IGME Files

Some good news for me: I can now surf the Internet again at my desktop PC. During the past three or four months my pc had been under the worst virus-laden period (it still is!), I still have to go outside and go to Netopia or anywhere everyday. That’s a lot of expended energy, not to mention every peso counts now that there’s 12% E-VAT (@#%?*!!) on almost everything. Anyhow, it feels oh so right to be right under the comfort and the cares of home.

Second: I’ve been in a constant pressure now that I’ll decide to form my own independent film group name. I’ve asked some good friends and they have made matters worse (hehe) for me, coz I’m left with some pretty good choices. I didnt know that coming up with a name can become too engrossing you wonder why "what the heck, it’s just a name?". In between my bumming around moments, a book on the meditations of the sea helped me rationalize and answer that fundamental question.

Two days ago, I came across a chapter I’m reading called “The Great Deep: The Sea and Its Thresholds” by James Hamilton-Paterson. The author cited a novella Colomba (by Prosper Merimee) in which the English heroine takes great pleasure in learning the names of places on the Corsican coast as she passes in a "fore-and-aft rigged ships with two masts" called schooner, she says "nothing is more tedious than a landscape without names." In a sea where there are no boundaries, we seek refuge in our own language by naming the unknown. Here’s the phrase that got me — "to name something is to take control of it."

I’m not a control-freak or anything for that matter, but what made me understand about the process is that in my situation, now I’m beginning to feel a sense of ownership. I am empowered.