Blog Posts on academe

IBON Bookshop’s Summer Sale (’til May 19) by Tine Sabillo on May 14, 2012I bought six books from IBON Bookshop last Friday for only P525. I’ve been meaning to drop by ever since I heard of their summer sale. It was a good thing that I did because I was able to buy the two books I’ve been drooling for for only...

New Game: Puzzle Pets & Anino Anniversary by Skysenshi: A Kikay Geek's Hobby Blog on May 4, 2012Sorta New Game Well... Puzzle Pets Adventure, the second game I produced for 2012, is not entirely new.  I mean, it was softly launched at the end of March. (Yay, we released two of my games on my birth month!)  We're still doing some tweaks based...

Reading series 2: Genres of Discourse by Going against the current on Apr 26, 2012And yet whiteness is not a straightforward object of desire, any more than light is: blackness is desired, and whiteness is only the disappointing result of a desire that proclaim itself satisfied. Whiteness will be disavowed, as a truth that is eith...

Choosing to be happy* by Going against the current on Apr 25, 2012It has been four years or so since I graduated from college, and the past four years left me a bit disgruntled, dissatisfied, and aimless, even angry. At some point I began to question my motives for staying in Manila, teaching Literature (a subject...

Reading series 1: The Pleasure of the Text by Going against the current on Apr 24, 2012The Sentence is hierarchical: it implies subjections, subordinations, internal reactions. Whence its completion: how can a hierarchy remain open? The Sentence is complete: it is even precisely that language which is complete. Practice, here, is very...

Early spring by Going against the current on Apr 13, 2012This is my first time in the US. So far, the biggest challenge I am facing is jet lag. My mind is actively working at night and I am sleepy during the day. I have already begun my classes. Nothing extraordinary has happened since I arrived which is a...

First day by Going against the current on Apr 11, 2012I woke up this morning seeing a squirrel from my window; the sight of it was dazzling. It was drizzling slightly. The sky overcast. Sleep the other night was shallow and sporadic. The alarm clock near my head sounded off at 3 in the morning; my room&...

Some indefinite plans by Going against the current on Mar 16, 2012The semester ended with the Third Act of Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths. From here on, my days will be spent checking students’ papers, completing essays in my master’s class, and reading books that have piled up in my room. In the...

On laughing by Going against the current on Dec 2, 2011I’m in the first semester of my second year in grad school. I do not  know whether this is doing me any good or I am ending up more confused than when I entered. I know that I am going somewhere, I should; I do not know, though, whether this s...

Leather & David, Firenze, Italia by on Nov 23, 2011We started one of the mornings by visiting the leather and gold factory in the center of Florence. It was the typical (or at least from my memory of this) demonstration and sales talk, but mostly what I was really interested in was getting my hands o...