A First: William Shakespeare's King Lear in Filipino

(PETA Press Release)

MANILA, Philippines – William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest global dramatist ever. His works has prompted so many adaptations and retellings and has been articulated in many different forms and languages. However, we Filipinos have never seen one of his greatest plays, King Lear, done in graceful liquid Tagalog prose – until now.

After the back-to-back success of Philippine Educational Theater Association’s (PETA) Shakespeare rap musical ‘William’ and its box office comedy-drama ‘Care Divas’, PETA opens 2012 with another brave opus: the first-ever Filipino adaptation of William Shakespeare’s evocative masterpiece, King Lear.

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Rub Ribs & BBQ

I'm such a meat eater.  If normal people would easily get full in eating at meat buffet's I guess, I'm just not that normal.  Although, I don't really eat much rice with it.

So, when we decided to have lunch out at we wanted to try out Rub Ribs & BBQ in Tomas Morato, I was just excited!

They have good Baby Back Ribs and it's easy on the pocket!  Their Super Duo is already good for 2 or even 3 and it's only for Php 350.00.  And it really tastes so good.  It was easy to take the bones out.

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White Elephant Gift Exchange

In most of the exchange gifts or Holiday parties I have attended during the last Holiday season (2011), instead of the usual picking of the name in advanced and thinking of a gift for that person or getting the gift on his or her wish list, we had the white elephant exchange gift instead.

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The Jagged Barn Looks Forward to a Jaggier 2012

2011 was such a challenge for The Jagged Barn.  After about 10 months of hiatus, I was not sure how to bring readers back, generate new followers and reconnect with the blogosphere once more.

The main reason The Jagged Barn’s stats went down is because I did not post for almost a year.  Thank God for the Blogger App being available in the App Store and it’s free!  Thus, it inspired me to continue blogging.

It was already during the last quarter of 2011 when the fire was ignited to blog again.  I guess that was better than not going back at all.  At least, it was before my blog’s second anniversary and I have blogging friends once more to celebrate with me.

I also started doing a couple of blog meme’s to connect with others more, like Nail of the Day, Wordless and Watery Wednesdays.

It was also nice to blog again about stuff I love like theater, food, shopping and travel.  It was also cool that it was my first time to blog about a concert and be a sponsor of a blog giveaway!

Even if 2011 was already 75% over before I came back from a long silence, it was still eventful for me and makes me look forward to 2012!  I guess, it never is too late to start again, as long as you take that step and start.

Let us not forget the lessons of 2011 as we face 2012 a little bit wiser and a little bit jaggier.

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