Crimson Crux

Today is the first day of the week-long 9th UST-CCWS National Writers’ Workshop, and as luck would have it, I’m one of the workshop’s Fellows (for the English Creative Non-Fiction category).

I learned that I’ve been accepted a few weeks ago (see my Multiply blog post), although it was only last week that UST formally announced the Fellows on the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

This is my second literary workshop after graduating from the LIRA Filipino poetry clinic and being sworn in as one of the organization’s newest members.

Wish me luck!

StarCraft was the very first game I popped into my very first computer (yes, I started quite late — I was in first year of high school). The years haven’t sullied the great gaming memories from ‘98-’99, and those memories are almost exclusively StarCraft memories — Zergling rushes, jaw-dropping Blizzard cinematics, mostly one-sided Battle.net matches (with me on the losing end), and so on.

Which is why I’m proudly displaying that banner above. It’s actually part of the new Blizzard “I <3 SC" Photo Mosaic contest that celebrates the franchise’s ten-year anniversary (as well as drum up publicity for the upcoming StarCraft 2).

I won’t be joining the contest. Rather, this post is just a little tribute to one heck of a game…the game that made me a gamer.

I’m now serving as the Editor of the Web’s “oldest blog directory”, EatonWeb. The site is one of Splashpress Media’s prime properties.

Taking from the directory’s About page:

As the oldest blog directory on the web, Eatonweb is the perfect place to establish your blog’s online authority. But what really sets EatonWeb apart is the way we measure and display the importance of blogs in our directory.

Each blog receives three rankings: strength, momentum and overall.

I share the day-to-day duties with fellow Pinoy problogger J. Angelo Racoma, SP Media’s Editor-in-Chief and EatonWeb’s manager.

Membership at EatonWeb is free, although there is a review fee for each submission in order to maintain the quality of the directory. (Yep, we do write reviews for each blog!)

Visit EatonWeb today.