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(Mis)readings(Mis)readingsA blog featuring counterobservations on events and texts from the vantage point of an eccentric, optically inconvenienced, and culturally dispossessed resident from the Southern Philippines. 
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On Campus Politics and Other Notes
2008-02-17 17:39:00 It’s the last full week of my favorite month of the year and it’s Student Council election time in our college again. I see a major shakeup with the present party in the majority’s failure to voice out and serve the interests of the studentry. I am predicting that what has become this school year’s ... More About: News , Politics , Campus , Scandal , School
Praying for Truth and Justice
2008-02-16 03:43:00 I was passing by the college?s oblation square on my way out of school yesterday afternoon when I came across Dr. Rhodora Bucoy, the adviser of the UP Cebu College Student Council when I was its chairman, and Dr. Cherry Ballescas, my social sciences teacher during my first year in college. They were about to begin ... More About: News , Politics , Personal , Truth , Justice
Before the Storm: A Bevy of Fair (Wo)men
2008-02-14 01:00:00 Plots within plots are being hatched in the Philippine capital. Both the Arroyo administration and the broad opposition are putting in place wheels within wheels in the perilous game that is Philippine politics. The Arroyo clique is pushing for Charter Change again to (1) deflect the public’s attention from the Lozada fiasco and (2) further its ... More About: Personal , Women , Valentines Day , School , Storm
The Rise of Free Online Books
2008-02-12 22:48:00 Paulo Coelho gives us an innovative example on how to get rich as an author. He’s been “pirating his own work for years, spreading electronic versions of his novels over the BitTorrent filesharing network for potential readers to download.” He even established the blog The Pirate Coelho for this purpose, the Guardian News paper Book ... More About: Books , Tech , Blogging , Free
Free Radiohead In Rainbows Download
2008-02-10 22:01:00 Last December, I pointed out where we can download the bonus disc for Radiohead?s new In Rainbows album. Now I found one of those places in the Internet where Radiohead’s latest album can be freely downloaded. One only needs to sign up an account with Multiply to start downloading it here. Cheers! In history, Simon Montefiore’s ... More About: Meme , Music , Entertainment , Downloads
Blogging in the Time of Living Dangerously
2008-02-08 18:05:00 Things are heating up in the country’s Capital again in the wake of Lozada’s damning testimony in the Senate regarding the ZTE-NBN deal and his alleged abduction earlier in the week. One unmistakeable sign of the tension is the circulation of text rumors warning of a bombing today. Once more, the people in Malacañang are ... More About: News , Politics , Elections , Living , Time
How Famous Writers Killed Themselves
2008-02-07 17:01:00 In the newly published book, The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides: Dead Letters (February 7, 2008), Gary Lachman writes about ten famous literary figures who have taken their own lives. Anne Sexton gassed herself in her car, Ernest Hemmingway shot his own head with a pistol, Thomas Chatterton took arsenic, Heinrich von Kleist shot his cancer-ridden lover before putting the gun’s barrel in his own mouth, Gerard de Nerval hanged himself, and Jack London died of a morphine overdose. The following were extracted by Times Online from the book (which I’m adding to my book wishlist). Of the ten literary suicides, I find these two the most heartwrenching: (more…) More About: Famous , Writers , Killed
Politics ? Traditional, Revolutionary and New
2008-02-05 22:01:00 ?City air makes people free,? a popular medieval saying goes. This, of course, refers to the release from serfdom afforded by the towns of the feudal era. But this same migratory phenomena now happening in our own country, as described by University of the Philippines professor Randy David in ?The tragedy of the rural poor,? gives ... More About: Politics , Poverty , Left , Revolutionary
On De Venecia?s Ouster
2008-02-05 03:00:00 As a veteran, ousted House Speaker Jose De Venecia shielded Arroyo in every crisis that hounded her administration. Alas, the erstwhile speaker should have known that his and the President’s was a doomed affair from the start. For as Conrado De Quiros writes, there is no honor among thieves. I didn’t follow yesterday’s long affair, ... More About: News , Politics , Congress , China , World
The 100 Best Works of Fiction (Updated)
2008-02-04 02:00:00 Halfway through Cervantes? Don Quixote - at last done with its voluminous first part - I’m now putting the book down to read the equally voluminous second part for a later time. I’ve began reading Dostoevsky?s Crime and Punishment again, starting where I left it unfinished two years ago. And I also plan to try ... More About: Fiction , Works
First big battle of the 2010 elections
2008-02-03 06:25:00 The novelty of the New Year has faded. The first month of 2008 has paved the way for the second. And the wistful state associated with the holidays has now been replaced with frenzied political bickering. This can only grow more turbulent from month to month until 2010. The plot to oust Speaker Jose de Venecia ... More About: News , Politics , Elections , Battle , Crisis
A World Without Books?
