Quest for the True North

I watched the American Idol concert in Manila for free!

Aileen — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:28:26 +0000

I’ve been following American Idol since Season 3, but I never thought that I would ever get to watch it live. The Season 10 finalists came to the Philippines for the first time for their tour, and I was able to watch them for free! Here’s my proof: I was randomly checking Plurk when Ade [...]

My Lakbayan Grade is B-!

Aileen — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:19:30 +0000

I just checked my Lakbayan grade again after so long, and I was surprised to see that I have been promoted! I used to be only a C last year, from being a C- three years ago. It’s not easy pulling up scores in Lakyaban, so my few trips this year must have pulled a [...]

Digital Filipino Web Awards 2009

Aileen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:03:05 +0000

We won! My group, the Cebu Bloggers Society, won in the community category at the 3rd Digital Filipino Web Awards.

Ondoy

Aileen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:20:55 +0000

I was up until 4 a.m. last Saturday, studying for my Legal History and Constitutional Law classes, while the rain pounded on our glass windows. It had started raining around the time I got off work at 7 p.m, and started beating hard around midnight. It didn’t cease until I fell asleep before daybreak. It [...]

Paradigm Shift

Aileen — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:20:39 +0000

I grew up thinking that money was evil and that businessmen were shrewd. It didn’t help that I attended the University of the Philippines, said to be the bastion of the communists. I became a student activist, became an agnostic for awhile, and began to hate imperialist America. But because of a twist of fate, I [...]

Buhay Law Student

Aileen — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:05:57 +0000

It’s Friday again. At this time last year, I would either be heading to a hole in the city to hang out with friends, or packing to leave early for another adventure trip the following day. Now I can’t do that anymore. There are hundreds of pages waiting to be read when I get home, [...]

I believe Michael Jackson was innocent

Aileen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:51:19 +0000

I grew up believing that he was a pedophile, that he was gay, that he had himself bleached because he didn’t like his color. At that time, in the 1990s, he had begun to lose his luster, and the child molestation charges against him were what greeted my consciousness. I wasn’t part of the generation [...]

Top 10 Emerging Influential Bloggers for 2009

Aileen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:00:27 +0000

Actually, that post title is wrong, because I am not going to vote for ten blogs. I am voting for only one. I’ve never came up with ten on my list anyway. Last year I came up with only three. The reason? I munch words for a living, so I take semantics seriously. For [...]

Shu Uemura’s “The Beauty Art Make-Up Competition 2009″ Launch

Aileen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:58:58 +0000

A day before my birthday, I tagged along with my friend, Roanne, to the launching of Shu Uemura’s “The Beauty Art Make-Up Competition 2009.” It was my first time to be at a beauty event, and I was pleasantly surprised. Let me just say that it is a world way different from the one I [...]

The Hedgehog Concept

Aileen — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:12:16 +0000

When I was 19, I attended a career and leadership training wherein the speaker introduced us to the Hedgehog Concept. At that time, like many students about to finish college, I didn’t know where I was going or what was ahead of me. I was very passionate about journalism, but I wasn’t sure where it [...]