Almost there!

Thank God I'm done with the thesis write-up! I can't explain how relieved I was knowing that something quite good resulted from my 3-month toil. I wanna thank my parents and my sisters for not complaining about my laziness; for a long time I rarely come out of my room to help and even socialize. Now that I'm only awaiting for Thursday--the big day of my thesis defense--to come, I'll make it up to them. I'll make myself more visible in the house. haha.
Anyhow, despite March 14, 2007, another momentous period in my life is May 18, 2008 at 10:57pm where I typed in the last period (.) on the whole project. It was such a joyous accomplishment. ^^;

Hiatus

To all my blogger friends, I'll be back on the 23rd of May after my thesis has been furnished. I will return to yah all with sweet revenge, comments, edrops, and the usual. And yeah, I'll be graduating this summer too. With honors? Hahaha. I don't want to jump the gun. ^^;

Myanmar: Seiged from Within, a survey

Please answer the survey located at the sidebar.

1 - Confiscation of relief goods by the Myanmar junta calls for stronger intervention by the international community. Military rulers should be brought before the International Court of Justice for God knows why.

2 - Myanmar should be left by itself.

3 - The junta should be toppled down. This situation provides the perfect impetus to undertake such drastic measure.

The Stumble Upon Meme

Tagged by Blanne. Another one of the linky love memes, let's give this one a try.

I read that it is possible to increase the traffic of your blog through StumbleUpon. So I have decided to try it out, with your help ofcourse. Here is the concept:

Stumble the pages that link to you. In this way you drive more traffic to the page containing your link and thus you hope that some of that traffic comes back to you via the link on that page.

Supposedly, we are to link ourselves to Stumbled sites to generate the traffic that we want. But what if we could just Stumble on each other's sites/blogs?

Let's modify things a bit and make our very own StumbleWorthy list. Why have a list, you say? A list is necessary for the participants to StumbleUpon. And also, it's needed to check whether the participants are really Stumble-ing. Plus, it helps your Technorati authority soar high! Neat, huh? Idea of having a list is actually because of The Big Bang. Click on the link to join.

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Here are the rules:
1. Copy from "START COPYING HERE" to "STOP COPYING HERE".
2. Add your site(s) to the list. Just be sure to post the "StumbleWorthy List" at each site you add.
3. Let me know your blog’s name and url by leaving me a comment HERE. I will add you to the master list.
4. Come back and copy the master list back to your site, often. This will allow the new comers to achieve equal benefit as the late comers do.
5. Register in StumbleUpon and install the toolbar.
6. Go to the sites found on the list and give them a thumb up (I like it!).
7. Add me as your friend in StumbleUpon: Blanne.

Note: Your url will be deleted in the Master List if you do not comply to the given rules.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD! TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THE LIST. OR CLICK HERE TO GET A BANNER THAT YOU CAN PUT ON YOUR BLOG. THE MORE PARTICIPANTS, THE GREATER INCREASE IN TRAFFIC! :)

~StumbleWorthy List~

1. Hit-or-Miss
2. Mommy’s Little Corner

3. A Simple Life
4. moms…check nyo
5. Everything Kimchi
6. Include yourself here! ^^;


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I am tagging the following Stumble-worthy blogs:

Sasha-says
My Subconscious Talks
DonnadeGarcia
PeterJanet
Shinade
WindersNest
SweetasApple
Life in Korea
Monacome
Humanitas
Silent Sage
SolLee
PurpleFrogCat
Poignant Existence
Dramannequeen

Expressions Express

Dedication Post
I created this blogger account with only one thing in mind--to help me remember year 2007 I and my friends spent in Korea.
Precious Wound
I wrote this piece when I was in drama mode, few days after I arrived home.
Frozen in Time
This poem is about the aftershock of disengaging from a life I've known for 10 months. Rebounding phase.
Hope for Joy
At this point, I can say that I have overcome the longing of going back in time. This poem is about Spring in Korea and how I wanted to experience it again [in the future, so as not to be self-contradictory. ; )]. Oh, the cherry blossoms!
Still Single
The reason for my singlehood.
Creature of Habit
Post-partum depression hits again. It's about how I wanted to live in past and never move on. I know it's crazy. -_- But I think I expressed it here quite elegantly.

If there are any readers of my blog out there, I'm sorry because I can't really update the contents everyday...I'm preparing for my undergrad defense this month so, yeah, you know why I just can't afford to spend much time online.