2008-01-31 23:31:00 A world without books is a world I just can?t live in. Hence, the discussion in the blog Torned and Frayed in Manila about the ?Twilight of Books ? makes me sad. It is in this context that the following must-see YouTube videos from The Penguin blog try to answer the questions, is there a better ... More About: Personal , Literature , Reading , World
The Hunting Party
2008-01-30 14:45:00 I just saw the DVD copy of the film The Hunting Party starring Richard Gere and Terrence Howard. It was a satisfactory film, with all the trappings of a lighthearted satire on the hypocrisy of the industrialized countries and the international media. But sometimes the funny side and the serious side of the film fail to ... More About: News , Politics , Movies , Media , Entertainment
The Lure of Power
2008-01-28 23:54:00 We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behavior. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behavior among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are no being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. ... More About: News , Politics , Power , Iraq , World
Remembering EDSA II
2008-01-27 13:47:00 I have nothing much to remember. I was a first year high school student in Don Bosco Technological College Cebu, a school run by Catholic priests, when the massive protests that toppled Joseph Estrada from power came about. During the peak of the mass actions in the middle of January 2001, we were all bused to ... More About: Politics , Personal , History , Opinion , Debate
Tablescapes: Chinese New Year Feature
2008-01-26 18:58:00 Studio 23’s lifestyle and cooking show, Tablescapes, will feature Cebu’s Chinese community and The Ching Palace for its Chinese New Year special. The episode will be shown this February 4 at 11 pm. The Ching Palace is Cebu’s premier Chinese cuisine destination and my marketing group’s subject for our paper. We were present during yesterday ... More About: Marketing , Personal , Entertainment , Food
A Precious Gem of a Haul
2008-01-24 23:15:00 I love used books shops. First and foremost, I like the cheap prices. Secondly, though it does take a longer time to look for what one wants to read, the act of literally scouring for the books of one?s liking makes them all the more valuable once found. Unlike when shopping in the usual bookshop, like ... More About: Precious
A Precious Gem of a Haul
2008-01-24 23:15:00 I love used books shops. First and foremost, I like of the cheap prices. Secondly, though it does take a longer time to look for what one wants to read, the act of literally scouring for the books of one?s liking makes them all the more valuable once found. Unlike when shopping in the usual bookshop, ... More About: Precious
A Miserable Failure
2008-01-22 17:15:00 The occasion of the twenty-first anniversary of the ill-famed Mendiola Massacre compelled me to check at the state of the government’s agrarian reform program. More About: Politics , Human Rights , Agriculture , Social Justice , Left
Quote of the Day (4)
2008-01-20 17:01:00 The blog post Why Revolution will not succeed in the Philippines reminds me of the following passage: …it is indisputable that a revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, it is not every revolutionary situation that leads to revolution. What, generally speaking, are the symptoms of a revolutionary situation? We shall certainly not be mistaken ... More About: Politics , History , Quote Of The Day , Lenin
Joining the Sto. Nino Procession
2008-01-20 05:55:00 Despite the Malacañang’s admonition for everyone to just forget about the EDSA II people’s uprising, I am sure that many still remembers the historic event, whether positively or negatively, which culminated today seven years ago with the ouster of then President Joseph Estrada. In fact, the blogging world has not been spared by polemics on how ... More About: News , Politics , Personal , Religion , Events
Destabilization Talk and the Decline of Freedom
