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Trying-out WP2.5
Yey! This blog is already running on Wordpress 2.5. I thought that the migration process would be as painful as porting subtleoasis (this blog) from Blogger to Wordpress but it was not. Just a click-of-a-button did the job. Anyway, I’m writing this post to try-out the picture gallery feature. I need to run this for the blog of the seminary which is long overdue. 
Anyway, here it is.
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moving
Yes. You are right. The title of this post says it all. Within the next few weeks we are moving to our new home - rather, host. Thanks to our friend, JM, who willingly endowed us with a portion of his humongous web space.
This isn’t only about my plan to move to a new web host. I’ve been, again, on an unprecedented hiatus. I was appointed head of the Multimedia and Designs Committee of the NÜV (an interschool dance and band competition) - one of the activities for our 45th Foundation Day Celebrations. This was enough to deprive me of my free time that I use for blogging. The whole committee and I were busy with pictorials, VTR’s and AVP production (below is the official 30-sec AVP promoting the event). I’ve been in the move lately - literally. The tasks to fulfill are enough to blow-off one’s head. Good thing I’m with a team. This collaboration amazes me.
Application. This idea is the one preoccupying my mind as of the moment. January is a significant event for everyone under the initial formation in our congregation. On the 31st of this month - Feast of our Founder, St. John Bosco - we are to submit the letter which would concretely express how we want to go on with our lives. To apply or not, that is the question.
Movements entail change. In my mind, now, runs, in rapid succession, a series of images - thumbnails of my experiences twined with nuggets of joy, sorrow, confusion, anxiety - sealed with love, understanding, faith, wisdom, happiness and strength. These images I fondly keep - treasure, and review - dwell on - from time to time to seek consolation, to see my self and be in-tune with my inner me.
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Moving
To move on I must look back.
To look within, I must.
To quell anger’s wrath,
To quench my drought…
To set afire love’s amber,
To grab a glimpse of Thine Light
Thine Goodness -
Thine Wisdom -
Thine Strength -
Within me.
I must look within. To move on.
Pure, spotless, loving and true.
Sleepless nights. This would best describe the past two weeks that I’ve been in a subtle hiatus from my blogging rhythm. Why? Reading my twits might give you an abstract portrait of what I was up to. Rehearsals, nights of less sleeps (sleepless nights, :D), singing, dancing, make-up and curtain.
Why was Mary Immaculate? It was because of Jesus. It was Jesus the Mediator Himself who intervened. Thus, His merit as Redeemer was foreseen.
Ineffabilis Deus was the title of the musical that we have been piecing together for the weeks that have gone by. Before I continue, a little background, it was first staged 12 years ago by our brother postulants (now priests) on the eve of the Solemnity of Mary’s Immaculate Conception. The script of the one-act musical was forged by no less than Fr. Joel Camaya, SDB (my spiritual director, he also directed the play when it was staged in 1995).
Okay, sleepless nights again. The practices for the plays lasts for 3 hours on an average. Starting at around 9 pm renders an hour or two of our sleep time gone. But it was worth the sacrifice. The amount of sleep I lacked is but a puff of air compared to the learning I’ve gained and drawn out from my experiences as a stage actor. The experience changed me, a lot. After the gala performance we had a few hours ago, I felt more confident.
Seems that I wouldn’t be able to finish this post, my eyes are drooping already. My mind, already asleep. Just in time actually. The first part of the video of the play has just been uploaded. Take a look at this video first then wait for an update tomorrow.
backblog: Asian Youth Day Experience
After (almost) three months of silence here I am posting a backblog. The following video encapsulates my journey to the 4th Asian Youth Day held more than a year ago in Hong Kong. Photos were taken by me, my foster siblings and some kind hearted co-pilgrims who volunteered to take our group snaps. The background music is the theme song of the event. Enjoy!
with f. sionil josé
What could be so special about weekends - about Saturdays at that. Well, in the seminary, the VTR (seminary jargon for home video / DVD watching) every after supper makes Saturdays special. That didn’t mattered yesterday. Yesterday is something worth not missing, something to be recollected, something fit to linger upon my consciousness (and unconsciousness perhaps) and to be kept in the box of my fondest memories. I (and my creative writing classmates) met F. Sionil José.
F. Sionil’s Po-on (of the Rosales Saga) was the first ever novel that I read for leisure - and I really enjoyed it. Po-on change my paradigm on books - in a wider sense, literature. I never thought that books could be so rich in imagery as if I’m watching the scenes in my mind. Crisp and vivid images that allowed me to see, hear, feel, touch and even taste every aspect of the story is that which I like most about the works of Sionil (the Rosales Saga, particularly).
I felt blessed being with the master behind the words that has zapped me from my mundane world. I have been enchanted and courted by his scenes, by his narrative to gain taste for that which has been made up. Fiction entered my life. It allowed me to look at the world in a wider sense through the creative and the ever observant eyes of Sionil.
I wish could muster more words to express my gratitude for yesterday’s experience but I am but limited - by time, for this case. So let these images speak. Or allow me to let you be inspired by F. Sionil José, himself.