For a While...

I have never been insulted in my whole life! It's not that I'm a VIP or Nobel prize winner but it's just that everyone deserves politeness and respect he's due. That vile 'k'reature just gave Koreans a bad name.

It happened yesterday at work (for those who don't know, I'm a part-time online English teacher). I was trying to contact my student for our arranged class at 10:30pm (Philippine time) but we can't conduct the class the usual way--headset + the virtual classroom software--since her headset is broken. The only way to hold the class is to call her phone, which of course, is more expensive. I informed my supervisor about this and a minute later he's at my station. I handed over my headset so that he could talk with my student and perhaps inform her about the additional cost of conducting phone classes. Here's what struck me as totally uncivil: he tried to extend the cord of my USB headset, which, being too long I tamed with a cord binder, with a violent pull till my CPU got dragged and crashed onto my monitor and keyboard. It made quite a noise that the teacher next to me had to check out what was happening at my station. I was just sitting in front of my desk, and him standing beside me, when this amazing display of animal behavior happened. It was just shocking.

He ended the call and returned to me my headset with its cord messed up. Before he leaves I felt I have to ask him: "Should I inform you again tomorrow if she requested for a phone class again?" He fixed his tiny eyes on me for about 2 seconds and said with the most arrogant tone: "Just continue [teaching]."
It's a pity that he cannot construct a better English sentence than that.

During that brief encounter, I felt I was turned into a second-class citizen in my own country, and that I couldn't accept. I was so pissed off at him not because he has done wrong to me. It's more of like because of him, for a while I hopped into Korean haters' boat, for a while I despised listening to my favorite Korean songs in my iPod, for a while I felt not going back anymore to Korea to meet my friends again.

There are rotten potatoes all over the planet. Thinking everything will be all happy in Korea, and that all Koreans are mild-mannered, is like believing that there exists a community of heavenly creatures on Earth. Clearly, that is not the case. Reality, once again, struck me hard. I was just lucky that when I was in Korea, not even a single vile being apparated before me. Yes, I could say that my 10-month stay there was a piece of heaven on Earth. And yes, I could also say that the Philippines could be the place where fallen angels from Korea started flocking at. Now I understand more than ever why I can't blame some Filipinos for expressing negative bias toward Koreans. But then it hurts me still when I hear nasty generalizations about these people. Rotten potatoes abound in the Philippines too. We also don't have a glittering reputation in other countries...I was just deeply saddened by the fact that I, too, felt disdain towards Koreans in general--even if it was just for a while. I care for my friends back there and I guess they care for me as much. I respect my professors who have been really generous and kind-hearted to me, to describe the least. I could not just have imagined that my admiration for them could have been dispelled quite so easily with that single encounter. My supervisor almost ruined it for me, for all the good Koreans out there.

I think I will be working some place else after I graduate this summer.

International Linkages

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Join the Worldwide Link Love!

Benefits of Worldwide Link Love!
1. Make new friends around the world.
2. Feel the Link Love.
3. Gain new readers and subscribers.

Rules:
1. Copy from ~* start copying here *~ to ~* end copying here *~ and paste it on your blog.
2. At the end of the list, put your name and the country your in, it doesn’t matter what’s your nationality just put the country where you are publishing your blog. Don’t forget to put links at your name.
3. If you have many blogs, you can link all of it, just make sure you post the same on each blog.
4. Tag eight or more of your blog friends.
5. Tip for blogspot* users: make sure you copy and paste the code in Compose mode.

Worldwide Link Love! Participants
1. Julia (Philippines)
2. Catherine (Malaysia)
3. shimumsy(u.s.a)
4. Mitch (Philippines)
5. Hailey (Philippines)
6. Sexymom (USA)
7. Liza (Philippines)
8. Geng (Philippines)
9. SunnySideUp Foodie (Singapore)
10. Caramelcorn (Singapore)
11. Constance (Singapore)
12. Hainankia (Malaysia)
13. Read my Mind (Philippines)
14. joanjoyce (Philippines)
15. buhay sa korea (Korea)
16. Pinay Myeoneuri (Korea)
17. Elliot (Philippines)

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I am tagging Bleuster Bleuster, Etavasi, CraigSays, SolLee, MommysLittleCorner, CanofThoughts, MySubconsciousThoughts, DonnadeGarcia, Kengkay,and Monaco