Long Walk to Forever by Kurt Vonnegut

Long Walk to Forever
by Kurt Vonnegut

They had grown up next door to each other, on the fringe of a city, near fields and woods and orchards, within sight of a lovely bell tower that belonged to a school for the blind.

Now they were twenty, had not seen each other for nearly a year. There had always ben playful, comfortable warmth between them, but never any talk of love.

His name was Newt. Her name was Catharine. In the early afternoon, Newt knocked on
Catharine's front door.

Catharine came to the door. She was carrying a fat, glossy magazine she had been reading. The magazine was devoted entirely to brides. "Newt!" she said. She was surprised to see him.

"Could you come for a walk?" he said. He was a shy person, even with Catharine. He
covered his shyness by speaking absently as though what really concerned him were far
away--as though he were a secret agent pausing briefly on a mission between beautiful, distant, and sinister points. This manner of speaking had always been Newt's style, even in matters that concerned him desperately.

Mikael de Lara Co: Don Carlos Palanca Awardee for Poetry

The horizon, my ancestors say,
is an eye. When it shuts
its lashes sift the sea for rafts

and turn fishermen and divers to stone,
their hands still clenched around pearls,
their blood turning crystalline and cold.

The gods were in love with the horizon.
They hung their jewels
on the night-sky and ebbed into the eye
while my people stared
at the orphaned trinkets.

The poem above is an excerpt from the the poem Archipelago by Mikael "Kael" de Lara Co. It is part of his award-winning collection "Hands for a Fistful of Sand." Other poems in the collection are Silence and Cryptic.

Hands for a Fistful of Sand won for Kael the First Prize for Poetry for this year's Don Carlos Palance Memorial Awards for Literature.

Kael was my classmate at AdMU. He was a BS Environmental Science major, but everybody knew his heart was in literature, in creatively tying up simple words and making them mean so much more.

This award is proof of his infinite genius. I believe he is going to be one of the poets of our generation who will define for us what Filipino poetry is in the second millennium.

Congratulations Kael!!!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Spoilers

STOP!!!!!


SPOILERS


AHEAD!!!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Movie

So how was the movie? It was good... in fact it was just ok. It didn't really live up to the other Harry Potter movies, much less to the book it was based on. It was a good cinematic experience in itself.

There's not much that can be said about the movie. It had an ok storyline, the direction was good, and the special effects were great. Characterizations lacked depth. And all in all the acting of the cast was good, save for Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) who seemed to overact at times.

So do I recommend it? It's definitely a movie everybody must watch, but only for the sake of watching it.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix Movie Opens Today

This is it. Today is the day when millions (and I actually mean hundreds of millions) of Harry Potter fans troop to the cinema to suffer in long lines, and painfully full theatres just so they could see and experience what they have already seen and experienced through their imagination. Today, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix opens in thousands of cinemas worldwide. And I will be one of many who will be watching it (hopefully).

I expect to leave the movie house filled with awe and excitement. My advice to all you Harry Potter fans who have read the book, enjoy the movie as it is. Don't compare it to the book. Don't look for things that aren't there or that are not supposed to be there. Just watch and savor the wonder of it all. Look at it with fresh eyes. That's what I'm going to do.

RAWR!!!