http://luthientinuviel.blog.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:14:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://luthientinuviel.blog.com/2009/11/24/mercury-retrograde/ 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 ... http://luthientinuviel.blog.com/2009/11/19/stuff-journalists-like/ 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 ... http://luthientinuviel.blog.com/2009/11/18/twitter-shmitter/ 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 ... http://luthientinuviel.blog.com/2009/11/17/im-a-social-network-retard/ 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 ... http://luthientinuviel.blog.com/2009/11/17/missing-the-field/ 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 ... http://luthientinuviel.blog.com/2009/11/15/sportswriting/ 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 ... http://luthientinuviel.blog.com/2009/11/13/being-a-romantic-sometimes-can-kill-you/ 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 ... http://luthientinuviel.blog.com/2009/11/05/quandary/ I just turned thirty yesterday. I don't know if that should be cause for celebration. My mother had me when she was thirty. She was having problems making ends meet then because both she and my father were just university instructors/researchers with 3 kids. They were also pursuing their masters degrees. I ... http://luthientinuviel.blog.com/2009/10/25/turning-30/ found a new addiction: MANGA for the past month, i've been glued to the computer screen until 5 am in the morning reading scanned and translated manga online. i finished samurai deeper kyo (and the manga--which is 308 chapters long--is waaaaaaaay better than the anime) and now finishing fruits basket. i ... http://luthientinuviel.blog.com/2009/10/22/5196041/