I don't exactly know how to feel about MediaTalk 3.

On the one hand, it was a rather horrid experience to have reserved Leong Hall and have around 30-40 people watch. I mean, the irony of it all! The topic was public connection, and the seminar didn't seem to connect with the public.

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Acknowledgements for my MA thesis

This text is a testament to the complexities of performing our cultural identities in an ever-globalizing world. I must say that it has been a difficult task for me to make sense of all the subtle inflections of this subject. But, I have been able to pull through because of so many people who have allowed me a ( Read more... )

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One hour into my work:


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One of the things that I'm rather ashamed of is that I've been to more places outside the country than inside it (yes, there is still a part of me that wants to perform, as I say in my dissertation, patriotic pride). So far, these are the only local places that I have been able to spend considerable time in outside Mega Manila:

1. Legazpi City
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...but my Kuchiekins more than makes up for it. People who are in love are corny, so forgive me.


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...I would ask him for the following:

(1) an Apple AirPort Extreme base station (so I can sip coffee in our veranda and pretend I'm in some fancy coffee shop...my very own private public sphere! Hahaha!)


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These two videos contain the most engaging and fruitful debate I've ever seen, so far at least, between a realist (Noam Chomsky) and an interpretist (Michel Foucault). Perhaps one day MediaTalk@ADMU would evolve into something like this...erm...Hahaha! Since Albus Dumbledore says that it does not do well to dwell on dreams, let me just move on then ( Read more... )

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