I finally finished “To Kill A Mockingbird” today, nearly two weeks after I borrowed it from our school library. I’ll spare you the boredom of a lengthy review, but suffice to say, Harper Lee did a great job weaving a tight plot and portraying it with brilliant prose, in the process creating something precious: a story of an idyllic childhood during a tumultuous time in the distant past that has kept its sheen through the years, remaining relevant even today. Certainly a must-read.
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I passed the DLSUCET!
January 4th, 2010 | Published in School | 1 Comment
A piece of tremendous news to begin the New Year with: De La Salle University College Entrance Test (DLSUCET) results are out, and by God’s grace I passed! I qualified for my first choice, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science…
Happy New Year, Everyone!
January 1st, 2010 | Published in Uncategorized | No Comments
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYBODY!
2009 was one hell of a year. We had to endure tragedies of tremendous proportions, withstand the continuing effects of a global financial meltdown, and bear the loss of far too many people we loved and…
Sucks to your ass-mar!
December 21st, 2009 | Published in Life | No Comments
School has been suspended until next year to give way to Christmas vacation. The weeks leading up to the break have been unusually full of activity for me as well as for my classmates. I and my colleagues in the school paper were in a frenzy for almost a month preparing to send our first (and probably only) issue to the press, but thankfully all the copyreading has been done and the layout finalized and the paper is now ready for printing. Now that that’s all over with, I can finally sit down to blog.
Raining in the rye
November 24th, 2009 | Published in Life | No Comments
A typhoon has befallen Butuan. The mountains encircling the city and our relative distance from the typhoon belt make us safe from nature’s wrath on most days, but for tonight the gods have made an exception. Classes were suspended this afternoon, although it remains to be seen whether the suspension will hold through tomorrow.
I mean, ah, congrats, Pacman, you know
November 16th, 2009 | Published in News, Write-Ups | 1 Comment
But I mean, ah, I watch the fight you know. And you know, Pacquiao have difficulty boxing Cotto, butCotto find it, I mean, he think, you know, he think it’s harder to fight Manny. Manny lose in the first round, you know, I mean, ahh, it was hard to, uhm, I mean, measure Cotto, you know. But I mean, in the next, ahm, rounds, you know, it easy for Manny already.
Sun Cellular voicemail not directing unanswered calls to voicemail, only works with Call Divert [Update: Solved]
November 14th, 2009 | Published in Uncategorized | 2 Comments
I recently got voicemail activated for my Sun Cellular line. It took a couple of phone calls to Customer Care, but it’s functional now.
When I decided to give the service a spin by calling my phone from my mom’s…
Update on my reading + Pacman v Cotto: my fearless forecast
November 12th, 2009 | Published in Books, Life | 1 Comment
Hello, friends. Just a quick update on my reading: I found a copy of “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway in the school library last Monday. I mentioned in my last post that I recently…
Writing and reading
November 2nd, 2009 | Published in Life | No Comments
October was a very blessed month for me. Besides turning a year older last month, I won second place for Feature Writing during the Regional Schools Press Conference, so I will be going to Tagum City to compete in the Nationals. I was also named Caraga’s Outstanding Campus Journalist for the Secondary level during the same event.
All I need now is a black Continental
October 19th, 2009 | Published in Life | No Comments
Things at school have really been busy for a long, long time now. That largely explains the silence in this side of the blogosphere. We’re taking a bit of a breather (next week is Semestral Break Week) so thank goodness for that.
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Entourage Season 6 wrapped up last month. Good news: the show’s been renewed for another season. Bad news: the next season won’t be available until July 2010 (by my estimate), and it might be the show’s last! Sucks because I just recently started following the show and I think it kicks ass.
If and when Entourage gets cancelled, I will make it a point to purchase DVDs from all the way back to the first season (if not all at once, at least gradually).
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Previously
Feb 26, 2010
To The Girl In The Souvenir Stall
The 2010 National Schools Press Conference in Tagum City ended yesterday, but I’ve been unable to get you out of my head.
Before I cold utter a word, you got the shirt you wanted, haggled all you could, and left the stall and my life as quickly as you came—possibly forever.
I spent the rest of the night thinking about you, about the brief exchange of giggles in the stall, about how I was too shy to say a word, about what would have happened had I been brave enough to try to strike up a conversation. I spent the wee hours of the next morning writing this, forgoing sleep I needed much for the homeward journey I made a few hours later.
Feb 26, 2010
Post-NSPC 2010
I’m back in Butuan after participating in the 2010 National Schools Press Conference in Tagum City.
I am pleased to report that I placed fifth in Feature Writing – English Secondary and third in the online writing contest…
Feb 21, 2010
NSPC 2010 in Tagum
Today, my colleagues and I hopped aboard the early morning bus bound for Tagum, arrived at around 10, spent a couple of hours in NCCC, retreated to our quarters for some much-needed sleep, left later in the afternoon so my…
Feb 12, 2010
Power hungry
Hours-long power outages have plagued Visayas and Mindanao for a few weeks now. Locally, the situation has worsened to the point where brownouts happen daily in at least one part of the city. I’ve observed that the city…
Feb 11, 2010
Just moved
It took me quite a bit of tweaking and a lot of patience and hard work, but this blog is now finally and comfortably settled in its new domain, WWW.DEANTASTIC.COM. (The blog used to live at www.deanlozarie.com.)
If you have…
Feb 4, 2010
My dream workspace
I was in my classmate’s house recently to take care of some school stuff and while I was rummaging through his cabinets full of magazines, I came across an Ikea catalog from 2008. I spent a few minutes going through…
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