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Of love and Friendster (Danny & Joy reloaded)
2008-06-06 09:37:00 A freelance journalist who happens to be a former student emailed these questions today (June 6) for an article he is writing for a widely circulated magazine. The title of this post is mine, not his. If you’ve read the contents of Danny & Joy: The Wedding Special, most of the points stated here may not ... More About: Media , Photos , Love , Interviews
Do you curse? How verbose are you?
2008-06-05 11:17:00 Warning: I took the two online tests mentioned in this post only in the spirit of fun. They do not provide empirical proof of the nature of the contents of Rising Sun. I need to issue this warning as early as now because you might be surprised by “The Blog & Website Cuss-O-Meter” test result for ... More About: Curse
Analyzing three other songs from `Rosas ng Digma?
2008-06-05 08:11:00 In between advising undergraduate and graduate (M.A.) students at the UP College of Mass Communication today (June 5), I listened to the songs from the 2001 album Rosas ng Digma (Rose of War) by Musikang Bayan (People’s Music). It was while listening to these songs that I remembered a long-delayed promise to critique the three other ... More About: Songs
Usapang langis
2008-06-04 04:17:00 N.B. - This was published in Vol. 7, No. 21 (June 4-10, 2008) of Pinoy Weekly (p. 5). Habang isinusulat ang artikulong ito, nangako ako sa aking sariling hindi gagamit ng pinakahuling datos ng presyo ng langis dahil malamang na maluluma rin ito sa ilang araw lang. Ang karamihan sa atin ay tila nahihilo, nalulula at naluluha ... More About: Driving
Advice to a blogger and a gov?t writer
2008-06-02 08:51:00 My UP Webmail inbox today (June 2) has two inquiries, one from a total stranger and the other from a recent workshopper. The former asks about successful blogging, the word “success” being made synonymous with money-making. The latter, on the other hand, has an interesting inquiry about editing. I decided to make public my private messages to ... More About: Media , Advice , Blogger , Writer
Funny signs at an `eloping? center
2008-05-30 12:15:00 See what a missing letter can do to a sign! I don’t need to tell you where I got this sign, right? My “funny signs” instinct got the better of me, so I read the other signs at the “eloping” center and noticed this most-often-but-ungrammatical use of the word layout. Notice what’s wrong with the word? The correct ... More About: Funny , Signs , Center
Matematika ng pamamaslang
2008-05-27 10:34:00 N.B. - This will be published in Vol. 7, No. 20 (May 28-June 3, 2008) of Pinoy Weekly. I posted this in advance because I might not have Internet access tomorrow (May 28). Totoo namang nakakalula ang estadistika sa pulitikal na pamamaslang, at mas lalong maisasakonteksto natin ang mga datos sa pambansang kalagayan at kahit sa ... More About: Killings
Something to test your intelligence
2008-05-22 07:57:00 As I wait for the start of a master’s thesis defense where I sit as a panelist, I would like to share with you an online test forwarded by Joy last Monday (May 19). This is an 11-item, multiple-choice questionnaire which tests your common sense and attention to details. I won’t tell you what score Joy ... More About: Intelligence , Test
My views on Friendster, social networking
2008-05-21 10:36:00 The March-April 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 2) issue of Forum, a publication of the University of the Philippines (UP), has an article on pages 4, 5 and 7 titled “Hanging out with the I.T. crowd: Navigating the tangled web of social networking,” an online version of which is available. (The online version, however, does not ... More About: Social , Views , Social Networking , Interviews , Networking
Gusto mo bang mag-blog?
2008-05-21 09:46:00 N.B. - This was published in Vol. 7, No. 19 (May 21-27, 2008) of Pinoy Weekly (p. 5). Isang babala: Ang sanaysay na ito ay para lang sa mga may limitadong kaalaman sa blogging. Malamang na wala kang matututuhang bago rito kung ang tingin mo sa sarili?y ?eksperto.? Kahit na limitado ang naaabot ng Internet dito sa ... More About: Blog , Bang , Gusto
Randy Malayao, missing
2008-05-20 04:09:00 Below is an urgent action (UA) alert from the human rights group Karapatan regarding missing activist Randy Malayao. Even if I had several dealings with the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) of which he used to be an officer, I am not sure if I have met him in the past. But Joy knows ... More About: Media , Missing
What?s so unusual about this paragraph?
