The Notebook Notepad
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.
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.
Notepad: My “Juan” Encounter with the Typhoon
Oct 28th
Sorry if it took me again another month to write on my blog. So many deadlines, so many commitments, especially that I experienced again the hell of Finals for the first time in my life since I stopped. But Hope is on the way, people, as my dad had bought a new (and I mean, a spanking-new) Dell Inspiron HD laptop for the family, and by the time it arrives in January, I may now be able to post more often.
And Events, yeah, my piece-de-resistance of Anime Journalism, I had been to so many events that I forgot to write the insights and the insides of all the events. But I’ll do my best next year as the new notebook PC will enable me to write again and blog again more frequently, so, tiis tiis lang muna, mga kapatid.
Anywho, I would like to share to you an experience I’ll never forget for the first time, my “Juan” encounter with a Typhoon.
Notepad: Musings about my Return to School and the WTF “Reunion”
Jul 31st
Well, this idea and this subsequent post has sprung up again another new segment here in my blog (it’s a convention for us at ZOH Blogs to create segments based on what we feel we would like to post around, like for example, Anime Kabayan has his “For Your Entertainment” and his “Focus” while theBlocker has his own “TV Talk” and “What Really Grinds My Gears” segments)
I would like to call it Notepad, where we write several random musings about life as we know it. It’s the most personal that you’ll get from me, of course, next to the most personal will be our Flashback segment.
Okay, now for my musings.
