For those who have been following me on this site, I know I have been guilty of not updating this page for almost a month now. I do apologise for that. Without offering any excuse, I guess I was just pretty well tied up with other web-related projects which included setting up a community blogs at The Filipino Australian Blogs as well as "renovating" and optimising our poetry website plus other myriad of web-related tasks. I will write … [Read more...]
An invitation to Filpress members to join our community blogs site
December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dear fellow Filpress-ers I would like to extend my personal invitation to everyone to join us in our community blogs site at http://blogs.thefilipinoaustralian.com The community blogs site aims to be your mass medium to share your thoughts on any topics in your areas of interest. You may also use it "to vent your anger over an atrocity against your own" as Jimmy wrote with regard to our current Filpress campaign to help the victims' … [Read more...]
Happy birthday, emanilapoetry!
June 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Did you know that emanilagroup's poetry site, emanilapoetry, turned last Friday? We officially launched the site on 19 June 2005 using a news publishing script which allowed members to post their works using their own password-protected username. In February 2006, we released our first anthology of poems selected from our poetry site. There were 101 poems included in the anthology from 55 contributors. Today, we have more than 10,000 posts … [Read more...]
The correct use of ng and nang
March 16, 2009 By 28 Comments
A blog on the correct use of 'ng' and 'nang' is something I have been planning to do for sometime. But other things got on the way which relegated this idea on the background. Given the increasing popularity of Tagalog / Filipino not only in the blogosphere but even in real community life, I think we can now pursue the idea. I did a quick search on Google and Yahoo just to make sure we are not replicating what is already available on the … [Read more...]
Poetry editing and punctuation
March 9, 2009 By 27 Comments
Poetry is a great form of self-expression. It is a special form of writing which allows you, the writer, to say or write practically anything with short lines, long lines, rhymes or in whatever style you want. Although I don't want to use the word "licence", still I would say that poetry may also be considered your licence to express emotions in a language that you normally do not use in daily talk. But like other forms of writing, the … [Read more...]
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