Tuesday, November 18, 2008
BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?
Came to be regarded as an anthem of the shattered dreams caused by America's Great Depression, "Brother Can You Spare A Dime" is one of the best-known American songs. It was written in 1931 by lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and composer Jay Gorney as part of the 1932 musical "New Americana."
The song was popularized by the recordings of Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee; released right before Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election to the presidency. Both recordings became number one hits on the charts. The Warner Bros.-released Crosby recording became the best-selling record of its period.
Brother Can You Spare A Dime
(Jay Gorney/E.Y.Harburg)
Once I built a railroad, made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a rairoad, now it's done
Brother can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother can you spare a dime?
Once in khaki suits
Gee, we looked swell
Full of that Yankee Doodle De Dum
Half a million boots went slogging through hell
I was the kid with the drum
Say don't you remember, they called me Al
It was Al all the time
Say don't you remember, I'm your pal!
Buddy can you spare a dime?
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(Jay Gorney/E.Y.Harburg)
Once I built a railroad, made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a rairoad, now it's done
Brother can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother can you spare a dime?
Once in khaki suits
Gee, we looked swell
Full of that Yankee Doodle De Dum
Half a million boots went slogging through hell
I was the kid with the drum
Say don't you remember, they called me Al
It was Al all the time
Say don't you remember, I'm your pal!
Buddy can you spare a dime?
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George Michael, one of pop music's greatest song stylists performs "Brother Can You Spare A Dime" live accompanied by a full orchestra. It's big band music at its best!
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Labels: photography, song
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Monday, November 03, 2008
PHOTO EXHIBIT: CHEMA MADOZ
His photographs can be interpreted as poetry in varying degrees. They can be read as poetry, appreciated intellectually, or perceived aesthetically. Chema Madoz has devised his own language of expression; tackling his subject in one of three ways: as found, manipulated, or recreated in his studio.
Commissioned by Catherine Coleman and organized jointly by the Instituto Cervantes and the Ministry of Culture of Spain, the exhibition features more than 40 recent images by this distinguished Spanish photographer.
Chema Madoz (Madrid, 1958) is currently one of the most important exhibitors of Spanish photography. In this recent works, he highlights daily routines by way of metaphors and visual display; directing the viewer's attention to new perspectives of seeing what is hidden or what has occurred unnoticed.
Photo exhibit to run fromOctober 17 to November 29
Monday to Saturday
9 am to 8 pm
INSTITUTO CERVANTES
855 T.M. Kalaw Street
1000 Ermita, Manila
near U.N. LRT Station
Telephone: (632) 526-1482
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Labels: event, photography
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Monday, September 29, 2008
ON WRITING AND BLOGGING
"Quiapo deserves a thorough visit from every writer worth his or her salt. I'd begin with a jeepney ride (no cars or taxis, please) from Quezon City of Makati, getting off at Quiapo Church (where you might get your fortune told or have someone pray on your behalf, for a small fee), then walking to Avenida Rizal via R. Hidalgo, Carriedo, or Raon then on to Plaza Sta. Cruz, Escolta, and Chinatown, emerging on C. M. Recto (Azcarraga, when I first set foot on it). Spend some time at Arranque Market, a stationary caravan featuring plump exotic chickens, riotous parakeets, and flea-bitten Persian kittens (and, father up the street, everyone's stolen cell phone, typically if understandably sold without their chargers). Somewhare along the way, eat - preferably in some nondescript but jumpacked hole-in-the-wall with ceiling fans to cool the hototay.
As you walk around, practice sizing up situations and asking yourself 'Where's the story?' or 'What's the story here?' At worst, you'll end up with a bag of details, a literary pack rat's delight, that you can dip into on those still, dry days. At best, you'll come up with a story suggested by the scene at hand."
*Refresh screen to replay slide show!
Source:
THE KNOWING IS IN THE WRITING
Notes on the Pratice of Fiction
The University of the Philippines Press
© 2006 Joey Y. Dalisay, Jr.
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Labels: blogging, Featured book, Featured Writer, photography, writing
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
THE FOUNDATION AND GRANT WRITING
"We started our foundation because we believe we have a
real opportunity to help advance equity around the world to
help make sure that, no matterwhere a person is born, he or
she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life."
- Melinda Gates
real opportunity to help advance equity around the world to
help make sure that, no matterwhere a person is born, he or
she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life."
- Melinda Gates
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF) is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2000 and doubled in size by Warren Buffett in 2006.
The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance health care and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the United States, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.
The foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, is controlled by its three trustees: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett. Other principal officers include Co-Chair William H. Gates, Sr. and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Raikes. It has an endowment of US$38.7 billion as of December 31, 2007.
