A Good Reason to Stay away from the MRT….

    This week’s column is about Night by Nobel Prize Winner Elie Wiesel and why MRT rides are as dehumanizing as holocaust box car trips…. Enjoy!

Supremely Human

http://philstar.com/archives.php?aid=2008012553&type=2 

Name That Sc-Fi Movie : The Sci-Fi World of Philip K. Dick

Whose stories were the inspiration for these big blockbuster sci fi flicks? The answer is

Philip K. Dick 

Check my article on the sci-fi world at Philippine Star Online: Life In Sci-Fi 

It is all part of the job…..

    Last night, the inevitable happened. This book blogger went to Embassy (did the world end?)  because it was the birthday of my Philippine Star’s Supreme editor Tim Yap. I took advantage of the free drinks enough not to get drunk and left early enough to be productive to work and write this post. I am not saying it was not fun. It was a hoot but I never counted on being permanently deaf .

Nerdiest Online Trick Ever!: New York Times Online Instant Dictionary

     I stumbled upon the Nerdiest online wonder from the New York Times Online.

  If you highlight on a word from their article and click on it, a new browser page will pop up with the definition of the word you clicked. It doesn’t work on the main page. It works on actual pages of articles.  It really distracted me from reading the news and I spent a good five minutes tinkering with my discovery.

   For Mac users, it doesn’t work on Safari. If you want to try it, you can install Firefox. 

THAT’S AMORE: KAPIHAN: A CELEBRATION OF COFFEE IN THE PHILIPPINES

    If you can’t live without a book in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other, coffee enthusiast Noel Sy-Quia has written a book called Kapihan by ARTPOSTASIA publishing groupd that is a gallery, album, storybook, cookbook, travelogue, and repository of coffee trivia. If you want to share your love for coffee with the author, you can attend Kapihan’s book launch on the following dates. I will definitely be there!

January 18 – 6pm – Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Store
January 19 – 4pm – Power Books, Greenbelt
January 20 – 1:30pm – National Bookstore, Power Plant Mall
 

    I got an advanced copy of the book and I am getting an espresso high from leafing through the glossy pages. I can't focus on one paragraph because I want to see what bean trivia awaits me in the next page. 

Publisher's Website: ARTPOSTASIA