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I couldn't resist. The children's book is available online at .

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Ian Rosales Casocot

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2 years

I didn't realize so many Filipinos triumphed in international cinema this year.

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Another unkind blow. ABS-CBN Film Restoration, the only one saving our film heritage in the country, is closing down. This government is not for the people, nor for its culture.

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I think there's an unspoken reason why so many people are side-eyeing basketball these days in the light of Caloy's Olympic wins in gymnastics. For the longest time, basketball has really been symbolic of the Filipino macho, celebrated not just for the sports that it is... 1/9

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She allegedly got fired because she insisted on following DOH protocol and not give VIP treatment for testing to politicians. There was an uproar [read: "criticism"]. Now, RITM chief stays. And this is how protests work, people! Stop demonizing protests.

RITM chief stays, says Duque

“Dr. (Celia) Carlos will remain. I corrected that already,” Duque said.

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I just realized that between Wednesday's Avengers: Endgame and Monday's Game of Thrones S08E03, we will have followed a decade's worth of storytelling of two pop cultural phenomena -- and mourning the death of characters we've come to love. Condolence to us all.

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6 years

Masturbation is way better than murder, people.

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5 years

In a university town? During the run-up to Finals Week? For an establishment that's open 24 hours? Where the only signs of life in the wee hours are students themselves? McDonald's is like that whiny girl who goes to the beach and complains about the sand. [Photo not mine]

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6 years

The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media.

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4 years

Unfortunately, this is so true. Every single time. It's dismaying...

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1 year

TOEFL, IELTS, etc. English language testing scams preying on third world countries -- with expiry dates. Like my command of English has an expiry date? F*ck you.

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6 years

When I was in high school, I was Vice President of the Science Club. Ina Reformina was the President. :) Ironic.

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4 years

I love this, although it's also quite sad. Brent Sabas remakes Seita and Setsuko from Grave of the Fireflies as Marawi children.

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4 years

Duterte could shit on a diehard DDS's face, and the latter would still call it a facial.

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4 years

I have an existential question that has been sharpened by the pandemic: What if you don't believe in what you're doing anymore?

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5 years

When you SEE it... :)))

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6 years

Janet Napoles. The reason why so many artists and cultural groups struggled for three years to get grants. The face of corruption in government. Soon out of jail. Change came.

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... but also for showcasing a performative masculinity that many Filipino men ascribe to. As a child, I remember the grownup men around me drinking beer, and thumping their chests as they cheered for their favorite basketball teams on TV. 2/9

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There was also the fact that in high school, being forced to play basketball for P.E. was always a humiliating torture. I just could not dribble, I just could not shoot baskets. I felt so self-conscious whenever I had to play this darned game... 6/9

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7 years

The nod to the ending of Mike Nichols' The Graduate in Antoinette Jadaone’s Never Not Love You -- which remains for me to be the perfect movie metaphor for the imperfections and uncertainties of romantic love -- is enough commendation for the new film, which I enjoyed very much.

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5 years

"Maybe [we need] to remind people that sometimes the most heroic thing you can do is take yourself out of the picture." ~ Jen Chaney

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When I went to school, my male classmates were all the same. And I remember feeling left out, because basketball did not interest me, and I had no interest to play it. So automatically that made me "queer." Not wanting to play basketball was a silent mark people judged me by. 3/9

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5 years

I have been trying to practice this kind of thinking for a few years now. As long as no one gets hurt by someone's passion or hobby or nerdy love, from cosplay to Rupi Kaur to RPDR to Game of Thrones, don't say anything. You don't get points at life for not being into something.*

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And this is why I hated basketball when I was a kid. I don't hate it as much anymore as a grownup, but I do know that basketball as a social phenomenon in the Philippines has long been weaponized in a quiet gender warfare that marked so many as "unfit." 8/9

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2 years

Hello, everyone! I don't share much on social media these days, but I thought of sharing this good news. Apparently I've won First Prize for the Short Story in this year's Palanca Awards [after a hiatus of two years]. Good news is hard to come by these days. This is a boost.

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6 years

I find it funny that some people are nitpicking Crazy Rich Asians for not showing the "poor side" of Asia. Ummm, the title is Crazy RICH Asians.

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Which is why when I first saw the Brgy. Lo-oc gays the other year do "gay basketball," playing fantastically while donning tutus and other queer-affirming costumes, I felt so much joy. It felt like a corrective. 9/9

A Gay Basketball Game in Lo-oc | 6200 Pride

Last night, June 24, we were invited by PETALS Dumaguete's Hanover Leonor to watch a gay basketball game in Lo-oc, which was part of the festivities the bara...

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5 years

We were too kind to the Marcoses in 1986.

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7 years

I have a feeling Never Not Love You is going to be the millennial equivalent of One More Chance.

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OMG, Inday Sarah, hindi po "nakapadaling sumulat ng maikling kwento" esp. for children. It's one of the hardest genres there is. If you think it's that easy, you're probably doing it wrong.

