Category: Blog
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Attending an independent filmmaking workshop – Making food for the soul
I was recently listening to a podcast interview with Jonah Nolan (Christopher Nolan’s brother who’s also a director and writer) about his career. He talked about how he switched from an International Relations-adjacent major to English and his writing career in his 20s. At one point, he was holed up as a screenwriter on the…
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The labyrinth of life and death: Filipino tragedies and how I overcame insomnia during COVID
I had started working on this blog post about the fear of death and the brevity and preciousness of life – I’d already written the body of it – when we heard news of another Filipino tragedy. We’d already received the bad news of two other incidents in the past week… Just two Sundays ago,…
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On watching movies in the theatre
At film school last semester, I became attuned to the importance of the debate whether movie theatres will still exist or not in the future, and how it’s important to still watch movies in the theatre. (I guess the first time I heard about this debate was in 2021, through my Intro to Filmmaking class,…
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The Past, Present, and Future of Blogging (from my point of view)
I wish I could be a teenager again and blog the way that I used to. I often wrote about this on the old version of this Wonderfilled Issa blog, but yeah. I had so much time as a homeschooler just to rave about football, my favourite shows and computer games, Lord of the Rings…
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Reflections on Celebrimbor as a fallen artist
Celebrimbor stuck out to me as a character I heavily empathised with during the second season of Rings of Power, which surprised me because I was annoyed by him and his hubris during the first season.
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Attempts of taking pictures like HONY
(a very old draft I unexpectedly found from my old blog on Feb. 20, 2015!) I took some photos on the way to a dinner with some Filipino-German friends the night before the World Cup Finals, and it is interesting to see a country distant from some historical event’s location the afternoon before it will…