here's are sample pages of my senior thesis...it's a comic anthology of short historical fiction. The timeline is 1898-1902 of the Phil-Am Insurrection. The objective is to give a visual portrayal of the era's art, design and architectural forms...and throw in some cultural relevant facts along the way. Seriously, the phil-am war/insurrection is ( Read more... )

fanart among other things. XD
right-click + 'view image' it the whole thing won't show
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This was from a insightful discussion of speculative fiction between two friends. After which, a universe came to be.

“Let me see! Let me see!”

“…ngaaw,” Vince promptly opened his mouth to show the newly grown pair.

“Nah, I think Kai beat you by a few millimeters.”

Said girl rewarded the speaker by displaying two pearly canines in a smug grin.

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What have I been reading and loving..?

They had no word for godfather in his native tongue. They were not Christians. It was the reason why he settled in the country, my mother always said. To escape persecution.

I looked at her puzzled, testing the word on my lips.

It’s like how you sometimes come to hide from Pio and his friends, she smiled (or teased; I had not yet learned to ( Read more... )

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I'm trying to revive my long dead LJ...of the pityfull state it's come to. :((

anyway, at a definite lack of anything to post...I figured I might as well get some of my old work here.
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The following essay was written by Carlos P. Romulo (1899 - 1985). Numerous awards have been bestowed on Romulo. Among others, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1942 for International Journalism, the first Asian to receive one. Romulo was the first Asian (and sole Filipino) to become president of the United Nations.

I am a Filipino - inheritor of ( Read more... )

A film that follows the struggles of a young woman, as she teaches her students more than the average classroom lectures amidst corrupt school officials, guerrilla war dangers and apathetic parents, Munting Tinig refreshingly deviates from many western influences but manages to lose some of its sophistication.

Melinda, fresh out o collage, is sent ( Read more... )