eKsite.com : A Kapampangan Collaborative Blog on Pampanga Arts & Culture
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eK! is electronic Kabalen, a Pampanga-based web-exclusive Kapampangan journal of ideas. It addresses itself to the local and global kabalen and to readers all over the world who share an affinity for and an interest in Pinoy culture, art, society, and Kapampanganiana.
eK! is an attempt to reflect in words and images more fully and vividly the variety and vitality of what constitutes the current Kapampangan state of mind by providing an open venue for the most compelling visions and voices in the Kapampangan planet today. It is, in this sense, a standing invitation to the best Kapampangan minds of this generation.
eK! is published exclusively on the world wide web.
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Languages
English, Kapampangan, Tagalog
Editorial board
- Titus Toledo - Chief eK!
- Rosendo M Makabali - Editor-in-Chief
- Eduardo "Edd" Borromeo Leal - Business Manager
- Juan Carlo Toledo - Advertising Graphics
Contributing columnists
- Minerva Zamora Arceo
- [is a 31 year-old mother of three. She earned degrees in Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications-Major in Journalism and in Bachelor of Arts in Film and Audio-Visual at UP Baguio and at UP Diliman. She was a full-time journalist from 1998 to 2004, writing for the daily Sun.Star Pampanga newspaper. Before her current stint as Executive Director of the Advocacy for the Development of Central Luzon (ADCL), a non-stock, non-profit regional organization, she served as Provincial Information Officer (PIO) during the term of Pampanga Governor Mark T. Lapid. At present, she manages to engage in advocacy work to promote culture and the arts, even while writing a column every Monday and Tuesday for the Punto! Gitnang Luzon newspaper and hosting a daily radio program, "Kuwentong Buhay, Kuwentong Bahay" (11AM. to 12NN on DWGV-AM, 792 khz).]
- Joan Ariete
- [was born and bred in Lubao, Pampanga. She earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of the Philippines-Diliman in 2004. She worked as a junior writer for Summit Publishing's YES! Magazine from 2005-2006. She is currently collaborating with a friend on a photo-documentary featuring the Burmese community of New York. She currently lives in New York City.]
- Marcial Tayag Caniones
- [a Political Science graduate, is assistant manager at the Community Extension Services Office of Clark Development Corporation. He was born on the 10th of July, 42 years ago, became vegetarian 18 years ago, started serious reading 10 years ago, and began writing three years ago. He admits to being ugly but claims to ooze with sex appeal.]
- Nenette De Dios Capulong
- [works as a medical billing supervisor at Children's Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. She has been living in Westminster, Colorado for 12 years. She is the second child among the five offsprings of Monico and Gena Capulong. A mother of three, a grandma of three as well, she is a proud survivor of brain cancer. She has hundreds of friends around the world, among whom is fellow eK! columnist Cecille Yumul. She confesses to an addiction to eksite.com and IM.]
- Alex R Castro
- [has been an adman all his professional life. Presently, he is a business director of Makati-based Jimenez Basic Advertising. His job has taken him around the world, training in New York, London, working in Asia and Australia, and living in Bangkok for 4 years. Yet, Mabalacat, his hometown, continues to be his favorite place on earth. So much so that in January 2006, he singlehandedly researched, wrote, designed, and published a book of his town's history, titled Scenes from a Bordertown & Other Views/Views from the Pampang & Other Scenes. The twin book also featured Pampanga-themed pictorial essays that previously saw print in his column for Sun.Star-Pampanga. When not writing advertising copy, he does consultancy work for the Center for Kapampangan Studies at Holy Angel University, collects antiques and books, and tends to his two cats, Uma and Pikachu. A true nerd, he received his Communications degree from St. Louis University in Baguio City and was named as one of the Philippines' Oustanding Students of Communications by the Broadcast Media Council and KBP (Kapisanan ng mga Broadcaster sa Pilipinas.]
- Elmer Gozun Cato
- [is a Kapampangan journalist turned diplomat known for his advocacy of responsible and responsive journalism in a media career that spans more than 15 years. He first made a name for himself in 1983 when as a 16-year old college freshman became a cub reporter for the crusading newspaper Ang Pahayagang Malaya during the martial law regime of former President Ferdinand Marcos. At 21, he became one of the youngest newspaper publishers in the Philippines when he founded the Angeles Sun in 1988. His journalist experience included stints as correspondent and desk editor in various local, national, regional, and international news organizations, including the Manila Chronicle, the Philippine Daily Globe, Reuters, and GMA News. In 1991, he became one of the first Kapampangan journalists to go overseas when he became a reporter for the Saudi Gazette in Jeddah. In 1997, he became Executive Editor of the Indonesian Observer in Jakarta. He later published K, the Kapampangan Magazine. In 1998, he joined the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) after placing eighth in the Foreign Service Officers Examination. He served in various capacities most prominent of which were as special assistant to two former Secretaries of Foreign Affairs--Domingo L. Siazon Jr. and Vice President Teofisto T. Guingona Jr.; as spokesman and later officer in charge of the Presidential Commission on the Visiting Forces Agreement; and later as head of the Regional Consular Office of the DFA in Clark Field. He has been based in New York since 2003 where he serves as Second Secretary with the Philippine Mission to the United Nations.]
