What's a blog? there's a complete website explaining the blog. I still have to read through though it to be able to come up with at least a complete operational definition of the blog. For my personal use, knowing something about the blog is enough, enough to enable me to post on my own page. You wouldn't believe how many times i had tried. I think it took me a month to do so, just to be able to post my ideas - sort of a journal entry in a cute notebook or diary. Well, diaries are personal journals that the owner alone should read privately; but for the blog - an open "diary". The mere fact that this is in the web, makes this a public property, with a personal touch and identity. I don't mind really. This is a good venue for expressing one's self and having the chance to exchange ideas with others in real time.
I am just glad that i am able to keep up with the technology. Hah! I finally got it!
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
prayers
Once in a while i read the Bible; as a Catholic and a believer, I should read it everyday but i don't. One thing that's certain though is that i pray everyday. How do you define a prayer...how should one pray. Definitely i am not an authority on this - the priests are, the cathecists, the ministers, the deacons. But even they have their own ways of praying.
How do i do it? Aside from the daily prayers - the Angelus, Our Lord's Prayer, the Apostle's Creed, Hail Mary - i talk to God, personally, as a friend, as a confidante. Attending a retreat on Ignatian Spirituality and the Ignatian way of life (simply put, a the 5-day guided/silent retreat) has helped me put everything in perspective, of my life and my purpose :)
Anyway, during one of the reflection and consciousness phases in the retreat, i was able to write again, creatively - if one may call my writing creative. haha! Now that i am in teaching, i usually do technical writing.
I am now providing space in PointBlank for my prayers so that time and again, my prayers may be yours to read and use and reflect on, that is if you may chance upon my page.
O Lord
You have given me pride and honor
And all these I should care for
As a little god, an Elohim
I can do away with whatever I ask for
But I should not
I should be aware that I could not
For you alone have the power
to do as you wish
to give as you want
to take at your own whim
Wake me
Humble me
Strip me of pride
Make me worthy of your love.
(written on April 19, 2005)
It's worth knowing and believing in God. He alone can save our sanity and our soul...through Him, with Him, in Him, and in the unity of the Holy Spirit...hmmmmmmmmm, forever and ever.
How do i do it? Aside from the daily prayers - the Angelus, Our Lord's Prayer, the Apostle's Creed, Hail Mary - i talk to God, personally, as a friend, as a confidante. Attending a retreat on Ignatian Spirituality and the Ignatian way of life (simply put, a the 5-day guided/silent retreat) has helped me put everything in perspective, of my life and my purpose :)
Anyway, during one of the reflection and consciousness phases in the retreat, i was able to write again, creatively - if one may call my writing creative. haha! Now that i am in teaching, i usually do technical writing.
I am now providing space in PointBlank for my prayers so that time and again, my prayers may be yours to read and use and reflect on, that is if you may chance upon my page.
O Lord
You have given me pride and honor
And all these I should care for
As a little god, an Elohim
I can do away with whatever I ask for
But I should not
I should be aware that I could not
For you alone have the power
to do as you wish
to give as you want
to take at your own whim
Wake me
Humble me
Strip me of pride
Make me worthy of your love.
(written on April 19, 2005)
It's worth knowing and believing in God. He alone can save our sanity and our soul...through Him, with Him, in Him, and in the unity of the Holy Spirit...hmmmmmmmmm, forever and ever.
Friday, July 08, 2005
free ticket to a carnival named chaos
In media studies, Ien Ang relates that "the question to ask about the complex relation between media and audiences is not why there is not mere homogeneity, but why there is not more heterogeneity."(1) The situation where Filipinos are in right now shows the world that hey, a carnival is in town - a BIG one too! The carnival's star characters are no less than our top people in government - in the cabinet, legislative, judicial, the congress, the senate, the opposition, other politicians, and all the other watchamacallits...
Our 24-hour circus is so serious and bent on playing the part of making the clown or clowns laugh, cry, get mad, and change faces. They can really act you know. They have only to stay in the circus. And we, we wait, patiently for the inevitable - whatever that is.
People go agog over them. Mediamen do not have to go in so many places just to get their newsbit for the day. People only have to either turn on the boob tube, turn on the radio, or turn the pages of the newspapers and tabloids and instantly see or imagine what the clowns did to contribute to the success of carnival chaos. Well this and all the other news events in and out of our country add spice to being heterogenous but admitedly too, everything becomes homogenous.
People cannot do anything about this. The media can. But the demand for the circus is so great that all media can do right now is to give in to this demand. Media can be gullible...gullibly strong at times. So, everyone gets a free ticket to carnival chaos!
{This is a nice way of understanding postmodern society :) }
1. Ien Ang. In the realm of uncertainty: The global village and capitalist postmodernity. Communication theory Today. 1994.
Our 24-hour circus is so serious and bent on playing the part of making the clown or clowns laugh, cry, get mad, and change faces. They can really act you know. They have only to stay in the circus. And we, we wait, patiently for the inevitable - whatever that is.
