Roughcut at Kanto Bar: MC350

MC350 Nonlinear Video Editing Class presents their MTVs at Kanto Bar-Matina Town Square last February 24, 2005. Click below for more pictures.

An Invitation

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for, and if you
dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,
for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow,
if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled
and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know
if you can sit with pain, mine or your own,
without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or
your own, if you can dance with wildness and
let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers
and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be
realistic, to remember the limitations of being
human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling
me is true. I want to know if you can
disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear
the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own
soul; if you can be faithless and therefore
trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty, even
when it's not pretty, everyday, and if you can source
your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours
and mine, and still stand on the edge of the
lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"

It doesn't interest me to know where you live
or how much money you have. I want to know if
you can get up, after the night of grief and despair,
weary and bruised to the bone, and do what
needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how
you came to be here. i want to know if you will
stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink
back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with
whom you have studied. I want to know what
sustains you, from the inside, when all else
falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep in
the empty moments.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer, from the book The Invitation
published by Harper SanFrancisco, 1999
www.oriahmountaindreamer.com

The Controversial Video: Ethel Booba

The previous week, the controversy hit the tv news and dailies: Ethel Booba alleged video was circulating in the net and in the airwaves (through cell phones with either Bluetooth or Infrared device). A quick search in the net using googles was a-plenty of sites featuring free downloads of the video. Ethel denied it was her video.

This led so many people to ask ... was the video for real? Or that was just a hoax foisted by sleazy people eager to gain quick cash in the net.



And now you are more interested.... You, you, you.

"And because you do not believe in my nobility of soul you think to purchase me with money?" she said. The Gambler, Chapter V Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I saw this link from a praning.com chatroom that led directly to a downloadable file. Tsk tsk tsk. What a sad day for families involved, another life broken. Rubbish.

Mass Communications

Some of my students in nonlinear video editing.

Meet the Kalasagers

Dinhing dapita sa Ateneo,
Adunay usa ka banggiitang grupo;
Mga miyembro nay nagkadaiyang talento,
Ug siyempre pa maanyag ug ambongan kaayo.


Sugdan nato sa among pangulo,
Usa ka maanyag nga dagang bibi;
Matinabangon ug chicks pa jud kaayo;
Way lain kundi si Coise na to....

Kung sapi ang istoryahan,
Si Myka imong kinahanglan;
Basta amigo mo way angay kabalak-an,
Tanang imong maibugan, ipa-O.R. niya tanan.
(Joke, joke, joke!)

Dinhi na pud ta sa mga litrato,
Ayaw baya'g kumpyansa kung ginpangisi kag todo;
Basin ang gi-picturan tapad ra nimo,
Kung sa picture, wa kay ulo, si Nites sad-an nimo.

Dinhi pud baya diro taong balaknon,
Sa mga tula ug sulat siya mabalantayon;
Basin pati kani iyang sawayon,
Nathan, patalikda sa ko una ko nimo libakon...
(hehehe)

Kini siya ang ulo sa tana, kon toooot na gani hisgutan,
Tall, medyo dark ... hand... ay buotan;
Ian Fel iya pangalan a.k.a. Freudian,
Kung naa kay tuyo dapat nimo siya pahinumduman.

Karon gidungagan ang lima ka batikan,
Walo ka binuhat ang napilian;
Ang opisina nahimo bag-ong tambayanan,
Saba na kaayo kon magtapoktapok tanan.

Magsugod ta kay Inday Palad, ay, May diay,
Tabian, abtik seryoso usahay;
Sa pagka-green di jud siya makalikay,
Secret founder man tingali ka sa AGS day!

Si Jackie usab bayhanang talentado,
Sa pagbuhay ug tula hawd kaayo;
Sa mga trabaho wa siyag reklamo,
Naa kay plano pulihan si Coise no?
(Hehehe)

Naa pud diay mi Star in a Million,
Talagsa kang siya masakpan sa opis intawon;
Mga allergies niya murag plano padaghanon,
Unsaon lami man jud daw ang bawal kaonon.
(O, ayaw tagai ug laing meaning ha!)

Tawag namo kay Ina, bugasera,
Pero wala mo kabalo dapat Reina Lakwatsera;
Tabian, ug Garfield ingon sila,
Apan kanako, Catwoman ka.
(Kung makapiyong akong mata!!! Hehehe)

Si Jaypee, Junior 1 na ang ngalan,
Sa office siya suki masuguan;
Pero ok lang kay taas daw iyang ... salabotan;
Malingaw na dayon siya basta imong picturan.

Si Junior 2, Alvin ang tinuod nga ngalan,
Daghang chicks maski dili ana kaambongan;
Sa iyaha, unsa kaha ang nakit-an?
Tingali ... ang iyang .. dako... nga kasingkasing sa tanan?
(Bhen, ayaw kasuko ha!)

Si Marianne ang pinakalingaw sa tanan,
Sa videoke andam makipaglaban;
Ang tanan pwede daw masabutan,
Pero sa negosyo "walang kaikaibigan."!
(Upa ka newsprint, piso lang!)

Ug ako inyong uyamot nga ulipon,
Tabian usahay, usahay sapoton;
Ayaw katingala kon mohilum nako dayon,
Tambal lang ana, pagkaon.
(wish ko lang manaba ko...)

Karon inyong naabi-abi,
Mga miyembro sa Kalasag dinhi;
Sa kamera ayaw kaayo'g ngisi,
Kon sa yearbook di ka gusto ma-starring pirmi.

(So, sa gusto mag-react, react lang... isulat tapos ibutang dayon sa pigeon hole sa Kalasag Office para naa sad koy mabasa. Hehehe!)

-April