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[akrodha]

Many blogworthy things have happened or are happening: trip to Erlensee/Konstanz/Zürich, two members of our theater group are getting married, getting a job at the Games Convention, studying for my mega-final exams, progressing substantially in my Japanese studies, soon moving in with Mirko for our last weeks/months in Leipzig, plausible results

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making me smile

[accidentprawn]

i love you jose. i love that you and mirko have perfect picnic weather. *hug*

ps plausible is a great word!

Re: making me smile

[akrodha]

hehe thanks! But the nice weather pales in comparison to that trip you took a while ago with those wonderful pictures!

You know, every now and then I keep reading news articles about chaotic events in the Philippines, so I think to myself "I hope Joelle's far away from all that!" You are, right? Or are all ballet dancers plotting a government takeover?

Re: making me smile

[accidentprawn]

you mean the coup attempts? the first ones were alarming, and then they and the rallies just suddenly became a normal event and we'd just pass right by them and sigh about how it would be so difficult to get home later because of all the traffic, etc.

if you mean the kidnappings and the rebels, i don't see any of that in person. the rebels are all in the mountains, usually in the southern islands, and the kidnappings, well i'm not rich enough i guess. do i sound jaded? there are lots of nice things happening here too, but they never make the front page. alas!

Re: making me smile

[akrodha]

You know, back in Panama, my cousin's stepfather got kidnapped. I don't know if he was rich, but I think he was involved in some political idunnowhat.

Yeah, usually the news is filled with horror stories like that. Unless it's alarming or sensational, they're never going to report on nice things. (So what kind of nice things are going on, anyway?)

By the way, this group of dancing prisoners seems to have gained popularity over here...

Re: making me smile

[accidentprawn]

cousin's stepfather - mg, that's horrible. that's never something i would wish to happen on anyone, i hope it didn't turn out too badly.

nice things... hahahaha, i just came from a trip to kuala lumpur, to cover the UP Dance Company's participation at the Malaysian biennial dance festival and they were a big hit and i wrote it all up and even provided pictures and it's been two weeks and the newspaper i wrote for hasn't published it yet. talk about nice things not getting into the news!!! oh well.

hahah, and i thought the "cebu thriller" was only a local phenomenon. tsk, underestimating the powers of youtube. we find it amazing also, but not impossible as we have a strong parade culture in the provinces, hahahahaha!

Re: making me smile

[akrodha]

No, I don't think it turned out badly at all. I actually never met him, and I'm a bit disconnected from the goings-on over there.

Yeah, I had scanned over some of the photos of you in Truly Asia (har har). Pretty neat! But it's regrettably typical that those lazy newspaper people are reacting so slowly! Maybe next time you go, you should take over a government or two. That'll probably earn you guys a column somewhere in the back...

I guess if we want the real news, there's nothing better than LJ or YouTube... hooray for the internet!