Illustration by guess who?

For Shei & Mike, Tin, Pazette and other Singapore-dwellers: The 19th Singapore International Film Festival’06 is happening in April 2006 and they’ve already launched their website, click. The schedules are not available on the site yet but the following films from the Philippines are slated to be screened: Laurice Guillen’s “Magdalena The Unholy Saint”, Dennis Marasigan’s “On the North Diversion Road”, Clodualdo del Mundo’s “Pepot Superstar”, Alfred Aloysius Adlawan’s “Roomboy”, John Torres’ “Todo Todo Teros”, Raya Martins’ short film about the Indio Nacional, plus a series of digital shorts by award-winning directors and screenwriters that include Pamela Miras, Joel Ruiz, Dennis E. Sebastian, Ruelo Lozendo, Sigrid Andrea Bernando and Roxlee.

By the way, if the illustration style looks family, that’s because it’s by my Arn! It’ll be on all the posters and collaterals- many thanks to Monra for hooking him up with the festival organizers. (:
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Whew, thank goodness my site is up again, kudos to the ever-reliable team at Affordablehost, my webhome for the past 5 years. In case you didn’t get to check today, this space had a big fat “suspended” sign because I wasn’t able to renew my account in time *sheepish grin*. Why? Because I neglected to inform them of my change of email addy *sheepish grin #2* so I didn’t get the warning messages… So anyway I’m back, hurrah (:

Please mark your calendars, dear people! My Arn‘s new novel is coming out in April 2006. We sent out about 15 teaser ads, each one sporting a different character/design, to different sets of email addies and thanks to Technorati‘s watchlist feature, so far I’ve seen 7 of them pop up in friends’ blogs (thank you, thank you!): ONE / TWO / THREE (A) (B) / FOUR / FIVE / SIX / SEVEN

Special thanks to Shei and Neva for helping us with the Tagalog translations (:

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And since I mentioned it above, don’t you just love Technorati? It’s sure a big leap from the vanity search phase we all went through when Google was new (admit it, I know you do it too) because, for one, it can list mentions of any topic, an assigned URL, or yes, your name in any blog according to “freshness”. We always use it to research on how our mag is doing in the blogosphere (and thru it we even learned that Arn and I figured in the #9 spot of Adam David’s list of top moments in comics, naks naman!) Go and sign up.

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Oh boy this is turning out to be a really busy 1st quarter… but definitely not too busy to meet up with dear friends, especially ones I haven’t seen in ages (months=ages).



One of my bestest pals Sheila was in town (to attend a creative guru’s Bora wedding) last week so we moved hell and high water to meet up for a long lunch at the Fort. Shei is based in Singapore and both she and Tippi had just returned from a month-long US trip (with their respective hubbies) so there was a lot of catching up to do! I missed you girls, let’s do it again soon ok?

Captions: 1. Sherbet Sundae: strawberry, lemon and pistachio hehe. 2. Shei and Tippi- both sought after in their respective fields! 3. Tips and I showing our identical ponytail clips (given by our friend Pia last Christmas).