Jessica Zafra's Blog, page 321

See you in Korea

If you're living in Korea or planning a holiday there, come and see the Philippine Volcanoes national men's rugby team do battle with the teams from Korea, Singapore and Malaysia in the A5N Division I tournament. They need your support!

If you're in London, see you at four.

According to Will this elevator at Canary Wharf appears in the Jude Law movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Caffe Nero on Tooley Street near Tower Bridge, 4ish to 7ish. (Ooh near a dungeon! Perfect venue.) We have your books (if you made a reservation). If you didn't, come anyway for the chitchat [...]

Overthinking sort of saves the day!

I went to the Tate Modern to see the Ai Weiwei Sunflower Seeds installation but the exhibit was over and the sunflower seeds had been packed away. So I'm staying in Ryan's flat in Angel and I can't let myself in because the keys can't be duplicated. Every morning Ryan goes to work at around [...]

Momelia's Review: The Curious Sorcery That Is Kaos

We sent our intrepid correspondent Momelia to Newport Theatre at Resorts World Manila to see Kaos, the Vegas-Broadway spectacle. Here is his full report. **There was this row of Koreans seated directly behind us. I think it was during Act Three that I looked back at Prince Walter who was suddenly in the middle of [...]

Djokovic swore off gluten and now he can't lose

The Diet That Shook Up Tennis? by Tom Perrotta How did Novak Djokovic conquer the tennis world? Maybe the answer is as simple as this: Since last year, he's swearing off pasta, pizza, beer, French bread, Corn Flakes, pretzels, empanadas, Mallomars and Twizzlers—anything with gluten. Read the full article in the Wall Street Journal. Photos [...]

Sunday afternoon in the park

Our coverage of the Bahay Bata kids does not end with this trip. This is an ongoing social experiment: we will check in with the BB kids periodically to see exactly what effect the Clifton College tour has had on their lives. It's a lot more complicated than anyone thinks. We'll work out the details [...]

Chat with Harry Morris Live this Thursday at 2030h

Here's Harry Morris trying to speak Welsh. That didn't really work. However, your all-time favorite Jock With A Book Harry Morris will answer your questions in a live chat on Thursday, 19 March, 8.30 pm London time (Friday 3.30 am Manila time). To join the conversation, just type your question in Comments under this post. [...]

Chat with Harry Morris on Thursday, 2030h

Here's Harry Morris trying to speak Welsh. That didn't really work. However, your all-time favorite Jock With A Book Harry Morris will answer your questions in a live chat on Thursday, 19 March, 8.30 pm London time (Friday 3.30 am Manila time). To join the conversation, just type your question in Comments under this post. [...]

Recap: The kids are all right.

Wi-fi! Now for the long-delayed introductions. (And my debut as cinematographer, forgive the shakiness.) Touraid CEO Andy Berry took the kids to lunch at The Cabbage Patch pub near Twickenham Stadium. The kindness of strangers in Emotional Weather Report, today in the Philippine Star. At the farewell reception last Friday, the kids said a few [...]

Meet and greet on Thursday the 19th

Random picture taken from the London Eye We're all set for the Twisted meet and greet. Date: Thursday, 19 May 2011 Time: 4 pm Place: Caffe Nero at Tower Bridge, Tooley Street, London. Fifteen pounds gets you high tea and a copy of Twisted 9. We only have five books left (the first five went [...]