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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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Interlude
2007-11-18 10:00:00 ?Where are we now?? is one of the more significant questions facing the nation today. ?What next?? is another. Helping us answer these questions is political analyst Mon Casiple who gives us a vivid description of the present political impasse and what could likely happen in the near future: Coincidences or real political motives? The Batasan bombing, ... More About: News , Politics , History , Philippines , Democracy
Quote of the Day (2)
2007-11-16 19:01:00 A quote just fit for the interesting times we’re all in these days: ?We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing the mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play. Each time the curtain rises, continuity has to be ... More About: Quote Of The Day , Quote
North Korea to overtake RP?
2007-11-15 22:56:00 Have you ever remembered the President?s promise during her State of the Nation Address of taking our country into the First World in twenty years? I’m not sure how that’s coming true with news like this: More petroleum price hikes coming and Net effect of peso rise negative: Majority say well-being unchanged, but more report ... More About: News , Politics , Economy , Humor , Asia
Batasan bombed!
2007-11-14 01:07:00 I woke up to a very big surprise this morning. I slept really early last night so I wasn’t able to browse the internet, I didn’t watch TV or listened to the radio. But there you have it, the big news: Batasan was bombed last nigh–just a month after the Makati blast. Check out the report here. In the blogosphere, a roundup of the initial responses of Filipino bloggers can be read in Global Voices. Everything’s very sketchy now. I suggest we all be careful. In the meantime, here’s one of the first serious analyses on the bombing and its circumstances from the blog of Sun.Star Superbalita managing editor Anol Mongaya: (more…)
A must see movie or a must read book
2007-11-12 23:38:00 What I like about blogs is the lack of stringent editorial control. It can publish what I find suitable without restraint except from my own judgment (and ethical concerns which is listed here). It just bows to my whims. I never end up like this Cabanon Press cartoon: So an announcement: I am now lowering the regular number of posts to 3-4 posts per week from the usual 5-6 posts per week that I managed to sustain since the birth of Postcard Headlines last May 2007 due to stricter academic demands this semester. And a news item on the must see movie I need to watch or the must read story I need to find. I only noticed this now: (more…) More About: Movie , Book , Read
An unacceptable trade-off
2007-11-10 22:39:00 A commentary I read from a national broadsheet paper a few days ago observed that a significant portion of the middle class frustrated with the lack of legitimate venues for pursuing meaningful reforms under Arroyo administration are willing to support exercises in military adventurism like coups as a result of the negligible prospect for the ... More About: Trade , Accept
Bloggers react to 12-year-old child?s suicide
2007-11-10 00:14:00 It will be so much the worse for us If we don?t believe that life can be changed. * Reading the depressing tale of 12-year-old Mariannet Amper?s suicide and lamentation for her family?s poverty in a diary earlier this week made me sad, knowing how it has come to illustrate the degree of desperation of our people ... More About: News , Politics , Family , Children , Blogging
What are we in power for?
2007-11-07 21:39:00 The cat?s finally out of the bag, or so it seems. ?Kampi admits cash gifts,? declared yesterday?s Inquirer banner story. But GMA was not involved in the distribution, according to rep. Villarosa, a disappointing old female leader from the administration who calls herself the first woman Deputy Speaker. ?There?s no malice in our effort to help,? ... More About: News , Politics , Power , Corruption , Bribery
Cebu: Good News for a Change 2
2007-11-06 17:01:00 Tired of hearing about all the scandals surrounding the President and the accompanying wrangling amongst different opportunist partisan factions in the nation?s capital? Well, here?s something for everyone, especially for my fellows from the Southern Philippines ? Visayas and Mindanao. Philippines Without Borders writes about how Europeans are now looking at my home province Cebu ... More About: News , Economy , Investment , Change
Addressing the education-labor mismatch?
