The Four-eyed Journal

First of all, prayers are all I could offer to the families and friends of the victims of the Glorietta bombing. I first heard about the bombing when some one who was with me in a meeting at the DLSU-D University Student Council office read out loud from a text message he just recieved from a [...]

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After the resounding success of the first ever Bloggers’ Kapihan 1.0: Blogging Beyond the Basics, the BK crew once again comes around for yet another virtual-becomes-real venture. The BK Crew presents Bloggers’ Kapihan 2.0: Blog Ed 101. This time around, let us tackle the importance of blogging in learning, learning in blogging and blogging as a [...]

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It’s a call of duty, duty to my school as I, with a bit of regret, announce through this blog that I won’t be able to join the BK crew, the Pisay students and other awesome bloggers who will be coming tomorrow to the Bloggers’ Kapihan event. The first ever bloggers’ kapihan unexpectedly coincided with De [...]

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Let me start off the week with a sort of an announcement/invitation for the up coming Bloggers’ Kapihan Event entitled “Blogging Beyond the Basics” Bloggers’ Kapihan? Kape or Coffee + Bloggers, oh and donuts of course, and what do you get? A perfect opportunity to flesh out some crucial issues affecting the Pilipino Blogosphere and in part [...]

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Finally made it to Bloggers’ Taste of Asia last Thursday and it was a totally new experience. As always, I arrived late all thanks to the Cavite-Manila traffic but hey, good thing was I made it and already, there were like 300-400 people there. I’ve never been with so many bloggers before! Unfortunately, I failed to [...]

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5 days of no blogging! This is becoming a habit for me. Well not really, despite having lots of non-class hours these past few days especially when classes were suspended last Thursday because of the storm my time was eaten away by extra-curricular and social work. Just this last Wednesday, I was a guest at [...]

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This was supposed to be posted last night or earlier this morning but the crappy Globelines broadband connection has delayed this up to this point. *sighs* Anyways, the blogparteeh07 was great! The rush from school to the venue was well worth it. Meeting some of the renowned bloggers in the Philippine blogosphere, live in person was [...]

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As the title suggests, the next big event I’ll be attending is the upcoming Blog Parteeh ‘07 which will be the biggest gathering of Pinoy bloggers and Philippine-based bloggers as well. We talked about this during the previous MOA blogger meet-up, though I really wanted to volunteer my services in making this Blog Parteeh possible, those who were able to volunteer did an amazing job as the word itself has already acquired an exciting ring to it.

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We then ordered food which was coupled by bottom-less iced tea sponsored by Sir Abe. (Yebah!) While waiting for our food, we started talking amongst ourselves about, blogging (of course!), SEO, a few AdSense earnings disclosures(!), some controversial issues this past year, etc. When our orders started to arrive, talk about non-blogging stuff ensued. Retz, Gail and (I forgot his name again, paumanhin po talaga) started talking about Voltes V action figures, comic books, Ninja Turtles, Barbies, Avatar, seeding torrent files, downloads and LOTR. Now who said bloggers were all about just money making, SERPS, Google and backlinks?

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