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[Apr. 2nd, 2009|11:30 pm] |
It's true what they say about news cycles. You really have to cycle on that Tour-de-France bike of information. We all turn into that jackrabbit from 'Alice in Wonderland' who keeps on running around saying "I'm late I'm late I'm late!!!"
So I was screaming "Type, KD, TYPE!!!" (In a tone much like "Run, Forrest, Run") and transcribed like I have never transcribed before, on a keyboard that had missing letters.
And I thought I was going to be all dignified when something big comes up like MryJeanLcaba.
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I have to hole up somewhere this Saturday, to finish my Muslim discrimination story, because I want the issue to get picked up, because one of my interviewees said today, "We hope you will be one of the ways to tell more people about the plight of the Muslim people, and we hope we can work together to bring peace in Mindanao," or something like that. I haven't transcribed it yet, because I want the keyboards at home with complete letters.
And I am psyched about this, I want to DO IT GOOD, so damn good like Persian wholewheat vegetarian Good Burger. I have to clinch that lead and it has to be solid all around because I don't want to be the girl who f*cked up the plight of the Muslim people.
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On a more cheerful note, here are the Grammors (like Grammy's, only it stands for 'grammatical errors + grand stressors') for two weeks.
| One man passable bridge | narrow bridge | | wife stub husband to death | stab | | primodial concern | primordial | | drum and buggle | bugle | one million seven hundred million pesos
| I frickin don't know | | cries fowl over power hike | foul | | Four hundred and Eighty Eight Ago, Magellan landed in the Philippines | years | | scavergers | this cannot be a typo. because r and n are pretty far apart on the keyboard. | Surnames I like:
Tumamao
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Notice it's less because, THANK YOU SWEET JESUS, the regional writers have improved. Yeay! Maybe they've gotten bored with my long-distance calls. Beginning with, "Um, I'd just like to ask a whole lotta questions about your story."
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[Mar. 13th, 2009|10:10 pm] |
One of our hamsters (all four are as yet unnamed because my little brother has gone through 200 names for each of them so far and hasn't decided on any) gave birth to seven blind red jellybeans today.
I kid you not, they are disgusting to look at and squeal when they get dragged by one of the hamsters en route to the food dish. And when they do squeal they sound like rusty swings, only smaller.
Here's a blurry picture of them in a bed of sawdust. Photo by Nico.
Jason said they might eat their young, like his cats do, and he hits them because they're bad. But I can't hit hamsters because they bite back, the little balls of fur.
And he's right, they eat their young if there's not enough protein in the mother hamster's diet, or if you touch the baby jellybeans and transfer your scent onto them and the confused mother eats them.
Animal pet care sites said they'll open their eyes in 11 to 12 days, and when they do, we should put the water bottle down or feed them pieces of cucumber to hydrate. Then after two weeks we can touch them and clean the cage (eew that'll be so smelly by then). Till then they'll have to drink like, milk molecules from the hamster's tiny teat.
All I want to know is if they're having sex in the cage or if they were pregnant when we bought them. The former is alarming because if they're a horny bunch, we'll have a jar of jellybeans by Christmas.
It's very fascinating and disgusting in a way. I mean, I will never eat red or pink jellybeans again.
Enough of that, here are my favorite phrases from editing this week's worth of regional stories:
| political indefferences | | six dies in car crash | | suspect was also included in the charged sheet... | | ...gathering more evidence to pin down the brain. (mastermind) | | ..application for licensed jives with actual operations... | | personnels | | new-looking suspicious people | | ...here we are stucked with an incompetent leader. | | ...rebels returned to the folds of the law... | | ...the search would be piloted in the first district of Leyte. | A throng of angry militant woman... (my favorite!)
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Words this week that could be replaced with something else:- waylay- ambush
- purseiner- fishing vessel
- adjudged- judged
Last names I like:- Santotome- police story
- Archival- lawyer
New things I learned this week:- A worker who is terminated is required to be told about it a month prior and is supposed to be given separation pay. Under the Labor Code, separation pay should be equivalent to at least one month's pay or successive years' pay, whichever is higher.
- There is a place in the Philippines called Camotes Island. In Cebu.
Yeah, dudes, let's pin down the brain!!
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[Mar. 6th, 2009|10:39 pm] |
Consider this a public service, three weeks into the job.
Ms. Marites said I should compile this, lest I teach someday. So, future, students, here are some words to live by.
| Words That May Exist, But Only In Your Own Personal Grammar School | | These words... | are actually... | as in the sentence... | Consider revising... | | full-pledged | full-fledged | "New recruits are supposed to go training before they become full pledged police. | "go training" to just "train" | | | priced collection | prized collection | "The dolls are part of ...'s priced collection." | unless of course the dolls were for sale. In any case, it sounds awkward. | | | to cease the fire | to stop the fire | "...firefighters had to break down windows to cease the fire." | The term "ceasing fires" (ceasefires) are usually used in war, shootouts, armed battles, but technically not when a Korean school burned down. | | | three termer legislator | 'legislator for three terms' or 'legislator, elected for three terms' | "The three termer legislator said..." | termer is not even a word. | | | bases | basis | "The experience would not be the bases..." | Bases IS a word. Just not this time. | | | House of Congress | Congress or House of Representatives | "...was passed in the House of Congress." | Do not make it sound like the House of Waffles, nor make it sound like it is an actual house. Unless you want to be specific, since it is composed of two houses, the Lower House and Upper House. Note, however, that the Lower House does not like being called "lower." | | | cancer, only hers is breast | breast cancer | "Like Francis M., Bibeth, too, is suffering from cancer only hers is breast." | "Like Francis M, Bibeth is also suffering from cancer, although hers is breast cancer" or any concise sentence. Consider using less commas and use them in appropriate places. Man, that breast bit is just awkward. | |
Further, here are a list of words that DO exist, but are awkward, archaic, or informal (and are hence not understood by the majority of readers).
| word | meaning | use instead | | malversation | to steal | corruption, graft | | localites | residents of a particular locality | residents, locals, people | | solon | member of an organized body organized to make laws | lawmaker, legislator | | disfavor | strong feeling of not liking or approval | dislike, disapprove | | backjob | official meaning. to masturbate on a person's back while he or she is sleeping
informal meaning. a job that had to be repeated because it was shoddy or incorrect | shoddy job, etc. |
Just some of my favorite surnames that I've encountered in various reports.
| Cabigas | story on organic rice | | Superficial | police story | | Ehemplo | shootout story | | Rebelyn (name) | story on NPA rebels | | Paglumotan | story on right of reply bill | | Bolabola | sex den story |
That's all, folks.
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