You guys know Siege , right? Fellow Filipino writer, has a better job and income than me? He's hard working, all over the intarwebs, and he's got a vision. Plus he's already got his degree, so he's lightyears ahead of me. Great guy, that Siege. Spent time with him once or twice. I was drunk a few times but he was drunk-er. We've got our differences, Siege and me. For one thing he writes in English...

- Ilalagay ko nalang dito ang comments ko sa blogs nina Siege and Glenn: http://glenskie.livejournal.com/200027.html?view=1008475#t1008475 http://thesiegeison.livejournal.com/292323.html -

I know that this has been circulating before but since Carl sent me a copy and I got to read it again and enjoyed myself, I'm going to post this here. Sounds like the one who wrote this would really like me hahaha. :P ANG GUSTO KONG LOVE  by: ===XTSiege====     Ang gusto kong love  Yung masarap magbigay nang backrub  Yung hindi mahihiyang makipaghalikan sa taxicab  Yun, yun...

The View from Casa Manila If our trip to the Philippines had a soundtrack it might be a powermix of the best hits of the 80s and today. (Much as Carlos Celdran's pointed and fact-packed and awesome San Agustin Cathedral tour came accompanied by a miniboombox with musical cues for the specific decade and/or colonial occupier.) Woke up to Beat It on the van down to Lemery, fell asleep to the entire...

garlicbreath , thesiegeison , exsanguinatrix -- We do. You can't has it. Is sekrit. Enlistment mission semi-triumphant! 18 units-- 3 units shy of my goal because Darth College Secretary blocked my Force. But I'm in a good mood, so I'll call this a triumph anyway. LTO mission triumphant! I am officially a registered driver now. The streets are no longer safe. Warn the...

at the 24 hour bookstore in Taipei (my bejeezus imagine boozing up and then indulging in a book binge at 3 am) I picked up Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien's Weird English . I'm still in the introduction, but so far it looks like a paean to how vernacular literature denormalizes English (she salts the first few pages with examples from India and Hawaii and The Simpsons version of Chinatown). Siege's journal...

Apparently, we charlatan bloggers have made popularize ape-like copy-pasting skills. Or something.

Wow. What a lovely argument Mixka and Siege had about the whole Janina San Miguel screwing up big time in the interview round. Here's my take on the thing via two perspectives: as a language education major and, well, a tibaquette ( Narciso , 2007). Charing. Tibak perspective The root of all the jokes and name-calling is the fact that in this god-forsaken country, people with the same IQ as...

Originally published at blog @ AWBHoldings.com . You can comment here or there . Siege Malvar asked me several questions about blogging in the context of social causes. 1. Can you tell me about the whole psychology of blogging as an “action” for a cause? Every blogger has his own reason for blogging. For some, they just want to vent out their strong feelings, you know, ranting. For some...

Originally published at blog @ AWBHoldings.com . You can comment here or there . Some people are asking others and themselves this question: “How come, despite all these scandals, there is no outrage? How come we are not out in the streets, protesting these fools?” One sociology professor from a Catholic university says it is because of people power fatigue . For me, it is plain and simple...