Previously attempted post on the Reading blog on July 25:
Finished Goodbye Tsugumi on the plane. I tried to start Umbrella Country, but can't seem to sink my teeth into it. Started God of Small Things, but have been distracted lately by my current vacation in the Philippines. What I have been reading is a piece I wrote a while back called Tsismis. Its in the Nuyorasian Anthology edited by Bino Realuyo and I forgot that he had included, in his introduction, an email he had sent to me during the submission process. Pretty cool, if you ask me. I recently read it again, because, my friend Bing, who has performed (really!) Tsismis with me is here in the Philippines, and asked me to bring it so they could perform it for the 35 college-age Filipino Americans they are teaching Tagalog to at UPLB for the program of my former mentor, and (one of the original) brains behind Arkipelago, Susan Quimpo. The program is called Tagalog On Site. They used to be based in Palawan, but because of the recent events here, they had to transfer to Laguna due to parental concerns. Anyways, they have a "No Talent" night so Bing (who by the way played the psychic neighbor in last night's episode of Maaalala Mo Kaya) wanted to perform it with one of the other teacher/facilitators. I wish I was there to see it. I've never watched it performed, for some reason I've always been part of every reading of it. Watching someone perform what you wrote would be so cool, di ba? Anyways, yun lang for now. Too much to kwento. Keep checking back for more on what I've been reading:)
