“RJ is a newspaper columnist whose humor column, "Pogi from a Parallel Universe" comes out every Wednesday in the For Men section of the Philippine Star, the Editor-in-Chief of UNO Magazine, a seasoned television, events and weddings/debut host and actor."
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September 2, 2008Yaya, please hold my hand.
Ok, ok. I am still getting the hang of transcribing mental diarrhea onto the blogosphere. So, to my three female readers, please bear with me.
I’ve had the privilege of writing professionally for the past three years. It all started off in February 2005 with (what was supposed to be) a weekly dating advice column that appeared every Sunday in The Manila Times entitled (ehem, ehem) Playing With My Tools.
After abusing my tool box for a year, I moved over to The Philippine Star in May 2006 and became one of their regular columnists for their weekly M section that comes out every Wednesday in a column entitled Pogi from A Parallel Universe.
Aside from my column work, I’ve also had the opportunity to serve as the Editor-in-Chief of MANUAL Magazine since October 2005.
Early this year, I was fortunate enough to have Anvil Publishing publish my first compilation of articles from The Times in a book lovingly called Lies My Yaya Should Have Told Me, RJ Ledesma’s Imaginary Guide to Whine and Women. By the way, the book is currently available at National Bookstore and PowerBooks. And if you you live abroad, you can order the book from www.nationalbookstore.com. I hope you guys can pick up a copy or two or five and help me subsidize my credit card bills.
Over the past three years, there were columns I’ve written that I’m pretty damned proud of and there are some columns I’ve written that were pretty damned to begin with. But, what the hell, I say let it all hang out. After all, what’s past is prologue. And, in this blog, we’re going to see a lot of prologue going on.
I hope to come out with a second book in early 2009 that collects the last half of my columns from The Manila Times, along with a couple of articles that I’ve written for MANUAL. In the meantime, I’ve had requests from family, friends and readers to reprint some of my older columns and other previously published work. So, by way of this blog, I plan to do the following:
1. Post the older columns that haven’t seen print since they were first published;
2. Post my current columns a week after they come out in the Star;
3. Post some articles that I’ve written for MANUAL;
4. Post columns that, for one reason or another, did not get published.
I also plan to post some totally random stuff as well – recommendations, ramblings, general lunacy. You know the drill.
Lastly, I also hope to use this blog as a sounding board to develop ideas for future columns and articles. So if you’ve got any ideas that you think would make for an interetsting column, please feel free to drop me a line. I would love to hear from you guys.
Namaste.
RJ – this is great! i’ll be bookmarking this one. And by the way, i absolutely love that picture of you and your yaya! It’s perfectly hysterical! HAHAHAHA!