just like my other friends, this year has been a turning point for us. And this year’s abnormal mercury retrograde is kinda forcing me to look back and figure out the past in order to move forward. i had to make a lot of thinking so that i can plot the path for the future.
it’s [...]

some of these are true, some of these are not applicable in the philippine setting. but journalists all over the world are the same: we are overworked, underpaid and always in a hurry. and i don’t even know why we’re still here.
got this list from my cousin’s (who is taking up her MA in columbia [...]

some of my questions yesterday were answered by some of the comments at lifehacker. and just like what i wrote about twitter during the height of ondoy, some twitter users use the microblogging facility to cover/read about news items scantily covered by traditional news media. as viatro said:
It’s much more useful for breaking news than [...]

i don’t think i’m the only one here in the country and i guess a lot of my colleagues don’t even have the time for other social networks.
i couldn’t really get the point of twitter. forgive me, but isn’t it like text messaging on a cellphone where you are just limited to 140 characters? if [...]

i am now experiencing envy. i somewhat envy colleagues who are still out there in the field, being out there in the middle of the action. writing stories that matter. asking questions of utmost importance. writing stories that could rock the world.
but then, just thinking about the effort…and as someone said, i should prioritize the [...]

there are people who can write about anything. unfortunately i am not one of those people. if there are stories that i have to say no to i think it would be sports and police stories.
i know i would suck at sportswriting.
i don’t know what makes good sports writing but i kinda liked this one [...]

my boss, a co-worker and i were talking last night about the rise of online news entities and the eventual eclipse of the traditional print (with online component). my co-worker told me that the reason why my boss hasn’t jumped the bandwagon yet was because “he said he is a romantic, that’s why he’s sticking [...]

thank god i am finished with that report that i’ve been working on for 4 months. it has already invaded my life to the point that my thesis was stalled because of it. and what did it gain me?
nothing.
the people i should be affecting were not bothered at all and from what i heard, they [...]