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Top memories for 2008
Posted by: rina on: December 30, 2008
Travels:
Clambering up steep slopes in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro. I will never again attempt to climb a mountain without doing months of training/exercise beforehand.
Throwing up over the side of the boat en route to Itbayat, Batanes. Over the side of the boat pa talaga, di man lang barf bag. How absolutely ladylike.
Riding topload at Batanes. The [...]
ghost from comm. res. past
Posted by: rina on: September 10, 2008
Got momentarily disoriented during one of my grocery shopping trips, when, cruising the aisles and having just picked up a packet of powdered orange juice, I suddenly got accosted by a ghost from Comm. Res. Past:
next to the Tang shelves
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The Practice of Social Research by Earl Babbie
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One of those staple books in our Communication Research [...]
i can’t even think of an appropriate title…
Posted by: rina on: August 31, 2008
It’s been a mad few weeks, the whole affair has been bizarre from beginning to end. The silence that met the announcement that the concert was being cut short was definitely bizarre. No jeers, no gasps, no oh no’s, no murmurs. Just silence, as everyone just stood there and reeled from the shock of suddenly [...]
oo, gusto kong sumama!
Posted by: rina on: July 14, 2008
I love all this buzz surrounding the Eraserheads reunion concert. I first heard of it only yesterday from Don, who saw it in a blog post referring to a short Phil. Star article confirming the event.
Apparently there have been murmurs on blogs, forum threads and mailing lists about this concert for a week [...]
In fairness
Posted by: rina on: February 13, 2008
I don’t know why we even bother, but going to the UP Fair these days seems not so much as a way to have fun or even be nostalgic, but a way to be hit by several realizations on how old you’re getting. Alam mo yun, yung tipong you begin sentences with, “Nung panahon [...]
where the years go
Posted by: rina on: January 23, 2008
Mika posted a Multiply entry mourning the passing of Brad Renfro, who, like so many child/teen stars before him, apparently went the wayward route paved with drugs, alcohol and what-have-you, finally succumbing to it all at a young age of 25. The post was followed by more than a dozen friends’ shocked comments, peppered [...]
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