Rest in peace, dear Ana. God, in his infinite mercy, will hear your poetry.
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Are You Nobody, Too?
- Michael U. Obenieta
- Alter echo: "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" (Ralph Ellison) ... "A zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds." (C.S. Lewis) ... "Nothing human is alien to me." (Terentius) ... "My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers." (Woody Allen) ... "I have my books and my poetry to protect me." (Simon and Garfunkel) ... "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want..." (23rd Psalm) ... "I can believe anything as long as it is incredible." (Oscar Wilde) ... "Let me find pure all that can happen. Only uniqueness is success." (W.H. Auden)
Cinemaniac's Orgy: My Top 50 (excluding Filipino films)
WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders)
THE APU TRILOGY (Satyajit Ray)
ETERNITY AND A DAY (Theo Angelopoulos
IKIRU (Akira Kurosawa)
TOKYO STORY (Yasujiro Ozu)
CHILDREN OF PARADISE (Marcel Carne)
AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD (Werner Herzog)
THREE COLORS (Kryzstof Kieslowski)
THE PIANO (Jane Campion)
LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini)
THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
AMADEUS (Milos Forman)
CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
TALK TO HER (Pedro Almodovar)
MABOROSI (Kore-eda Hirokazu)
PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorcese)
NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (Federico Fellini)
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS (Julian Schnabel)
THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola)
FARGO (Joel Coen)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
NAKED (Mike Leigh)
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson)
VOLVER (Pedro Almodovar)
THE 400 BLOWS (Francois Truffaut)
MAN ON THE TRAIN (Patrice Leconte)
MY LEFT FOOT (Jim Sheridan)
APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Copolla)
THE POSTMAN (Michael Radford)
HAPPINESS (Todd Solonz)
MAGNOLIA (Paul Thomas Anderson)
AMERICAN SPLENDOR (Shari Berman/Robert Pulcini)
TSOTSI (Gavin Hood)
E.T. (Steven Spielberg)
HERO (Zhang Yimou)
GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis)
LEAVING LAS VEGAS (Mike Figgis)
CENTRAL STATION (Walter Salles)
LAST TANGO IN PARIS (Bernardo Bertolucci)
FIREWORKS (Takeshi Kitano)
UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood)
THE TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE (John Huston)
DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terence Malick)
LOVE ACTUALLY (Richard Curtis)
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Norman Jewison)
THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA (Tommy Lee Jones)
VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
RUN LOLA RUN (Tom Tykwer)
EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN (Ang Lee)
where do we come from? What Are We? where are we going?
10 comments:
i'm still in shock, myke :( i refuse to believe this is true
she still has so much to give to make the lives around her a little brighter, and then this darkness. may her soul rest in peace in the light of our prayers.
...to everyone who's lost someone they love long before it's their time. you feel like the days you had were not enough when you said goodbye.
Hello Myke. I read your column today (July 10) on Ana's passing. We barely knew each other, but I could almost feel her pain.
Hi, Haide: So much beauty and joy and sorrow, Ana's life. May her death remind us to be fully alive always. Ayu-ayo!
i know i will see her around. in the little things that spark, that give joy and meaning. goodbye for now, ana.
Hello Uncle Myke--
I don't know if this is just denial, but for some odd reason, to me Ana's passing doesn't seem so final. As if it doesn't really quite end, just like that. As if, more than ever, there's a need to celebrate how vibrantly she lived. As if she would have wanted it that way. I don't know.
Frances
PS How is Larry taking all this?
myke: i am ana's high school friend. we have been out of touch for years but i am shocked at the news of her passing. she and i were close back then. please tell me how she died. our other high school friends are in a frenzy and would like to know. :(
thanks. peaches
Hi, Frances:
Even up to now, Ana remains a palpable presence. Last time we had beer at my despedida, everything was redolent of future tense. She was brimming with poetry, loveliness and a lust for personal flowering and fruition. As for Larry, we had a brief online chat about her death. But our words were groping for question marks and exclamation points.
Hi, Peaches. Sorry, but I'm just as dazed and lost in the dark as you are. I'm presently based in the States, and how I wished I were back in Cebu to connect the dots of her tragedy. She allegedly committed suicide, but they might as well tell me they serve sushi in Pluto.
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