While I’m writing this, Peter Solis Nery is probably deep at work on the next installment of his online lecture on a Facebook page that he has created solely for the purpose of discussing his poetics. After 28 books and 19 awards in drama, short fiction and poetry, Peter Solis Nery thinks he hasn’t peaked …
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Previously our hypothetical scenario was about going through an online job interview in the face of a lockdown. This time, after quarantine protocols have loosened up, regular work has almost resumed. Those who have lost their jobs are finding opportunities to get new ones, while those who have kept theirs are seeing opportunities for career …
Going Head on With Tough Interview Questions To Get the Job You Deserve According to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) close to seven million Filipinos have lost their jobs because of the COVID- 19 pandemic. The plague has overturned global policies on health, politics, and economics. It has claimed hundreds of thousands of …
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This is not a short cut, all right. You can develop these target skills in no time, but coupled with patience and emotional attachment, new and exciting doors open in your new-found language. Question: How important is grammar in speaking and writing? Grammar is another word for rules, and using grammar is basically is …
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It seems there is no stopping the new normal in Philippine education. In a month or two, classes will start across the country in way that has not been experienced by anyone before. Learning and teaching shift online, or, at least, a good part of it. It has taken a global pandemic to get the …
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Some words may never take back their original meaning after the global covid pandemic. Words such normalcy, intimacy, communion or social gathering, may not only fall out of popular use, but may never be literally done without violating a law ever gain. This global pandemic has pushed our understanding of human relationships more than it …
YOUR THOUGHTS ARE THINGS: OR, WORDS THAT ARE MORE VIRULENT THAN Read More »
Since the covid pandemic broke out of Wuhan this year, we have seen how the world was shaken and was caught unprepared for a life-threatening viral infection. We have seen in equal measure how countries devised ways to contain the spread of the controversial diease. The scientific community on the other hand is faced with …
If you don’t take the BPO path because there are plenty of options that lie ahead of you owing to your above average education, then bless you. But there are thousands of job applicants who claim the same in their resume, and you’ll be hard pressed to get it across to the HR head during …
In a month or so, it will be graduation fever to many colleges and universities in the Philippines. But as early as now, pre-employment events such as career talks and seminars have been going on. Getting a job is tough in the Philippines, but getting your dream job is tougher still. There are many factors …
How much vocabulary does it take for one to become a writer—or, at least- to be able to write and make sense and be understood? People have this notion that writers should have his bag of tricks overflowing with deep words. But is it really the case in good writing? As in everyday speaking, everyday …
BUILDING A WRITING CORPUS WITH (A WHOLE LOT OF) SENSE Read More »