Tag: July 31, 2004

The Metropolitan Theatre Guild’s production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has brazenly gone where the rest of local theater has never gone before—fashioning the Bard’s most whimsical comedy into an arresting tapestry bathed in neon, camp, and of course, good old giddy fun.

STARK white walls on long, winding halls. Austere and immaculate. That is the usual picture one gets of hospitals.

But a closer look at the UST Hospital will pack a few surprises, in the form of various paintings and photographs that abound in the place. And the surprise is made more pleasant by the fact that most of these brilliant works of art are creations of USTH’s resident doctors, revealing a lighter and more creative side from these persons whose usual tools of the trade are scalpels and probes.

MASAKIT mang isipin, sabog pa rin ang mga Filipino.

Imposible na ‘ata ang makabasa o makapanood ng magandang balita sa bawat araw na lumipas. Nakakalunod na ang mga salungatan at pag-aaway, nakasusukang intriga’t siraan, at nakababaliw na sistema ng pamahalaan. Kung susuriin, walang matinong taong aasa na may mabuting kahahantungan ang lahat ng mga ito.

Doc tells me you’ve grown a little more demanding since the last time I saw you. You give your father endless headaches when he is with you and your mother, always asking him to change the nipple of your bottle only to find another excuse not to drink your milk immediately after it has been changed. The anecdotes Doc brings back to Manila end my day on a lighter note, and keeps a smile on my lips when I lay down to rest.

MY FRIENDS and I were catching the last full show of Spiderman 2 when, overwhelmed by the long queue, we lined up for a movie with a faster-moving ticket line. The movie was Wolves of Kolmer, an entry to the 2nd International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

AN AWARD-WINNING Thomasian writer launched his first Filipino novel which he claimed “a timely contribution to the often erratic and unproductive field of Philippine long fiction” last July 15 at the UST Center for Creative Writing and Studies (UST-CCWS).

UST-CCWS senior associate Cirilo Bautista’s “Galaw ng Asoge” tackles the 1965 presidential election and its effects on the members of the Ortiz family, the protagonists in the story.

“(My latest novel) will change the direction of the Tagalog novel in the near future,” Bautista said.