what ive been up to (quickies)

My BIG WORDS lately: fitness, Tagaytay, Spanish

• Weekly Tagaytay trips: oh I really want to live there! Our house is starting to get homey! Furnishing stage. Still for sale. Please spread to friends!
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• June 13 to 18 - Six-day Batanes trip. Pics here. Detailed blog post to come.
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• June 23, Monday - Started futsal, my first real exercise for the year. Cheers to getting out of the sedentary rut!
  
• June 30, Monday - Start teaching Spanish again. 2nd year HS. M/F
• July 5, 12; Aug 9, 19 - Weddings! Cheers to all my dear friends, be brave! XOXO
• July 20, Sunday - Day 1 Monsoon League. Back under the frisbee sun (but it's rainy season, boo)!
• Others:
• Museum Volunteers of the Philippines - doing publicity and web communications for the "Philippines: Past and Present" 2008-2009 history course
  
• PREX bible study every Friday 8pm, Christ the King parish- open to all youth and young professionals!
  

UPCOMING:

• This month: Writing/reading club - revival of Thursday writers
  
• September 17, Wednesday - Museum Volunteers history course for 2008-2009 begins

WEBSITES:

• New sites:
  
• iammontalut.blogspot.com (in place of montalut.ph) - will soon integrate writings and art here
  
• mydreammenu.blogspot.com (for my food project)
• Existing:
• metrorealty.ph - Metro Realty website
• metrorealty.blogspot.com - Metro Realty blog
• manilarat.blogspot.com - My ode to Manila
• tagaytayrat.blogspot.com - My ode to Tagaytay (needs more loving!)
• magmunimuni.blogspot.com - Deposit page for good reads
• In the pipeline:
• Philippine tourism analysis/research blog
• Wiki for PPP (Museum Volunteers history course)
  

MOVIES:

• coming soon:
• Wanted
• July 18: The Dark Night
  
• July 25: The X-Files
• Hancock
  
• watchlist (new):
• August 29: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
• December 2008: The Spirit (Comic Book)
  
• May 2009: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• X-Men Origins: Magneto
• Prince of Persia (Disney, Jake Gyllenhaal)
• The Hobbit (James McAvoy!)
• watchlist (old + missed -- catch on dvd!):
• Son of Rambow
• BBC Planet Earth
• Hihintayin Kita sa Langit
• Ninja Kids
  

BOOKS:

• now reading (new):
• The World's Religions (Huston Smith) - need my own copy!
  
• Jesus Before Christianity
• A Grief Observed (C.S. Lewis)
• New Testament
  
• still reading:
  
• The Essential Rumi (Coleman Barks)
  
• The Creators: A History of the Heroes of the Imagination (Daniel Boorstin)
  
• 33 Strategies of War (Robert Greene)
  
• Under the Tuscan Sun (Frances Mayes)
• Coraline (Neil Gaiman)
  
• Chronicles of Narnia (reread)
• just read:
• Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (Anne Rice)
• Christ the Lord: Road to Cana (Anne Rice)
• next in line:
• 3:16: The Numbers of Hope (Max Lucado)
• 12 Books that Changed the World (Melvyn Bragg)
• Zen Contemplation: A Bridge of Living Water (Elaine MacInnes)
• Book of Hours (Rilke)
• The Prince (Machiavelli)
• Negosyo: 50 Stories (Joey Concepcion)
• Reflections on Sociology and Philippine Society (Randy David)
• The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines (Walden Bello)
• watchlist:
• Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley)
• On the Road (Jack Kerouac)