February 2012
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“…Alia had brains, she would be alright.
“But, but,” Alia...”
– Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
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“Now, returning, he saw through travelled eyes.”
– Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
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"The First Vietnam" By:Luzviminda Francisco (Click... →
OMG.
I never thought I’d find this online. Our professor, Sir Oscar Campomanes made us read it last year and believe, this is so worth your time! Specially if you are Filipino, because you’ll have a kind of history that is not usually shown in your text books.
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Victoria's Secret Model Chose to Honor the Lord... →
All I can say is that Kylie Bissuti, I love you, I support you, God bless you forever, and PRAISE THE LORD FOR PRAYING HUSBANDS! Jesus Saves! Hooray to New Creations!
God, I know You are glorified, and I am just so happy to witness it. ❤
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Thesis Chronicles: No Animals Killed/Harmed in the...
Surely, walang animal na nasaktan dito.
Pero marami-rami din ang pinggang hindi nahugasan in the making of my thesis. (Nakabasag pa ako mg platito. Tsk tsk tsk.)
Nawalan na din kami ng dining table ng asawa ko. Last night, doon sya sa countertop ng kitchen namin kumain, habang sitting pretty sila Tadiar, Hau, Ileto, Rafael, at Jenks sa la mesa namin. I am so blessed that my husband is so...
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"Strangers" (Click the link!) →
I’m glad my friend Patty Laurel shared this with me. It’s such a perfect illustration of how our lives are interconnected, and how the good stuff, as well as the bad, get passed on to others even without our knowledge. It’s also a great reminder of how everything traces back to God. To love God and live a life for Him, surely means loving others too, in direct and even indirect ways. Hooray to...
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Live, Love, and Laugh! (Watch the video!) →
If there’s anything I’ve learned, so far, as in the past two years of being married to such a romantic, Godly, intelligent, genius kind of man, it is that humility in humor and silliness saves us from a lot of unnecessary fights, hurts and cries.
I am so glad that I married such a FUN(ny) kind of guy. Thank you, Love, that you know when not to take me, or even yourself, TOO seriously!...
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Trip with the Bonifacios and Kristie →
Like what my in-laws said, Kristie chronicled everything so well. I just really want to share our pictures with everyone. It was a great trip :)
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Fresh Take On"Hate Religion,Love Jesus" Video! →
Not because Joseph is my husband, but I just really, really love his take on this one! It’s so fresh, because it does not seek to put anybody down and add or cause dissension between believers. Instead, it promotes the humanly aspect of Christians, as well as their actions as Spirit-led and filled. I am proud of Christians like this, who aren’t to speak and receive the Truth in Love!!!
January 2012
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wit and psychoanalysis
J.-A. Miller: Do you not wish to show. all the same, that the alienation of a subject who has received the definition of being born in, constituted by, and ordered in a field that is exterior to him, is to be distinguished radically from the alienation of a consciousness-of-self? In short, are we to understand- Lacan against Hegel?
Lacan: What you have just said is very good, it's exactly the opposite of what Green just said to me- he came up to me, shook my paw, at least morally, and said, 'The death of structuralism, you are the son of Hegel." I don't agree. I think in saying Lacan against Hegel, you are much closer to the truth, though of course it is not at all a philosophical debate.
Dr Green: The sons kill the fathers!!!
(From The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI)
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To: God, From: An Overdetermined Future Mom
Dear Lord,
I acknowledge that I am an overdetermined human being. I like this, I like that, I want this and that, I prefer, I believe, I know, these and those, because these and those things happened to me. Whew. So far, I have had a pretty much exhausting, nonetheless exciting and colorful, filled with lots of valuable lessons, kind of life.
However, my life is not exactly the perfect model...
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myopic
What I like most about a variety of reading is that within each material is the possibility to learn that, in all certainty of “my insightful-ness” is mere myopia.
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“Jambo!”
– Means “Hi!” in Swahili, Kenya’s national language. My Kenyan friend from Twitter shared it with me!
kimlasesqa That is Swahili Kenya’s national language.Its like what Tagalog is in the Philippines @ricaperalejo 1/25/12 9:55 PM
A Real Senegalese Twitter Friend!
