been up to my neck checking tons of papers and making grades. busy and harassed these past two weeks from end-of-sem duties. hay, salamat tapos na.
anyway, updates:
Sir Marne Kilates has a wonderful review of Caracoa 2006 in his blog. please check it out. also, a poem of mine came out in the Auto/Biography edition of the Asia and Pacific Writers Network website. Thanks to editor Ivy Alvarez.
and congratulations pala ulit kay Emong de Borja, whose collection Field Effect won for him P28,000, a sleek trophy, and the distinction of being the 3rd grand prize winner for Poetry in English in the bi-annual Maningning Miclat Poetry Awards. I co-judged the awarding this year with Ma'am Marjorie Evasco and Sir Neil Garcia. Sir Krip wrote about it in his column in the Philippine Star today.
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i'm keen on upgrading my PC soon so if anyone is interested in buying my current system (i'm selling everything save my monitor), let me know. here are the specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor
2 GB PQI PC400 DDR RAM
NVidia 7600GT Video Card PCI-E
40 GB Seagate HD
LITE-ON CR-RW DVD ROM Combo Drive
ECS RS482-M754 Motherboard for Athlon 64 Processors
(Built-in Sound and LAN)
Black Ipod Design ATX Casing with brand new power supply
i'm letting this mid-range system go for a package price of 14,000 PhP (negotiable).
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Below are the featured readers for tonight's 14th installment of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @magnet cafe Katipunan:
1. Egay Samar
2. Angelo Suarez
3. Pancho Villanueva
4. Marie La Viña
5. Darwin Chiong
6. Arkaye Kierulf
PLUS: members of Marian, Miriam College's Poetry Club, namely:
Aimee Soriano
Kash Avena
Kang Martelino
Opa Santos
Bevz Esguerra
Ria Torrente
Katrin Cruz
Prey Dominguez
Also expected to join us are Marne Kilates, Krip Yuson, Kristian Abe Dalao, Drey Teran, Mikael Co, Lope Cui, Jr., and fellows from the recent Dumaguete National Writers Workshop.
Admission is FREE. reading runs from 7 to 930pm. please do join us!
