i was about to write an entry about not liking e-books and kindle and that i prefer my books to be made of pulp and paper…
i guess i’m changing my tune. i just discovered the wonderful world of google library!
“Browse books online
If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, [...]

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow [...]

i’ve been invited to talk to students of my undergrad college on monday last week. they have this seminar series called “____  meets mainstream media”, like a career guidance/major guidance counseling something. in short it’s a seminar to help students in choosing their majors.
it’s sad to learn that these communication students abhor writing. faculty member/friends [...]

reacting too late but here goes…
i don’t care if the $20,000-dinner was paid for by romualdez from his own pocket but their behavior was obscene for public officials whose constituents barely make ends meet.
austerity my ass? @#$%^&*
and we have a burgeoning budget deficit to plug. imagine, malacanang spent about P1 billion for these foreign trips [...]

stopped blogging for a month when blog.com had gone bonkers. i attempted to migrate everything to wordpress.com but it was effing tedious so i gave up.
anyway, after tita cory’s death, i had nothing else to say…got sick and tired of news about her (no offense to the family and to her) but it was overkill. [...]

i never thought Tita Cory would evoke something in me. but seeing all those people lining up the ortigas-edsa walkway going to SEC yesterday made me wonder: what does Tita Cory mean to these people, most of whom weren’t even there in the 1986 revolt at that same spot? what tugged at guts was sadness, [...]

“Almost alone among the countries of Asia, it has never been steadied by an ancient culture; its sense of itself, and its potential, was further worn away by nearly four centuries of Spanish and American colonialism. The absence of a spirit of national unity has also made democracy elusive. Even Jose Rizal, a political reformer [...]