“One character got a reprieve, but I have to say that two die that I didn’t intend to die,” so says JK Rowling, the author of the highly successful Harry Potter series. She is currently in the process of writing the last installment, the untitled seventh Harry Potter book.
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Snoozing Philippine Eagle Owl- A snoozing Philippine Eagle Owl quietly rests on its perch. |
During a recent trip to Avilon Zoo in Montalban Rizal, our tour guide, Cris, identified all the animals that we were viewing.
As we came upon one cage, she called out to a bird that was 20 feet away, and when the magnificent specimen came close, she announced, “And this is the African Crowned Crane.”
After the sensational hit of last year’s Virgin
Labfest, the Cultural Center of the Philippines,
Tanghalang Pilipino and the Writers Bloc, in
cooperation with the National Commission for Culture
and the Arts, proudly present its second edition of
untried / untested / unpublished / unstaged works,
from July 7 to 16, 2006 at the CCP Tanghalang Huseng
Batute.
This year’s festival features fifteen new plays culled
from the year-long regular series of readings by the
Writers Bloc, and penned by some of the country’s
finest breed of vibrant and prolific playwrights:
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Studded Mobile Phones- Johann has a sense of style that permeates everything that he touches, in this case, his usual color coordinated phones have been transformed into works of art. |
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Holy Kettle Corn!- A friend, Leah Reyes, urged me to get some popcorn from a brown inconspicuous bag, and thus began my ravenous relationship with Holy Kettle Corn! |
The Process I finally understood how to get the SMART All Text service! You go to the nearest store that offers Smart E-load and say, “Smart All Text po.”
Then they ask you to write down your mobile number in a notebook and whether you’re getting the 10 or 20 SMS. They send the request via their mobile phone and in a few seconds you will get a SMS from SMARTLoad that states, “Date: SMARTLoad All Text (with x messages) is loaded to 0918xxx from 0920xxx.”
The Dirty Dancing Incident While trying on items at Gateway’s Nike Women’s dressing room, I heard the sales staff getting into a discussion of the movie Dirty Dancing which soon led to a conversation about personal preferences for the male member (in Tagalog) to be big.
