I know it’ll be HUBBA HUBBA! :D

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→ 01 Mar 12 at 6 pm leilockheart:

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→ 11 Feb 12 at 2 am pelikula:

Pretty in Pink
by Don Jaucian

The ridiculous amount of gay “indie” films skittering in the theaters every week (Every week! Which means these kinds of “films” are produced at a regular basis) may not paint a good picture of the LGBT issues in cinema, with all these low-budget exploitation films which aim to showcase more glistening bodies than the actual struggles of its characters. But as in any film industry, there is a fine line between good films and bad, distasteful ones. With all the issues faced by the LGBT-community in these tumultuous times, it’s a relief that there are actually filmmakers who craft films that are skillfully made and have something relevant to say. These are the films that deserve to be seen by a larger audience.

With this in mind, and in celebration of the National Arts Month (and also in time for Valentine’s Day), Akei, Pinoy G4M, and Pelikula Tumblr present Sine Bahaghari, a series of screenings of films that provide a wider perspective of the depiction of the lives of Filipino gay men and women in cinema.

Here are some of the award winning films included in the line-up:

Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa (The Dance of Two Left Feet, Alvin Yapan, 2011)

Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa glides in elegant rhythms, dispelling the shackles of gender roles and artistic notions through the subtle guidance of the poetry of dance and glances teeming with possibilities. More than an unspoken love affair between its two leads (Paulo Avelino and Rocco Nacino), what Sayaw distills is an understanding of the place of art in our society and how we form and break values and traditions based on its heavy-handed maneuverings.

Winner of Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Original Music at the 2011 Cinemalaya Film Festival and the Bronze Prize at the Bogota International Film Festival. Sayaw is also hailed as one of the best Filipino films of 2011.

Next Attraction (Raya Martin, 2008)

The second part of Raya Martin’s intended Box Office Trilogy, Next Attraction follows a film crew shooting a short film which stars Coco Martin, Paolo Rivero, and Jaclyn Jose. In the short film, Martin runs away from his mother and meets Rivero, who gives him his first sexual encounter.

Next Attraction is a film about filmmaking and our local film industry. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Cinemanila International Film Festival.

Muli (The Affair, 2010)

Based on Gerry Geracio’s Palanca Award-winning screenplay, Muli is the love story of an activist, Jun (Sid Lucero), and a lawyer, Errol (Cogie Domingo), in Baguio City, whose affair goes through a series of tribulations for over four decades. As the country goes through a tumultuous change over forty years, Alix shows how these issues affect the lives of Jun and Errol and their struggle to keep their relationship from falling apart.

Winner of Best Actor (Sid Lucero) at the 2011 Gawad Urian.

Señorita (Vincent Sandoval, 2011)

Far from the maddening crowd of Manila, Sofia (Vincent Sandoval), formerly a high class transsexual sex worker, starts anew as Donna. She then helps Pepe Holganza, a doctor in Talisay, in his mayoralty bid to topple over the town’s regime. By grooming Doc Pepe as the messiah of Talisay (both the name and the setting a probable Rizal reference), with all his ideals of a morally conscious governance and the ever-present promise of eradicating corruption, along with taking care of a friend’s son, Sofia finds a chance to redeem herself, establishing a personality that erases any hint of her past. But her past is not through with her.

Señorita premiered at the 64th Locarno Film Festival.

Apart from these critically acclaimed films, Sine Bahaghari will also screen two LGBT-themed films by national artist Lino Brocka and films by Sigrid Bernardo and Roni Betubin.

Sine Bahaghari opens today, February 11, 5 PM at Chef’s Bistro, Tomas Morato, with the screening of Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa and Next Attraction. Admission is free. Sine Bahaghari is included in the National Commission for Culture & the Arts’ (NCCA) Philippine Arts Festival this February 2012.