2008-05-17 08:24:00 While waiting for the remaining Bulatlat articles to come in, I decided to surf the Net and came across this “unusual” paragraph. Even if the answer is immediately below, try to know for yourself what’s so “unusual” about it. I actually was not able to guess it, as I was preoccupied with the way the paragraph’s ...
Bayani Abadilla writes 30
2008-05-15 10:01:00 I got a text message this morning from friends at Pinoy Weekly and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) that Bayani Abadilla died due to a lingering illness and that the wake will be at Funeraria Paz starting today (May 15). Please find below the formal announcement from Pinoy Weekly: Pumanaw na si Bayani ...
`Solusyon? ng pamahalaan sa pagtaas ng presyo ng langis
2008-05-15 04:28:00 N.B. - This was published in Vol. 7, No. 18 (May 14-20, 2008) of Pinoy Weekly (p. 5), the full text of which may also be retrieved from http://pinoyweekly.org/cms/2008/05/ solusyon%E2%80%99-ng-pamahalaan-sa-pagtaa s-ng-presyo-ng-langis. May mga ginagawa naman ang pamahalaan para bigyang-solusyon ang sunud-sunod na pagtaas ng presyo ng langis. Ang tanong lang siyempre ay kung sapat ba ang mga ito ...
Argumento ng umento
2008-05-07 04:57:00 N.B. - This was published in Vol. 7, No. 17 (May 7-13, 2008) of Pinoy Weekly (p. 5), the full text of which may be retrieved from http://pinoyweekly.org/cms/2008/05/argume nto-ng-umento. Huwag nang taasan ng suweldo ang mga manggagawa. Kung hindi man magsara ang mga kompanya, baka tumaas pa ang presyo ng bilihin. At bakit ba mareklamo sila samantalang ...
Pangako sa aming magiging anak
2008-05-02 06:09:00 N.B. - This was published in Vol. 7, No. 16 (April 30-May 6, 2008) of Pinoy Weekly (p. 5), the full text of which may also be retrieved from http://pinoyweekly.org/cms/2008/04/pangak o-sa-aming-magiging-anak. May matindi mang kalungkutan sa bawat trahedya, hindi tayo dapat mawalan ng pag-asa. Hanggang ngayon, malaking emosyonal na bagahe para sa amin ni Joy ang pagkawala ng ... More About: Driving
Please watch Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (GMA 7) this Saturday
2008-04-24 12:00:00 Warning: Shameless plug ahead! My interview with GMA 7 at the UP CMC ended a few minutes ago. In case you’re wondering if I said anything incriminating, please watch the segment on blogging on Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (GMA 7) this Saturday (April 26) at around 9 p.m. Even if I won’t have access to television this ... More About: Media , Watch , Interviews
How fast do you type?
2008-04-24 07:38:00 Thanks to my mother whose idea of parenting includes requiring her children to take summer courses, I learned how to type when I was still in Grade 5, or the summer of 1981 to be exact. (Yes, I am that old, and what we used then were not computers but typewriters, both manual and electric.) My ... More About: Photos , Type , Fast
Krisis sa bigas at pag-iingat ng pamahalaan
2008-04-24 06:15:00 N.B. - This was published in Vol. 7, No. 15 (April 23-29, 2008) of Pinoy Weekly (p. 5). May pagkilala man sa problemang kinakaharap, mapapansing hindi pa rin ginagamit ng pamahalaan ang salitang ?krisis? para ilarawan ang problema natin ngayon sa suplay ng bigas. Maingat ang pamahalaan sa pagpapaliwanag tungkol sa mahabang pila sa pagbili ng bigas ...
