Alex @ February 28, 2007 | | Education, Language, Personal | Comments (0)
Wednesdays are for my MA classes. It’s a colloquium class so I expected another day of healthy discussion and debate. It just so happened that I forgot that we were to discuss e e cummings. You might know him best for somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond.
Ever read e e cummings concrete poems? Click here for a sample.
It’s quite amazing how our professor can really nitpick all the details in cummings’ poetry. I can just struggle and attempt to give a valid interpretation while she really can slice them down to quarks and derive interpretations from there. She can find very philosophical (even metaphysical) claims in them and have proper textual and contextual proofs to back her claim. As for the rest of us wannabes, we were just settling for the interpetation that cummings was a very poetic dyslexic. Haha.
I know I do you injustice as a reader not to elaborate deeply on our discussion, but it’d take me a few hours to transcribe my notes. I just wrote to say that it’s not just a productively mindf*ck afternoon, it was an orgy. And my brain has not yet recovered from being ravished. I need sleep. Haha.
Tags: Education, ee-cummings, graduate-studies, Language, Personal, UP
Alex @ February 28, 2007 | | Entertainment, Music | Comments (0)
Okay, this came in from my old college acquaintances. Reposted from their message:
The STAND-UP Executive Committee cordially invites you to:
“Magkasama, Magsasama: Isang Dekada, Isang Pakikibaka” a fund raising concert and reunion on Sunday, March 11, 8pm at the Purple Haze Bar, Tomas Morato Avenue. ticket entrance that comes with 1 free beer or iced tea will be pre-sold at 150 pesos.
This features performances by Jeff Pagaduan, Tikaz Gregyz (featuring Bidz of Studio 23’s Wazzup Wazzup), Lady Bedspacers, Wreckless Imprudence, Machine Gun (featuring Jon Corsiga), Cynthia Alexander, Bobby Balingit of the Wuds and more…
For tickets, please contact the following:
0919 678 2838 (Krissy Conti)
0921 632 8634 (Lees Decenteceo)
0915 508 7278 (Voltz Robles)
Tenth anniversary STAND-UP shirts will also be sold at the venue. SPECIAL EDITION ITO!
Inaasahan po namin ang inyong pagdalo. Invite your friends! Salamat sa ‘yong suporta!
Tags: College, Entertainment, Music, STAND-UP, UP
Alex @ February 28, 2007 | | Education, Internet and Web | Comments (0)
Thanks to J. Angelo for extending my discussion on blogging and generalizations. And on the Blog Herald no less!
I’m seeing great inputs from the comments. I love his take on the differences of perspectives used by bloggers. This diversity, I guess, gives the much needed color to the blogosphere that reflects our own diversity as people too. This diversity also drives the blogosphere to be dynamic. And, if ever the blogosphere loses this dynamism, I believe that it’s the failure of the social experiment known as Web 2.0.
Read J. Angelo’s take on the Blog Herald here.
Tags: Academics, Blogging, Education, Internet and Web, Opinion, Reactions, Writing
Alex @ February 27, 2007 | | Entertainment, Lifestyle, Personal | Comments (2)
Despite my dramatic output for yesterday, four articles on LifeSpy, a few blog posts here, and a proposal draft for a freelance project, I feel like I’m running on fumes. I’ve spent my weekend doing web design for another freelance project and I’m totally bushed. Even that Pacino binge didn’t help me recharge my brain cells.
As I have claimed before, I’m not a creative writer by training and the only genre I’d touch in that field is non-fiction. I suck at making up stories (save for those cute white lies). I’ve made a few poems here and there, but as my critics have said, they’re too bland and too reliant on my diction rather than emotion. Fair enough. I’ve done some technical writing too. But I’ve been doing a heck of a lot of academic writing as of late. Things that, I feel, aren’t too good for the brain cells. You can only be creative to some extent. It leaves all the pressure on my cerebrum.
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Tags: Brainless-Fun, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Personal, Rant, Wrestling, WWE
Alex @ February 26, 2007 | | Internet and Web, Language | Comments (1)
I do observe that some bloggers (myself included) are very much liable to commit sweeping statements. It’s a fallacy that’s quite common to commit. I know teachers of college freshman English will be so frustrated knowing that a good number of their spawns are going against the rules of academic writing. And it’s just one of the many inductive fallacies and all the other logical fallacies that one can commit in writing.
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Tags: Internet and Web, Language