The scale of the foundation and the way it seeks to apply business techniques to giving makes it one of the leaders in the philanthrocapitalism revolution in global philanthropy.
Read more here.
The Grant Writing Workshop by John Silva
My revamped grant writing workshop fits with the new demands of funders influenced by the Gates Foundation.
Funders today want proposals that are brief, that can tell a story, that avoids silly development language (like empowerment) and can convince funders that your goal is to be part of the elimination of the problem. The last point is important. With the Gates Foundation and other large foundations now giving larger amounts and on a multi-year basis, they’d like to see more proposals that not just alleviate or lessen the problem. They’re talking eradication, elimination and making the problem history.
Are you equipped to talk in that language? Given the sort of development orientation we’ve had and not having been challenged to write a proposal to eradicate a problem, we are at a disadvantage.
Well, with thirty years of grant writing experience and having been with the best of NGO’s and foundations in the world, I’ll show you how to write a powerful and winning proposal that will be seriously considered for a grant.
I’m not into theory. I’m teaching three decades of working experience with the likes of Oxfam America, the Ford Foundation, the American Cancer Society and so many others. I wrote proposals and got them funded.
Read more here.
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THE GATE
© 2008 Señor Enrique
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Focal Length: 36mm
ISO: 200
THE GATE
© 2008 Señor Enrique
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Focal Length: 36mm
ISO: 200
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Labels: current affairs, learning workshop, opportunity, photography
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Friday, September 26, 2008
ON DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
Just sitting there doing nothing. And enjoying every minute of it without feeling an iota of guilt about it, either. I think we ought to do just that once in a while as a relief from life's daily grind.
But then again, "doing nothing is very hard to do because you never know when you're finished," said the actor Leslie Nielsen.
But then again, "doing nothing is very hard to do because you never know when you're finished," said the actor Leslie Nielsen.
On the other hand, according to Jack Haas, a mystic traveler, "Doing is a function of the body. Being is a function of the soul. The body is always doing something. Every minute of every day it's up to something. It never stops, it never rests, it's constantly doing something. It's either doing what it's doing at the behest of the soul - or in spite of the soul."
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SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY
© 2008 Señor Enrique
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SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY
© 2008 Señor Enrique
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Shutter: 10/500 sec
Focal Length: 87mm
ISO: 400
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Labels: photography, Words of wisdom
posted by Señor Enrique at 7:02 AM
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
THE BOUNTEOUS THIRD
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning."
- Louis L'Amour
That will be the beginning."
- Louis L'Amour
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Today marks the third anniversary of
Wish You Were Here by Señor Enrique.
A new year awaits!
Wish You Were Here by Señor Enrique.
A new year awaits!
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AFTER THE RAIN
© 2008 Señor Enrique
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AFTER THE RAIN
© 2008 Señor Enrique
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Labels: blogging, photography
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
GIRL STANDS TALL
Related links:
Of Lyrics and Divas - The Warped Zone
The 20 Worst Lyrics Ever - Spinner
Songwriting 101
Of Lyrics and Divas - The Warped Zone
The 20 Worst Lyrics Ever - Spinner
Songwriting 101
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GIRL STANDS TALL
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Shutter: 10/130 sec
Focal Length: 60mm
ISO: 100
Flash: No
GIRL STANDS TALL
Aperture: F8
Shutter: 10/130 sec
Focal Length: 60mm
ISO: 100
Flash: No
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Labels: music, photography
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
FRUITS NOW IN SEASON AT MANILA'S STREETS
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Labels: Featured food, fruits, photography
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Saturday, September 06, 2008
DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?
"Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream." — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I begin to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth…I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains." — Ludwig van Beethoven
"The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away." — Aaron Copeland
"You do not even have to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has not choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
— Franz Kafka
— Franz Kafka
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." — Vincent Van Gogh
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Labels: photography, Words of wisdom
posted by Señor Enrique at 12:13 AM
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Monday, September 01, 2008
FIRST OF SEPTEMBER, MANILA
Plaza Lacson (formerly Plaza Goiti) facing east to Carriedo Street
Soler Street facing north to C.M. Recto Avenue
Ongpin and Tomas Mapua (formerly Misericordia) Streets
Ronquillo Street at Plaza Santa Cruz
Quezon Boulevard facing south to Quiapo Bridge
Aurora Boulevard Ext./Dimasalang areaTODAY IN HISTORY
September 01, 1901
* Three outspoken pro-American Filipinos: Dr. Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera, Benito Legarda Sr., and Jose Luzuriaga are appointed members of the Philippine Commission.
