It was still a runner’s year
Once again, 2011 saw most weekends booked with running events, recording close to 80 major races across the country. That’s a lot, considering that there are only 52 weeks in a year.
December 26, 2011
Once again, 2011 saw most weekends booked with running events, recording close to 80 major races across the country. That’s a lot, considering that there are only 52 weeks in a year.
Just like following a quick-fix diet, sticking to a new set of New Year’s resolutions often fails as early as January, and most people eventually give up. How can we modify our New Year’s resolutions so we can stick to them?
It’s time to take a long, hard look at ourselves and our life. New Year’s eve doesn’t always end with a bang, because there’s a much more important celebration awaiting everyone—the celebration of the self and, with it, life!
During my many years of writing about topics beyond orthodox science and religion, I have been asked so many unusual and sometimes difficult-to-answer questions. Here are two recent ones:
What strikes you about “Superpanalo Sounds!” (UST Publishing, 2011) as you read the first lines is…the sound. Not sound in the aural sense but the clear, crisp word descriptions of sound—the kind you get from someone who remains part of today’s local literary and music scene.
Junot Diaz, in so many ways, is perhaps what writers aspire to be: unapologetic, direct and every bit as nerdy.
In connection with the 150th birth anniversary and the 115th death anniversary of José Rizal this year, it is genuinely a scholarly opportunity to delve into how and why JR decided that his villain had to be a Franciscan friar.
Ballet Manila’s presentations are based on two contrasting Philippine realities.
The recent Art Expo Malaysia 2011 boasted the participation of 65 exhibitors with 400 artists from 23 countries. Its total of 2,000 art pieces made up paintings and sculptures ranging from the traditional to the digital, from realism to contemporary.
Puentes De España en las Filipinas” (Spanish Colonial Bridges in the Philippines) catalogues and provides rare historical data of usually unnoticed Spanish colonial bridges in the Philippines.
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