2007-11-05 21:13:00 Earlier this year, Romulo Neri, the Arroyo administration?s chief economic planner, has been appointed to temporarily head the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). But while Neri has been hogging the news over his role in the ZTE debacle, this matter of his CHED chairmanship has been put out of the limelight. After promising to make education ... More About: Labor , Dressing
Nothing is usual in the Philippines these days
2007-11-05 01:47:00 The entry?s title is taken from Time Magazine?s latest coverage of the country titled Crisis Again ? for the Philippines ? Arroyo. And indeed, what can be more unusual than the news that filled the front page of the country?s leading paper yesterday? I?m talking about the defiling of a mural made by the Neo-Angono Artists Collective ... More About: Censorship , Painting , Days , October
Blogging and the Future of Media
2007-11-03 19:23:00 The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler If previously, I reproduced an article by Regis Debray which looked into the history of media and its role in the transmission and growth of ideologies; the spirited discussion that I ... More About: Media , Future , Blogging , The Future
A Little Announcement
2007-11-03 13:39:00 This Blog is the winner for the Pinoy Blog of the Month this October. Postcard Headlines ranked 1st and received a total score of 92.20%. It garnered an average of 52.8% from the judges and 40% from the votes. The scoring was based on the number of votes which takes up 40% of the overall score and the review of the panel of judges which takes up 60%. The contest was organized by PinoyBlogero.com and sponsored by Ratified.org and ReynaElena.com. To everyone who helped in this endeavor by voting for my blog, I extend my most profound gratitude. Thank you very much. Read the rest of this entry » More About: Announcement , Anno
The Other Side of Blogging and the Internet?
2007-11-02 22:04:00 This past month I came across an article in the blog Kapirasong Kritika which calls on progressives to oppose the promotion of blogging among the youth. I?m providing rough translations from the tagalog dialect of some of the article’s points I wanted quoted (particularly from the 5th, 7th, and last paragraphs) to make them intelligible to ... More About: Media , Internet , Activism , Tech , Blogging
On the shrinking Philippine middle class
2007-11-01 22:23:00 Notwithstanding all the political noise now reverberating around President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Peso surged to 43.85/$1 last Tuesday. In the past two days, the momentum was sustained as the Peso closed at 43.675 to $1 on Wednesday. According to news reports, this is the strongest level hit by the peso since reaching 43.59:$1 on July 5, ... More About: News , Politics , Business , Economy , Dollar
Another EDSA?
2007-10-31 23:37:00 ??Edsa One and Two types of protests are already a thing of the past?? We often read the phrase from news commentaries and hear it from political observers nowadays that it has little by little taken the appearance of a cliché. The two EDSAs are reduced to a grand myth from some golden era where a spark ... More About: Politics , History , Philippines , Analysis , Left
How to Speak and Write Postmodern
2007-10-31 09:55:00 Let me share something for the last day of the month - a break from all the serious discourse: More About: Humor , Writing , World , Blogging , Write
Estrada Pardon Hangover
2007-10-30 02:19:00 I?ve pretty much expressed my opinion on the granting of executive clemency in Estrada pardon to set precedent for Arroyo, gathered the opinion and analysis from my favorite blogs to examine its implications in Do not expect too much of the end of the (Arroyo) regime, and reposted some fitting jokes in Post-Edsa 2 (and ... More About: News , Politics , Philippines , Hangover , Crisis
Missing JPEPA (or missing the boat part 2)
2007-10-28 23:59:00 The barangay poll takes place today. And playing with the old soviet slogan, blogger Mongster?s Nest proclaims ?all power to the barangay.? So from the said article comes the quote for the day: If Russia had soviets and China had communes and brigades (Antonio Gramsci proposed factory councils for Italy), I believe a newly conceptualized barangay ... More About: News , Politics , Elections , Economy , Japan
Post-Edsa 2 (and post-pardon) Erap jokes
2007-10-28 10:28:00 Since the country’s back to where we started before 2001 (after deposing and convicting a plundering President and all that), I think it would also be appropriate to share something that’s all the rage back then - Erap jokes: Top 5 Signs that Erap and GMA Have Indeed Become Friends 5: Mikey Arroyo and Jinggoy Estrada agreeing ... More About: News , Politics , Jokes , Funny , Fun
