Igorota Wins Best Actress Award in the 2018 ToFarm Film Festival

Maribeth "Mai" Fanglayan, from Mt. Province and a Baguio Girl, a graduate of Mass Communication in Saint Louis University, bagged the Best Actress award in the recently concluded 2018 ToFarm Film Festival awarding ceremony for her role in the Sinai Hamada's "Tanabata's Wife". She bested veteran actress Katrina Halili in "Mga Anak Ng Kamote" and Pokwang in "Sol Searching" in the category. Fanglayan is also being nominated as Best Actress in the 2019 Gawad Urian.



According to Fanglayan, she only accompanied a friend to audition for the role, but with a turn of event the role was given to her which she accepted as a challenging endeavor considering that she did not play a role in a full-length film before.

The film, actually, bagged 9 awards which include Miyuki Kamimura winning Best Actor; Best Directors for Charlson Ong, Lito Casaje and Choy Pangilinan; Best Screenplay for Charlson Ong; Best Production Design for Martin Masadao; Best Musical Score for May-i Padilla, Kurt Alalag and Marc Tan; Best Editing for May-i Padilla; Best Cinematography for Nap Jamir and Best Film.

ToFarm Film Festival is an annual festival of Filipino films related to agriculture, and it is in its third edition for 2018.

The movie was filmed in Buguias, Benguet and used Japanese, Kankanaey and Ilocano languages.

First blows on citrus morning

I was sitting on a stone at the top of the hill with a warm cup of calamansi juice, watching the dawn slowly fading orange haze, revealing the turquoise sky..and it was January morning.

January, the opening month of the year, still bringing back the past experiences of the year en passé, and rather more like a nestling with a question uphead and plans ahead as if years have suspension of time at their ends, and that all seem to have reset. January is cool throughout the southeast Asia tropic where the winds from the white snow capped Siberian mountains would blow down through…and through the screening intricacies of the Cordilleran pine needles these winds would eventually imparted into the land, culture and minds of the Cordilleran people as these unseen migrating birds gently pass through the cordilleran mountains, rivers, hills and vales and then to the households, coffee shops and the local minutia to greet and bring wonder to everyone and all who with refreshed deep-throat murmurs exclaim the endemic “ayeh! naglammin.”  :D

Just after the peace and rush of the yuletide season the excitement in January is felt and yet not really different from the past times for the tradition has already set this time as starting line for whatever things are needed to commence or be rebooted in order to get in-sync with the beginning of another cycle of the seasons. As early as this, we are already given the cool and refreshing blows of winds probably to give us a clearer thought so that we can figure out how to leave the bad and take the good in order to lighten our burdens as we are being prepared again to ride on the winds of another cycle of seasons of this new embarking year.

Believe for your life..

Believe
Believe in
Believe in God
Believe in yourself
Believe in your dreams
Believe in your angels
Believe in your positive thoughts
Believe in the path you're taking
Do these, and you will realize a love beyond words
Love to live, and live to love!
This is life..

we are anons.

What is Anonymous?
Anonymous is not a group, it is not a person.
It is an idea. Specifically it is the idea, that all of us deserve FREEDOM..

Freedom of thought, of speech, of expression, of knowledge, of belief.

The Freedom to determine the course and destination of our own lives.

If you share this IDEA, THEN YOU ARE ANONYMOUS.

You have likely heard many things about Anonymous,
some of them are true and some of them are not:

We are not hackers.
We are not terrorists.
We are not violent.

We are citizens of the world who bear witness to tyranny,
oppression and censorship.

We are activists who seek to change the system and end the cycle of corruption.

We seek to create transparency in governments and all institutions of public service.

We resist those who seek to violate our rights as human beings.

As a collective of autonomous individuals however,

WE HAVE NO LEADERS (no leaders of anonymous) who dictate the methods of resistance.

Some of us are indeed hackers, who use our skills to make critical information available to the public.

Some of us organize protests and rallies.

Some of us volunteer our time to feed those who can’t feed themselves.

We are your neighbors, your friends, and your relatives.

We prepare your food, repair your appliances, write your books, compose your music, and create your technology.

We are your postal workers, barbers, store clerks and lawyers.

We are socialists, capitalists, we are secular and we are spiritual, WE ARE EVERYONE

and we are no one.

NONE OF US ARE AS POWERFUL AS ALL OF US.


United as One,

Divided by Zero.

WE ARE ANONYMOUS.

A Poem for Wesley

human: spiritual/physical being

through the darkness you will find the light,
close your eyes and step into the darkness,
open your mind and step into the light.
to truly understand and respect your being,
you must visit the past
where experiences were already explored
in the dark rooms of caves and pyramids.
the mind will light up before the spiritual eyes,
your consciousness will find the spirit world
like what the ancestors have done before.
they have learned about the essential energies,
created tools and lessons to magnify those energies,
they enhanced their techniques
and sculpted amplifying architecture.
monatomic elements, superconducting elements
transformed their bodies into spiritual forms.
they navigate into different spiritual worlds.
as every object emits radio frequency,
every object has higher dimensional spiritual realm.
and before the mind projects into the spirit worlds
emotional intelligence must be heightened,
critical thinking skills required.
when you expand your perception of reality
you are performing an ancient practice
of entering into the spiritual world,
it can be either easy or hard.
new ideas against old ideas-- cognitive dissonance,
relaxation and rest to benefit the mind is essential,
your mind creates your feelings,
your feelings are emotional energy,
your experience will complement that energy.
belief in the Holy One is important,
choose to believe also in freedom,
develop your sense of morality,
and you will meet amazing spiritual things.
we know nothing from birth of our bodies,
as we grow we are taught about values,
we are expected to conform,
and may be blinded by ignorance.
activating your light changes your mind,
your collective consciousness would also change.
your perception of reality has a lot of limits,
the higher dimensional reality has no limits,
higher dimensional environments hold wealth of info.
empower yourself to attractive positive energy,
receive unconditional love,
heal emotional trauma.
enjoy exploring,
be inquisitive like a child,
find inter-dimensional abodes,
take advantage of earth's emotional treasures,
be guided towards experiences that require acts of valor,
take this time to awaken from slumber.
the ascension of your mind awaits you.

haiku plus

summer getaway
to the beaches and mountains,
to the same shadow