Poetry: Loose Rock

*draft


You are hard

to handle.

You wear

unpredictability

on your face.

Yes, you are not

anchored to the ground,

to anything. And another yes,

I do not,

cannot,

will not


trust

You.



Drifting is

your fate.

Ondoy: Drop-off Centers for Donations in Cebu

To those who wish to help the victims of typhoon Ondoy, here are your designated drop off centers in Cebu:

FORMO - BTC
BANILAD CHURCH OF CHRIST (bldg in front of Bright Academy near Sto. Nino Village), Mon-Fri 9am-5pm.
VUDU, Crossroads
TOYS @ WORK - BTC
CITIGYM
Y101 - Countrymall
SUNBURST FRIED CHICKEN-TABUNOK BRANCH - 10am to 9:30pm
AUNT GENIE's BREADHOUSE: 1279 Talamban, Cebu City (In front of the Talamban Sports Complex). call at 416-0495
BIZROUTE SOLUTIONS (Mon - Sat 11PM to 4PM) Unit 302 Keppel Bldg. Ayala. call at 416-0495
BIZROUTE SOLUTIONS Lahug Office
CUE CAFE Crossroads
OUTPOST and Jay Young - Nivel Hills Contact 09082368999 or 09322117111
VERY MARY shop - Myra's Pensionne, Escario St.
HOLIDAY GYM AND SPA
ABS-CBN CEBU
JULIES BAKESHOP

Tsinelas: Their Books 2

As part of the Press Freedom Celebration this month, our organization, Tsinelas, is holding a book sale. We call it Their Books. We collect books from writers, poets, editors and media practitioners, musicians, artists, art lovers and other prominent personalities in cebu and put them on sale. We did this last year, and it was very successful. We are doing it again. We will use the proceeds to spend for our beneficiaries' education.

Can you donate some of your old books to this event? Any kind of books from your personal collection will be great. I know it is difficult to part with our books, but it is worth the pain if we think of how far our generosity can go.

The book sale will be on Sept. 25, 26, and 27 at the Ayala Center Cebu.

We hope to hear from you.

Sincerely,

Lorenzo "Insoy" Ninal

Executive Director

Book of the Week: Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum

I knew---but anyone could have sensed it in the magic of that serene breathing---that the period was governed by the square root of the length of the wire and by pi, that number which, however irrational to sublunar minds, through a higher rationality binds the circumference and diameter of all possible circles. The time it took the sphere to swing from end to end was determined by an arcane conspiracy between the most timeless of measures: the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.

I::: A Morning with Eco's Foucault's Pendulum

Started my morning with a mug of coffee and a few of Eco's words.

Good morning everyone.