Rappler: Making Journalistic Ripples through Social Change.
Jan 23rd
Rappler's Audience at the FEU Auditorium
It is rare to see journalists talk about what they think about what should people should or could do to change the way they think and what they act, and yesterday was one of those days.
Happy New Year, (and oh, Check the shortlink, wink wink)
Jan 4th
Happy New Year 2012 Guys…. I know it has been a loud as hell new year for all of you, and I hope your fingers are still intact. xD
This year is the start of a new and rehashed The Notebook, NEW in the sense that we will be more focused more on anime issues than on my personal ramblings (there will be a blog for that, as I will explain in the foot of this post) and I will be more brutal, Brutal but with Responsibility in writing commentaries and issues that involves the networks’ treatment of anime issues and also the PH anime events scene.
And yeah, with everything new. I am also thinking of redesigning the blog, but it will be consulted first with ZEN’s Exec Ed for any approval, For now, I am in the process of moving all my personal blogposts onto my other blog account at WordPress.com (which will be self-hosted later this year 2012).
Of Course, we will still have the Segments “Ang Pangit naman Nito!”, “Sidenotes”, “The Notebook Exclusive”, “The Notebook Notepad” and “Rundown”, plus our main “Right off the Pages”, And I will also include some new segments as time progresses… and also I am considering opening contributions from you guys…. Yes, You! (of course, I will thresh out the details later this month both here, on my personal blog, my Twitter and Tumblr.)
For my personal ramblings, meanwhile, you can check out my WordPress blog and my tumblr account as well. I am in the process now of considering, and bidding out the hosting rights of my WordPress site, and I have two choices… ZEN’s current host, and an another top-caliber host. Don’t be surprised if one of these days, you may see on Twitter or tumblr a link to my first post on my self hosted blog!
Again, Happy New Year…. and join me to start writing again in my Notebook.
Headin’ Out!
(If you happened to click this via Twitter, you have probably noticed our new shortlink. XD)
The Big Move of ZEN Otaku Honbu’s Website (and also The Notebook)
Dec 14th
I’m sure, you have heard of our announcement across the ZEN Platform, which includes our site and our Social Media accounts.
To serve our loyal readers better, our website will transfer to another server starting next year. In order to facilitate this transfer, ZENhonbuPH.net will be temporarily unavailable from December 26, 2011 to January 01, 2012. You can still receive the latest news on Anime and other Japanese pop culture-related stories on ourfacebook page and on twitter.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you very much for bearing with us.
Birthday Message: It was a wild goose chase to reality
Dec 10th
Saturday, 10 December, 2011
I am writing this now because I want to stick with my tradition of writing a message annually on this very day. Maybe it was in God’s faith that I was born in December that’s why I am able to write all the things that I had done in the past year. I admit, it was an emotional roller coaster ride for me, full of happiness, sorrow and tragedy. I want to erase the fact that 2011 is a bittersweet year, with two people close to me passed away this year, Marlon Lapada, a cosplayer friend, and my Grandmother.
I won’t tell much anything about the tragedies (which regards to the deaths) that struck me in 2011, because I want to leave it at that. Memories like those are usually painful for me to remember, especially with the loss of my Grandmother, who was really close to me, I look at death as a harrowing experience, full of sadness and grief, that’s why I was reluctant to visit the burial and also never joined the funeral. I just want to think of all my memories from my departed grandma when she was alive. and I hope she’d understand up there with my grandfather.
Anyway, I am writing this message not because I am forced to write but because I want to speak my heart out. I hadn’t blogged since the day I got back from school. It wasn’t easy, alongside with my duties at ZEN Otaku Honbu as the third guy in command and the guy in charge of all reporting. I had to do my duty for my family, for the university, for my passion, and for my friends all at the same time, and it was really such a daunting task, but it was fun, oh it was fun.
But something was amiss on my personal life, I was wishing that this year would be complete, but before the year was out, I was searching again.
Notepad: Remembering Philippine Television
Oct 18th
The year when Philippine TV started
Note: This post is a tribute and a commemoration in celebration of the 58th Anniversary of the First TV Telecast in the Country.
Very lately, I am listening to a song that I just accidentally stumbled upon on YouTube, It is called “Big Beautiful Country”, composed by Jose Mari Chan.
Big Beautiful Country, incidentally, was the station jingle of the occupant of Channel 2 during the Martial Law Era, Banahaw (some may also call it Benedicto) Broadcasting Corporation, which is one of the three crony networks that operated during that time, The other two were Kanlaon Broadcasting System, which was later named as Radio Philippines Network, which owns the Channel 9 Frequency, and Channel 13, which was occupied by the Inter-Island Broadcasting Corp.
Yeah, I said in my tweet that the song “Big Beautiful Country” was so propaganda, befitting the dictatorship’s mantra, which was “the True, the Good and the Beautiful”, but one thing is sure, it was swag when I finally heard it.
And because of that theme song, I revved up my recollections about my previous researches (bolstered by too much reading old newspapers and the reading and re-reading an open copy of Kapitan: Geny Lopez and the Story of ABS-CBN for more than 4 years already) and discoveries about Pinoy TV.
