The Philippines' biggest bookstore, the Manila International Book Fair, happens only once a year and its ongoing until tomorrow, Sept. 3, at the World Trade Center on Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. cor. Roxas Blvd., Pasay City. My friend, who's the event's publicist, sent this announcement to me: "Touted as the country’s biggest annual bookstore’, the MIBF is sprawled on approximately 12,000 square meters of exhibit space, with 111 participants together under one roof – from publishers to book retailers like National Bookstore, Powerbooks, Goodwill Bookstore and ... Continue Reading...
Archives for September 2006
Revisiting The University
USTshots I visited my university after a long time again last week and as what usually happens in this case, it brought back old memories. Of course it's been yearssss since I graduated and I only studied here for a relatively short four years. Still it's hard to imagine the kind of person I would have been today if I didn't have the label "college graduate" to speak of. You see, I almost didn't finish college. It was brought by the fact that I was already working in the newspaper in my junior year and the adrenaline of chasing the news had swept me off ... Continue Reading...
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