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Blue Pencil Chronicles | 2008 | April

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Archive for April, 2008


Do you have a credit card?

If you do, you know how bad it is to be buried in mountains and mountains of debt, right? Well, I’ve got just the solution for you. To pay off those debts all you need is a credit cards - bad credit cards that’ll solve all your credit card mishaps.
I’m sure you’ve heard of it before, but are still reluctant to give it a try. Why not? Take the risk! Who knows, you might end up debt-free after all those years. =)

 

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Think Before You Blog

So yeah, basically, once again, just like before, I bailed out on my blogging. Bleh. Hehe. I just couldn’t stand seeing that last entry over and over again for the past week so that basically pressured me to blog tonight. Haha. And what I’m gonna post isn’t very sensical, but a friend interviewed me about blogging for her Media Ethics class, and I’m posting my answers here. Yay, how fun! Now go read. Read More

Sparkle on your wedding day!

Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life, that’s why a lot of people spend a fortune just sprucing up their wedding days.  Some accentuate everything with diamonds, while some pay close attention to diamond rings to give to their brides.  And don’t forget the engagement rings!  Whatever it is you decide to have, be sure that it both makes you happy and it all makes your wedding day special and worthy of remembering by everyone who will attend.  Best wishes!

Now that you like Backgammon…

…why don’t you try playing backgammon online?  Try it, I just know it’ll be fun!  =D  I don’t know how to play backgammon and I think it’s worth a try, so I’m gonna try to learn how to play it by searching for online backgammon sites on the Web.  I know that there are a lot out there, and I think some may be a bit more fine than the others.  How about you?  Aren’t you interested to learn how to play Backgammon?

X-Ray’s your say?

In our ongoing series of technical professions, let’s now head down to another department:  the x-ray technician.  Being an x-ray technician could be a cool job, save for the fact that you get exposed to a lot of radiation everyday.  But I’m sure there are a lot of safeguards put up for you, so no need to be scared off your wits.  Go on and try to be an x-ray technician now!  =)

Ultrasound tech this time

We talked about enrolling in a tech school in the previous posts.  Now we go down to a little bit more specific task:  the ultrasound technician.  Being an ultrasound tech is no easy job, but you can learn it if you really want to become one.  Again, there are a lot of ultrasound tech school out there, you just have to choose the one that fits you best.  Happy studying!  =)

[Blue Pencil VLOGS] Ep#1 - Joaqs

Hi guys! I apologize for the lack of updates these past few days. As always, I’ve been pretty much caught up with a lot of real-life stuff that I tend to neglect this blog of mine. In any case, to make up for the lost days of blogging, I decided to dip my toes in seemingly unchartered territory this time–video blogging.

Coy aka Cokskiblue has been encouraging bloggers to VLOG quite persistently, and I told him I’d try it out soon. Well, this is it! My video-editing skills were getting rusty but I managed to pull it off. Sorry if the video shots are quite amateurish, I’m not used to taping myself and shooting stuff. I’m more of a model than a… uhmmm… host. Hehe. I’m that camera-shy.

So without further ado, I’m proud to present… Blue Pencil VLOGS Episode 1 entitled “Joaqs”. Oh and by the way, please do excuse my twang. Hahaha. =P

 

And yes, in case you’re wondering, those are my geeky glasses. =P

It’s summertime!!!

And you know what that means. It’s time to head to the beach! The scorching heat of the sun will once again be appreciated because of its tanning powers… But wait, do you have those sexy abs in check? Those to-die-for hips and nasty curves that always tend to make other people look your direction? Goodness! It’s that time of the year to lose those inches again. It’s that time of the year when bare is definitely not a scare. So go shed those unneeded pounds with pills containing Rimonabant to assure you of that drop dead body that’s perfect for summertime!

Filipinos and Media Literacy

Just like I mentioned in my first-ever weekend wrap-up, we scoured my hometown last Sunday in search of survey respondents for this semester’s Extension Program of the Communication Research Department of the UP College of Mass Communication. Every semester they perform studies on topics relating to communication and media, and this semester’s study focused on the Filipinos’ Reception of TV News.

medialit.jpgThe recent word-war and mudslinging between the two giant TV networks proved to be quite a blessing in disguise for us CommRes 101 students who were tasked to perform the data gathering part of the study. I’m not really keen on doing this data gathering thing, especially that my people skills seem to dwindle as I grow older. Thankfully all our neighbors were cooperative and in fact were very enthusiastic to be surveyed.

Whenever people would see us with our survey forms and the moment we ask them if they are willing to be interviewed about the local TV News Programs they watch, they would quickly retort, “Is this AGB?” in Filipino. If there’s anything positive that this recent controversy has wrought, it’s probably the fact that people became more aware of the workings behind these media companies. Read More

Drugs!!!

I don’t know about you, but I never tried drugs.  I have, however, taken drugs–the prescription kind.  The one you buy from your friendly neighborhood pharmacy technician.  Speaking of pharmacy tech, don’t you think that’s an interesting job?  I wonder how high a pharmacy technician salary is?  It must be a tough job.