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Posts Tagged ‘Personal’
Towards a two-month working spree
11 Apr 2009
I have formally concluded a semester of academic work after informing the department that I don’t plan on taking any more academic work. I’ve deferred my thesis work for next academic year to clear enough space in my calendar [...]
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- Tags: Academics, Business, Personal, Work
The new office space
In: News
29 Mar 2009The workspace defines the worker and vice-versa. So if all you have to work in is a shitty space with shitty stuff, chances are, you’d do shitty work. So as one of the splurges I made for my new place is to make one room into my own personal office. And it’s got everything I [...]
Operation: Big Bucks
In: Money| Politics and Society| Work
14 Mar 2009Author’s Note: Rant alert. This piece was written with rage. Read on at your own risk.
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- Tags: Career, Nvinium, Personal, Rant, Unforgiven War, Work
‘Done because we were too menny.’
24 Sep 2008Have 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 of her children to drink a bottle of liquid toilet bowl cleaner before drinking the same [...]
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- Tags: Money, Personal, Politics and Society, Poverty
The prices of gas (and a crappy car) and weekend dates
In: News
15 Jun 2008I just can believe how expensive everything is nowadays. I was cleaning my desk a couple of days ago and stumbled upon an old Shell receipt with the price per liter of their then flagship fuel Velocity was Php 16 per liter. Php 16!!! Those were the times when me and my college barkada (with [...]
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- Tags: Cars, Gas Prices, Movies, Personal, Rant
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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.
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