Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

Finally home after some 6 weeks in Baclayon, Bohol!

And an update on Kitty3:  Because my mom didn’t want to have another (female) cat, we earlier thought of bringing the tiny kitten along with us to Bohol. I rang up the cargo section of Cebu Pacific and was told that I can’t hand-carry the kitten and that I will need to keep the kitten in a cage/kennel, and have a Vet’s certificate as well! It was simply not enough describing to the cargo section that what I had was a really tiny kitten …

So, with fingers crossed, I decided to bring Kitty3 to my aunt for safekeeping until we return. I wasn’t sure if she’d be welcome in my aunt’s house since people could be busy. Besides, there are dogs in the house too.

Just a day before our flight to Bohol, we took Kitty3 to my aunt’s house and their househelper was so kind enough to take Kitty3! We were so relieved! At the same time, we were worried that Kitty3 wouldn’t survive … she had just started to eat solid food.

When we arrived from Bohol 6 weeks later, we headed to auntie’s house to check on Kitty3. Here is a photo of her:

The little kitten is now a little monster who chases away the dogs in the house!

Also, my aunt loves Kitty3 and wants to keep her - in fact, everybody in the house loves Kitty3. Wow!

So, after that trip to my aunt’s, we decided to go to my mom’s to check out KittyKitty. Here’s a photo of her:

What used to be a little KittyKitty is now a gigantic, big, fat, frisky cat!

Of course, just when we are about to leave for Bohol, a new Kitty shows up!

And she looks so much like Kitty1 and KittyKitty! Another pain in the ass when she grows up no doubt!

Hello everyone,

I’d just like to announce Edward’s new website -

Edward’s Compatibility Club -A website about interpretation and the future - at http://korakora.org/edward/

*  About Edward’s Compatibility Club
http://korakora.org/edward/about/

* Some advice on The Consultation
http://korakora.org/edward/some-advice-on-the-consultation/

* Why “Compatibility”?
http://korakora.org/edward/why-compatibility/

Please have a visit and ask Edward to make a reading for you and your
friends. And please pass on to all who might be interested!

Cheers!
Fatima for Edward’s Compatibility Club

Dear friends,

As a follow-up  from the last NIPPS (National Intellectual Property Policy and Strategy) National Forum held June 17 organized by The Third World Network, there will be a Kuro-Kuro (small-group discussion) to those who are interested, on the Digital Workplace, 23 September, 2pm, at TWN/Tebtebba office, Rm 333, Eagle Court Condominium, 26 Matalino Street, Quezon City.

I will introduce the issues and initiate discussion on copyright and its effects on our use of digital technologies, and hope that people can also share their experiences and concerns on “the digital workplace.”

In that meeting, we will also be discussing the Statement on NIPPS, the draft is now available at the “Kuro’t Palaisipan” website http://www.korakora.org/kuro- I have also archived there the past Kuro meetings (in Manila, GenSan and Davao).

I would also be more than happy to discuss any work-related or personal issues regarding the ethics of technology use (whether for advocacy, personal purpose, business, etc).. If we can all throw in issues we’d like to take up in advance, all the better so I can prepare - just let me know thru .

Hopefully, we may also be able to discuss “An alternative primer on national and international copyright law in the global South: eighteen questions and answers” by Alan Story. Alan is chairperson of the CopySouth Research Group and Network and he has written an excellent Primer on Copyright Law, unmasking the dangers (economic and social) of the copyright regime as a one-size-fits-all formula for development in the global south.

Please email Elpidio Peria if you are coming, so snacks can be reserved.

Best wishes,
Fatima

I wanted to write something about looking after myself again, but it won’t …

I just wanted to say -

I still don’t understand it today, just as I didn’t understand it four years ago when someone told me that I shouldn’t marginalize myself. I supposed then that the remark came out of my post-colonial ramblings, or perhaps my more personal whining. But just a few months later I self-psychologized that perhaps I was asking for help without really knowing it.

At that time my world was - on the outside - a broad exciting one, but from the inside it was really tiny, in effect, a prison. The memory of misery of that time still make me cry and the emotional pain still make me shake in my sleep.

- The female principle is a foolish one, verging on self-destruction, but only in an uncaring unbalanced world.

This is probably the hundredth time, but I’ve just completely re-designed my Crochetology.net website.

At the moment I am still putting texts and photos in it, but I think it is a much better website now. I’ve also re-written much of the previous texts I’ve done, this time, presenting the crocheted objects as solutions or experiments to a given problem.

This way, the website reflects much more closely my own method of working.

There are three categories on the website:

Just to announce that I’ve (almost) completed my on-line archive of electronic music (1999-2002). The last sound work I composed is in 2004 called “*Mga awit mula sa gimokud / Chansons de mes deux âmes* - It is actually a sound installation (the sound piece runs indefinitely and is composed of two different sound sources) and I placed a 4-minute recorded excerpt in my website.

The archive is at http://www.korakora.org/node/39 - please share with your friends who love music.