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In: Education| Language| Literature
27 Dec 2009
I was supposed to pick out my overdue birthday and Christmas gift yesterday. Failed miserably yet again. You see, rewarding myself is an idea that’s foreign. Blame childhood issues, perhaps. Oftentimes, I get what I need and not what [...]
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- Tags: Books, Linguistics, Podcast Kit
The English Studies Forum
26 Jun 2009I’ve been continuously writing about my frustrations with the state of English language scholarship here in our country. I’ve already raised the lack of profitability of English Studies as a field of study. At times, I’ve also touched on the lack of collaboration amongst scholars.
I was talking to my mentor about the difficulties I was [...]
Hide your Harry Potter books in these
23 Jul 2007These had been around the web for quite sometime and now that the book is out, they now have a use.
You got to love subliminal messages.
Via Harry Potter Book Jackets
One for the spoilers
23 Jul 2007If killing people isn’t a crime, I would have a good scalp count by now. While it’s pretty easy for me to give myself reason to kill, handing out unsolicited spoilers would be a crime against me that warrants death. And I guess for a lot of people too. Just read on the feel the [...]
Sir Butch Dalisay wrote a few things about blogging in his column in the Philippine Star yesterday. He discussed a few points on what attracts people to blogs and blogging. These points include democracy, audience reach, anonymity and flexibility of blogs and blogging.
But what I particularly liked about what he wrote is this passage:
The question [...]
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