O once asked me who I was a fan of. It was smart of him to ask. :) I realized it was the first time I seriously considered the idea of fangirling for anyone. But that is another story.

I should have told him I was a fan of Benedict Anderson, the one who imagined Imagined Communities, the phrase that has lived on in my memory for the last eight ( Read more... )

Gestern, ich habe nicht die Hausaufgaben gemacht.
Gestern habe ich die Hausaufgaben gemacht. (The verb stays in the second position in their normal sentence. I almost forgot that.)

What a bad student, I am, I know. That's why I'm cramming today.

The instruction was to answer the question: Was haben Sie letzes Wochenende gemacht? (10 Satze, im ( Read more... )

I'm finally over being selfish. :)

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The Certificate of Attendance was issued last Monday for Level 1. No classes for today and yesterday. Level 2 will start tomorrow.

I spent the entire morning reviewing my past lessons as I must admit the course is getting harder to grasp. The gendered nouns are the least of my worries right now as I am more hard ( Read more... )

So, until March 9 I didn't know there were gendered nouns. I asked why, and their answers can be found here.

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Pau,

Now that you're 12, I hope you study harder. Teeheehee.

But come to think of it, when I was your age, I was just as distracted as you are, only, less playful. I hated Hekasi, too because I found it boring. If they taught it in English, I would have fared better but being that we're trying to be nationalistic and all, the subject turned out to be ( Read more... )

Today is my first day of driving class. It's something I've been putting off for such a long time and it dawned on me that it's one of those things that you just can't put off forever. This is the time to do it or I will never learn how to drive.

We started off at Makati and went to some places in Mandaluyong. The most liberating part of that two- ( Read more... )

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Never again shall one story be told as if it were the only one."

-John Berger

My officemate Maki who's really a great buddy got so incensed when I commented that I wish Eli dies in one of those episodes in Maging Sino Ka Man. "Kilabutan ka nga sa mga sinasabi mo," she says which got me all quiet and I couldn't help contemplating at how boxed her ( Read more... )

I fell inlove with this yellow book because I found out that I can be found in its pages. In every word of it, in every idea that springs forth as I read it, I smile and say to myself that this is me.

This book, I believe, is for me.

It was in Finding Forrester that I learned you don't choose the books that you read. The book chooses you.  ( Read more... )