UPAA-UAE

Susan Fernandez Magno was a UP professor and an activist who pursued her hopes for the country and the Filipino people in her songs.  She was a member of Patatag, an alternative-activist band who sang songs of truth and love and freedom.  

Sadly, her voice will no longer be heard as she passed away over the weekend.  Yet her songs and her memory will live on for generations as young activist sing along with her music.   Susan was only 52 years...

Been reading about Leopold Gursky in his prime role as "disappearing" old man in Nicole Kauss' second novel, 'The History of Love'.  The books reminds me of how we all want to be seen and not live and die alone.  I am touched by the fact that many of us in this so-called billion populated planet; with internet and wireless connection, still seem to feel so alone...isolated...sad.  The book is also about a love found while young, kept and nurtured...despite not realising the lov...

aside from spy stories, i love reading sciFI books. have read books on the HALO, Baen books, etc.

have started reading the metal swarm, boox six of the Saga of the Seven Suns. too bulky to carry, so left this at home. i like browsing the sciFi section of Kinokuniya.

watched this movie when we were in seattle. john travolta is such an actor - whether he is a good guy or bad guy, he is a natural actor. his acting is great. and the movie revolves around him and of course, the good guy, denzel washington.

also just watched last weekend, the transformers - revenge of the fallen. i can forget anything except one...... megan fox. heard that she will do the lara croft movie which caused AJ fuming mad.

Yeah, Michael Jackson was a weirdo. Most artists are. Vincent Van Gogh cut his left ear. Kurt Cobain loved hanging baby dolls in his house.

That's why he was called Wacko Jacko. He was pictured sleeping in a glass chamber, or whatever it is called. He had a pet Chimpanzee (I don't know why people find that weird; I don't). He had an odd effeminate high voice. His face changed from that of a handsome black man into someone resembling Diana Ross then morphing later into perhaps an attemp...

Twelve days to go and it's farewell to Dubai... and hello to Canada. One of the reasons I will want to thank the UAE is just simply, UPAA-UAE. I may not know most of the new members anymore, but well, I've done what I was supposed to do during my time; among others, I worked for the accreditation of our organization with our Mother Unit, and then I started the ball rolling with the now-dynamic Scholarship Programme. I congratulate the founders of this noble body. Well, we all had a good time ...

This is the kind of website that I had been dreaming of all the while for the org! Congratulations to the new batch of UPAA-UAE members as a whole and the moderators in particular for this.

I had tried coming up with this kind of website during my term but the response was like that of a falling leaf to gravity - real slow. May I challenge the membership this time to be active on this one for a change... if you can manage your FaceBook or Friendster account, why not thi...

I just saw Push.  It's where Dakota Fanning, that sweet little girl we know as Sean Penn's daughter on 'I am Sam' sheds her good little girl image and is now a grungy teenager who can see the future in this movie.  She teams up with Chris Evans who played The Human Torch in Fantastic Four and is up against super baddie played by Djimon Hounsou (I've always liked him since his role in Gladiator).   It's like X-Men meets Triads meets X-Files...in a Chinese flick wi...

I've had this book for months now but only recently opened it to read.  I got sidetracked by the Twilight books, and other stuff (mostly UPAA-UAE! :tongue that it took a while for me to begin and read "The Life of Pi."  If I read it say 20 years ago, I would have had a different reaction to it than reading it now.  In many ways, most of us is like Pi...looking out for the unique, searching for the generalisations, finding where we fit.  I saw the same book in Mike Ortega...