Sunday, March 12, 2006
Friday, March 10, 2006
Succcess
From my original blog entitled:"First Few Time"
We’ve done it. My group and I had been able to pull it off. RM gave an appreciative comment to our podcast entitled “liberal gong”.(Donggggggggg)
The nerve racking time pressured environment have push me and my teammates to do what we have to do.
Team Work works!
Kudos to Chris, Coun. Peter, Ema and Teresa!
Good Job Guys!
I Speak! 2b
From my original blog entitled:"First Few Time"
All I can say so far is WHOA!!!
Learning to pod cast is way more complicated than blogging. Much technical stuff is involved. I’m overwhelmed to say the least.
Half way along the discussion I feel my head oozing, spinning with blood spiting out of it. But hey! Maybe it’s just that I’m no techie that is why I can’t relate to the language our instructor was speaking. There is the use of the software audacity, uploading your podcast to a web site like gcast and also the distribution and monitoring. Men I’m lost so far.
I am just very thankful that our instructors are great. I’ll have to commend the patience and effort our instructor is exerting on us. Kudos to you Sir Angelo Racoma and Sir Abe Olandres.
So will I be able to podcast? Watch out. After being fatten up at Amici Di Don Bosco. We are back at the FNF office for the real deal. As an exercise, we are to actually do a podcast. I’m so excited and apprehensive. Hope my teams mates and I can pull it of.
All I can say so far is WHOA!!!
Learning to pod cast is way more complicated than blogging. Much technical stuff is involved. I’m overwhelmed to say the least.
Half way along the discussion I feel my head oozing, spinning with blood spiting out of it. But hey! Maybe it’s just that I’m no techie that is why I can’t relate to the language our instructor was speaking. There is the use of the software audacity, uploading your podcast to a web site like gcast and also the distribution and monitoring. Men I’m lost so far.
I am just very thankful that our instructors are great. I’ll have to commend the patience and effort our instructor is exerting on us. Kudos to you Sir Angelo Racoma and Sir Abe Olandres.
So will I be able to podcast? Watch out. After being fatten up at Amici Di Don Bosco. We are back at the FNF office for the real deal. As an exercise, we are to actually do a podcast. I’m so excited and apprehensive. Hope my teams mates and I can pull it of.
I Speak! 2
From my original blog entitled:"First Few Time"
Day two of the FNF "Express Yourself" Seminar/ Workshop.
Yesterday I had learned that I can blog. Today, its even better, I'll learn how to Pod cast! Ha! Another tool, another weapon, and great upgrade to my armor. Hahahaha!
I just hope the lectures don’t get too technical.
Well you can sense how excited I am! So I’ll until the end of the seminar. Blog you later.
Day two of the FNF "Express Yourself" Seminar/ Workshop.
Yesterday I had learned that I can blog. Today, its even better, I'll learn how to Pod cast! Ha! Another tool, another weapon, and great upgrade to my armor. Hahahaha!
I just hope the lectures don’t get too technical.
Well you can sense how excited I am! So I’ll until the end of the seminar. Blog you later.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
I Speak!
From my original blog entitled:"First Few Time"
Today, I am given a renewed chance I thought I had lost after graduating from college. Today I am introduced to a new tool, weapon and armor.
Today I learn to blog!
I maybe quite late in catching on to this trend since it had been around for a long time already. But never did I realize just how much fun and exciting it can be to blog. (Friendster better watch out competition is here!) I had been reading other people’s blog every now and then. I can just stare in awe on with blogs other people create and the magnificent skins and backgrounds their blogs have. They seem to be more life like, more alive than I am.
I said I’ll never be able to produce anything like that! What can I do? Blogging is not for me.
Well, I guess I was wrong. Thanks to a seminar/workshop I stumble upon on-line, things opened up for me. Through the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s “Express yourself” Seminar Workshop, I realize blogging maybe just what I need. Imagine no less than Mr. Manuel Quezon III gave us an informative lecture on blogging.
