chez moi: who am i?
a good getting-to-know-you thang once in a while is nice, n'est-ce pas? as lara croft says, welcome to my humble abode...
i was a fellow at the 1996 UP national writers workshop in baguio. fiction in filipino. lilia quindoza-santiago and jun cruz reyes facilitated the workshop of my stories. they were cool. the 'joe cool' story was a hit but the 'totoy diwata' story needed work. i learned a lot, believe me.
it was my first time to be workshopped. it was great! had lots of fun in that workshop. gave me two weeks off my work, and an introduction to philippine writing and literary writers. got to meet a lot of established fictionists, poets and playwrights. unforgettable characters are gilda cordero-fernandez, joi barrios and anton juan, who became sort of a friend after that workshop. i didn't know any of the writers except for maybe jun lana the screenwriter who visited us and wasn't part of the original panel. sir jimmy abad was cool, so is ma'am jing hidalgo. she actually encouraged me to pursue higher studies in creative writing. and i did. still am, pala heheh (thesis unfinished!)
my co-fellows were fun. off the top of my head: there's marnie who works in environmental ngos -- and a close friend now, since we share birthdays; tara who works in summit; irwin from ateneo who is in europe now, they say; rosa, the french major, who is based in the US now; noel, the other french major and teacher, who has a weird, er, accent; tony who now works in fma with al alegre; mario who already graduated from his malikhaing pagsulat MA (inggit ako!); mike the cebuano who's a good poet; the three ilokanos, arnold being one of them, who used to call and say hi once in a while from his liwayway office while i was working in pinoy times; kleng who, well, i'd rather forget, really; melissa, the poet-fictionist and techie girl whom i worked with at likhaan online after that workshop; vince the weird guy from ateneo who likes rilke (formula formed: never entertain ateneo poet guys who like rilke -- just a personal opinion here, folks!).
folks who were part of the workshop staff were also cool. there's oline "rubber duckie torch song version singer" howard who is now an anc news person/anchor/whatever, sandra who is mataray but nice din naman in her own accord, and ralph, my future co-worker in some workshops.
that workshop was a chance to meet new people, and i was glad i joined. we had a stipend which i wasted at ibay's silver shop and café by the ruins. we always hung out at perk's bar and cafe which was owned by kleng's friends. got to survey baguio after the big earthquake of the 1990s, and it was my first baguio visit as an adult. it was totally cool.
unforgettable moments: gin-drinking in a treehouse at salome's bed and breakfast (where we stayed), after midnight stargazing at the manmade lake in burnham park as anton sang french songs, and a change in orientation, sexually -- but that's another entry. :)
i was a fellow at the 1996 UP national writers workshop in baguio. fiction in filipino. lilia quindoza-santiago and jun cruz reyes facilitated the workshop of my stories. they were cool. the 'joe cool' story was a hit but the 'totoy diwata' story needed work. i learned a lot, believe me.
it was my first time to be workshopped. it was great! had lots of fun in that workshop. gave me two weeks off my work, and an introduction to philippine writing and literary writers. got to meet a lot of established fictionists, poets and playwrights. unforgettable characters are gilda cordero-fernandez, joi barrios and anton juan, who became sort of a friend after that workshop. i didn't know any of the writers except for maybe jun lana the screenwriter who visited us and wasn't part of the original panel. sir jimmy abad was cool, so is ma'am jing hidalgo. she actually encouraged me to pursue higher studies in creative writing. and i did. still am, pala heheh (thesis unfinished!)
my co-fellows were fun. off the top of my head: there's marnie who works in environmental ngos -- and a close friend now, since we share birthdays; tara who works in summit; irwin from ateneo who is in europe now, they say; rosa, the french major, who is based in the US now; noel, the other french major and teacher, who has a weird, er, accent; tony who now works in fma with al alegre; mario who already graduated from his malikhaing pagsulat MA (inggit ako!); mike the cebuano who's a good poet; the three ilokanos, arnold being one of them, who used to call and say hi once in a while from his liwayway office while i was working in pinoy times; kleng who, well, i'd rather forget, really; melissa, the poet-fictionist and techie girl whom i worked with at likhaan online after that workshop; vince the weird guy from ateneo who likes rilke (formula formed: never entertain ateneo poet guys who like rilke -- just a personal opinion here, folks!).
folks who were part of the workshop staff were also cool. there's oline "rubber duckie torch song version singer" howard who is now an anc news person/anchor/whatever, sandra who is mataray but nice din naman in her own accord, and ralph, my future co-worker in some workshops.
that workshop was a chance to meet new people, and i was glad i joined. we had a stipend which i wasted at ibay's silver shop and café by the ruins. we always hung out at perk's bar and cafe which was owned by kleng's friends. got to survey baguio after the big earthquake of the 1990s, and it was my first baguio visit as an adult. it was totally cool.
unforgettable moments: gin-drinking in a treehouse at salome's bed and breakfast (where we stayed), after midnight stargazing at the manmade lake in burnham park as anton sang french songs, and a change in orientation, sexually -- but that's another entry. :)
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