Thesis Help

Friends I need finding these students in UP Diliman. Because I don't know most of them, I need to ask my friends who possibly have met them or sat in class with them. I have with this blog entry a list in a pdf file of those who fit my criteria. So if you know any of my possible respondents please reply to this message. I need them for my thesis. Its about their experiences in schooling. I'm expected to complete the study within this semester under Dr. Laura Samson. If you have questions feel free to ask.

Thank you.

Panpil17 Assignment

Payak ngunit madami at malalim ang pangangahulugan. Isa utong kasabihan na nakatuon sa paglalarawan ng kagalingan ng isang indibidwal. Ito ay nakaconjugate sa sarili—first person. Maari nating sabihin na sa indibidwal lamang ang binabanggit subalit ang kinalalabasan ay suggestive sa mga mambabasa. “I work well!” Isang itong pagyayabang ng kagalingan, competence, disiplina at compliance sa mga mambabasa, na sa rasyonal na pagtingin ay wala namang imperatibong nababanggit sa mga salita.

Ang Pilipinas bilang isang bansang walang malalaking idustriyang nasyunal, isang paraan para kumita ay ang pag-akit ng mga kapitalista galing sa labas. Isa sa mga umaakit sa mga transnasyunal na korporasyon ay ang cheap labor. Kasabay nito malaki rin ang masasabing migration ng mga mamamyan galing sa bayan papunta sa Metro Manila at sa mga malalaking mga lungsod sa Pilipinas sa pag-asang makakakuha ng trabaho. Subalit, hindi naman talaga lahat ng mga nakikipagsapalaran ay sinusuwerte. Karamihan sa kanila ay nasa mga iskwater—sa mga lugar na iligal nilang tinitirhan.

Masasabi nating laganap pa rin ito sa mga lungsod sa kamaynilaan. Ibig sabihin lang naman na may kahirapan pa rin bukod sa sinasabing mga oportunidad sa kalungsuran at ito ay pinapanatili. Ito ay kailangan panatilihin upang magkaroon pa rin ng cheap labor na kung saan ito ang hanap ng mga investors na mga korporasyon. Kailangang may taong walang trabaho at kailangang ito ay isang kopetitibong army ng mga mangagawang papayag sa mababang sahod.

Bagkus, hindi rin maganda sa paningin ang itsura ng mga kalsada at mga imprastuktura kung lahat sa mga ito ay pinamumuran ng mga maralitang mamamayan. Kaya naman malaki ang inisyatibo ng gobyerno na pondohan ang mga programa ng MMDA, hindi upang maalis ang kahirapan at overcrowding  kundi, ikubli at itago sa ilalim ng doormat ang dungis ng kamaynilaan. Hindi nito interes na maging maayos ang pamumuhay ng mga mamayaan kundi pagandahin lamang ang kamaynilaan sa pagtago ng mga eyesores sa harap ng mga investors. Kung susumahin, mahalagang ipalaganap ang mga kondisyon na congenial sa negosyong transnasyunal sa pamamagitan ng page-exploit sa masang mamamayan.

Bilang isang ideolohikal na teksto, nagpapanggap ang ideya nitong itulak ang pagiging sibilisado ng mamamayang pinagnanakawan ng halaga ng kanilang paggawa. Pinaaalalahanan ang mga mamamayan na maging matino sa pamumuhay sa gitna ng kakulangan sa trabaho at nararapat na sahod. Isa ipokritong pagpapakita ng standard na mapanghati sa pamamagitan ng pagsisisi sa kahirapan sa masa.

Isa ring artipisyal na manifestasyon ng average ng populasyon ng kamaynilaan. Hindi naman ang mga middle class ang pinagtutuunang puna ng ad na ito kundi ang mga aye-sores tulad ng mga street vendors, tsuper ng bus at dyip at mga iligal settlers. Hindi masamang organisahin ang kalungsuran kung ito ay para sa ikabubuti ng masa. Pinipilit dito ang kakarampot na work ethics sa taumbayan na mas nakararami pa rin ang walang trabaho at namumuhay sa kahirapan. Hindi na rin isyu ang malakihang disorganisasyon sa transportasyon, kalsada at mga tirahan kung ang mga kondisyon para sa disenteng pamumuhay ay nabibigyan ng sagot para sa nakararami.

