Before I start with more "horrible but irresistable" posts (yes, I'm arrogant... it's in my description), I'd like to plug for the gaming group mailing list I'm in, AEGIS.
They apparently will be at the Culture Crash Convention (C3) and here are several RPG games they'll be demoing: Culture Crash's Pasig using Wizard of the Coast's (WotC) D20 Modern (system), Alexandro Osias (you might recognize his name from Flip magazine) will be hosting a X-men/Justice League using the hero system, Jacob Reynoso (LotR official judge for the CCG) for Decipher's Lord of the Rings RPG, Star Wars: Episode 2 RPG using WotC's Star Wars rules, and finally a Rurouni Kenshin RPG using one of the oldest (and probably most workable) anime RPG system, Big Eyes Small Mouth (BESM).
Anyway, the highlight of this post is all about my fiction class which is being taught by Krip Yuson (by the way, the guy who wanted me to criticize his poem, please email it to me as it's not on your site anymore...). Last last week (since he gave a free cut last week), he did tell us that one of the biggest weaknesses he finds in Philippine fiction, be it movies, television, or books, is the use of this popular phrase: ano ang ibig mong sabihin? (What exactly do you mean?). He describes it as never being used in real life and is obviously used as a way to kill screen time.
This is how Elbert put it in a conversation earlier while we were at Jollibee:
Elbert: Ano ang ibig mong sabihin? That's my favorite phrase in telenovelas. It would go something like this.
-grandfather- "you are actually the *insert relation here* of *insert another relation* of *insert another relation* of *insert name*."
-female- "ano ang ibig mong sabihin?"
-grandfather- "*repeats what he said*"
Some third party would then enter to reiterate the answer.
-third party- "Do you mean *insert daughter's name* is the *insert relation* of *insert another relation* of *insert another relation* of *insert name*?"
That being said and done, I'll discuss today's high point of the lecture.
After one and a half hour of discussing Krip's short story, we took a break (since he needed some Nicotine by now) and then he was going to use the overhead projector when he realized it wasn't an opaque projector (one that can display onto the screen even if the medium isn't a transparency) so he extended his break by giving us a class activity on exposition. He asked the guy beside me to give a gender (one of four). My seatmate uttered lesbian (I guess only a guy would really mention such a gender). He then asked me to give an age. At the spur of the moment, I answered eighteen (one of my female classmates was rooting for twenty five). The girl next to me was then asked to give a name. Erika. Last name. King. Background. Has a "dark history" with her cousin. And so the exposition writing exercise began, all of us working on those given.
Something like ten to fifteen minutes passed by and he asked if we were done. Since there was no reply, he quickly added that he'd give food to those who were finished. Suddenly, people were raising their hands. The girls got something like a mini-Chicken ala king while us guys got this ube like snack which was a bit hot and very oily. Only two stories actually got read aloud since there was insufficient time and one of those stories were mine. Basically, without all the flowery words and descriptions, here's what happened:
Erika is alone at the cafeteria in an early morning. Guy and girl enter. Guy asks Erika if the three of them could share a table. Erika finds girl attractive. Erika's cousin enters. Erika's cousin is gay. Erika's cousin finds guy attractive. All four share a table. They have breakfast.
They apparently will be at the Culture Crash Convention (C3) and here are several RPG games they'll be demoing: Culture Crash's Pasig using Wizard of the Coast's (WotC) D20 Modern (system), Alexandro Osias (you might recognize his name from Flip magazine) will be hosting a X-men/Justice League using the hero system, Jacob Reynoso (LotR official judge for the CCG) for Decipher's Lord of the Rings RPG, Star Wars: Episode 2 RPG using WotC's Star Wars rules, and finally a Rurouni Kenshin RPG using one of the oldest (and probably most workable) anime RPG system, Big Eyes Small Mouth (BESM).
Anyway, the highlight of this post is all about my fiction class which is being taught by Krip Yuson (by the way, the guy who wanted me to criticize his poem, please email it to me as it's not on your site anymore...). Last last week (since he gave a free cut last week), he did tell us that one of the biggest weaknesses he finds in Philippine fiction, be it movies, television, or books, is the use of this popular phrase: ano ang ibig mong sabihin? (What exactly do you mean?). He describes it as never being used in real life and is obviously used as a way to kill screen time.
This is how Elbert put it in a conversation earlier while we were at Jollibee:
Elbert: Ano ang ibig mong sabihin? That's my favorite phrase in telenovelas. It would go something like this.
-grandfather- "you are actually the *insert relation here* of *insert another relation* of *insert another relation* of *insert name*."
-female- "ano ang ibig mong sabihin?"
-grandfather- "*repeats what he said*"
Some third party would then enter to reiterate the answer.
-third party- "Do you mean *insert daughter's name* is the *insert relation* of *insert another relation* of *insert another relation* of *insert name*?"
That being said and done, I'll discuss today's high point of the lecture.
After one and a half hour of discussing Krip's short story, we took a break (since he needed some Nicotine by now) and then he was going to use the overhead projector when he realized it wasn't an opaque projector (one that can display onto the screen even if the medium isn't a transparency) so he extended his break by giving us a class activity on exposition. He asked the guy beside me to give a gender (one of four). My seatmate uttered lesbian (I guess only a guy would really mention such a gender). He then asked me to give an age. At the spur of the moment, I answered eighteen (one of my female classmates was rooting for twenty five). The girl next to me was then asked to give a name. Erika. Last name. King. Background. Has a "dark history" with her cousin. And so the exposition writing exercise began, all of us working on those given.
Something like ten to fifteen minutes passed by and he asked if we were done. Since there was no reply, he quickly added that he'd give food to those who were finished. Suddenly, people were raising their hands. The girls got something like a mini-Chicken ala king while us guys got this ube like snack which was a bit hot and very oily. Only two stories actually got read aloud since there was insufficient time and one of those stories were mine. Basically, without all the flowery words and descriptions, here's what happened:
Erika is alone at the cafeteria in an early morning. Guy and girl enter. Guy asks Erika if the three of them could share a table. Erika finds girl attractive. Erika's cousin enters. Erika's cousin is gay. Erika's cousin finds guy attractive. All four share a table. They have breakfast.
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