Gov?t data prove necessity of substantial wage hike
2008-04-21 09:24:00 N.B. - This was published in Vol. VIII, No. 11 of Bulatlat (April 20-26, 2008), the full text of which may also be retrieved from http://www.bulatlat.com/2008/04/gov-t-dat a-prove-necessity-substantial-wage-hike-0 . One only needs to look at government data to see the basis for a substantial wage hike, and one only needs to do simple mathematical computations to prove the anti-poor ... More About: Data , Hike , Prove
Leche plan and other funny signs
2008-04-17 09:15:00 My trip to a popular mall in Marikina City last April 14 resulted in yet another harvest of funny signs. My decision to start taking pictures around the mall using my camera phone (I know: It’s only a Nokia 6070, but it gets the job done!) was prompted by this sign I saw after buying a ... More About: Funny , Signs , Plan
(Updated) Interviewed by GMA 7 on wage hike
2008-04-16 07:44:00 If you watch 24 Oras or Saksi on GMA 7 tonight (April 16), you might see me explain my views on the wage hike debate. I was just interviewed a few minutes ago by a GMA 7 reporter who, in the course of her research on the topic, came across an article I wrote in January ... More About: Media , Photos , Interviews , Hike
Mensahe sa magtatapos ng kursong peryodismo
2008-04-16 04:24:00 N.B. - This was published in Vol. 7, No. 14 (April 16-22, 2008) of Pinoy Weekly (p. 5), the full text of which may also be retrieved from http://www.pinoyweekly.org/cms/2008/04/me nsahe-sa-magtatapos-ng-kursong-peryodismo . Hindi lang ito pagbati sa iyo, kundi isang apila. Pinili mong tapusin ang isang kursong sinasabi ng ibang napakadali para sa iyong kakayahan. Ilang beses mo na sigurong ...
Funny signs in Cubao
2008-04-11 07:36:00 For this installment of funny signs, let’s differentiate between the not-so-obvious errors and the glaring ones. Arriving earlier than expected at a bus station in Cubao yesterday (April 10), a relative who was scheduled to take the night trip to Bicol went with me to a popular mall. But before going there, I can’t help but ... More About: Media , Funny , Photos , Driving , Signs
Funny signs from recent out-of-town trips
2008-04-09 12:05:00 As promised, here are some funny signs from my recent out-of-town trips. Let’s start from a province that’s about an hour’s drive away from our house in Marikina. I was invited to conduct a writing workshop for high school campus journalists, and the activity was held at a recently opened resort. My wife and I noticed ... More About: Funny , Signs , Town , Recent
Nakakapatula ang mga sandaling ito
2008-04-09 11:33:00 N.B. - This was published in Vol. 7, No. 13 (April 9-15, 2008) of Pinoy Weekly (p. 5). Pakinggan ang aking babala: Hindi po ako makata. Kakaunti lang ang mga tulang sinulat ko sa wikang Ingles at Filipino. Sa aking pagkakaalala, may dalawang tula akong naisama sa isang libro noong 1994, at ito na ang pinakahuling pagsabak ...
Typo tour in the United States
2008-04-08 12:30:00 ABC News had an interesting report about a “human spell checker” who is touring the United States . This reminds me of my funny signs project where I take pictures of mostly ungrammatical, often hilarious signs around the Philippines. Incidentally, I will be posting some funny signs from recent out-of-town trips tomorrow. For now, please enjoy this ... More About: Media , Tour
Please visit the websites of my J 117 and J 122 students
2008-04-08 10:17:00 Before anything else, allow me to make a couple of announcements: My Journalism (J) 117 (Online Journalism) students may now get their class cards from the department. For the 1st Semester of Academic Year 2008-2008, I will be teaching the following courses (aside from the usual thesis advising at the baccalaureate and master’s levels): J 122 (Publication Design ... More About: Media , Students , Websites , Visit
Quoted by Manila Times and PinoyPress
2008-04-08 09:31:00 My blog entry on the new, unofficial version of UP Naming Mahal (UP Beloved) was mentioned in an article by Dr. Elmer Ordoņez of the Manila Times titled “Anthem for the dedicated youth (The Other View, April 5).” It’s one of those rare times that the mainstream media cited Rising Sun blog entries. PinoyPress also used ... More About: Media , Interviews
Grades in J 109, 122 and 200 already available
More articles from this author:2008-04-01 11:38:00 To all students of Journalism (J) 109 FWX (Writing for Popular Audiences), J 122 HWX (Publication Design and Layout) and J 200-1 (Thesis): That I am making this announcement on April Fool’s Day is just a coincidence. Anyway, you may now get your class cards and papers from the department. If you got an INC (incomplete), ... More About: Grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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