For more info on the other screenings, visit sinebahaghari.pelikula.info

pelikula:

Pretty in Pink by Don Jaucian
The ridiculous amount of gay “indie” films skittering in the theaters every week (Every week! Which means these kinds of “films” are produced at a regular basis) may not paint a good picture of the LGBT issues in cinema, with all these low-budget exploitation films which aim to showcase more glistening bodies than the actual struggles of its characters. But as in any film industry, there is a fine line between good films and bad, distasteful ones. With all the issues faced by the LGBT-community in these tumultuous times, it’s a relief that there are actually filmmakers who craft films that are skillfully made and have something relevant to say. These are the films that deserve to be seen by a larger audience.
With this in mind, and in celebration of the National Arts Month (and also in time for Valentine’s Day), Akei, Pinoy G4M, and Pelikula Tumblr present Sine Bahaghari, a series of screenings of films that provide a wider perspective of the depiction of the lives of Filipino gay men and women in cinema.
Here are some of the award winning films included in the line-up:

Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa (The Dance of Two Left Feet, Alvin Yapan, 2011)
Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa glides in elegant rhythms, dispelling the shackles of gender roles and artistic notions through the subtle guidance of the poetry of dance and glances teeming with possibilities. More than an unspoken love affair between its two leads (Paulo Avelino and Rocco Nacino), what Sayaw distills is an understanding of the place of art in our society and how we form and break values and traditions based on its heavy-handed maneuverings.
Winner of Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Original Music at the 2011 Cinemalaya Film Festival and the Bronze Prize at the Bogota International Film Festival. Sayaw is also hailed as one of the best Filipino films of 2011.

Next Attraction (Raya Martin, 2008)
The second part of Raya Martin’s intended Box Office Trilogy, Next Attraction follows a film crew shooting a short film which stars Coco Martin, Paolo Rivero, and Jaclyn Jose. In the short film, Martin runs away from his mother and meets Rivero, who gives him his first sexual encounter.
Next Attraction is a film about filmmaking and our local film industry. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Cinemanila International Film Festival.

Muli (The Affair, 2010)
Based on Gerry Geracio’s Palanca Award-winning screenplay, Muli is the love story of an activist, Jun (Sid Lucero), and a lawyer, Errol (Cogie Domingo), in Baguio City, whose affair goes through a series of tribulations for over four decades. As the country goes through a tumultuous change over forty years, Alix shows how these issues affect the lives of Jun and Errol and their struggle to keep their relationship from falling apart.
Winner of Best Actor (Sid Lucero) at the 2011 Gawad Urian.

Señorita (Vincent Sandoval, 2011)
Far from the maddening crowd of Manila, Sofia (Vincent Sandoval), formerly a high class transsexual sex worker, starts anew as Donna. She then helps Pepe Holganza, a doctor in Talisay, in his mayoralty bid to topple over the town’s regime. By grooming Doc Pepe as the messiah of Talisay (both the name and the setting a probable Rizal reference), with all his ideals of a morally conscious governance and the ever-present promise of eradicating corruption, along with taking care of a friend’s son, Sofia finds a chance to redeem herself, establishing a personality that erases any hint of her past. But her past is not through with her.
Señorita premiered at the 64th Locarno Film Festival.
Apart from these critically acclaimed films, Sine Bahaghari will also screen two LGBT-themed films by national artist Lino Brocka and films by Sigrid Bernardo and Roni Betubin.
Sine Bahaghari opens today, February 11, 5 PM at Chef’s Bistro, Tomas Morato, with the screening of Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa and Next Attraction. Admission is free. Sine Bahaghari is included in the National Commission for Culture & the Arts’ (NCCA) Philippine Arts Festival this February 2012.
For more info on the other screenings, visit sinebahaghari.pelikula.info

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→ 29 Jan 12 at 4 am litratonijuan:

Yesterday, January 25, was the Velada Tomasina in UST wherein students are advised to wear Filipiniana to commemorate UST during its early years.