I was tweeting my friends from South Africa, asking if any of them knew how to speak Wolof. It’s the language spoken in Senegal (located in West Africa), but I didn’t know anyone from there so I figured they would be my next best shot. I needed to understand what “Lane-la?” meant, since it’s the very last statement/expression of Mariama Ba’s Scarlet Song- the...
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Thesis Chronicles: When Your Very Own Plot...
I was just saying that after all that mega-exercising (equivalent to bench-pressing 250lbs.,15reps) of critical thinking and application of theory on my thesis, I welcome the change of having to do the tedious job of a detailed formalist reading on Ba’s Scarlet Song. Plot, characters, theme, motifs, POV, conflict, I say hello to them again for a report tomorrow.
Then suddenly I get an...
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tonight's status updates in the Peralejo-Bonifacio...
Joseph: Great food, fun, and friends! As Carla and I use the long weekend to celebrate our 2nd anniversary one week early. Lots of great memories stored away that have enriched our lives and relationship.
Me: I thank God that He is a Father who not only provides money and food and all material things, but also everlasting memories and friendships, filled with much truth and love. And wow, this is just our 2nd Anniv, Joseph My Love! Can you imagine what God has in store for the rest of our life together?!?!?!
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On Marriage
‘How can it change a person to sit at a table and eat steak instead of rice? What harm does it do to me to spend my salary on my family instead of subsidising a lot of parasites? And if to respect my wife and let her live happily in the way she chooses means that I’ve been colonised, well then, I’ve been colonised, and I admit it. I want peace. That doesn’t mean I’m...
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discipline is for children AND parents, as well! →
A favorite blogger, I am so glad that Jenn is my friend! Can you just imagine hours and hours of bonding time with her and all that wisdom that she CONSISTENTLY practices in and by her words and ways? Please take time to click this link because it’s just a powerful message about discipline and obedience, for both child and parents!
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child for guinea pig →
I don’t have a problem with people who do not subscribe to the male-female gender binary. I can argue for what I think is right, as well as they can argue for their own take. Yet to make your child a guinea pig? I think that’s overboard. I agree with twizzler265’s comment that “it seems to be more about his parents making a statement instead of him.”
Oh I am grieved.
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“He musn’t become like the general run of his people; when among themselves...”
– Mr. de la Croix as narrated by Miriam de la Croix in a letter addressed to Minke, excerpt from This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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“A third world place in first world drag.”
– Neferti Xina M.Tadiar, “Introduction:Dreams,” Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order (KABOOM. Parenthetical remark: mine.)
on migration
The reality of migration and terrible distance in the time of Facebook and Twitter, is that someone could just message you out of the blue that they met your dad, when you haven’t even been able to see each other in the last two years.
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“In October 2003, President George Bush told the Philippine congress that the US...”
– Reynaldo C. Ileto, “Wars with US and Japan,” The Philippines and Japan in America’s Shadow
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Thesis Chronicles: My Text Is Angry
I can hear my text saying...
Text: "Ah, so you wanna bash me, huh?"
Me: (nods soundlessly)
Text: "Well, if that's the case, magdusa ka muna!!!"
Me: (buntung-hininga and proceeds to citing textual evidences)
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Thesis Chronicles : "Ang Thesis Ay..."
I. Ang Thesis ay parang pag-pro-profess ng love. Hindi pwedeng maganda lang ang intensyon mo, dapat masabi mo din ng tama.
II. Ang Thesis ay parang panganganak. Haba ng labor, tapos may chance na mag-emergency Caesarian ka pa. Madugo, masakit, mahaba, at higit sa lahat, pahinge ng epiduraaaaaal!!!
"A Late New Year Post" By Jenn Punzalan →
I still remember the moment. I was sitting in one of the couches in their old house when amidst all the fun and fullness of love that one experiences in every party they host in their very own home, I thought that God really works in the lives of people, and that He works wonderfully in families like the Punzalans, aka, “The Punzees.” I was so encouraged that my heart began to open up...
no ordinary people
My prayer always is that God won’t allow me to look at others condescendingly when they do things that are not of my preference, or if they do not meet my standards. I’d like for Him to remind me always that even if I feel like I’m right, or that I’m being wise and practical and brilliant and superior in those moments of discovering the difference, there’s still...
