Discourse, Society, Language, New Media, and I
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24 Jun 2008
My old buddy from college were discussing a few things when the subject of getting a teaching license came up. Since these license exams are administered by one single office (the PRC) in the office, I tried getting some [...]
One of the trade offs of working everyday and studying on the side is you miss out on a bit of culture. I’d have to admit that I haven’t listened to the radio in a long time (both AM and FM) so I know diddly-squat about who’s who in music industry. Sure I watch movies [...]
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20 Jun 2008A lot of my friends are doing rakets here and there to augment almost barely-scraping-by salaries by consulting for clients abroad. Receiving payments has been one heck of a problem with the lack of a reliable payment service.
Western Union has always been the most reliable but it has proven to be a burden for the [...]
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17 Jun 2008I went to the ToyCon last Saturday and had an epiphany – it was not my scene anymore. That meant a lot given that I was co-conspirator of the UP Anime Manga Enthusiasts anime fair and yes, I was president of that org too. I mean, I still maintain an interest for some areas in [...]
I don’t get Bayani Fernando. I think that he should orient himself to the fields of semantics and pragmatics for the prime reason that there are things that he’s doing that just doesn’t make sense.
Juxtaposing his Metro Gwapo signs with those tarps of his featuring his smug mugshot isn’t all to coherent. I mean, let’s [...]
Hi! I'm Alex, a 20-something blogger writing about the discourses of social media. Once in a while I still let slip posts about the mundane, the asinine, and the trivial. Feel free to contact me.