The time really passed very fast and we don’t even know that we need to leave something to face another world,just like my situation now. It’s like yesterday i was a high skul gal then tommorow will be a college gal. What a world..?

Last week i took my enrollment in UM ( which i chose to be my college school )and i thought enrollment there is just easy but then i was wrong. The truth is, It’s quite hard to enroll in college. You know, high school enrollment can be done in 30 mins. or in one day but in college..

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My life online is one of occasional snark attacks. I’m not complaining, mind you. Only a total moron would risk going online as an internet as*hole without preparing himself for the hate that would come his way eventually. If you want to go around the internet acting like some kind of cyber alpha-male, you’ll attract other f*cktards like a woman’s c*nt attracts starving zombies.

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Paolo Dy is the mastermind behind the short film suspense-thriller titled "QWERTY" which is featured on the site "On the Lot"

Background and about yourself:

So what was your background like? Did you go to a film school? If so how did you like it?

I didn't start out in a full-time film school; I graduated with degrees that were just about as far from film as you can get (Management Engineering and Economics) haha. But my film education started in college, or rather, in the DORM of Ateneo. There was one summer when I borrowed my dad's video camera, and with the help of a bargain-basement rinky-dink editing card (that would only do 320×240 video at 15 frames per second) I and my friends would do our own little music videos and short films. We'd also do some small ads for the dorm resident's association and so on. 

One of my friends was studying to be a priest at the time; he showed my work to Fr. Johnny Go of the Jesuit Communications Foundation, and that's how I got my first professional job as an editor. 

Afterwards I sought out every chance to study the craft. I burned through every book about filmmaking that I could get my hands on. I soon moved up from editing to directing (I still believe that all directors should start out as editors!) and worked on a number of corporate and music videos. 

I had a short stint as a director in one of the major networks, but I was frustrated by the experience — I had a pretty recalcitrant crew and they just wouldn't follow some of my instructions, claiming some technical issue or another. I don't know how much of that was motivated by the old-timers being stubborn and sticking to what's worked for them before, and how much was because I was a young wet-behind-the-ears whipper-snapper director who didn't know their jargon and thus couldn't communicate to them in their own language.

More of this Interview with Paolo Dy at Wake T-rex

The Top 50 Pinoy Top Blogs (PTB) grew by 9 percent and 7 percent over April figures, in terms of total unique hits (UH) and this month’s hits (TMH), respectively.

Top gainers were Motorcycle Philippines and Philippine Eleksyon 2007 (PE 2007), both of which came from outside the Top 50 to claim spots in the Top 15. More…

“Apacible’s mission was doomed from the very start because he was going to deal with the administration of U.S. President William McKinley whose policy favored the acquisition and colonization of the Philippines. While in the United States, Apacible tried but failed to receive from the State Department the recognition as the official Filipino government representative, on the basis that neither the United States nor Spain, or any other country for that matter, recognized the new Filipino republic. However, prominent Americans who styled themselves as anti-imperialists took Apacible under their wings and succeeded in making the independence of the Philippines one of the key issues in the platform of the Democratic Party of William Jennings Bryan, who was contesting the reelection bid of the Republican President McKinley in the Presidential election of 1900.”

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Palm is entering another phase in its business with the introduction of their “Mobile Companion” product line. The first to come out of this line: The Palm Foleo.

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You’ve seen it in Amelie, and again in Travelocity. What started out as a prank, is now somewhat a norm for travelers, though not always with a gnome.

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Well, that’s rude. Must be the longest unplanned absence I’ve had since December last year. All because of a single tiny · that sucked all the blood inside me. And I’m in no mood to talk about it. I had a fever, yadda yadda blah blah.

But the past few days have served as a venue for soul-searching. What else can I do when the phone connection has been intermittent, and power has gone nuts on me? But anyway, it’s surprising to realize how much I missed on a lot of things since I started blogging regularly. Almost all of them are in line with music and love (yuck), but bear with me, eh?

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The hottest dance craze of the year…

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my life is finally on the move. last night, i looked at my pics with mik and felt this warm fuzzy feeling inside…what he’s endured…and what he’s been doing is finally working. i think i am slowly falling in love!

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Eat your heart out Imelda Marcos, Kris Aquino (who are the socialites in the Philippines? I don’t even know) for I, too am now in the pages of a glossy magazine, albeit a Cambodian glossy magazine. So this is the Cambodian version of a ladies’ glossy magazine such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan. The name of the magazine? Well… Ladies Magazine of course. That’s right… without the apostrophe (‘). This is the cover. Isn’t this Cambodian actress on the cover of Ladies Magazine pretty?

Read more in Toe’s Kurokuroatbp.

