Keeping Up with The Binondo Girl

The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909, to January 8, 1910. It was published in volume form in April 1910 by Pierre Lafitte.The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischutz. Nowadays, it is overshadowed by the success of its various stage and film adaptations. The most notable of these are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. (According to Wikipedia)

Plagiarism is an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author.

Last November 27, 2015, was the Speak Sense Season 2 held at the APC auditorium. Speak Sense is a public speaking competition joined by different high school students representing their respective schools. The theme was "Whether it's the best of times or worst of times, it's the only time we've got." 

Everyone did their best in delivering their speeches. Of course, it's not only by the delivery, it's how you make your audience feel what you want them to feel. When you really are sincere on what you are saying, your emotions will flow over along with the whole delivery. 

The first speaker, Ms. Lian Buan taught us how to effectivley write a story. There are 2 lines fom what she said that sums up her speak. 

— "There are no bad stories, only bad story tellers."

— "Journalism is about making the important interesting and the interesting relevant."

These are what se taught us: 

Story telling with a purpose: 5 W's & H +++ 

1. Content - What is the story about?

2. New - What are the value added information? Insights? 

3. So what? - Why should people care?

4. And then? - What do we want to see happen? 

 

     

Marjorie Evasco, an award winning Filipino poet born and raised in Maribojoc, Bohol on September 21, 1953. In 1973, she finished her Bachelor Degree at Divine Word College of Tagbiliran; In 1982, her Masteral Degree in Creative Writing at Siliman University and her Doctor of Philiosophy in Literature (D. Ph. Litt.) at the De La Salle University - Manila, where she is a full proffessor at the faculty of the Department of Literature. She writes poems in English and in Cebuano-Visayan dialect. She is also an advocate of  women's rights, and is one of the earliest Filipina Feminist Poet.