Tag: Vol. LXXVI

AIMING to be “seeds of responsible and developmental communication,” 10 media organizations from different universities launched the Philippine Association of Media Student Organizations (PAMSO) last Feb. 5 at the Colayco Park.

DR. OPHELIA Dimalanta readers can now have a more compact collection of the poetess’ selected poems. The Ophelia A. Dimalanta Reader: Selected Poetry Vol.1 (UST Publishing House, 2004) compiles 141 handpicked poems from Dimalanta’s previous poetry collections: Montage, The Time Factor, Flowing On, Lady Polyester, Love Woman, and Passional.

THE UST volunteers for the United Nations Children’s Fund is looking for new members who will continue its fund-raising activities, site visits, and outreach programs to improve the lives of children, especially in the Philippines. For inquiries, contact Jay Chiu at 0919 - 255 7365.

THE BELOVED successfully debuts on the opera stage, singing to the awe of a theater-filling audience, while the mentor and silent admirer struggles to catch the sound from a drain five stories underground.

Thus goes one of the more powerful scenes depicting the doomed love between the Phantom and Christine in Joel Schumacher’s film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, The Phantom of the Opera.

SEPARATION is one of war’s terrible wages.

But French director Jean Pierre Jeunet’s A Very Long Engagement tells the story of hope after the dreadful Great War. Jeunet, famous for directing Amélie, reunites with Amélie star, Audrey Tautou, in this adaptation of Sébastian Japrisot’s novel about a polio-stricken young woman bent on unearthing, against all odds, the mystery of her fiancé’s disappearance after the final battle of Germany and France in 1917.

SILENCE preaches.

A round-table discussion on the value of contemplative silence, titled “Silence, Word, and Light,” was held on Feb. 11 at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex.

An offshoot of the 2004 International Seminar on Communication held in Gandolfo, Italy, the event highlighted personal reflective catechesis.

CELEBRATING the 40th anniversary of “Unitatis Redintegratio” (Restoration of Unity), the Second Vatican Council decree on ecumenism, members of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) and the Roman Catholic Church celebrated the National Week of Prayer for Christian Unity on Feb. 5-12 at the Arzobispado de Manila in Intramuros.

With the theme “Christ, the one foundation of the Church,” the event emphasizes unity of Christian denominations, according to Lesley Capus, Youth Desk coordinator for NCCP.

ARABESQUE (ah-rah-BHES) – “long flowing line.” One of the basic poses in ballet, arabesque takes its name from a form of Moorish ornament. In ballet it is a position of the body, in profile, supported on one leg, which can be straight or demi-plié, with the other leg extended behind and at right angles to it, and the arms held in various harmonious positions creating the longest possible line from the fingertips to the toes. The shoulders must be held square to the line of direction. The forms of arabesque are varied to infinity.

“When you can see your unborn children in her eyes you know you really love a woman.” —Bryan Adams, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?

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EIGHTEEN-year old college student Zakiya Kennedy dreamed of becoming a model. But of late, her father said, he heard her complaining of body aches, and one day on her way to the New York subway, she suddenly collapsed—and died. It was found out she died because of a blood clot caused by her seemingly safe contraceptive skin patch.

Sa wakas.

Ito na marahil ang mga salitang maisisigaw ko sa oras na ito. Batid kong iilang pahina na lamang ang nalalabi para sa akin, subalit pipilitin kong isiksik sa munting espasyong ito ang mga taong minsang nadaanan ko sa paglalakbay.

Sa IV-2 ng College of Nursing, salamat at sinagot n yo ang pamasahe ko sa paglalakbay na ito. Maging sa III-7 at RLE group 3 at 4 ng IV-1, salamat sa libreng angkas nang minsang naiwan ako sa biyahe.