I am just a simple guy, but having read and watched that man speak and most of the time agreeing or getting provoke to think by his analysis and thoughts, it’s pretty awesome. Also being expertly guided by Sir Abe through the process of creation, setup and writing a blog boost my confidence that I can indeed blog. (and hopefully be good at it)
Reminiscing my high school and college days, I remember being very opinionated and vocal about these opinions. The academic environment had created an atmosphere of freedom that I speak on things the way I see them without fear. Sadly, after leaving the university and being hired to work for a local government executive I realize one terrible truth. In the real world you have to turn blind or deaf or mute as the occasion calls for if you want to stay on your job.
Realizing this I quit. I cannot live a life being gagged.
Now, I realize there is a way to break away from the oppressive reality we live in. Blog.
Being equipped with the basic know-how on blogging setup, and basic journalistic ideas I know I am again revived to my freedom. I know that I too can be alive more alive if possible.
Today is the start, I blog to live and live to blog.
Today, I am given a renewed chance I thought I had lost after graduating from college. Today I am introduced to a new tool, weapon and armor.
Today I learn to blog!
I maybe quite late in catching on to this trend since it had been around for a long time already. But never did I realize just how much fun and exciting it can be to blog. (Friendster better watch out competition is here!) I had been reading other people’s blog every now and then. I can just stare in awe on with blogs other people create and the magnificent skins and backgrounds their blogs have. They seem to be more life like, more alive than I am.
I said I’ll never be able to produce anything like that! What can I do? Blogging is not for me.
Well, I guess I was wrong. Thanks to a seminar/workshop I stumble upon on-line, things opened up for me. Through the Friedrich Naumann Foundation’s “Express yourself” Seminar Workshop, I realize blogging maybe just what I need. Imagine no less than Mr. Manuel Quezon III gave us an informative lecture on blogging.
I am just a simple guy, but having read and watched that man speak and most of the time agreeing or getting provoke to think by his analysis and thoughts, it’s pretty awesome. Also being expertly guided by Sir Abe through the process of creation, setup and writing a blog boost my confidence that I can indeed blog. (and hopefully be good at it)
Reminiscing my high school and college days, I remember being very opinionated and vocal about these opinions. The academic environment had created an atmosphere of freedom that I speak on things the way I see them without fear. Sadly, after leaving the university and being hired to work for a local government executive I realize one terrible truth. In the real world you have to turn blind or deaf or mute as the occasion calls for if you want to stay on your job.
Realizing this I quit. I cannot live a life being gagged.
Now, I realize there is a way to break away from the oppressive reality we live in. Blog.
Being equipped with the basic know-how on blogging setup, and basic journalistic ideas I know I am again revived to my freedom. I know that I too can be alive more alive if possible.
Today is the start, I blog to live and live to blog.
Why am I doing this?
I'm 24 years old, on to year four on my career, paying out my taxes and cautiously braving all the odds life is throwing my path and my beloved yet seemingly God forsaken country... so why do I need a blog? Why am I doing this? Don't I have enough problems of my own? Do I have the perfect luxury of time and resources to engage in this kind of thing? Is this going to affect anything?
Well, personally I think the answer lies in my need to create an outlet. A diversion for all the pent up frustrations, disappointments and criticism I have been holding back for much too long.
Early on I know that life especially here in the Philippines is no bag of m&m's. I had heard and read enough about the political circus the clowns in government had been running. I had been appalled over and over again by the manner Philippine law had been bended, twisted and expanded to accommodate the whims of an elitist minority at the expense of the people. A grim reality indeed. (Sigh)
As other bloggers both professional and amateur like Manuel Quezon III and Ala Paredes blogging is an effective tool they use to let people know their personal take on matters that affect them and society. In a way they help other people like me to form my on opinion and views on matter. Blogging widens ones perception on things, as Mr. Manolo said during the "Express Yourself" seminar hosted by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
Working for the government as well as some private companies all these past years had somehow made me feel unaffected with the issues happening around me. Many times I caught myself when watching the news. It frightens because that some issues and events do not struck me as how they use to. I'm more concern on getting to work early and getting home in time or wondering when would the next bonus come out. It’s like I have been reduced to small apathetic creature caught in the rat race.
It is a sad reality I and my future sons and daughters face. But I refuse to accept this to be that is all. I am saying "NO" to all the vile Philippine society is plunge into. Today I blog for information and freedom of expression, I blog for empowerment and education, I blog for conscious change towards real democratic and genuine reforms. Today, I blog for the future.
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