Mandarin Castañas: Get 'em Hot in Quiapo

Alam mong pasko na sa Maynila, amoy castanas na! Woot! Woot!


Roasted chestnuts going round and round... it's definitely Christmas time!



Just watching the castañas spin around is actually quite hypnotic, I usually buy them in Quiapo at the fruitstand area of the palengke near Villalobos street. And on weekends at the Legaspi Sunday Market.

Madness Manila 2012

Harapin ang panibagong bukas, panibagong sigla. Naks! Pang-political slogan etetch!


Para kang si Mayor Lim... lagi kang KASADO!

With 2012 approaching in a few days, its about time to do a reboot, MadManila needs a fresh start. Aiiight!

Wall Lord 2010: The Biggest Graffiti Jam in Asia

The biggest graffiti jam in Asia is happening at the walls of Malugay in SAV Makati. And fuck yeah lotsa beer too! 8 of the top Philippines crew will battle for 1 spot for the Shanghai Finals.

Dance! Dance! Metro Rail Transit

I'm looking forward to this year's International Dance Day 2010 Celebration. A project helm by Miss Myra Beltran of  the Contemporary Dance Network Philippines (CDNP) with the Light Rail Transit Authority. The dance unfolds on April 29, 2010 at the 1PM & 5PM commuter lines- LRT Line2 Purple Line. If you can go, take the metro at these hours. 

I'm really excited about this! 26 Dancers + Moving Train! Hell yeah!

Video director: Ruelo Zendo
Artist/Choreographer: Jethro Pioquinto
Editor: Coreen Chan, Ruelo Zendo
Producer: Myra Beltran

My Easter Bus Ride Back to Manila

So what was my Easter like?  



An 8-hour bus trip staring at the annoying faces of trapos (traditional politicians) and wannabees.



So would I vote for them? Fuck yeah! They made me wanna pee at every bus stop which was good for my bladder anyway. Salamat LoRRRd!

Unearthing: Womynist Bones and Sexuality

Exhibit runs March 1-14, 2010
Location: Philamlife Center for the Arts
Street: United Nations Avenue corner Maria Orosa st

Womynist Bones and Sexuality 

Buried under the dark crevices of our time’s hegemonies are yet tender fossils – muted, maimed, and mutilated – muffled in their screaming silence, cocooned within the gravels of subjugated worldings. But not for long… 

Ten womyn womynists piece together a fearless, undulated bellowing; an eloquent kind of unearthing, to unravel bones of feminine beauty and pain, to reconstitute their place in time and space, both real and virtual. To unearth is to reveal quieted identities in a more eloquent dimension to which their osseous seeds could be nourished into fertile germs - progenitors, potent and sexual so that the once faint diffusion of voices could reverberate into a piercing chorus, lyric and erotic, vivid and provocative. 

Paricipating artists:

AJ Tolentino
Aza Mazon-Camps
Benay Reyes
Ivy Universe Baldoza
Joanna De Leon-Hoffman
Ligaya Domingo
Lydia Cabasco
Maan De Loyola
Rimaq Joaquin Palma
Tif Guevara

Website: http://www.unearthingexhibit.com

Nothing Is Good Enough

Things I did or put off today so I can blog some more:

1. I told the landlady to STFU (not within earshot though)

2. Over @chatroulette "vous avez un grand ventre" - you have a large belly. It turns out he's only 7 years old. 

3. Deciding whether to cook Chachi's Indian Salt Crackers or Pigs in a Blanket for the next gallery talk at Ermita.

4.  I felt sorrow in an instant over odd bits of memories.

5. Finally found a hamster ball my pets Pickle and Star can roll around in.

6. Relieved that production work is over. Can now watch Fantastic Mr. Fox for the nth time. So don't point and cuss!

7. Inspected the carrots in the chiller for molds.

8. Sealed my ciabatta tight in foil like a Japanese submarine.

9. Configured emails. Drank more coffee.

10. Thinks moobs are in season. Why do pinoy men like walking around shirtless?