2007’s top dozen new words
a cousin sent me these latest addenda to the king’s english, essential updates to the workplace and elsewhere. what pearson would call bonus english for you!
1. blamestorming. sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
2. seagull manager. a boss [...]
for the iskos and iskas…
jan. 31, 3:00 pm at benitez hall, up diliman - joint recognition of top graduating scholars. convocation honoring the prospective top graduates sponsored by the up chapters of the international honor societies of phi kappa phi(overall academic excellence), pi gamma mu (in the social sciences), and phi sigma (in the [...]
aren’t reality shows interesting reinvention of tv shows, at once interactive and multifariously creative, using the web, the mobile phone, the digicams, the mp3s and 4s, the cinematic, as well as the downright ruralistic, interfacing, multilayering or simply recreating the world out there, the activities in there? without the technological convergence of [...]
omigosh! omigosh! (colloq eng for ay, ania metten!) the week’s five
nani perez being indicted for $2M extortion? that long for the ombudsman to nail him down? wasn’t that long ago, when gloria was still a babe(in the polit woods), when she loved nannies in her cabinet — herr nani, err nani, nani kil, nani [...]
today, the literary matters. in my philippine literature in english online (open u) the three-pronged discussion forum focuses on appreciating the aesthetic merits of the literary piece, its filipino qualities, and its rhetoric. my hum 1 class tackles the weddding of form and meaning. but it’s the comparative literature classes that lend themselves to a [...]