 

PanPil17 Assignment | Bugtungan

 Bugtungan

Buto’t balat naw malapad, kay galing kung lumipad

Sagot: saranggola

 Bulbol sa ulo’y malapad, kay Uncle Sam ang nilalakad.

Sagot: Emerlinda Roman

 ***

Hindi tao, hindi hayop, kung uminom ay salup-salop.

Sagot: batya

 Kalahating tao, talaga namang hayop, kung mangurakot ay salup-salop.

Sagot: GMA

***

Ako ay may kaibigan, kasama ko kahit saan.

Sagot: anino

Ako ay may kaibigan, ka-phonesex noong halalan.

Sagot: Garci

***

Dumaan ang hari, nagkagatan ang mga pari.

Sagot: siper

Dumaan ang hari, nagliparang itog sa kanya’y yumari.

Sagot: Esperon

Panpil Assignment | Willie's Song

Please see attached document. (wowowee.pdf)

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Magkamukha ba?


Siya ang gumanap na isang character sa Heroes season 1. Ang powerr niya ay persuasion. Malipit din da sa personality mo?

Panpil Assignment | Inday Joke : Follower ni Tito Pierre

Amo: Inday, bakit madaming kang libro sa kwarto mo? Kaya naman pala nagrereklamo kang masikip mamalantsa diyan. Bakit binabasa mo ba yan lahat?

Inday: Sir, books are forms of social capital. Bourdiue would argue that capital does not only pertain to the economic but to the social ones. My books resemble their capacities as symbolic good. I'm sure one of them may not buy for a grande strarbucks but I'm sure they can’t be bought in exchange of even a venti. Your questions sits on the same delusion to asking why you, Mr. and Mrs. Montemayor, have deliberately been collecting and putting these expensive Chinas into the living room shelf facades? We wouldn't really want to use your Chinas for the next meal, would we? Would you trust me to wash these Chinas, knowing that I barely have the probability of breaking them through my extreme training and care, of course because you see them as relics of your ancestral possessions? No need to respond to that sir. Now, my books, this array of spines bind the pages of history and human knowledge, you were talking about, can not be exchanged with aprons and dusters because books play in the field of intellectual historical debates for knowledge and humanity while aprons and dusters are… for domestic politics. Now I completely understand your display of disinterest because we are of unlike fields and capitals and dispositions, or what Tito Pierre calls habitus—the feel of the game… which tells apart our practice in this Haushalt.

Amo: Potah.

Bayaning hindi pinanood ang laban sa sariling bayan

Ang larawan sa itaas ay nagpapakita ng kabiguan ng isang idolong nailuklok sa kasikatan. Sa pagkakataong inaakala nating ang isang sikat na artista or celebrity ay awtomatikong papasok at papatok sa pulikta ay nababasag sa ganitong imahe.

Ang 300 na pelikula ay napapailalim sa isang tema ng pagkilala sa abilidad at kapangyarihang umalpas kaysa pag-usapan ang dami. Ang karakter na inihalintulad kay Pacquiao ay maabilidad at matalino sa pagharap sa malaking lupon ng kalaban. Ganito ang bayani. Marahil si Jose Rizal ay pumasa sa mga kategorya hinahanap ng grupong naghahal sa kanya para maging pambansang bayani. Si Pacquiao ay ba ay pumasa sa mga kategorya?

May malaking ‘subalit’ sa ganitong usapan sapagkat, ang magiging tanong ay nasa tamang laban ba si Pacquiao sa nakaraang eleksyon? Hindi. Sinasabing ang mga kababayan niya ay hindi naman nagnais na yakapin din nito ang pulitika. Gusto lamang nilang manatili siya sa boksing, kung saan siya nakilala at nagkaroon ng pagkakataong mabigyan ng pangalan. Hindi maitatangging siya ay dumaan sa hirap at sakit noon gang lahat ay tunkol sa laban para sa sariling kakayanan sa larangan. Nakapagtatakang lamang na nang napansin ng Pilipino ay biglang nabigyan ng patriotikong twist. Ang career life ay nabigyan ng bagong kahulugan.

