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September 5th, 2008
My weekend is starting early this week. I’m off this Friday. I’ll be sleeping all day and go see Nick Cage’s latest blockbuster. Tonight I updated my collections again after receiving my latest acquisitions. Slight cosmetic modfication on the site are apparent in that page. If you’re not attentive enough on this site, then it’s the image caption. I’ve never used image captions before because they weren’t formatted properly, but tonight I had the fortitude to add the format in here. I’ve been using Chrome and I notice that some formats aren’t working properly. I’ll be working on it little by little.
I’ve been reading blogs lately and I realized that I used to “want” to write in Filipino, but now I don’t want to pursue that. It’s too difficult to read Filipino and I’m not amused by it especially if the piece is written informally. I’ll keep writing in English instead and improve my style.
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1. mhar said on
September 5th, 2008 at 11:30 AM
kanya-kanyang trip lang yan.. language doesnt matter its the style! english nga gamit mo kung wala naman nagbabasa ng blog mo unless kung pansariling interes lamang to. peace
2. Lorie said on
September 5th, 2008 at 1:15 PM
In a lot of instances, it’s harder to write in Tagalog…with the exception of personal stories.
I’ve been trying to read other blogs too. But honestly it’s hard to keep my attention unless I personally know the writer or there’s common interests or the blog is really unique, beautiful, or just interesting.
3. mhar said on
September 7th, 2008 at 10:54 AM
sanay lang kasi kayo sa dilang-banyaga kaya siguro may ganyang feeling.lol
4. aovaron said on
September 7th, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Tagalog wasn’t my first language, so it’s very difficult for me to express properly. I still don’t know many words, save the common ones. I hated the subject when I was studying, so that doesn’t help either. The language isn’t used properly anyway these days so I won’t dream of using it in my literary aspirations.
5. mhar said on
September 7th, 2008 at 2:44 PM
may malaking kinalaman talaga ang environment.
6. aovaron said on
September 7th, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Yeah I can still remember back in high school when we had to pay P0.50 if we’re caught using our dialect and not TagLish (which I think is very very disturbing). Luckily the monitor(s) weren’t stuck up enough to catch us :)
Writing in pure Filipino would be a wish for me because I know it’ll never happen.
7. Lorie said on
September 7th, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Teka anong excuse ko…
Reader kasi ako and I almost never read in Tagalog so it feels like writing in English is easier. Minsan nagiging corny po pag Tagalog kasi either malalim ang labasan o kaya pasosyal pag Taglish hahaha.
Mind you Mang Mhar it’s different writing English than actually speaking it. And my writing professor here said something about international/foreign students being better (arguably) because their writing is more disciplined. I remember my prof constantly correcting my classmates’ “You is…” hahaha.
8. aovaron said on
September 8th, 2008 at 1:18 AM
I only learned to write properly in my freshmen year in college. I learned one thing from my 101 prof and that’s “clear and simple”. Diction is the key and using “big” words will actually make you look stupid because the simpler the words as long as the sentence conveys your meaning, the better. I still suffer the syndrome of writing compound sentences that cause my fragmentation - my weakness. I’m one of those people who can’t solve simple arithmetic of non-mathematical equations. I don’t find words to be mathematical, thus I’m having trouble doing primitive arithmetic on them (same with music)… I just don’t see the numbers in them :(
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