Tsok is Putingtupa

PLANET ZIPS brings back SPINDEPENDENCE! A celebration of the free
flowing arts! Free.Flow.Go on APRIL 27,Friday 5pm-10:30pm at the
Greenbelt 3 square (across Starbucks and Havana). Sounds by COSMIC
LOVE, dj CHELU and performances by PLANET ZIPS, tribal percussion band
BAHAGHARI, and ESCOLA BRASILEIRA de CAPOEIRA! Free entrance and free
Zipping clinics and the first official PLANET ZIPS FIRE COMPETITION!

Spindependence 3 is sponsored by Pepsi, Beach Hut, Havaianas, David
and Goliath, and C2

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Video: Show us a movie, show or video that inspired you to try something new. 
Submitted by Ross.  

Madonna - Nothing Really Matters Club 69 Remix (Strype)

This Madonna video inspired me to learn fire poi. Watch out for that Japanese guy doing it.

If you could eat anything you wanted, and not have to worry about gaining weight/being unhealthy/inhumane, what would you totally pig out on? 
Submitted by Jay.

Lechon

I'd sooooo totally definitely pig out on pig!!! I love CnT Lechon in Cebu, Philippines. Lechon baboy is native roasted pig and that is probably my most favoritest thing on that island. I can finish a pound of this thing in one sitting.

But then, there's that concern about being healthy --- and sexy. Oh well...

What's in a screen/user name? Tell us how you found yours.
Submitted by Bill.

Mine is Puting Tupa. It's Filipino for "white lamb". My surname is Cordero, which is Spanish for lamb. Anyway, it's just I fancy myself a sacrificial lamb. I also think it's sounds kinda cool.

Do you believe there is intelligent life on other planets?

With the amount of unintelligent life (yes, human life) on this planet, one can only hope that there is intelligent life on other planets. That hope keeps me alive thinking I could have intelligent conversations with more than 35 people in my lifetime. So yes, I believe.

Just wanna share something that you guys may be interested in. If you're looking for something to do in the summer, I suggest you try zip-ping. Zips are actually fabric poi. And poi is a traditional Maori dance from New Zealand.

I started zip-ping last year. I told myself I need to learn a new skill and that's exactly what I did. I was particularly interested in fire poi. On the first week of January 2006 I attended my first class and before the end of January I was already firedancing.

Here are some pics of me doing fire poi in class as well as some pics taken during our company Christmas Party.

Zipping is so much fun! Helped me lose a lot of weight, too.

So go ahead, try it. I promise you'll love it. It's a real nice feeling when you can show off a skill that involves playing with fire, don't you think? ;-)

Anyway, if you're interested, go get yourself a pair of zips. More information in the PlanetZips website at www.planetzips.com. You can also visit planetzips.multiply.com for more pics. We also are going to hold a zip-ping event this April. Will keep you guys posted regarding when and where it will be.

Zip on! 

I just got back home from guesting at a cable TV show. Got invited to ANC Life, a lifestyle program of ABS-CBN News Channel. The segment featured IndieSine, the Robinsons Galleria moviehouse dedicated to showing independent features from local Filipino filmmakers. IndieSine is showing "Anak ng Tinapa" this week until Tuesday. "Tinapa" is the full-length indie feature we did 2 years ago.

I was with Ogi, my friend who is also the writer of the movie. The segment was real brief and Daphne (the host) asked me like, uhm, 3 questions. I slightly goofed around just as I always do in these TV guestings (did it last January, too). I told Daphne I prefer acting in these indie features over commercial movies because it was more artsy. I also told her I do pro bono indie schtuff because I'm a passionate actor who doesn't need the money as I have a good day job. That was it, really. It was nice, though. I never really imagined I would be guesting in a lifestyle show talking about a movie I acted in.  

Oh yeah, I feel so famous now. I'm such a star. I love me. Ahahaha!!!

Seriously though, in case you are in the Philippines, please do support our movie. It's showing until Tuesday at the Cinema 8 of Robinsons Galleria. 

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So I am posting a picture of my close-up smile here just because I am proud of how my teeth looks like. Also because it's too hot for me to sleep and for some reason our cable TV doesn't work. Freak! Anyway, just don't mind the pores on my nose. Ahahaha!!! 

Hooray to dental health!!!

Have you noticed a climate change in the area where you live over the past few years?

I have. The heat is just sometimes unbearable. And there would be some days when it's really cold in the morning when it shouldn't be. I believe in climate change but I am not too crazy about the whole catastrophic prophesying of some people. I think that most of the doomsday fuss is really politically-driven too. I think we have to strike a good balance between saving mother earth and letting big corporate companies dupe small countries into installing expensive climate-change-stopping-devices when there are other cheaper ways to do it.

Global warming is real. But so are opportunists. And opportunists have been in existence way before the word climate was even uttered.  

When you go out to eat, how do you pick where to go?
Submitted by Kristine.

I usually ask who I am with for their preference. But if they don't have one, I basically decide based on whatever I'm in the mood for. And that usually means anything spicy-Mediterranean, or spicy-Asian.

Yum.