February 27, 2021 at 4:23 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Camarote de Marinero, Filipino Writers, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: COVID Writing, historical fiction, novel, Philippine History, Philippines, Saturdays
Self keeps re-reading Camarote de Marinero, and so far she really likes it (lucky!) It’s written mostly in epistolary form, in very florid language. For example:
Letter to El Adelantado Miguel Lopez de Legazpi from His Royal Catholic Majesty Philip II:
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
January 22, 2020 at 9:04 pm (Filipino Writers, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: historical fiction, Philippines, work-in-progress
It opens:
September 8, 2019 at 10:22 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Food and Drink, Links, Traveling)
Tags: fast food, Manila, Mondays, Philippines, Redwood City, restaurants
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 62: SILHOUETTES
Silhouettes “are a marvelous technique to add to your photographic repertoire because they can add drama, mystery, emotion, and atmosphere to your photos.”
Can they ever. Self’s favorite types of shots are silhouettes.
A Little Past Midnight, Jollibee Drive-Thru, Manila
Reading Nook, Self’s House in Redwood City, California. The lamp is one of her favorites: She bought it several years ago from Harvest, a furniture store in Menlo Park.
Menchit Ongpin, wearing jewelry of her own design, at a dinner with former college classmates, Fely J’s, Greenbelt 5, Makati. Self asked Menchit to turn her head so she could capture her in silhouette.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
February 13, 2019 at 9:06 pm (Personal Bookshelf, Places, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Japan, London, memories, nostalgia, Philippines
Self’s choice is RED.
Self at 19, with Masako in Shibuya, Tokyo
Red Woven Bag from the Philippines, in Self’s Closet
Self’s Red Knapsack: The Penn Club, London, 23 November 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 22, 2018 at 3:22 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Explorers, Filipino Writers, short story collections, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: J Journal, literary awards, Literary Magazines, Mondays, Philippine History, Philippines, short story, speculative fiction
Self’s story was first published in J Journal, 2012. She just decided it will be the title of the new collection she’s completing. Thanks to the editors at J Journal, who published it and nominated it for a Pushcart.
Read the excerpt below:
And if our Lord and the Virgin Mother had not aided us by giving good weather to refresh ourselves with provisions and other things we had died in this very great sea. And I believe that nevermore will any man undertake to make such a voyage.
— Antonio Pigafetta, Chronicler of the Magellan Expedition
The crew encountered the giant during the winter, after months of battling the water just south of Brasilia. He was described by the sailors as being twelve or thirteen palmos tall, which is to say, over eight feet.
Stay tuned, dear blog reader. Stay tuned.
January 16, 2018 at 3:25 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Flowers, Philippine History, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: Ateneo, Manila, memories, Philippines
Volumes of Manuel Blanco’s FLORA DE FILIPINAS
The trees in the Quadrangle of the Ateneo de Manila University (self’s alma mater) have been there for decades. So have the stone benches.
November 21, 2017 at 4:40 pm (Filipino Writers, Philippine History)
Tags: causes, grief, Philippines
The victims: 32 journalists (most from central Mindanao), the wife of a gubernatorial candidate, innocent passersby who stumbled on the massacre as it was unfolding
The ditch prepared by the murderers for the dumping of the bodies was so large it accommodated an entire car. No, a van. A mini-bus.
Stay tuned.
April 6, 2017 at 11:26 am (Artists and Writers, Explorers, Filipino Writers, Places, Recommended, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: dystopia, fantasy, flash fiction, Juked.com, Literary Magazines, Philippines, short story
“First Life” first line:
February 13, 2017 at 6:00 pm (Links, Lists)
Tags: causes, China, Iraq, Mondays, Philippines, photography, politics, praise
Self only has a few minutes to post this, as she’s running here there and everywhere and the only reason she is still in her apartment is because she decided to work a little more on her sequel to “First Causes”: “This Is End” (dystopia, fantasy, apocalyptic, etc what else is new, lol)
Winner: Associated Press Photographer Burhan Ozbilici, for his image of a gun-wielding off-duty Turkish policeman standing over the body of Russia’s ambassador, Dec. 19
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November 2, 2016 at 4:36 pm (Books, Lists, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, Pianos, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: book lists, essays, Irish writers, Jane Austen, Japanese writers, mysteries, nonfiction, novel, Palestine, Philippines, Russian literature, translation, war literature, World War II
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