Archive for April, 2008

Is sheer length a measure of greatness? I absolutely disagree.

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

I have a streak of impulsivity with regard to book or novel purchases, because most of the time novels that one wants are in short number. This is most evident especially in second-hand bookstores: more often than not, the novels that one has failed to purchase because of a lack of money or other reasons […]

How to make your blog popular in five (easy?) steps

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Well, I haven’t been updating these past few days because I’ve been reading some classic novels. I’ll have classes again next week, so I wanted to read as many of these novels as I could, because when classes will start once more I would be unable to. I just finished reading Timothy Findley’s The Wars, […]

On tragic heroines

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Some of my family members arrived in Manila a few days ago. I toured them to the best of my abilities (which was limited since I never went out of home much) and showed them the supposed sights of the place. While I loathe going out much more now, I was able to keep my […]

April Fools: … full of sound and fury, signifying nothing?

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

While I still disdain saturnine’s actions on IRC, I applaud the collaborative efforts of the ABC in their performance of a very elaborate joke on those who were ignorant. I must say, however, that while its mechanism and its execution were flawless, it wasn’t funny. But since the essence of April Fools’ is primarily practical […]