Tulad ng ating mga napag-usapan papasok tayo sa political economy sa pagsusuri sa katayuan ni Pacquaio bilang isang sinasabing bayani. Ibig nitong sabihin na sa gitna ng kaguluhan at krisis sa aspetong pampulitika, sosyal at pang-ekonomiya, nakakagawa ang mga nasa poder ng kapangyarihan na gumawa ng mga imahe ng bayani. Ang bayani ay inaasam na itaas ang morale ng mga mamamayan sa hirap ng buhay ngayon. Kung ayaw naman natin ng bayani, ang pang-iidolo kay Pacquiao na iniwanan ang pangarap na makatapos ay nagiging katanggap-tanggap na parang dadami pa ang magiging Pacquiao sa Pilipinas. Ang pagpipilit sa pangarap bilang boksingero ay nakatayo pa rin ba sa kagustuhang lamang na mapagaling ang sarili sa larangan? Hindi kundi may kakabit na itong pangarap ng paggaya sa imaheng kinakatawan ni Pacquiao.

Kung bayani si Pacman, naglilingkod ‘para’ sa bayan, ay nararapat siyang mamahal—umupo sa gobyerno. Hindi. Napatunayan nating may pinagmumulan pagpapaliwanag ang kasikatan ng titulo ni Pacman. Masasabi nating false o huwad ang sinasabing patriyotismo na ibinalot sa pangalan nito. Kaya naman ang lohikang maaring naisip niya dahil siya ay bayani ay isang lider na rin siya, ay napatunayan ng walang kinalaman. Ibig sabihin na ang kanyang kabayanihan na pinapalaganap sa midya na alam nating lahat, ay hiwalay sa kategorya ng bayani ng ‘bayan’ na maaring nasa kailaliman pa rin ng ating psyche at kolektibong pagpapahalaga.

Masasabi ring may tampo sa kanya hindi lamang ang kanyang sports fans kundi ang middle class. Maaring sa pagpipili ng iboboto ng mga middle class, ang pinagmumulang kultural na background ni Pacman ay hindi tugma sa mga inaasahang mga palatandaan ng mga tao sa dapat piliin. Si Manny man ay nakakatanggap ng malaking pera, nakapagpatayo ng malaking bahay at namumuhay sa isang mala-konsehal na lifestyle, hindi maitatangging hindi siya bebenta sa kategorya ng talino sa ibang kadidato. Hindi dahil mapanghati ako sa pagkilatis mga mga taong hindi nakapag-aral, ang ibig ko lang sabihin ay hindi basta ganoong kadali itanghal ang isang bayani. Nag-iba man ang katayuan niya sa pang-ekonomikong aspeto, sa larangan ng labanan sa kultural na arena, hindi siya makakaasa.

Kung si Pacquiao man ay napaniwalang siya ay bayani, na gayun din ang mga Pilipino na malakihang nakumbinse sa gitna ng mga nakababahalang kaganapan, masasabi na nating mababaw ang pinag-uugatan nito. Subalit gayun na lamang ang ating pagkainis sa kanyang pagtakbo at pagtawa sa kanyang pagkatalo, siya rin ay biktima sa partikular na paraan, malay man siya nito o hindi dahil siya ay binibentang komoditi hindi lamang ng gobyerno para gawing carebear sa pagkabahala sa lipunan, kundi ng Nike at mga naglalakihang korporasyon sa bansa. Ang isang celebrity ay hindi na talagang kumikita sa awards dahil sa galing lamang kundi sa promotions at advertisement. Ito ay kakayanan ni Manny na makapag-anyaya magbenta ng patritikong mga produkto, dahil sa pagbabahid niya dito ng patriyotiko aura.

Ecownomiks (lifted from niliwen.livejournal.com)

This was originally posted in and lifted from http://niliwen.livejournal.com/ without permission from the author.

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and
then throws the milk away...

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk
of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow
has dropped dead.

ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed
company, using letters of credit opened by
your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a
debt/equity swap with an associated
general offer so that you get all four cows back, with
a tax exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an
intermediary to a Cayman Island
Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who
sells the rights to all seven
cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows,
with an option on one more. You
sell one cow to buy a new president of the United
States, leaving you with nine cows. No
balance sheet provided with the release.
The public then buys your bull.

THE ANDERSEN MODEL
You have two cows.
You shred them.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the
roads, because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an
ordinary cow and produce twenty
times the milk.
You then create a clever cow cartoon image called
'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.

A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat
once a month, and milk themselves.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 2 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of
vodka.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high
bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real
situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the **** out of you
and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least now you are part
of a Democracy... .

A SPANISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Your cousin is jealous and wants one, so he starts a
civil war over it!

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to
celebrate.

PHILIPPINES (version one)
You have two cows---but that's because you re not in
the Philippines . You left because
someone has to send money to your relations back home.
They are stuck with three pigs with voracious
appetites-- Mikey, Iggy and Piggy.

Grades

    I need a lot of work for the coming semesters for me to reach a cum laude honor by the conclusion of my degree program next year. I would probably need to have a semestral average of 1.5 for the coming two semester to meet up the cum laude requirements. It would be hard but I have to try.

    The problem I have observed from my studying habits and attitudes is that I always complain before working on anything. This happens every time. In the end, when deadlines come, I could see that no matter how I hate doing these 'stuff' (as how I perceive them), I would still be still obliged to comply by the rules and requirements to pass the courses. In the end, I am the loser. I miss blessings and opportunities that should have been taken advantage of in the name of academic success.

    I dismiss the dogma that grades are not the true basis of knowledge and learning. At the end of the day, who becomes successful? They are those who were able to get high grades. A cum laude title in the resume is an advantage to employability in the competitive arena of industries, office spaces and academes. Who wins after all?

    I am not suggesting that we extremely set aside everything, but still grades are the most important things to worry about in college. It doesn't matter how you gain them, but the question is: would one be able to get them? I completely sound like a liberal.

    There are of course, faults and dents that the universities conceal behind the facades of center-of-excellence titles and traditions. These are in terms of the nature of the learning process (the means of pedagogy) that student's experience. Most students comply. Some do not. Those who don't are still divided to two. They are (1) those who have learned enough to know and articulate the imperfections, and (2) those who are just… like me… whiners. Without a little effort of trying, dissent has been an excuse for not doing anything.

    At this point I consider the fact that, grades are the most important reified artifact of ones whole scholastic performance because, in fact a person can not see every aspect of another in a small span of time. Grades have the formal credibility of explaining scholastic performance. Accordingly, most people we will meet, from different points in our lives, won't really care about the other things because if truth be told, they really don't have to.

Ending the Semester

The year is ending. These are the days when we, UP students, count on coffee, energy drinks, cigarettes and lots of heavy fastfood to keep us awake and kicking through the coming sleepless nights.

It is actually painful to see people—busying themselves around for those important requirements of their classes' conclusion, while I still don't feel guilty of doing just nothing. Well, I guess eating and surveying undone work is still something to do. I hated it. I have been in this whole year of wondering why I have been such a sluggish student when it comes to my work ethics. I don't have a summa cum laude work ethics, by the way and the achievement it corresponds to.

And this is knew, just today, that I felt really bad to hear one of my GE (general education) professors asking me whether I was still serious about the course he was handling. Yeah, I guess, with his personality, it should not have been taken too seriously. However, it is almost the same as pretending to have heard nothing.

I get busy and booted up for work when I am told off harshly. It worked with how my father had raised me. I need to have myself checked with someone I trust. And I guess I could say that, more than the freedom a dormitory student has, parents are still the best companions while still growing up in college. I missed my dad looking angry whenever I am seen like a tourist bum in front of the TV or the PC.

I get a lot of these kinds of drama these days. It is hard to get support. I don't even know how to counter being idle and feeling idle—having to know that deadlines will arrive a few days from now. AHhh. This really is complicated! It makes me want to quit everything and start over again. Hmm. I wonder if other students have this kind of issue.