I entered UST yesterday knowing that there will be people on their best Filipiniana clothes but I did not expect to feel that…

Ang Balintataw ni Juan: Velada Tomasina

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→ 28 Jan 12 at 9 am

That awkward moment when your friend copies everything that you do

More laughs here

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→ 28 Jan 12 at 8 am fashionsociety:

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→ 09 Jan 12 at 8 am

tags: student life

You might be wondering what 69’s supposed to mean. Well, it basically means nothing to those geniuses of my time. Lol. 69 is a grade a genius will never ever get. It is a number hated by almost any student. But then 69 is less grave than 65. 65 is the most hated number by all students.

Going back to 69, 69 is rather equal to 65. So, why the heck would students get a grade of lower than 70. I don’t know! Exactly! No one knows why. If you ask me, I’d say, I don’t know what wrong I have done ‘cause I know I learned something and I know I attended my classes without tardiness and absences. So, how in the world did I get 69?

Would you really blame us students for this kind of grades we have? Do you really need to throw it on our faces that we have such big numbers?

In my point of view, it’s not always the student who is at fault for having such a low grade. And if it’s not the student, who else would be blamed? Then I say, it’s the teacher. Teachers are not always correct. They have their own mistakes. But hear me, I’m not saying that all teachers are wrong or what they say are lies or something else. But, what I mean is that there are teachers who are good, but are not really good in teaching. I mean, they can teach, yes, but they lack the ability to let the students understand and comprehend what they’re saying. Am I making sense here? Even the brightest among all professors, if he couldn’t explain a simple concept then it would be very difficult for the students who admire his or her potentials. Yes, he or she is intelligent but no, he or she cannot seem to be able to share his brightness through teaching.

So you see, students are not always to be blamed. We are just students and yes, we do learn. We learn a lot, actually. Grades do not matter as long as you’ve learned something at the end of the day. Those are just numbers given by people and those numbers will never judge you for who you are. Even the dumbest person can work best among those educated, maybe not through minds but through physical aspects.

I’m not saying students should just rely on a grade like 69. No, that’s a failing grade, but there are more rooms for improvement. 69 will not stop you from getting even just 75. Maybe you hate the subject or what, you know that you still have to keep on living, or move on rather. You hate it, yet you have to face it. Little ironies of life.

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→ 20 Dec 11 at 7 pm inothernews:

Residents search for relatives among the mud-caked debris in Cagayan de Oro on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao following flash flooding and mudslides that have killed at least 927 and left hundreds more missing. Attention has turned to the tens of thousands of survivors affected by Typhoon Washi, many of whom are crowded into evacuation centers without proper sanitation or supplies. (Photo: Bobby Lagsa / EPA via the New York Times)

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Residents search for relatives among the mud-caked debris in Cagayan de Oro on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao following flash flooding and mudslides that have killed at least 927 and left hundreds more missing. Attention has turned to the tens of thousands of survivors affected by Typhoon Washi, many of whom are crowded into evacuation centers without proper sanitation or supplies. (Photo: Bobby Lagsa / EPA via the New York Times)

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→ 20 Dec 11 at 7 pm inothernews:

Philippine Navy personnel arrange coffins that will be shipped with drinking water, clothes and other relief goods to the flood-stricken cities of Cagayan De Oro and Iligan aboard a navy ship in Manila, the Philippines on Dec. 20, 2011. The death toll from flash floods and mudslides is nearing 1,000, with tens of thousands affected. (Photo: Aaron Favila / AP via MSNBC.com)

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Philippine Navy personnel arrange coffins that will be shipped with drinking water, clothes and other relief goods to the flood-stricken cities of Cagayan De Oro and Iligan aboard a navy ship in Manila, the Philippines on Dec. 20, 2011. The death toll from flash floods and mudslides is nearing 1,000, with tens of thousands affected. (Photo: Aaron Favila / AP via MSNBC.com)