- Wilfrido David
- [first retired as Computer-Analyst from the Ayala Group of Companies. He immigrated to the US in 1985, worked there for another 25 years in the Medical Field (Medical Lab Tech), until he retired for the second time. Sometime ago, he was involved with FAANM (Filipino-American Association of New Mexico) as correspondent-contributor-writer-editor, publisher---all rolled into one. He says about that stint, "I ran out of energy, patience, and money but kept on with my duties until the next set of association officers were voted in." The earliest writing he did was for his high school paper in Holy Angel University. His present writing derives from the perspective of a Filipino expat in the US who faithfully keeps up with what's happening in the home country, as gleaned from his Filipino channels on DirecTV, aside from CNN and HLN.]
- Jose Angeles Dayrit
- [a.k.a. Jad was born on March 17, 1944 (proudly a Piscean) in San Francisco, Mabalacat, Pampanga. He was educated in mostly Mabalacat elementary and secondary schools, but in college he went to Feati University in Manila and Holy Angel University in Angeles City, where he later taught as college instructor in various engineering subjects (Physics, Mathematics, Psychology, Geology, Ecology, and Nuclear Engineering). He also had a stint as folk guitar teacher at the Holy Family Academy. While at Mabalacat Institute he taught Physics, Chemistry, and Trigonometry. He was once employed as surveyor, construction inspector, and engineer-in-charge of Plans and Specifications by Honiron Phils. at Clark Air Base. Much later, around the time he was municipal councilor in his hometown, Jad served as secretary general of the Pampanga Mayor's League (PML). He now serves as executive assistant under Mabalacat mayor Marino "Boking" P. Morales. Jad writes a regular column (Fulcrum) for Pampanga News.]
- Bong Z Lacson
- [writes a daily column, Zona Libre, for Punto! Gitnang Luzon. He is chair of the Society of Pampanga Columnists.]
- Jason Paul C Laxamana
- [is producer of RocKapampangan, an album of Kapampangan songs remade by local rock bands to allow Kapampangan to penetrate the consciousness of the urban Kapampangan youth. He is an independent cultural worker seeking to empower Kapampangan by bringing it (and attempt to make it dominant) in pop culture.]
- Eduardo Borromeo Leal
- [economist and author of innumerable business tracts, he handles the business affairs of eK! and manages a popular Angeles City-based pizzeria in his spare time.]
- Rosendo Mamaril Makabali
- [is literary editor of spread, a website dedicated to new underground guerrilla exploratory art + literature in the new medium. He has published poetry in several Philippine print magazines and online. A few of his poems appear in Slam the Body Politik, the Revolutionary Multi-Arts, Multi-Media CD ROM released in 2004 by the Australia-based Synaptic Graffiti Collective. A chapbook of his, Last Words and Other Poems, came out in 2005, as a grant under the UBOD New Authors Series project of the National Committee on Literary Arts (2001-2004) of the National Commission on Culture and the Arts.]
- Pio Rafael T. Nepomuceno
- [has a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communications, Major in Broadcast Journalism, from Angeles University Foundation. In March 2009, he successfully defended his thesis entitled, "The Relationship Between Mass Media Usage and the Degree of Aculturization of Angeles University Foundation Filipino-American Students." Born in Washington, DC, this certified gamer spends his free time watching The History Channel and listening to The Beatles and Queen.]
- Papa Osmubal (Oscar Balajadia)
- [of Magalang, now Macau resident and married to a Chinese local. He has been a Catholic seminarian, Catholic missionary, bookstore staff, teaching assistant, and teacher. Currently at daytime he is the Assistant Librarian at The International School of Canada in Macau, while at nighttime he moonlights as part-time teacher and tutor. His poems have appeared in various anthologies and publications, online and hardcopy. He has work archived in the University of Columbia Granger's World of Poetry and other places. A work of his will also appear in the forthcoming W.W. Norton Poetry Anthology of Contemporary Voices from the East. He is a contributing writer to Chick Flicks, Our Own Voice (OOV): Writing from the Filipino Diaspora, and other publications.]
- Rox Peña
- [a writes a weekly column for Sun Star Pampanga. He is a 2004 Most Outstanding Kapampangan Awardee for Engineering (Environment).]
