  Thank you It has oft been said that the only thing that's keeping the literary effort alive in this country is the Carlos Palanca Awards. The Philippines is just not a "reading" country. However, it warms the cockles of my heart to see that another bigwig family (the Gokongweis) has also taken on the challenge of infusing the love of reading into the populace. And so a new genre in Philippine literature is born, urlLink chick lit . I read an article of the Summit novel launch a few weeks ago and I found the picture of Prof. Christina Pantoja-Hidalgo (Mam Jing) with Myrza Sison hilarious. It was like Cosmo Girl meets the Prudish Prof. One is nonchalant when it comes to issues on sexuality while the other thinks it already daring to wear open toed sandals. One writes good catholic girl type of short stories while the other writes about the modern kamasutra. Yin and yang. Day and night. But with a common love and endeavor, that being to get most of the Pinoys and Pinays to just read (dammit!). And that is already a laudable effort IMHO. 
