... and so it came to pass that I finally got to meet my fellow Pinoy bloggers in a post- Christmas Party held last December 30 at the Cabalen restaurant of SM Megamall (with a hop-over to Star Bucks after that). No threat of storms, tsunamis or LRT bombing attacks could have prevented me from skipping this event. I was simply too excited to meet my online palsTito Rolly and Dr. Emer who I've been corresponding with through emails, comments and the occasional text messages. It was good to know that they - and everyone else, I should say - were as nice in person as they ... Continue Reading...

On my 700th hit, I decided to tell people close (and closed) to my heart about this blog. That's after I decided that it was presentable enough to be viewed by the world.As expected, my friends had mixed reactions about the whole thing. "Hey Ju, thanks for the invite. Was reading some of your postings a while ago. You're such a compulsive writer," Lei wrote from New York. I have to admit this description intrigued me.But then, Lei always had this talent for brilliant ambiguity. Prior to this, I didn't think my writing ability was capable of being defined in the order ... Continue Reading...

Blogging is definitely far from being juvenile. A closer look will reveal a lot of intelligent blogs in cyberspace ( and I am not talking of Washingtonniene). It's a different medium altogether, to the point that it's even being used in the present US presidential campaign. Having been a journalist, I was challenged by a question posed by NYU Department of Journalism faculty member Jay Rosen on whether or not blogging is journalism. I am mighty sure there is strong debate on the subject since journalists would think of themselves as an entirely different clique ... Continue Reading...

My life has not taken on a normal course since I started this blog a few days ago. Suddenly, I am obsessed with knowing so much about the blogosphere in so little time. I am learning but I can only take so much of wysiwg, site feeds, atom, RSS, hyperlinks and all that stuff. There's a big technorati community out there adept in uttering a new generation of blogspeak which can be Greek to some of us raised in the tradition of Hemingway and Mrs. Dalloway. When I successfully uploaded my design for this blog, I thought blogger was a no-brainer. But then, I spent a ... Continue Reading...