- Tony Mercado Peña
- [is a bilingual writer, in English and in Kapampangan. He hails from Sasmuan, Pampanga. He has been accorded various literary awards such as First Place in the Tagisan King Poesia hosted by Gawad Komisyon 2007, Republika Ng Pilipinas at the Bayview Park Hotel, Roxas Boulevard, Manila, where he introduced a couple of poetic genres, tanka and haiku, in the vernacular literature. He was also bestowed the Most Outstanding Kapampangan Award 2007 (MOKA) in Culture at the Arts at City of San Fernando, Pampanga. He charges his pen with the redeeming literary significance to resuscitate his dying language back to life. His "K" poetry is a galvanizing medium, a mighty weapon battling the lingual windmills that overwhelm the Kapampangan nation.]
- Susan T Pineda
- [is a social activist and a feminist. Academically, she graduated with a degrees in BS Psychology and Bachelor of Laws. She took Methods of Teaching and an under-graduate of Masters Degree in Public Administration at the University of the Philippines. She is author of 'Moving Forward with GAD!,' published by NCRFW and UNICEF, and the 'Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act (RA 9262) or Anti-VAWC Handbook.' Honed by years of being a youth leader and as city councilor, she now serves as full-time executive director of IMA Foundation where she supervises the day-to-day operations and management of the center. She also acts as a counselor and paralegal adviser. She was a project consultant for NCRFW and UNIFEM. She represented the country in various UN conferences on women and environment and acted as resource person on these endeavors. What challenges her, as a woman leader is the multiple-burden role of women, being a public servant/NGO worker, intertwined with the demands of bringing-up a family in a very challenging society. Susan is happily married to her supportive husband, Marlon, and has two girl children, Ayah and Mira (ages 13 and 6).]
- Christine C Salas
- [graduated AB Mass Communication at the Angeles University Foundation. At 23, she has already been a college instructor, an English tutor, a periodic writer, a compulsive photographer, a university-based publication editor, and a radio station manager. She is currently an amateur mom (and bum), looking for a "lucrative way to pay back her Maker--creative or otherwise."]]
- Luciano PR Santiago
- [is a graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. He trained in both Adult and Child Psychiatry at the Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, MD. He is now in private practice in Metro Manila. In his spare time, he researches and writes on Philippine history, art, and culture. Among the awards he has received are the National Book Awards for Art and for History from the Manila Critics Circle.]
- Erlinda B Sialongo
- [has been teaching English and literature subjects for 33 years. She has a BSE in English from the Ateneo de Davao, an M.A.Ed degree, major in English, and a Ph.D in Educational Management from the Angeles University Foundation, Angeles City, and a certificate of special training (Family Planning and Responsible Parenthood, Public Administration, Production of Instructional Materials) from Xavier University, Cagayan de Oro City. She also has special training on journalism. She taught English as a Foreign Language in Severobaikalsk, Russia, for seven years and authored a book, 'Personally Yours,' about her life in Russia. She is author of various articles and researches, and has co-authored and edited four textbooks. She has traveled to Mongolia, China, South Korea, Kazahkstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgistan, India, Vietnam, and has been to Hong Kong, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, and Amsterdam.]
- Jun Sibug
- [Even in college, Paterno C. Sibug Jr., was known as Jun Sibug. He took his elementary education at Holy Family Academy, his high schooling at the former Sacred Heart Seminary, and spent college at the University of the Philippines. Mr. Sibug now lives in Chicago, Illinois and is presently working as a Pension Benefit Administrator. His main references are mostly books from the Newberry Library Filipiniana Collections and University of Illinois in Chicago. He cares about history, and is always proud to have been born a Pampango.]
- Abel D Soto
- [took up his certificatory double major course in Creative Writing and Performing Arts at Centre for Arts Foundation, Inc. in Quezon City. He also finished the Managing the Arts Program at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City. He is a resident of Bacolor, Pampanga.]
- Aida Tanglao
- [is a U.S.-based Kapampangan Filipino American. She has lived and worked in different communities in Pampanga, Manila, and in Nigeria when the Philippines was under a regime of civil rights suppression. She studied in public and private Philippine institutions (Lourdes Elementary School, Holy Angel University, University of Sto. Tomas), went to graduate school at Angeles University Foundation, and attended local colleges in the U.S. She currently does "action research," and catches up on what she missed in the meagerly filled libraries in Pampanga, particularly at the Pampanga High School (formerly Jose Abad Santos High School) where she taught for more than a decade. At age 27, she became a single mother to five children; she is now a grandmother to eight. Her personal and educational backgrounds provide the impetus for her to reach out and help in instilling cultural, moral, and historical consciousness among her people and in advocating correct child rearing approaches. She has embraced into her motherhood and patriotic obligations working for the Filipino's aspirations to spiritual and human liberation and contentment.]