* Four members of the Commission are made heads or secretaries of the Executive Departments by the President of the United States. These are: for Commerce and Police, Luke E. Wright; for Finance and Justice, Henry C. Ide; for Public Instruction, Bernard Moses; and for Interior, Dean S. Worcester.
* El Renacimiento, an anti-American daily, is published with Martin Ocampo as publisher and Rafael Palma as editor.
* The Philippine Normal College, established as a Normal School by Act No. 74 of the Philippine Commission, opens in the Escuela Municipal, Intramuros, Manila.
* The Philippine Constabulary detachment for Ambos Camarines is organized by Captain Edward S. Luthi and quartered in Nueva Caceres.
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Labels: life in Manila, Manila, photography
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Friday, August 29, 2008
MUHIBAH
It is the inflight magazine of Royal Brunei Airlines. Three of my photographs were published in its May/June 2008 issue to accompany an article that explores the charming side of Manila -- its historical splendor and cultural legacies.
A special thanks to Ivan Man Dy for facilitating this terrific opportunity!
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
TRIBUTE TO ALL OUR GRANDPARENTS
When doing street photography, I usually shy away from subjects who are enjoying their afternoon siesta; I consider it too private a moment to intrude upon. However, there are scenes I chance upon at times that are too compelling to pass up, like this one which encapsulated the special bond between a child and grandparent.
This scene is a poignant reminder of the many local kids who are being raised by their ageing grandparents because the parents are working in a distant city or overseas.
It's also a reminder of our ageing grandparents living abroad who are tasked to look after the children because both mom and dad are working full-time to make ends meet, and hiring a babysitter is just out of the question.
It's also a reminder of our ageing grandparents working at the McDonalds and Burger Kings in the States and Canada who clean the tables and sweep the floors as we enjoy our breakfasts and lunches.
It's also a reminder of a family friend in New York who was the inspiration behind my story of fiction, A Grand Mother, who passed away about a year ago without realizing her ultimate dream: to return to Manila to live the remaining years of her life.
So, to all our grandparents living here and abroad, God bless and good health!
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RELATED LINKS:
A Child is Waiting
A Cool Siesta
Point & Shoot Street Photography
Siesta Time - My Sari-Sari Store
A Child is Waiting
A Cool Siesta
Point & Shoot Street Photography
Siesta Time - My Sari-Sari Store
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Labels: life in Manila, photography
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Monday, August 25, 2008
NGANGA
Droppings from the neighbor's areca palm tree
Camera: Canon Ixus 65
Aperture: F2.8
Shutter: 1/20 sec
Camera: Canon Ixus 65
Aperture: F2.8
Shutter: 1/20 sec
Recommended quick reads on betel-chew tradition:
Hidden in the Heart - Rosa Maria Magno
Betel Chewing in the Philippines - Cynthia Ongpin Valdes
Chewing Betel-Nut with the Mangyans of Mindoro - Howie Severino
Betel Chewing in the Philippines - Cynthia Ongpin Valdes
Chewing Betel-Nut with the Mangyans of Mindoro - Howie Severino
The Philippine History - June Mae
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Labels: Local culture, Philippine history, photography
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
THE CHURCH AT THE PLAZA
Related links:
Binondo Church - Wikipedia
Plaza Calderon de la Barca in Binondo
Ysla de Binondo and The Chinese Revolt
Roman Ongpin
Two Weddings and a Food Trip
Binondo Church - Wikipedia
Plaza Calderon de la Barca in Binondo
Ysla de Binondo and The Chinese Revolt
Roman Ongpin
Two Weddings and a Food Trip
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Labels: Binondo, Binondo Church, life in Manila, photography
posted by Señor Enrique at 8:45 AM
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
TUESDAY AT DOWNTOWN MANILA
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posted by Señor Enrique at 8:14 AM
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
FRIENDS ON-BOARD A JEEPNEY IN QUIAPO
I hope the day will be a lighter highway
For friends are found on every road
Can you ever think of any better way
For the lost and weary travellers to go
Making friends for the world to see
Let the people know you got what you need
With a friend at hand you will see the light
If your friends are there then everything's all right
It seems to me a crime that we should age
These fragile times should never slip us by
A time you never can or shall erase
As friends together watch their childhood fly
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Friends
music by Elton John
lyrics by Bernie Taupin
For friends are found on every road
Can you ever think of any better way
For the lost and weary travellers to go
Making friends for the world to see
Let the people know you got what you need
With a friend at hand you will see the light
If your friends are there then everything's all right
It seems to me a crime that we should age
These fragile times should never slip us by
A time you never can or shall erase
As friends together watch their childhood fly
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Friends
music by Elton John
lyrics by Bernie Taupin
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Related link:
Jeep Memories
Jeep Memories
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Labels: music, photography, Quiapo
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