"Sana Maulit Muli" Diva version

"Ang ating kahapon sana maulit muli..... mahal pa rin kita, o giliw, o giliw..."

[via MGG]

Get Over It!

Oh the thoughts of what might have been. Do you have any regrets? Of course you do. What kind of question is that? Perhaps they are nothing more than passing musings. A shrug of the shoulders and the lesson is learned. Regret can be loads of fun, except when its not. Maybe the wilds of your imagination are periodically arrested by it. Sleeping isn’t nearly as enjoyable, or productive, while such a haunting has you wide-eyed and vainly staring into the night. We can sure be silly sometimes.

Say. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do something about regret? Well, you can’t. But you can share your experiences anonymously to a mostly sympathetic public and let the damn thing go. This website will act as a deposit for such foibles, and archive them so others may learn from our mistakes… or not.

It doesn’t matter where on the gamut between trivial and devastating they may fall. Concise and sugary? Broad and narrative? Let them manifest as they will. For now, the only limit is a length of 1000 characters.
What are you waiting for? Get over it already.

GET OVER IT

Sikil (Unspoken Passion)

Sikil tells the story of two men and a woman who are involved in a bizarre love triangle. These three friends grew up in a small town south of Manila. Ken Escudero plays Enzo, a young closet gay prostitute who's obsessed with his childhood friend (Wil Sandejas) who happens to be a call-boy and has a girlfriend (played by Ashley Silverio). Other interesting characters are the bi-sexual pimp (Ethan Javier), a regular bathhouse customer (Marty Mendoza), and a sampaguita vendor-pickpocket-shoplifter and caretaker of Adong's daughter (Corrine Concepcion).

More at the Bakla Review

Got Ladlad?

We finally got our copies of Ladlad, An Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing edited by Neil C. Garcia and Danton Remoto.

From Karla Maquiling of PinoyCentric:

"Ladlad 3, the third installment to the highly successful gay writing anthology, took more than a decade to release that when UP Diliman poetry associate J. Neil Garcia, who co-edits the book with Ateneo de Manila professor Danton Remoto, read a poem from it, he quipped, “This love [that the poem refers to] is both obsolete and finished, and it’s so funny, reading it now, that I could ever have been this romantic.”
Ladlad has certainly come a long way from the first book’s publication in 1994. When Remoto and Garcia gathered submissions for the first Ladlad, “Nobody wanted to contribute because, as one famous author said to me, it will ruin their careers,” Remoto recalls.

Yet two months after the book’s release by Anvil Publishing, all 2,000 copies were sold out. Anvil continues to reprint copies of both Ladlad 1 and 2 today..."

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Available at Kabayan Central