And I still have a wish, though hopeless, considering the present context: I hope life after college will be better.

Bitter me.

The Thinnest Portable: Macbook Air

    And as expected, Apple never disappoints a consumer about an upcoming product. New releases and innovations often come a few duration of time apart from another. Today, I went over their website and it was on their home page that says that they will sell the world's thinnest computer which they call, Macbook Air.

    Honestly, it certainly was astounding not only in first glance but even incredible when someone would go over the technical specs of the product. The key feature is its: nanonization of the product. This has been what happened to one of their products: the Ipod. It has gone thinner. The MacBook Air looks like a piece of biscuit snack which has a flip-top lid. It could actually be conveniently slid inside an envelop as what the ads were illustrating.

    Why am I talking about this. I am not an apple user. I didn't ever own a mac in my life because I can't afford one. But this is not jealousy, but rather a form of a thought accompanied by some sort of pity.

    In the Philippines, a few have these machines. I don't know the figures. At school, I spot a few library goers sitting on the reading areas with their Apple computers. Though, much that I could see (untintentionally) on their extravagant glossy widescreen LCDs was Safari showing a few non-academic content, I long thought about the fact that it is not my business to make a criticism out of such extravagant consumption with of 'useless' utility. Well, wifi is free at the library and everybody can use it for any purpose.

Pity is what I feel to those people who has just recently bought their not-so-new powerbook or macbook. Especially those which do not really intend to use it for specific specialized end (music, research, film which requires specific platform w/c is the mac)—those who are after the brand and the feel of owning a piece of sophistication. Tell me who will buy a P16k Macbook Pro for blogging and so that he or she could arrange his/her photos. There are some. Those are which aren't sober for such consumerism.

    Well, if you are really going after this prestige thing, make sure you have a lot of money to consume every fresh release of Apple's new line of products. They are crazily shooting up the ground when sometimes you least expect it. If you are not that wealthy enough to cope with the demands of an ideal Apple consumer, maybe Apple is not the great brand. If the brand is the end of this consumption, it definitely creates an insatiable need for the new products.

    Apple has a great deal of advertising. Ads aren't false at all but rather, overstated. The tone, that 'you need these' and 'life needs simple things,' resembles a false-need fabricator and reproduces it. Yeah. I don't know, I haven't used yet one for a whole day. I don't know how it works in extreme, heavy situations either. So I couldn't tell.

    All I can say, though this is far off the topic, Safari sucks on windows. And some are telling over the internet, a few Mac users observe that it slows in a considerable amount of their Apple machines.

To Change

I have met last morning the scariest time of my life. At about 4 am yesterday, when I was about to go to sleep, I started to feel a palpitation. I had just put myself to bed already and I couldn't sleep. I could feel my chest pounding fast. Then, it suddenly stops and follows a jerking and blowing pump. I couldn't sleep because I was afraid of not waking up again.

I did not sleep until morning. I waited up until dawn so that I could attend my 7 AM class. From that day on, I promised to cut the iced tea, coffee, and soda beverages…

It is kind of a hard thing to do but I think it will be the perfect calling to entirely change because; I am not in total shape right now for a student. I am not sleeping in the right time nor sleeping adequately. Also, I have to make it an effort to associate it with other changes like room tidiness and study habits so that it will not drift back to what I had been for a year already of pure laid-back student life.

The Grand New Year Resolution

I have been for quite a time distrusted this whole phenomenon of listing down wishes of what to improve or change for the coming year ahead. For a period of time, I have been like this… divorcing myself to things which are popular. I know this might not intend to mean very sound but… what the hell.

 

1. Avoid procrastinating
   
2. Avoid avoiding things which I have irrational attitudes about like speaking in public
   
3. Start speaking English in a more 'part of my life' basis
   
4. Never give up the time Management Struggle Plan v5.10.1.3 …hahaha
   
5. Control Sleeping Patterns
   
6. Finish tasks one at a time
   
7. Don't think excessively and wastefully in planning what to do
   
8. Don't forget leisure time
   
9. Talk to friends and classmates
   
10. Stick to the well planned schedule on the daily planner