Do not expect too much of the end of the (Arroyo) regime
2007-10-27 17:59:00 I don?t think it would be an exaggeration to say that many are outraged by the pardon of the disgraced former president Estrada by President Arroyo. For veterans and sympathizers of Edsa2 ? particularly those from the middle classes ? the recent action of the present administration is an unpardonable act that followed a long chain ... More About: Society , News , Politics , History
An Appetite for Books
2007-10-25 20:19:00 Not literally of course. With the first semester over and some sort of vacation (from the university but not from work) now in effect, it?s time for me to catch up on my readings. (Goodbye Sales text book, hahaha!) On my present reading list is The Oxford Book of Latin America n Short Stories (hmmm, you might ... More About: Personal , Literature , Books
Missing the boat: the barangay and SK polls
2007-10-24 18:01:00 Investigators are now saying that the Glorietta explosion could have been just an accident after all. In an amusing satire piece whose conclusion I do not really agree with, the Inquirer’s Neal Cruz replies: Glorietta bombing was a mistake, not an accident. And so all the wild speculations as to the real cause of the ... More About: News , Politics , Elections , Cebu , Polls
Estrada pardon sets precedent for Arroyo
2007-10-24 00:48:00 In a complete reversal of his earlier fighting stance of not accepting a pardon, disgraced former President Joseph Estrada applied for ?full, free and unconditional? pardon from President Arroyo. From having his spokespersons demand an ?all-encompassing? amnesty, Estrada now had his lawyers withdraw his motion for reconsideration with the Sandiganbayan for his September 12 guilty verdict ... More About: News , Politics , Elections , Crime , Sets
The First Quote of The Day
2007-10-22 16:19:00 Today is an important day for a reason I would rather keep to myself. A lot did happen but let’s just say that memory remains a funny thing for me and that recalling or writing them down would have to wait for another day. So without further ado, let me leave everyone with my quote ... More About: News , Politics , Personal , Memory , Quote Of The Day
Bombing not a diversion
2007-10-21 13:40:00 It’s now two days after the ruthless bombing of Glorietta mall last Friday which killed 11 and hurt more than a hundred others. Still, the investigations have brought up nothing conclusive despite a terror group’s claiming responsibility for the atrocity. But already, not a few people have expressed the opinion that the bombing was perpetrated by ... More About: News , Politics , Terrorism , Terror , War
Bloody Friday Mall Bombing Tragedy
2007-10-19 17:57:00 A mall in the country?s financial capital was bombed today. It was 3 in the afternoon when I chanced upon the news headline on the computer?s screen. I didn?t recognize it at first, thinking it was about Pakistan and the bombing that marked Benazir Bhutto?s return. I read the report again. ?Mall bomb blast kills 8, hurts ... More About: News , Politics , Personal , Terrorism , Terror
Subversion
2007-10-19 01:53:00 The military has been deluding itself into thinking they?re the only real power which can save the nation. With the potentials for another coup brewing amidst another crisis in the national capital, let?s all hope our generals will not let this go to their heads. Long perceived as an abusive institution bereft of respect for human ... More About: News , Politics , Elections , Military , Human Rights
Buried deeper (or there?s no easy way out)
2007-10-18 00:24:00 There seems to be no end in sight for the troubles surrounding President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Crudely translated into English, the October 17 editorial* of Superbalita, the country?s no.1 Cebuano newspaper, says: Editorial: Buried deeper In the effort to free itself from the National Broadband Network issue and the feared impeachment complaint, Malacanang found itself buried instead in ... More About: News , Politics , Congress , Impeachment , Bribery
8th Motorshow Cebu International: Day 1
More articles from this author:2007-10-17 04:17:00 I have been stationed in the media center and lounge of the 8th Motorshow Cebu International in the Cebu International Convention Center?s (CICC) room 101 since yesterday. I will be here daily until the end of the event on Sunday, probably with nothing much to do since most reporters would expectedly be here during the opening ... More About: Personal , Business , Cars , Events 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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