Alex @ June 11, 2008 | | Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Photos | Comments (6)
My friends are a bunch of smart people. You can mess with the permutations but to sum it up, we have four cum laude, two magna cum laude, and one summa cum laude graduates (of UP Diliman at that). We have a math professor, two discourse analysts, a software engineer, an EC engineer, a web developer, an award-winning digital artist, a painter, two law students (soon to earn their LLBs), a med student (soon to be an MD), two published writers, a systems analyst, a project coordinator, and two people who can speak Nihonggo fluently. An impressive roster, indeed.
However, we, as a barkada, have one basic flaw. We tend to be brainless when together. Give us a spot where we can congregate, whether it’s over iced coffee or bottles of beer, and every hint of intellect would then slowly fade into obscurity. Then out come the evil monsters spawned by repressing lifestyles and demented childhoods. Next thing you know, you’d think that you’re not seeing what’s supposed to be a bunch of decent young professionals who have respectable careers. Pretty much like how Bruce Banner turns into the Hulk, only with less physical mutation but pretty much the same level of insanity.
So is the tale of our trip to Bolinao.
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Tags: Beach, Boliano, Friends, Solomon's Paradise, Sugoi
Alex @ September 15, 2006 | | Life, Sports | Comments (0)
When I was still active playing football, I really loved using stepover nutmegs to get past defender. That and rocastles. In any case, nutmegs usually provide the most effective results. Either I succeed in fake them or they miss tackles and clip me instead. Free kicks for us.
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Tags: Football, Life, Soccer, Sports
Alex @ September 12, 2006 | | Life | Comments (3)
I work as a marketing man for my company, an IT company at that.
When I go about rounds with colleagues visiting clients, I usually get the usual questions “How old are you?”, “Where did you graduate? (sic)“, and the classic question, “So, ComSci ka, hijo?”. Those questions are strung in a such a fashion due to three factors. One, I look unusually young to be handling certain responsibilities required by my job position (Yes, I am only twenty-two). Two, Filipinos just do give a hell lot of premium for the university from which you graduated. I graduated from U.P., thank you very much. Haha. Three, I work for an IT company.
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Alex @ August 24, 2006 | | Life, Politics and Society | Comments (0)
For centuries Marx might have been rolling in his grave.
There have been so many brilliant ideas by brilliant men. Social theories seem so perfect. The flaw remains that there is no allowance for the human factor.
So much for philosopher kings, social contracts and libertarianisms.
Tags: Communism, Democracy, Life, Opinion, Politics and Society
Alex @ August 21, 2006 | | Life, Politics and Society, Work | Comments (0)
In a previous article, I have mentioned that Philippine labor laws have taken a backseat. Many other share this opinion as the Labor Code was signed way back in the former President Marcos’ era (talk about Makoy, it is Aquino Day today).
Here’s a news bit from INQ.net about proposed amendments to the Labor Code.
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Tags: Labor-Code, Law, Life, Politics and Society, Work
