The Construct

The Intensive English Program of the Department of English and Comparative Literature will be offering short courses this summer. The classes offered will run from April 5 to May 31, 2008 every Saturday.

Class 1
Intensive Grammar and Vocabulary Review
9:00 am – 12:00 noon

Class 2
Introduction to Oral Discourse: Refining Your Oral Interaction Skills
1:30 – 4:30 pm

Class 3
Technical and Academic Writing
1:30 – 4:30 pm

Tuition Fee costs P3,500.00

For further information, please inquire from Dr. Ma. Corazon A. Castro, Dr. Ma. Milagros Laurel, or Ms. Annie Ilagan at 926-3496, 981-8500 voip 2119 or e-mail at decl.kal@up.edu.ph, decl.kal@gmail.com.

For the past few days now, there’s at least one road mishap along Commonwealth Avenue. Since I live in the area, there’s no way to get to other places if not through Commonwealth. And since I drive down that road, I do get scared at times.

We might just have to thank Bayani Fernando with all the rotonda schemes he has put into place. Not only do a lot of motorists get their grim end smashing against those invisible barricades but that also meant there are no pile-ups or choke points. The only time I ever get to slow down is when I have to take those scary U-turn slots or when it’s 7AM at the Tandang Sora flyover. Speed junkies would probably like the idea but since you share the road with a thousand other drives with no idea of defensive driving, it’s like playing Russian roulette with five bullets in a six-shooter.

And what’s more irritating would be seeing banners of the president proclaiming that they’re making roads safer (at least I don’t see those banners now). There’s even this one billboard somewhere near Diliman school that says “Look up, young man! -God” (in black background and white text, no less) seems like a warning that if you avert your eyes from the road, God’s going to take you. It’s really crazy since you have the billboard does make you avert your eyes. Then you slam into a jeepney or bus or probably some crazy pedestrian who’s too lazy to use one of those pedestrian foot bridges.

I have to admit that the past week’s string of accidents has started to scare me a bit.

It has been quite a long while since I’ve blog hopped blogs of fellow Filipino bloggers. Interesting bits here and there but Basapa never disappoints with up-to-date commentaries on relevant social issues. Here’s something about sex education in Quezon City.

Save for a few weeks vacation when I was a kid, I lived in Quezon City all my life. All of my schools are located in Quezon City. My past two jobs were also based in QC. Unless I’d find some place more suitable for me to start a family, I’m staying put. There’s a lot to hate about the city but hey, it’s my hometown.

So what do I care about sex education in QC? Frankly, not much. But apparently, it’s such a big fuss. Especially since the Catholic Church.

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It totally escaped my mind. And I have been meaning to celebrate it. So let this be a celebratory post for this new milestone. It has been more than a year since I joined Bloggy Network.

I started to write for Bloggy January 14th of last year. I started out filling LifeSpy with content and eventually, I was tasked to do the same for AutoJab. It’s nice to see your work eventually blossom to something great. LifeSpy is now raking in thousands of uniques per day (and growing) and I hope that I can bring AutoJab to the same level.

I have to thank a couple of people for such an opportunity: Angelo – who e-mailed me out of the blue, telling me about the job and Jacob – who gave me the opportunity to be part of a really great group. Many thanks too to the rest of the people involved with Bloggy (Ahmed, Andre, Erik, Michael, [David who's SplashPress now], Elena…)

Am looking forward to more time spent blogging. Who needs a 9-5?