Overheard at the Mister Donut stand at the Manila Domestic airport while waiting for my flight to Cebu, a woman was telling her companion in Cebuano while pointing to the Donut Twist:
Kana na lang siakoy nga brown ang palita… (Buy that brown siakoy instead…).
There’s no question about it, I’m a great fan of Wong Kar Wai’s work and for the month of May, of the 22 films I have watched, I was able to finally watch his four other movies:
Dung che sai duk (Ashes of Time), 1994
Duo luo tian shi (Fallen Angels), 1995
2046, 2004
My Blueberry Nights, 2007
Except for Wong gok ka moon (As Tears Go By, 1988), more or less, I have covered his directorial works.
The rest of the Wong Kar Wai movies that I have watched earlier can be viewed in this post.
I have installed Wordpress 2.5 a few days after it was made available and I was impressed with the changes especially the layout done to the dashboard and administrator’s interfa
ce. Equally amazing was how the images and other media were handled. Just lately, while doing a post on the aftermath of the fire in Oslob, I tried the gallery feature and, wow, I was blown away!
I’ve made a sample below and just see for yourself what the latest version of Wordpress can do! You can add captions into the images and opt for a square crop or proportional resize for the thumbnails by adjusting the settings. Photos below were taken from my www.salagubang.net website.
28 photographers from the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Germany come together in an ambitious Southeast Asia wide touring photo exhibit consisting of 96 images that interprets the urban spaces in the major capitals of these Asian countries. Mapping Invisible Cities is the result of the photo workshops conducted by Peter Bialobrzesky, World Press Photo winner and judge under the auspices of Goethe Institut, will kick off on 3 June in Jakarta, Indonesia until 3 July:
Galeri GoetheHaus
Jl. Sam Ratulangi No. 9-15
Menteng, Jakarta 10036
Indonesia
The participating Filipino photographers:
- Estan Cabigas, ahem, that’s me.
- Gigie Cruz
- Tammy David
- Kidlat de Guia
- Che Katigbak
- Cathy Quiogue
- Dennis Rito
- Cris Sevilla
The Philippine leg of this exhibit will be held this coming September. You can check urbanMANILA for the Manila output.
I was tinkering with my estancabigas.com domain’s primary email address at dreamhost.com and look at what i found: I can use this personal email via Gmail! Now, that is convenience.