Nakalimutan ko ang aking minamahal na Maritoni — aking cellphone — kahapon sa bahay. Hindi naman kasi nagparamdam na naiwan ko pala siya, hindi rin naman kasi siya marunong magcommute papunta dito sa office, kaya hayun tengga siya sa bahay. Bsa p u

Have you seen QWERTY? This film was made by Paolo Dy, one of the new breed of Filipino filmmakers out there.

Well On the Lot premiered but he was not included in one of the contestants, I was shocked and frustrated. Actually it’s surprising to see that most of the filmmakers are actually around the Americas, and Europe. Seems that Africa, Oceania and Asia were left out.

Nevertheless, Paolo Dy will have my full patronage for his works.

With 494+ ratings around the world with an average of 5 stars, the chance you will like QWERTY is pretty high.

Watch QWERTY:
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On the Lot

An interview with Paolo Dy, will be posted tomorrow!

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The past 3 weeks had been great. Thanks to my sister and my friends. Like the song in my head goes: As long as I know how to love, I know I’ll be alive… It’s time to face life once again.

[Read more about Pirates of the Caribbean and The Philippine Tolkien Society here.]

Sun, sea, fresh air and friends. What more can I ask for? My summer was complete.

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But one doesn’t usually meet it head on, as we did that Saturday on our way back home from Ternate in Cavite. It was a 65-km push one way, with farms and greens lining either flanks of the road, and then a church, school, and string of houses. In the morning the bike ride had been fast and nice, with the sun stirring the dust that the dews had settled the night before. In the afternoon we had the rain and things started to go slow and the ordinarily two-hour ride lengthened and became a real pain in the ass.

Not that we were left with no other choice. We knew that it could rain hard. We were rained in the beach where we had our lunch, and we saw the color of the sea turn from brown to blue and then to the color of wet sands. That and the sea having in some parts a cool current and we knew that it would rain harder. But how would going home with our bikes on board a taxi be, wearing as we were a cycling jersey?

We waited for the sun to come out behind the clouds. In the meantime the group finished the bottle of Fundador and the oysters. In the early afternoon the sun did come out. We washed in turns in the shower room that the beach operator was letting out, filled our canteens with cold water from his house, and dusted off the sands on the tires of our bikes.

On our way out of Ternate the afternoon had been fine. The farms, green and bright in the morning, was then set against a gray sky and the road empty and wide. There was a slight draft and we rode close to one another. Then there were flat tires. We stopped and helped change the tires. Going home from Ternate we were forced to stop about five times. We reached Kawit with the sky getting darker, and made a brief stop at a church there.

After we had our prayers said we had goto and bibingka at a nearby diner. While we’re at our merienda it began to rain and the cottage trickled down with rainwater. By that time it was around 3 p.m., but the lights in the diner was already turned on. We lounged for a while, still hoping probably that behind those clouds and rain the sun was still shining. How could it not be? But if it did we didn’t get to see it and in a little while boredom got into us and we wanted to go home.

The night settled on us while we were under the rain. We went slow, with the rain falling on our eyes and the man in front only a shadow. I couldn’t remember getting thirsty on that ride. But, now that I think about it, I doubt if it was all rainwater that I had taken, considering that we rode close to one another and the wheel of the man in front tending to spray floodwater on the man behind him.

But I didn’t stop to worry about it. There was always in my attention the man in front of me, the road under the floodwater, and the cars that for a moment seemed to be going toward me. There was no other time that I had put my life in danger more than I did during that Saturday. Nor there was other time that I missed my bed more than I did during that bike push back home.

Yesterday was the kick-off of The Police reunion tour dubbed as the biggest reunion tour in rock history. All of us from the company went at GM Place and with free tickets courtesy of our boss. GM Place was packed with fans young and old to see the reunion of Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland. The concert was opened with their hit song “Message in the Bottle’”, since they started playing we were on our feet for the rest of the show. For their final song they played ” Every Breath You Take”. The show was amazing and The Police will continue rocking on.

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Pop singer Rachel Alejandro joins the cast of Atlantis Productions’ staging of the hit Tony Award -winning Broadway musical “Avenue Q,” which opens at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati on September 7, 2007.

(Please note date and venue change: “Avenue Q” now opens September 7 at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, not at the Meralco Theater as was earlier announced.)

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“In the time of your life, live. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Be the inferior of no man, or of any man be superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself.

In the time of your life, live. So that in that wondrous time, you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.”

– William Saroyan (American playwright), “The Time of Your Life”

Soundtrack: REGINE VELASQUEZ, “Light of a Million Mornings”
(rare live recording–so rare ako lang ‘ata meron nito in audio form, *evil grin*)

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Philippine Airlines is launching its first photo contest open to all professional, amateur and hobbyist photographers.

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