2008-01-19 06:36:00 Everyone?s getting ready for tomorrow?s Sinulog Festival here in Metro Cebu. Thousands are going out to the streets today to observe and participate in the fluvial and solemn processions for Sto Niño. It?s also my younger brother?s birthday today and the whole family will be out of the house to join in the ceremonies. But according to ... More About: News , Politics , Freedom , World , Human Rights
The Final Option
2008-01-17 01:27:00 The phrase eerily brings to mind harrowing scenes from Adolf Hitler?s ?Final Solution? to finally annihilate the Jews from Europe. But here in the Philippines it is actually the name of a recently unveiled police measure against journalists covering at the scene of political crises. It is not, as I first thought, another extermination drive against the ... More About: News , Politics , Media
New Year Weather Forecast for 2008
2008-01-16 08:58:00 As a child I was once told by someone who I cannot remember anymore that the weather for all twelve months of a certain year is determined by conditions of the first 12 days of that year. Following that logic, a cloudy January 6 would translate to a very gloomy month of June while a sunny ... More About: Personal , Weather , New Year , Environment , Climate
New Page to House FREE Books from the Net
2008-01-14 23:56:00 This is an announcement. I’ve added a new blog page housing a list of books (mostly classics) that can be read FREE on the Internet. Meanwhile, for those who are required to read thousands of book pages but doesn’t have the time, here’s an essential must-see column. The Digested Word in the Guardian newspaper sums up must-read books ... More About: House , Books , Blogging , Free , Page
Gov. Ed Panlilio is Filipino of the Year 2007
2008-01-13 04:18:00 The newspapers always get delivered home late, especially during the weekends when the distributors insert all sorts of ads in between the pages. Still, it’s almost always worth waiting for. Today’s Inquirer is one such issue. It surely did not disappoint me with its choice for the Filipino for the Year 2007 (chosen by 44 of ... More About: News , Politics , Elections , History
Gov. Ed Panlilio is Filipino of the Year 2007
2008-01-13 04:18:00 The newspapers always get delivered home late, especially during the weekends when the distributors insert all sorts of ads in between the pages. Still, it’s almost always worth waiting for. Today’s Inquirer is one such issue. It surely did not disappoint me with its choice for the Filipino for the Year 2007 (chosen by 44 of ... More About: News , Politics , Elections , History
Barack Obama?s Books Outsell Hillary Clinton?s
2008-01-12 10:19:00 Here’s something for those of us avidly following the US elections. “Hillary Clinton may have bested Barack Obama at the voting box in New Hampshire, but Obama remains a big winner at bookstores,” says The Millions blog: According to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70 per cent of industry sales, [Clinton’s] Living History averaged around 1,000 sales ... More About: Books
UP Centennial Reflection
2008-01-11 14:23:00 Here in the Cebu campus of the University of the Philippines, the inauguration of the centennial celebrations highlighted the issue of the continued existence of the UP Cebu High School. Will the efforts of groups opposed to this move by the UP administration gain momentum and find the matter articulated outside the ambit of the circles ... More About: Reflection , Centennial
Simone de Beauvoir Centenary
More articles from this author:2008-01-10 12:17:00 I plan on writing some of my thoughts on the University of the Philippines in the light of its centennial celebrations. But that will have to be blogged about some other time. In the meantime, here’s an equally significant event that caught my attention. January 9, 2008 marks the centenary of the birth of French feminist and ... More About: Philosophy , News , Personal , Women , History 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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