pushed, nudged

link to today's Inquirer editorial. oh so true

got two books from fully booked (alan greenspan and thomas friedman books are on sale, 40% off, apparently they overstocked)

these should be interesting. convinced my tito to get his own copy of first, break all the rules too.

istyupid #6

Mikey [Arroyo] said that there was no reason to declare the Con-ass [as a means for Charter Change] “dead” until he and the rest of the 180 congressmen who had signed the Con-ass resolution had taken their names off the list of endorsers.

-Inquirer.net (link here)


this guy acts like he owns the country.
darling, i own it too.

and so do the other eighty billion plus plus

fanboy moment

that's what steph called it.

you see, i shared to her how
more than meeting mr blair

i really wanted to go and tell mr carandang
that he is doing a good job. past political exposes and all


i ended up telling him he did
as we talked about the event he moderated.

you see, it was largely thanks to
an article about him (link here)
that i am hooked on

rogue the magazine



which is now online. woohoo

rogue.ph

yet another fanboy moment
woopdidoo

TED on Adam Savage's obsessions

Adam Savage: My quest for the dodo bird, and other obsessions

wait for it. wait for it.
the ending. wait for it.

another good find from x. thanks x.
enjoy exams.

an Amateur and a Dilettante

i got my roommate to borrow two books from the library for me.
thanks shanon.

interestingly enough, both seem to share tips
that can help me with my next assignment, my job.

one is christopher locke's gonzo marketing.
while i'm not too sold on his gonzo model,
the book has moments.
some funny ones, some whoa-cool-i-want-to-look-at-it-like-that ones.

here's a favorite (rarely will i encode four paragraphs from a book but i thought paraphrasing it would be too polite):

The concept of gonzo marketing would never have come together at all if I'd had to rigorously research every damn thread we're about to touch on. Will some of these lead us into curious intellectual culs-de-sac? Yeah, probably. Are you likely to encounter grievous gaffes and disquieting half truths? Sure, but what else is new? By screwing up royally here, I hope to provide a new kind of model demonstrating to business that it not only can, but must move beyond its unhealthy fear of error and imprecision. Today, it is certainty that is not an option. Failure is almost guaranteed.

In addition to being a sort of indie-Indy, I also think of myself as An Amateur and a Dilettante. The caps are there to echo the title of the movie, An Officer and a Gentleman--though as you're already finding out, I'm neither. At its heart, gonzo is animated by an attitude of deeply principled anti-professionalism in the best sense. And there is a best sense. Historian and former Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin once wrote: "Democracy is government by amateurs.... The survival of our society depends on the vitality of the amateur spirit... The representative of the people ... must be wary of becoming a professional politician."

Here, amateur clearly doesn't mean incompetent or unskilled. It doesn't mean unprofessional. But professional-ism is something altogether else. Over time, any functional specialization tends to forget its relationship with the larger social context it was created to work within and serve. Instead, it concentrates on developing an inner sanctum of specialists who talk among themselves in a private language inaccessible to outsiders. Almost without exception, such professionals despise amateurs. Or worse, accord them a patronizing form of faux eye-rolling patience.

Related to "amateur" is the even more pejorative term "dilettante"--someone who practices a craft or studies a field of knowledge in which he or she is not a "recognized professional." But the etymological roots of these words tell a different story. Amateurs do what they do for love (from the Latin amare), while dilettantes are not mere casual dabblers, but instead are inspired by delight (from the Italian dilettare by way of the Latin delectare). But delight and passion for the work are precisely the qualities professionals tend to lose first. The opposite of professionalism is what Zen master Shunryu Suzuki called "beginner's mind"--an ability to look at the world with fresh eyes and an open spirit.



easier said than done.
my reminder posted june 12 2006 (link here)

will be severely needed.

a speller on the bee

jaja texted past midnight
that atlantis needed guest spellers
for their 2pm technical dress rehearsal.

i said game!
and along with jill and reb,
we were spellers for a really interesting spelling bee.

it was so much fun!
blueREP did this before and so i knew i would love the material
but seeing a new cast do it this time was cool.


i will watch again. you should too!

just to brag

true to his blog being on
preview magazine's style bible website,

rajo laurel
pointed out our wearing of
the barong tagalog! tihee


full blogpost here, excerpt below:

The gold goes to the group called BELEAVERS! The business idea was creating semi-disposable plates from fallen coconut leaves! I loved the energy of their presentation and the banter between the two presenters were really in-sync. I also like the BARONG Tagalog outfits,as the rest of the groups were in suits. These young men stood out for me because they wore the national shirt! Plus they really had a SOLID business idea! For this, they win a whopping 300,000.00 pesos!!!! Plus the honor to represent the country in the international Young Entrepreneur Awards to be held in Hong Kong! Congratulations guys! I know that you will do very very well in the international finals!

TED on good design

Don Norman: The three ways that good design makes you happy

Sesame Street explains the Madoff Scandal

from a huffpost article (link here)

our common wealth

i thought i'd mark the moment
with a book

and i found this

no idea if it's any good
but it has a lot of stuff
that translates into numbers
all that we see and feel today,
thanks to so much change.

buying this and eating alone after
was good me-time

before yesterday's string of events.


finished a strains engagement with
new vision and mission drafts as output.
met up with older student council people
and talked and talked and drank and talked for 6 hours.
learned something new with
the learning circle boys over more food and more
better-tasting beer.

must finish that installation.

