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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. Articles
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 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 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 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 Malacaņang’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 Niņo. 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
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
UP Centennial, Don Quixote and Other Concerns
2008-01-08 10:28:00 Looking forward in the context of national politics is the topic of Manuel Quezon III’s latest blog entry. Looking forward, is also the theme of today’s Inquirer editorial. But it deals with a more specific topic - my school, the University of the Philippines. UP, is a hundred years old this year and today marks the ... More About: News , Personal , Books , Reading , Cervantes
Pinoy Big Brother, US Elections and 2010
2008-01-06 07:22:00 I don?t usually watch Pinoy Big Brother . On the other hand, my girlfriend Beryl told me that she only watches its first and last show. Last night was the show?s Big Night where the program?s big winner will be announced from among four survivors. I wanted to see it for myself for a change but I ... More About: Elections , Pinoy Big Brother
Monarchy in Nepal to be abolished!
2008-01-05 01:26:00 After the assassination of Bhutto, here?s one of the better happenings from South Asia during the last few days of 2007: Nepal ese monarchy to be abolished Nepal’s government has agreed to abolish the monarchy as part of a deal to persuade Maoist former rebels to rejoin the interim administration. Under the deal, Nepal will be declared a republic ... More About: History , World , Democracy , Revolution
Quote of the Day (3)
2008-01-04 11:08:00 From The Politics of Experience : Given the conditions of contemporary civilization, how can one claim that the ?normal? man is sane? The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one?s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to ... More About: History , Quote Of The Day , Behavior , Psychology
It?s Not the End of the World As We Know It
2008-01-03 13:37:00 Reminiscing the many things and happenings from the year 2007 seems to be the order of the day for many these past few days. Marocharim.com published an impressive year-end report; Reportage and Rollingstore lists down last year’s highlights from the point of view of the Left; and Tonyocruz.com comes up with a roundup for Global Voices ... More About: Personal , New Year , World , Blogging , The World
On Benazir Bhuto?s Assassination
2007-12-29 13:25:00 The news of Benazir Bhutto’s murder first came to me through a text message from my philosophy student friend Dada on the same evening of the Pakistan i opposition leader’s assassination in Rawalpindi. I jestingly replied to him the next day that he shouldn’t worry about it. After all, wasn’t this the same Bhutto who said ?I ... More About: Terrorism , World , War , Extremist
Shakira and Love in the time of Cholera
2007-12-28 08:10:00 After Ang Lee?s espionage thriller Se, Jei, the film adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s celebrated novel is another movie I?d like to see ? Love in the time of Cholera by the esteemed author, who more often than not looks like one of the Mario brothers of my childhood years. I haven?t read the book ... More About: Personal , Music , Entertainment , Books , Shakira
Vacation and an uncured obsession for books
2007-12-23 04:28:00 ?I have given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.? - Oscar Levant To enjoy the holiday season more, I amassed some books for reading to pass my time. I also came up with a book wishlist (of which some of the titles can be seen above) and transferred my online list of ... More About: Christmas , Personal , Books , Vacation , Obsession
Autumn of the Patriarch
2007-12-22 13:00:00 I borrowed Beryl?s copy of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel by the same title for the Christmas vacation today. In exchange, I lent her my brother?s copy of the 6th Harry Potter book (a book I have yet to read). The nameless autocrat in the book who is crippled with old age reminds me of my ... More About: Books , History , World , Human Rights , Latin America
Feudalism is dead, long live feudalism!
2007-12-21 10:21:00 After previously snubbing the Sumilao farmers and ordering riot police to block their way to the presidential palace, officials led by the President finally heeded the indigenous peasants’ request for an audience. After two meetings in Malacanang, the palace issued an order favorable to the peasants. It was a triumph of symbols, Januar Yap writes of ... More About: News , Politics , Economy , Human Rights , Social Justice
Books for my favorite youngest sister
2007-12-19 17:57:00 My family passed by a trade fair at the Mactan Export Processing Zone in Beryl?s hometown sometime this week. We bought my favorite youngest sister, Azalea Gabrielle some colorful used children?s books which were priced from P20 to P35 only! Books are always a good Christmas treat. Here are some of the titles: ... More About: Personal , Family , Children
A Bloody Chamber
2007-12-18 17:01:00 The recent days have been busy ? complete with exams and all sorts of academic requirements. But at last, it?s finally over ? for this year at least. Haven?t read local and national dailies since the start of the week, but the last thing I picked up falls under the category of good news: Arroyo backpedals ... More About: News , Politics , Books , Military , History
A survey, the anti-subversion law, and a piteous Christmas prelude
2007-12-15 22:57:00 It has become a familiar sight, as the holiday season arrives, to see Christmas lights and decors lining up the streets and adorning homes and commercial establishments. However, such beautifications have become scarce with each year that goes by. The strengthening of the Peso has not at all prevented the spiraling of commodity prices. What ... More About: News , Politics , Survey , Human Rights
A Real Party!
2007-12-14 22:28:00 According to the dictionary, a party is either 1. a gathering for social entertainment, recreation, or amusement; also the entertainment itself or 2. a group united for a particular purpose, as in politics. This chiefly but not totally concerns the latter. I found a really clever shirt design while blog surfing. The print depicts communist icons ... More About: History , Party , Human Rights , Socialism , Revolution
Radiohead bonus disc download
More articles from this author:2007-12-13 22:22:00 Download Radiohead’s new In Rainbows album bonus disc here! Much thanks to sober musings for pointing out the link, I’ve been listening to it for sometime now. Meanwhile, a review of the whole album is done by the Creation Project Blog. Also, a New York Times article on how Radiohead’s way of releasing the album is ... More About: News , Personal , Music , Entertainment , Downloads 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