- Titus Toledo
- [is creator of spread, among other precarities. As of this writing, he digs crispy begukan, code art, semiotics, guerrilla marketing, and Slaraffenland---in that order. Toledo has published extensively in concord.]
- Tec Sanchez-Tolosa
- [is a full-blooded Kapampangan and a mother of three. A member of Pinoypoets since 2006, she is the author of the Kapampangan poetry collection "Ing Bie Kung Delanan, Ing Bie Kung Balikan (2006)." Some of her poems have been published in emanilapoetry and the online poetry journal Makata. While enrolled in her M.A. Creative Writing program, she was included in the anthology Sleepless in Manila. Tec is also a seasoned medical writer, with printed works in health publications and major dailies. She worked briefly with the ABS-CBN Foundation as a scriptwriter/researcher in the early stages of Sine'skwela. Raised in Manila and educated in St. Theresa's College during her formative years, she is a product of the University of the Philippines-Diliman, where she graduated with a B.S. in Biology. She later became a Doctor of Medicine and trained in diseases of the skin, hair and nails. She is now a Philippine Dermatological Society (PDS) Board-certified Dermatology specialist with an active practice in San Fernando, Pampanga and Quezon City.]
- J Reylan Bustos Viray
- [teaches Philosophy, Literature, and Humanities at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Sta. Mesa, Manila. He is a native of Masantol, Pampanga. He is a lifetime member of the International Society for Philosophers based in the University of Sheffield (UK), Philippine Association of Teachers of Culture and the Arts, and Philippine Association of Teachers of History and Rizal. He is also a member of Pinoy Poets, Philosophical Association of the Philippines, and Society of Asian Comparative Philosophy (USA). Some of Mr. Viray's poetry appeared in published journals and online journals in the country. He has published monographs dealing with Postmodern Philosophy, Jean Francois Lyotard's Philosophy, Epistemology and Filipino Philosophy. Mr. Viray lives in Fairview, Quezon City with his wife and two bubbly daughters.]
- Imelda Cruz-Wood
- [is a native of Santa Rita Pampanga. A graduate of BSC Economics, she was able to use her Economics course for two years and from then on pursued her real interest---writing. She was first employed as product researcher for Graphic Arts Service Inc., then one of two major publishing companies in the Philippines. When opportunity knocked, she grabbed the chance to be trained as writer and editor for the same company. For eight years, she was writing and at the same time editing comics scripts and short stories in prose (1988 to 1996). From 1996 to 1997, she was appointed food editor for a weekly English women's magazine, called Chic, and eventually became its editor for eight years before migrating to New Zealand in 2004. She continued writing a monthly column for St. Paul Publication's Homelife magazine until July 2009.]
- Cecile S Yumul
- [is a veteran award winning Broadcast Journalist, a visionary teacher (Most Outstanding Teacher of the Philipines in 1992), a nationalist (Most Outstanding Kapampangan for Education in 1993), an environmentalist, and a dedicated daughter. She has over 35 years experience in the field of arts as an actor, director, and author. She is a published writer (Woman's Magazine) of essays, poems, short stories, and social commentaries. She currently resides in Lakandula, Mabalacat, Pampanga with her Mother, 18 dogs, doves, and bonsais.]
Other Channels on eK!
- Keni@Ngeni - a daily mashup of Pampanga news and reviews: Breaking news and reviews from Pampanga, Angeles City, Central Luzon, Philippines, and the world. Ini ing bie (Kapampangan picture of the day), Balita-balita (Daily news), Balikbalen (Featured Pampanga hometown of the day), ekusina (Featured Kapampangan recipe of the day), eboto (Daily poll), ekalendaryu (Pampanga events calendar).
- indioTV - The Kapampangan Indie Web TV: A free public splashcast channel of independently-produced, Kapampangan-worthy shared media on the net.
- Blogganisa - Let's get live and local: A Pampanga community blog slash bulletin board slash guestbook slash public forum slash shoutbox slash post-it note all rolled up into one meaty joint.
- eKcyclopedia - The six-word Kapampangan encyclopedia.
- Versilog - New Kapampangan poetry.
- Palengke - The Kapampangan Business & Professional Registry: A human-edited, subscriber-based vertical directory of Pampanga-based and Kapampangan-related businesses and professionals
- Tiangge - Our little Kapampangan sari-sari store on the web: An impossible mishmash of innumerable goods for your inconspicuous capitalist consumption: bookware, software, kitchenware, hawkware, and sundry. In association with Amazon.
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