TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Gung Hai Fat Choy! Happy New Year of the Horse!

Friday, January 31, 2014

Gung Hai Fat Choy! Happy New Year of the Horse!

GUNG HAI FAT CHOY!

Hello again, from Makati. Happy Chinese New Year! It's the Year of the Wooden Horse.

I took these pictures in Glorietta, Makati. There are dragon dancers and a lot of decorations in the Mall. I spotted a couple of my books in Powerbooks - Behind the Walls and Angelica's Daughters. The circular building is Greenbelt Chapel, which is a nice refuge at the end of the day.

And the group picture of three shows l-r: Guia Lim, Cecilia Brainard, Araceli Lorayes having lunch at Apartment 1b in Rockwell, Makati. Very nice restaurant, by the way.

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tags: New Year, Chinese New Year, Makati
Thanks for stopping by,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.