TIL: Crying over a Podcast

While taking a long rest from checking my students' essay, I happen to check (as a habit) my Twitter list and had the chance to see a Marcos-related tweet. This was about him not attending the COMELEC hearing regarding his disqualification cases. 

Well, anyways... enough about that, I have reserved another platform for political stuff and Livejournal is reserved for my personal and academic posts (hehe).

Anyways, while looking and reading and scanning lots of links about the Martial Law Era, hoping to stumble upon something interesting, I saw a link directed to a Spotify Podcast of Ricky Lee, a Filipino-Chinese scriptwriter who won numerous awards for films including Himala, Jaguar, and Anak among others. He has worked with Ishmael Bernal, and Lino Brocka who are considered to be the best directors during the 1970s and 1980s also known as the 2nd Golden Age of Philippine Cinema.

Ricky Lee, award-winning writer and icon of Philippine cinema

Listen to this episode from The Howie Severino Podcast on Spotify. What's on the mind of the great Ricky Lee? With almost 200 films under his belt including the classics Himala, Jaguar, and Anak, Ricky Lee is no doubt an icon of Philippine cinema. In this episode, we learn more about his creative...

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I was fortunate to have been mentored for 3 hours by Mr. Ricky Lee. However, I did not took his workshop seriously maybe because I just wanted to listen and know him- all out of curiosity. Now looking back at my younger self, I really wanted to kick my old self as hard as I can because I missed the opportunity to embrace and adapt his knowledge and skill. It was unfortunate but since it happened in the past, all I can do was just ask lots of "what ifs"... and read his Trip To Quiapo book over and over again.

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