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I actually remember, around the age of 11 or 12, making an effort to like basketball. I began watching the PBA on TV. I decided to choose my "favorite" team, Ginebra San Miguel. All in the effort to be accepted into this boisterous camaraderie of men I felt ostracized from... 4/9

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I felt like an impostor. It just was not me. I pretended to be such a basketball "fan" for months and months, until I could not pretend anymore. I remember finally saying to myself, "Who cares if I'm not as manly as these men I know?" 5/9

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3 years

Where's the lie?

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Ian Rosales Casocot

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2 years

Let's celebrate Triangle of Sadness' Dolly de Leon [ @DollyEdeLeon ], Nope's Brandon Perea [ @BrandonPerea ], Nocebo's Chai Fonacier, Glass Onion's Dave Bautista [ @DaveBautista ], Fire Island's Conrad Rocamora, and To the North's Soliman Cruz!

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And then to hear all your classmates tittering around the court about you because how was I a "man" in a basketball-crazy country and not know how to play basketball? Baling bayota uy, klaro kaayo. They'd laugh. 7/9

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6 years

Amen! From @gideonlasco ...

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Never underestimate the kindness of friends. The truest ones will be there for you.

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2 years

The deadliest political post in the Philippines is the governorship of Negros Oriental. How many governors have died while in office in the last 13 years?

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7 years

It's unapologetically commercial, but that's not a bad thing, especially if it works and the craft behind it is impeccable. I have never seen a James Reid and Nadine Lustre tandem before, but I can understand now the electric chemistry between them...

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But Jadaone has already proven she's more than a capable filmmaker; when she's given the right set of actors to work with, like in this movie, she astounds.

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4 years

Learn from mythology. Remember, the plague didn't leave Thebes until the king was rightfully purged.

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6 years

Sending my thoughts and prayers [hahaha] to all the introverts out there this holiday season. I feel your pain.

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3 years

Gratifying to hear the "Lupang Hinirang" while the Chinese flag flew second place.

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Ian Rosales Casocot

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6 years

The thing I want to help foster right now is microcinema. It's the trend in moviegoing now all over the Philippines. Working with some friends right now to establish one in Dumaguete. And if the trend kills the goliath of mall cinemas, I'd wear bright colors for the funeral.

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5 years

Beauty pageants be like... Q: What is your name? A: As long as you put God in the center of your life, nothing can go wrong -- and that's my advocacy.

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Don't you just love the feeling of being lost in a book, and when you're finally done with it, it feels like you're finally coming up for air after a beautiful eternity swimming in its world?

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4 years

POGO is essential for the country, ABS-CBN is not. Crazy government. But to echo Lex Bonife: "I am looking forward to see ABS-CBN transforming itself into a full-digital media giant just to demonstrate that gov't franchises on media are no longer relevant in this day and age."

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5 years

I think we just realized the folly of our previous status quo: we have more malls than hospitals, and we graduate so many health professionals ... in the service of other countries.

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7 years

... which I think is buoyed by and large by the subtleties with which they seem to understand their roles, that of two young people in love who must deal with work/life balance. They're very good.

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Truth.

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6 years

I don't think other people can ever understand why Sillimanians, even if they're not from Dumaguete, will always ask each other: "Are you going home to Duma this August?" How do you explain the precious pull, the overriding spirit?

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7 years

The story's certainly not new -- but what story is? -- but I appreciate the filmmakers' grace in the handling of its material. It doesn't go hysterical, and it doesn't go cute.

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5 years

Pay the doctors and nurses, don't ask them to volunteer. Their lives are on the line in this fight. Get rid of Mocha Uson and her ilk instead. They do nothing.

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The praise for Leni may be a sign of the growing gap between the Duterte camp and the Marcos camp, no? Only a few days ago, Imee was giving Duterte shade.

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4 years

My blood boiled over Alex Gonzaga's cry emojis. Like, WTF.

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6 years

I found it! The first film shot in Dumaguete! Who knew it was in YouTube all along? The title is A NATION IS BORN, shot in 1947, about the resistance movement in the Philippines during World War II. A 20-minute film directed by David Griffin, it had Silliman cast members.

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@ardenrod The way I see it, if you're not pirated worldwide, your film does NOT really have cultural cache. Congratulations, Arden Rod!

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4 years

Gege going for the jugular. @TheRainBro

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5 years

This gave me chills: how easy faith can be appropriated to serve the needs of the corrupt.

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5 years

Poetry Wednesday, No. 3.

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6 years

When you live in a university town, you learn to live with people leaving. People come, people go. Goodbyes turn you to stone -- but the heart secretly remains tender and bruised forever.

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📷 The nod to the ending of Mike Nichols’ The Graduate in Antoinette Jadaone’s Never Not Love You (2018)...

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The nod to the ending of Mike Nichols’ The Graduate in Antoinette Jadaone’s Never Not Love You (2018) – which remains for me to be the perfect movie metaphor for the imperfections and uncertainties...

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5 years

Alternative poster for PARASITE by Andrew Bannister!

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They fronted Parokya ni Edgar during the Buglasan Festival where they got booed by ignoramuses. Now they have a record deal with Warner Music Philippines. Never let others get you down -- and strive, strive, strive. Congratulations, Samuel Akinbode and AOTP!