Blair & Lowney

my last week
as an undergraduate student
is so cooool.

monday will feature
Tony Blair
who will speak during the ateneo-mvp sesquicentennial leadership forum

friday will feature
Chris Lowney
who will speak during the graduation rites

and there's John Legend
on the thursday but
i'm not as excited about that anymore.


woopdidoo.

istyupid #5

our ombudsman thinks clenching our fists while singing Bayan Ko is offensive.
her being our ombudsman is a thousand times more offensive.

Ombudsman irked by Villa-Ignacio’s clenched fist at flag ceremony

03/09/2009 | 10:00 PM

Ombudsman Ma. Merceditas Gutierrez lost her cool again Monday after seeing Special Prosecutor Dennis Villa-Ignacio making a clenched fist during the morning’s flag raising ceremony.

An informant said Gutierrez summoned her lead prosecutor into a room and gave him a full dressing down.

Reached by phone, Villa-Ignacio confirmed the incident.

“Pinagalitan ako kasi bakit daw nagtaas ako ng clenched fist during the singing of ‘Bayan Ko’. I don’t know why she got angry, to me it was simply a patriotic gesture. It was such a meaningful song," the special prosecutor said.

Aside from the clenched fist, Villa-Ignacio said he was also accosted for showing up Monday when he made no appearance on other days.

“I explained to her that I try to attend when I can. On those days when I could not make it, I was on leave mostly for medical reasons and at other times, I have important official appointments to attend to. It seems strange that I get scolded for attending the flag ceremony and when I don’t show up, I also get reprimanded. It’s getting confusing," he said.

Villa-Ignacio has accused Gutierrez of harassing him for his criticism of her policies in the handling of the more controversial cases before the Office of the Ombudsman.

He questioned the Ombudsman for endorsing administrative complaints against him despite alleged lack of basis, including an estafa charge for donation money that went to the Gawad Kalinga Foundation.

He has also blamed Gutierrez for the plummeting credibility of her office and the sharp decline of the agency’s conviction rate against erring government officials.

Gutierrez went on attack against her critics last week after an impeachment complaint was filed against her before the House of Representatives alleging that she coddled respondents in big cases when those involved are close to the Arroyo administration.

She chided former Social Welfare Secretary Corazon ‘Dinky’ Soliman, saying the latter should concentrate on the colored highlights in her hair rather than painting political colors on the rulings of the Ombudsman.

She also questioned the motive of former Senate President Jovito Salonga for leading the impeachment initiative and joked about his advanced age. - GMANews.TV

jitters creepers

sometimes you wonder why you were worried in the first place.
you realize you were just concerned.

and a little concern every now and then never hurts.
that is why we get opening day jitters
or why we have i-really-want-this-job kind of job interview jitters
or why we look forward to hope-the-tailor-got-it-right jitters

but jitters can go over the top too.
the bart guingona himself shared his "secret" and he calls it

the status transaction
or how we be mindful of a switch in status
every time we go on stage.

he says we have to look at it as if your audience,
no matter how worthy of admiration they are,
can definitely learn something from you.

i say it's a good way of addressing status anxiety,
if you have any.

he said it during technical rehearsals for hsbc eco-business award presentations
and my fingers are crossed for the final presentations this thursday.


a little concern goes a long way.

letting go of the Rizal library

i am not fully cleared just yet
but as i returned the last book
i borrowed from the library
before having my clearance signed
i realized

nooooo. sigh.
no more hassle-free borrowing of books from the library
no more paying of five pesos for every day overdue
no more sneaking out of class to check ebsco or euromonitor
no more building (or the old building i've been entering since 2004)

i pray the new Rizal library
would really be a "cathedral of learning"
but for now i say bye-bye.


off to another job interview
and just so i don't forget the current climate,
the huffingtonpost reminds me
of today's "blue-chip blues"

and how "longtime safe investments are now akin to penny stocks" (link here).

just the kind of news you want to read before an interview.

Janina San Miguel on the Sumilao Farmers

this issue needs all the buzz it can get.

Time	Activities
8:30 AM	Set up time
9:30 AM	Commencement Mass
10:30 AM	Hunger act, Resource mobilization, Runner for CARPER
5:30 PM	Noise barrage/ Candle-lighting ceremony outside Gate 2.5
6:30 PM	Non Fasters’ dinner
7:30 PM onwards	Evening Socials and Vigil
March 5
9:00 AM	Preparation for Mass
10:30 AM	Culminating Mass
11:30 AM	Salu-salo
12:30 PM	Processing

Learn more about CARPER through: http://thefinalstand.multiply.com/ or http://carpernow.multiply.com/. 

THE FINAL STAND (by R.Lance Chua, II AB MEC):
Stuff you can do on March 4-5 [wednesday and thursday]

1. Sign the petition at Zen Garden
2. Run for the cause! *check more info at thefinalstand.multiply.com
3. Be a fasting/hunger act participant! 
4. Solidarity night on March 4
5. Mag-ingay ka! Noise Barrage! 
6. DONATE: money, used clothes and medicine!

islands banca!

Link got this from ria (thanks ria)

i think it's about time someone triumphantly declared

CEBU HAS ISLAND HOPPING!

pretty nifty packages at that,

just check out islandsbanca.com 

must plan summer soon.