http://www.blogabs.com Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:35:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i for one have no natural flair for drama nor sensationalizing personal shit. but anyway, just to give you an apt closure for this entire ruckus, yes, i am personally satisfied that the mutual feeling is one of good riddance. although i have this automatic mourning process once something is lost ... http://www.blogabs.com/2008/11/whatever.html it is quite sad and surreal that my last ndc as a debater would be during my first year in debating. for the longest time, and in my past life, i have always shunned the possibility of being a debater for several reasons: for one, i do not feel adequate ... http://www.blogabs.com/2008/11/adieu-debating.html the past few days have been alternating swirls of boring days and uneventful nights.  i have actually much to talk about -- rant about -- but it feels like it would require a major motivation on my part to muster enough adjectives, words, and paragraphs to let everything out -- ... http://www.blogabs.com/2008/11/so-little-time-so-much-to-do.html IMF is Dead The burden for any revisionist advocate in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) brouhaha as exposed by Stiglitz, himself included, is simple: he has to prove that the organization has not been enseeped entirely with the wrong principles, and it still has the potential to rise above its initial ... http://www.blogabs.com/2008/10/a-geeky-post-hehe-d.html Last night, I had a few good laughs as I stumbled across my first debate portfolio – a blue envelope containing the first set of debate-related papers that I acquired in last year’s Visayas-Mindanao Championships held in Cebu. Back then, I only had a month’s worth of experience as a ... http://www.blogabs.com/2008/09/debate-related-post-hehe-d.html to all those who were unduly burdened with what had happened, my sincerest apologies. (especially to A) it was not my intention to muck up that bad, and now, i will need to face the consequences for that night -- and i seriously mean it when i say i hope it ... http://www.blogabs.com/2008/09/im-sorry.html I have always dreaded the first day of class for the past three years or so – not because I am concerned with how likeable my classmates will turn out to be, or how horrendous my teacher will be for the entire semester. My reservation, as a matter of fact and ... http://www.blogabs.com/2008/09/confessions-of-a-dinosaur.html hey, i want to see how i write when i'm drunk. do i forget the comma, or do my conjugations suck? or do i forget my subject verb agreement? or is my spelling wrong? i honestly don't give a shit -- i just want an honest opinion of how i degenerate when ... http://www.blogabs.com/2008/08/am-i-drunk.html as i write and will ramble about my mundane life experiences for the past few days in the next few paragraphs, my parents are on their way to korea -- and they will be staying there for a week or so. and with this, i should be ecstatic; i should be ... http://www.blogabs.com/2008/08/understand-this-try.html In the Eyes of a Child by Alvin Clyde O. Gregorio ‘Innocent Voices’ is a poignant story of innocence, carnage, and idealism in war-torn El Salvador during the 1990’s, just as the country was gripped by a military dictatorship, backed by the United States of America. It chronicles the travails of an ... http://www.blogabs.com/2008/08/innocent-voices-a-review.html