by Alex | Feb 21, 2016 | Language, Life
All that noise about Pacquiao probably wouldn’t die soon. Too bad in the midst of all of this, a lot is happening beyond a boxer’s unenlightened comments and the hate it stirred. In my circle of literary people, here’s what has happened just in the...
by Alex | Feb 8, 2010 | Education
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 writing my undergraduate thesis (gaining 20 lbs...
by Alex | Jan 7, 2010 | Education
Part of the tasks of descriptive linguistics is to seek out patterns which shouldn’t be that much of an effort since humans are said to be innately equipped with capacities to seek out patterns. And the task seems to be easier with analytic languages like...
by Alex | Mar 6, 2009 | Education, Internet
Quite a lot of students are working on blogs for their term papers and even undergraduate thesis. Those would include me, since I’m working on a critical discourse analysis of the Philippine blogosphere (particularly the discourse of the de la Paz-Pangandaman...
by Alex | Jan 31, 2009 | Education
Our educational system needs a revamp and fixing it by adding another year to college education is not the way to go. Writing as a person who has taught college freshman courses, I can readily tell that the problem is not with college education but with the 10 years...
