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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
ebooks, cellphones, and cyber education
2007-12-11 22:38:00 The Reader, a blog devoted to books and publishing and how technology is reshaping it, asks a very relevant question for voracious readers like me: Ebooks are wonderful ? in concept. Lower manufacturing and distribution costs mean less-expensive (or even free) books and a democratization of the means of production. Decreased consumption of resources for printing ... More About: Education , Books , Reading , Cellphones , China
The Villar Debacle
2007-12-10 17:01:00 The countdown to the 2010 President ial Elections has long begun and all the major political players have started to muster their resources for the big fight. One of these big players is of course Senate President Manny Villar. This is unsolicited advice, but here?s something that I think Villar?s camp should correct if it?s really serious ... More About: News , Politics
Justice denied
2007-12-08 17:01:00 In the book wild grass, Wall Street Journal correspondent Ian Jhonson writes three stories set in modern day China . One of the tales depicts the struggles of Ma Wenlin, a former Red Guard who advocated peasant rights and fought against illegal taxes. ?local authorities could only tax farmers 5 percent of their income. But he could ... More About: News , Politics , Books , Justice
A junket is a junket and GMA?s Spanish prize
2007-12-07 23:35:00 A junket, by any other name, is still a junket, writes Neal H. Cruz, in reference to our good President?s latest trip to Spain and the United Kingdom . This matter, of course, has been given much attention in our own national media, not so much because of the diplomatic significance of the state visits but more ... More About: World , Human Rights , Spanish
Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia as Mar Roxas? partner?
2007-12-06 15:45:00 Last Monday, Beryl and I were required by our UP Cebu social sciences department teachers to attend a Democracy Forum organized by the National Institute for Policy Studies, a Liberal Party think tank. We left the forum early but I?m sure Beryl was right when she complained to me that it was more about early positioning ... More About: News , Politics , Elections , Media , History
Flip-flops, a holiday treat, and more coup views
2007-12-02 22:27:00 Like the rest of the metro?s broad and upscale middle class, I went to the mall last Friday with the thought of buying a few things and spending more time window shopping. After all, it was the birthday of one of the country?s national heroes ? a national holiday. I was thinking of finally replacing the ... More About: Personal , Views , Books , Military , Holiday
Notes for the 30th of November
2007-11-30 03:32:00 Today marks the birth of Andres Bonifacio, revolutionary leader and founder of the Katipunan which led the Filipino movement against Spanish colonialism in waning years of the 19th Century. Bonifacio envisioned a Philippine society free from the yolk of Spanish colonial rule. A hundred years hence, the demands raised by the late plebeian supremo against repression ... More About: History , Philippines , Notes , Democracy , Presidents
After the Trillanes standoff
2007-11-29 12:57:00 I am reserving further expression of my opinions on today’s standoff between Sen. Trillanes and around 30 renegade soldiers and gov’t. soldiers at Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati . In the meantime, here are links to the Inquirer.net online coverage of the mutiny. Sonus refers everyone to pictures from SunnySideUp! A website supportive of the coup attempt ... More About: News , Politics , Human Rights , War
Language and power relations
2007-11-27 17:16:00 I was supposed to repost this article for a good friend yesterday if not for my forgetfulness - I failed to remember which periodical I originally read it from. But here, I found it again: Sellers and buyers: Language and power relations By Juan Luis Conde Inquirer Last updated 01:33am (Mla time) 11/25/2007 Power relations are present when at least ... More About: Relations
The day?s Big News (updated)
2007-11-27 00:56:00 And the banner story from the Manila Bulletin today’s big news. Some parts of a Philippine Daily Inquirer article on the same event: Roxas takes over LP helm, signals 2010 Palace run MANILA, Philippines — With a disguised campaign slogan for a backdrop, Sen. Manuel ?Mar? Roxas II Monday assumed the leadership of the Liberal Party, apparently ... More About: News , Politics , Elections , World , President
2010 spirit is in the air
2007-11-25 00:48:00 The Christmas spirit is barely felt these days. Shackled by financial hardships in spite of the country?s ?strong? economic performance, the country?s destitute majority has become caught up in so many other things aside from the holiday season. And whatever holiday feeling left is fast being blown away by the powerful winds of the arriving typhoon Mina. ... More About: News , Politics , Elections , President , Spirit
Not another book wishlist?
2007-11-23 18:49:00 Yes it?s another one. Thus the cycle continues. I get at least one book that I wished for in my last wishlist and then cook up another set. Of course the last one still applies and I?m just waiting for some extra cash to be able to purchase them from the local bookstores. So this time, I?m ... More About: Personal , Books , Book , Wishlist
Erap and GMA Nativity Scene
2007-11-22 18:10:00 The now famous GMA and Erap “nativity scene” hanged in downtown Cebu City from Sun.Star Daily: A closer look at it from a scanned Cebu Daily News photo: More About: Christmas , Politics , Entertainment
It?s the season for bad weather
2007-11-21 17:01:00 Last Monday, Cebu was unexpectedly struck by a storm. Heavy rain and powerful winds descended on the unprepared locale. Trees were bent, electrical posts fell down, a container van was overturned in the 2nd Mactan Bridge, and the giant Christmas tree being constructed in the Fuente rotunda made a great fall (Photo courtesy of Cebu Photo ... More About: Philosophy , News , Personal , Weather , Environment
Postcard Headlines Commemorates Half a Year of Blogging
2007-11-21 00:03:00 I almost forgot, but Postcard Headlines commemorates half a year of blogging this November. I don?t remember why Postcard Headlines is named the way it is. Maybe it has something to do with my fascination for postcards and love for newspapers and magazines. I guess the name just stuck. Today is not this blog?s date of conception ... More About: Personal , Blogging , Blogs , Birthday
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
More articles from this author: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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