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Can we really call Dumaguete an honest-to-goodness "university town" and all that that moniker implies, without a good bookstore?

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This made me genuinely cry in laughter. I needed this hilarious break, to be honest. ^_^

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The PNP cited more than 69,000 people for violating or disobeying the enhanced community quarantine order from March 17 to 29. Numbers mean shit if they don't arrest Sen. Koko Pimentel.

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I can say that 2018 was probably one of the most challenging years of my life -- and yet I am also utterly grateful for it. [Oh my God, I'm going to actually say it now.] It was a year of ... silver linings.

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3 years

Who here misses the Luce? May we never take for granted our cultural shows ever again.

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3 years

Define irrelevance: When your last SONA becomes the afterthought on front page news.

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5 years

But no bookstore. What kind of a university town is that.

fibyula academic victim era

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5 years

With all the coffee places opening in duma, it's slowly turning into that university/café au town and I am all for it

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Duma culture is Tanduay, tbh.

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I'll be the party pooper. The decade doesn't actually end until next year.

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Dumaguete is almost a ghost town. There are still people about, of course, like me. I'm in Bo's Coffee now to finish a task, and this place should be full at around this time in the evening. But it is mostly empty.

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2 months

I expanded that viral tweet to a full essay, now out on Rappler! Link here:

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4 years

Somebody's having a small dick energy meltdown daw on live television?

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#JunkTerrorBilllNow

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3 years

Dear God, my poor country. The chaotic scene at SM San Lazaro in Manila early this morning, as people ran to secure vaccine slots. [Video by Anthony Llegue Norcio]

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2 years

It's amaaaaazing how non-Oriental Negrenses can readily utter the name of He Who Must Not Be Named. I don't know anyone here who can do that. Not even me!

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This is Dumaguete, shared by Emmanuel Luyas Amar [ IG: @ea .travelogue ]. This is the Negros Oriental we love, not the headline-grabbing killing fields with blood-thirsty politicians we frankly don't care about and don't define us.

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6 years

ACTUALLY. And it's not just music. It can be about chain restaurants, boutique hotels, malls, plays, films, books, and others, too. Sometimes it amuses me when outsiders come here thinking they can emulate here the success they have elsewhere. Nope.

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There's something about Cynthia Villar that makes the blood boil. The no-pretense at privilege. The dismissive smirk. The kabobohan-but-I-get-my-way-because-money.

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6 years

Photographer Urich Calumpang has captured eloquently "life after graduation." Twenty-four hours after the celebration, the question arises: what now?

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5 years

Here's another positive thing that came out of that McDo rant! A resolution for a 24/7 public library -- much-needed in a university town, to be honest -- has just been passed on first reading at the City Council, authored by Rosel Erames!

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5 years

This is a sign of anger not usually demonstrated in Dumaguete.

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8 years

They sang "Bayan Ko"? Seriously? The one song that guarantees your immediate arrest during Martial Law? Define irony. Define kapal mukha.

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2 years

2022 is the year Filipino women took a swipe against the 1% in international cinema, notably in Triangle of Sadness and Nocebo. Eat the rich, Abigail and Diana!

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I am officially signing off all social media for 48 hours. I cannot stand the suspense. It's worse than the Battle of Winterfell. Real destinies and lives are at stake.

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5 years

Here's a monster. The epal-ness of Congressman Along Malapitan of Caloocan plastering his face on alcohol in the middle of a pandemic. [Photo from Eule Rico Bonganay]

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I don't begrudge people doing selfies, most of the time. Sometimes I think of it as people just doing their own "proof of life" thing. People saying, "Hey, I'm here. I'm surviving. Here's a good shot of me doing that."

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It amazes me sometimes the things I go through that I keep to myself. Sometimes I am on the verge of telling someone, and then I decide to keep my mouth shut. Because, really, there's no use. I'm not sure people will understand.

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6 years

Today in Adulting 101: The ability to detect your own bullshit is a skill you must certainly sharpen. Your arrogance can cloud up your perspective, and you might think you're doing something good for someone when in fact you're doing something for entirely selfish reasons.

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WT—.

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How do you explain that people get teary-eyed when they can't "come home," or teary-eyed because they have to leave before the 28th? Why does it take almost an entire month to celebrate a Founders "Day"? There's something about the Silliman Spirit, and it defies explanation.

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5 years

Some people you can unlove the next day, even after having loved them for what feels like forever. Some stay only a while but unloving them becomes a measure of lingering time. Some you love slowly, and surprise surprise the years come and your love is as expansive as the sky.

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[1/7] A 174-hectare reclamation project, dubbed "Smart City," has been slated to be constructed along the Dumaguete shoreline. A signature campaign against the plan is slated today, July 11, at 3 PM in front of Bethel. Please ask friends and family to drop by to sign.

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Abi nako "bayanihan"? Helping each other is "competition" and "undermining" now? The Duterte regime is really a kakistocracy. The inept in power are now unmasked, so they're lashing out.

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