saving private blair, the blair teach project

he's not really. private, i mean he's special envoy to the middle east. how that works, i have no idea. need saving, he doesn't. (or does he?)

tasked to talk about negotiations, leadership. and he did. amongst other things, like having sex in no. 10 downing street.

i wonder though why the organizers made the early-registrants take the crummy seats (back rows) while the ones who arrived later, got seats nearer the stage. and worse, when the more expensive, but not near enough seats were glaringly empty, same late-comers got upgraded! from blair teach project, this was fast becoming the blair bitch project!

when people learned i attended his talk, everyone of them asked if i had any problem understanding his speech - they presumed his accent would get in the way. i, of course, said no. on the other hand, that is why i refuse to watch slumdog millionaire.

yahoo day out 2 - manila bay like i have never seen before

glorious! i have always been a sunset/dusk person. well, technically, the sun stays where it does, the earth moves around it. but that is beside the point. there's something solemn witnessing the sun rise somewhere else (that is what happens when it sets where you are).

taking a cruise along the bay courtesy of yahoo! i have never seen roxas boulevard and manila bay from this perspective before. manila appeared clean, peaceful, calm. something to cherish.

Mark Nicdao ALIVE!

mark nicdao is hard-working. perhaps that's the reason he caught the interest of viva water/coca-cola, the multinational being the sponsor behind his first exhibit. in no less than fashion walk greenbelt 5. i hope he remains what he seems to be, grounded. good work mark, and francis dayao.

richard gomez's pic. one of my first local crushes as a teenager! francis dayao, where are the images?

march on - tambokikoy's

talk about packing it in, the second week of march was hectic to say the least. glutton for punishment. fresh from a centerfold photoshoot over the weekend, monday, 09mar is yet another shoot.

tambokikoy's chicken and pork inasal around the mandaluyong-maysilo circle. owned by adrian and treena tecson, the trendy cul-de-sac offers whole chicken inasal, boasts of high-profile clientele (TVC producers and directors, cinematographers, photographers, make-up artist and an analyst with morgan chase), and diehard adobo magazine fans! teddy catuira, award-winning TV commercial director was the joint's first customer! try and beat that!

we could have produced a TVC that night, and marketed it, too!

march bursting at the seams - 1st week

harrowing boracay. centerfold shoot. boracay might as well have been bora-bora. first came to boracay in january 1999. i had written then that the island was an international food court. march 2009, the shoreline has shrunk and still shrinking, the white sands have turned gray, worse than an international food court, the island has yellow cab and shakey's. the water wasn't even that inviting. jonah's fruitshakes and vegetable curry rock! discovery shores' menu marvelous! every single dish!

thanks to my boss, lunch was free and heavenly!

the centerfold talents were cool kids! what was potentially a disaster, ended up divine!

the best thing about the weekend of 07-08mar09 is that i made two new friends. millet and bahaghari saved the day for me. i am lucky that way.

past feb-post valentine

was thinking of my dear friend, whom i haven't heard from in a long time. dr. rona! :D what are you up to? how is our hometown?

dr rona raves over the same things i do: two for the road/movie and led zep! she's a die-hard bamboo fan!

here's bamboo, for you! taken at lovapalooza 2009.