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8 Feb 2010

Finally! A bit of time to blog. For the past month, I’ve been splitting my time between work and thesis writing. And boy that wasn’t a pleasant experience at all on so many levels. I remember the pressures of [...]

Rizal Day. To me, it’s just a holiday extender. Something to lengthen the no-work build-up towards the new year.
Of all the historical figures we now dub “heroes,” only Jose Rizal’s life and works are mandated by law to be studied as a college course in the form of PI 100 (known to some students [...]

“Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being repressed!” -Dennis

Hmm… An anarcho-syndicalist commune? In a republic where the elections might as well be a “farcical aquatic ceremony,” even that sounds good.
At least the martial law’s lifted.

The last taboo – martial law. It’s quite ironic that even with the whole Cory and EDSA I nostalgia earlier in the year that martial law is once again part of the Filipino consciousness. Maguindano might be far from the capital but the implications of this latest stunt by the administration does have great implications [...]

Here’s a word cloud of the 2009 State of the Nation Address. Common prepositions and function words were omitted in creating this cloud.

To be fair, the president used “inclusive” pronouns such as “we,” “our” and “atin” quite a lot. But she used an alarming number of instances of “I” as well.
So is it really about [...]


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