People go agog over them. Mediamen do not have to go in so many places just to get their newsbit for the day. People only have to either turn on the boob tube, turn on the radio, or turn the pages of the newspapers and tabloids and instantly see or imagine what the clowns did to contribute to the success of carnival chaos. Well this and all the other news events in and out of our country add spice to being heterogenous but admitedly too, everything becomes homogenous.
People cannot do anything about this. The media can. But the demand for the circus is so great that all media can do right now is to give in to this demand. Media can be gullible...gullibly strong at times. So, everyone gets a free ticket to carnival chaos!
{This is a nice way of understanding postmodern society :) }
1. Ien Ang. In the realm of uncertainty: The global village and capitalist postmodernity. Communication theory Today. 1994.
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
inkbLotS
for the Media Studies Society's news magazine's maiden issue:
Ei guys...welcome to inkblot!
the editorial board assigned this to me *_*
what to write, what to say
i asked for the theme
nothing definite yet they say
but i know
evrything'll turn out great
the media studies embraces all; from theories to application and production courses students are able to conceptualize, design, plan, and implement their programs and projects - blood, sweat and tears aside
who said that broadcasting, communication, development communication, and journalism are easy courses? well, perhaps for others for they do not know what they are saying; they do not experience and will not experience the rigors of our jobs as communicators and as change agents in the community
the drive to come out with this news magazine sparked from Toots Rugeria's class - msge001: specialized course on writing during the 2nd semester of sy 2004-2005 - mind you, this is not a mere requirement being done for completion purposes
NO
this is a commitment being fulfilled
congratulations to the editorial board
for the writers and contributors, kudos to you all
you may have noticed, i did not end the sentences properly
there are only commas, semi-colons, ellipsis, and other marks but no periods nor exclamation points nor question marks to end these (except in the first and last lines)
as our readers put your own marks in these lines the way you want it to end
edit it as you so desire :)
now that the fire is lit
let it kindle
to bring forth light not ashes
to share what you know and what you have
nothing is easy....
rewards are great!
Ei guys...welcome to inkblot!
the editorial board assigned this to me *_*
what to write, what to say
i asked for the theme
nothing definite yet they say
but i know
evrything'll turn out great
the media studies embraces all; from theories to application and production courses students are able to conceptualize, design, plan, and implement their programs and projects - blood, sweat and tears aside
who said that broadcasting, communication, development communication, and journalism are easy courses? well, perhaps for others for they do not know what they are saying; they do not experience and will not experience the rigors of our jobs as communicators and as change agents in the community
the drive to come out with this news magazine sparked from Toots Rugeria's class - msge001: specialized course on writing during the 2nd semester of sy 2004-2005 - mind you, this is not a mere requirement being done for completion purposes
NO
this is a commitment being fulfilled
congratulations to the editorial board
for the writers and contributors, kudos to you all
you may have noticed, i did not end the sentences properly
there are only commas, semi-colons, ellipsis, and other marks but no periods nor exclamation points nor question marks to end these (except in the first and last lines)
as our readers put your own marks in these lines the way you want it to end
edit it as you so desire :)
now that the fire is lit
let it kindle
to bring forth light not ashes
to share what you know and what you have
nothing is easy....
rewards are great!
A brief
PointBlank...
it takes time to think and "write down" what to say maybe because words put together are just words put together...thinking about the meanings of the words said or written makes all the difference - contextualizing, constructing and even deconstructing words in meanings or meanings in words ---- perhaps this is one reason why i see my students cross their brows or twitch their lips when i start asking roundabout questions...though i ask straightforwardly (??? - is there such a word) - pointblank
even direct questions can have an "it depends" answer, not just a simple YES and NO response...and then we start blabbing and defending the "it depends" answer. Yes sirry!!!
Perhaps...if only we're trained to hear and accept the yes and no at pointblank, what a wonderful world we'll have. And there'll be peace ...but not silence...i guess...no, not silence...
it takes time to think and "write down" what to say maybe because words put together are just words put together...thinking about the meanings of the words said or written makes all the difference - contextualizing, constructing and even deconstructing words in meanings or meanings in words ---- perhaps this is one reason why i see my students cross their brows or twitch their lips when i start asking roundabout questions...though i ask straightforwardly (??? - is there such a word) - pointblank
even direct questions can have an "it depends" answer, not just a simple YES and NO response...and then we start blabbing and defending the "it depends" answer. Yes sirry!!!
Perhaps...if only we're trained to hear and accept the yes and no at pointblank, what a wonderful world we'll have. And there'll be peace ...but not silence...i guess...no, not silence...
Finally...
Finally,
I think i will be able to give this a shot. I've been trying to post my thoughts here but everytime i start, someone or something else gets my attention - a knock on my office, a phone ring, a crying baby ?????
I said maybe, this is not for me.
Now I am trying again...
I just hope that after posting this one, I will be able to visit my own site *_* because, obviously whenever I try to, 'di ko magets!
I think i will be able to give this a shot. I've been trying to post my thoughts here but everytime i start, someone or something else gets my attention - a knock on my office, a phone ring, a crying baby ?????
I said maybe, this is not for me.
Now I am trying again...
I just hope that after posting this one, I will be able to visit my own site *_* because, obviously whenever I try to, 'di ko magets!
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