for culture, for identity, and for social responsibility

i was actually more than half an hour late for the scheduled blogging seminar at the smc hall. i woke up late because as usual, i was so tired from last night's dance practice. i was really excited... not because i knew he was there but because i wanted to learn infos on how i could make my blog a little more "professional" in some sense.

mark already asked me to be one of the emcees for the seminar just in case either (or both) leni or rolly declined the offer. well, it was not that i didn't want to but i'd rather be sitting in the front row and enjoying the discussions in a seminar i had been looking forward to attending. i pretty much think i couldn't appreciate - and absorb - much if i am quite preoccupied with what i am supposed to say in front of an audience, though i have that quick stimulus in such cases that i am confronted with hulgaanay. thank God it was leni's turn for the morning's session. though i was really not in y sense when i agreed having to beat for the national anthem - for the first time in my life! it hadn't been that bad anyway.

it was as if the departments of cs/it and marketing connived during the problogging session. everyone was actually eager and excited when they learned they could make tons (of course, i'm exaggerating!) of money through blogs. i wonder if we can merge and establish a new course: BS blog marketing or BS internet-preneurship, whatever sounds more acceptable and more convincing to those who want to become probloggers. however, one thing i understood is a blog could never be credible anymore once the blogger starts writing out of greed and not of passion.

another interesting thing i learned today is that, as what my column in omniana suggests, i have social responsibilities. it's not all about creating an online journal for me to flaunt my not-that-really-extraordinary experience for the day but i have to use my writing skills (?) to influence other people to become socially aware as well. and i have to be proud of mindanao which served as my home for the past few years after i left manila.

well, spiderman was right. with great power comes great responsiblity and with new media comes greater influence.

i learned to start liking this "blogging" thing. honestly, my enthusiasm to pursue my new career in the blogging arena has surged right after the seminar that i hurriedly rushed to the nearest internet cafe outside the school. i wanted to write something with sense but could'nt actually think of any so i just let my mind work and my fingers do the typing.

maybe i have to think of a more significant thing to write the next time. for now, i'll just have to leave and endure another night of leg sprains from crossing bamboo poles in tinikling.