Opinions and Writings
Reinforcing the status quo in the game development industry
Sat through portions of GDAP's Game Development Festival's Developers Summit yesterday. Gained a few insights but most of the discussions simply raised concerns as far as the local game development industry is concerned. I'd take on some of them perhaps on other...
Reflections
Just some reflections on stuff I've been busy on. Maybe it's high time for me to put up my own management/marketing/business development blog. On management It's always about people. No amount of book-reading will able to substitute for the things you can learn by...
Camwhore
I always wanted to take on photography as a hobby. The problem is with the expense. I bought a prosumer Canon S5IS about two years ago. I opted to get it so as to curb my inkling to go with a DSLR. I knew that the moment I get a DSLR, it would open the floodgates to...
Google-fu
Google first. Ask later. Someone else's got the answers to your stupid questions. We can't be bothered. *** Yup. Maybe we should start offering this as a basic course in college. Better yet, teach Googling as early as basic education. I remember that our teachers use...
The fashionable World Cup
The Philippines hasn't really been a football nation. Never mind if we used to be quite good at it and if Barcelona FC's legend's part Filipino. Only a few people would ever associate the town of Barotac Nuevo with football. Yet, for the past month, everyone's into...
Soul searching
One of the huge reasons why I've become so jaded teaching in UP is the shifting demographics of the student population. Usually, a discussion of starting salary's one of the most interesting portions of my English 30 class. Everyone was keen on sharing their opinions...
Honors inflation
It's graduation time once again and I wonder how many kids will be walking tall just because they'd be graduating cum laude or its higher variants. This might be a bit of sourgraping but it seems that it's just so easy to get honors these days. The Revised Genereal...
Bits and bytes
To think that I've spent the past twenty-two years of my life studying in a formal setting. Fancy that. Hours spent inside the classroom. I wonder if that should count as living at all. And guess what I'll be doing for the next few years again. Study. Contrary to what...
Hooliganism or activism
It's quite interesting how people view the Quezon Hall paint throwing incident yesterday. Facebook was practically a warzone between those who lauded the students' move of throwing paint at a school official and those who believed that UP has really dumbed down. As...