The Construct
Discourse, Society, Language, New Media, and I
Archive for September, 2008
‘Done because we were too menny.’
24 Sep 2008
Have we really reached the tipping point? A lot of people have been killing themselves recently but the one that still sticks to my mind was the case of Janeth Ponce.
On Tuesday [September 9], Janeth Ponce, 32, forced three [...]
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- Tags: Money, Personal, Politics and Society, Poverty
I hate the Filipino mobile phone culture. I hate how it became a status symbol. I hate how people let their phones govern their lives. I hate how companies developed this mobile lifestyle equating phone use to necessity. To some extent it has become one but isn’t it ironic how people have money to burn [...]
This post is an offshoot to a Plurk I posted to which only Jester was gracious enough to oblige with comments and I’m following it up with this post.
Today’s the day many Filipino bloggers have been waiting for – the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards night. I wish every nominee the best of luck. I do [...]
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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.
- Basic IT as GE course
- Master baiter
- Globelines Broadband cheaper rates
- Idle Hands
- The land of heathen drivers
- That Conan thing
- Breaking the carabao’s back
- Globelines using new IP ranges?
- Outpaced
- Binarurot na tambakol
- j: I pay about $25/month here in the U.S. for a 9MB broadband connection. Not sure what the current rat [...]
- Alex: Hi Edzee. Sorry for the very late reply. It seems like you have to bring that up with Globe. If your [...]
- EdZee: I have a 384Kbps Globe Broadband subscription for P995 in the past 36 months and I only learned abou [...]
- Ethel: Mr. Dave Barnedo....Is this the same Mr. Barnedo who's Dad was hospitalized at UST Hospital during t [...]
- NO to Large Class Policy on UPLB! « The Blue Ninja: [...] Breaking the Carabao’s Back ni Alex Maximo [...] [...]
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