Thursday, October 16, 2008

random thoughts

  • Consumers are now extra careful in buying local or foreign products with milk ingredient.
  • I'll try cooking Bicol express next week for a change.
  • Filipinos in the labor-intensive sector are becoming more dependent on inexpensive energy drinks to sustain their daily level of productivity.
  • According to WB's Robert Zoelick, "September and October are shaping up to be hard months in a precarious year."
  • Whoever GMA endorses in 2010 will surely doom his/her chances of winning the presidency - a kiss of death, so to speak.
  • Critical understanding of international relations is imperative for any global citizen.
  • Given the opportunity, I want to teach in PUP, PLM, PNU, or CSU.
  • Montano isn't a good gameshow host and he wouldn't have also been a good senator.
  • The people's daily grueling struggle to subsist makes some of them feel uncomfortable to even hear Christmas jingles. I share their sentiment.
  • Many students live a lifestyle beyond the means of their parents. Maaawa naman.
  • DOST researcher revealed that "Filipino children live a sedentary lifestyle".
    http://www.stii.dost.gov.ph/sntpost/NewPOST/JulSep2006/Filipino%20children%20live%20sedentary%20lifestyle.html
  • I haven't watch any episode of Channel 2's Kalye: Mga Kwento ng Lansangan. But I hope it isn't the typical TV program which only features interesting "micro-stories" but devoid of meaningful call to action and where reporters pretend to be amateur anthropologists (at puro pagpapacute o kunyari naaawa sa kanilang kinakapanayam)

DS 112 recorded speech (alternative theories and approaches)

Present a recorded 3-minute speech about your assigned topic. Situate it in the context of the Global South. Provide an appropriate title. P...