Dear Friend,

Thank you very much for visiting. This March, this website/blog turns a year old with almost 10,000 visitors. I hope you are finding something here worth reading and exploring. THere are many recommendable websites on the sidebar of the webpages; please visit them as well.

2011 is a year of new things. I left teaching. If you haven't noticed, there is a huge time gap between my March blog and the one prior. It was my months of intense rethinking of where I was taking my life. Teaching was no longer bringing me the value that I needed at this time of my working career. I wanted to stay in education, especially Adult Education, but in a different capacity. As soon as the new year started, I went back to management.

I hope you started your 2011 with a cornucopia of hope and dreams for yourself, your relations, and for the world. Indeed, we are amidst many challenges, the likes of which we have never seen before. As the virtual universe brings our quotidian realities to each other's doorsteps, we become more cognizant of the plight of people in so many corners of our global village.

Another year, another voyage. In this website, I have included a BLOG, so that I don't have to maintain too many sites. I have created a simple website that includes information about my books, and also, updates on the goings-on in my work and literary life. You, as a reader, will also have the opportunity to post your thoughts in several comment boxes. I would love to hear from you. This is a very personal website. As you know, I design and develop my own websites, so be rest assured that your being here is like being in my physical home. There are also a lot of pictures here, including ones of my close-knit family.

I thank you for your visit. I hope that you enjoy this website. Good luck on your own voyage in life. I hope, whatever it is that you carve in life, you do in the goodness of your life and of those around you. Peace.

A poem for your voyage: "Filipineza" in The Nation.

Bino

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From The Blog

No Me Quitte Pas

Since my father left, I know less and less people from that era. The oldest is a 91 year old friend from Montclair, with whom I have kept in touch over the years through penned letters and cards. From her, I recreate a world that is lost now, one full of trust and self sacrifice.

myKindle and the Book Experience

The first book I downloaded was “War of the Worlds,” a sci-fi classic I had always wanted to read and whose movie versions where convoluted and polemical. I thought it would be the first perfect reading given the situation’s proclivity to the magic of science. My hands didn’t look for the edges of paper that they were so accustomed to turn.

E-books, E-readers, I-phones, and the E-virgins

Every day now, I see people on the train with E-readers. It is becoming an accessory worth flaunting in public. First, there was the nano, and now that everyone has an I-pod, here comes Nook and Kindle, and all their lesser stepsisters. I am beginning to reconsider my decision not to get one, especially after I found out that my first novel has gone E-book.

On Work: “Tenemos Alegria”

I found the struggle and the dream in the faces of the Mexicans in LA, the target of the emerging American fascism. While the rest of us, many immigrants as well, watch with disengagement in one of four plasma TVs, the horrors of legislative bills against this demographic, they continue to do what they need to survive, work, work despite everything, work at all cost.

What's New?

The Philippine Edition of The Gods We Worship Live Next Door received the 28th Philippine National Book Award for Poetry in November, 2009 from the National Book Development Board and Manila Critic's Circle. The collection was orginally published by Utah Press in 2006 as a recipient of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, and was released by Anvil Publishing in the Philippines in 2008. The Philippine National Book Awards honors the best books published in the Philippines in 2008. The Gods We Worship Live Next Door is technically Realuyo's first book published in the Philippines. Purchase information for the U.S. edition is available on this website. Other winners are listed here on Manila Times. Sample poem in The Nation.

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