Neo-Journalism, Pseudo-Diary, Blogging Eklavuh

2005-02-10T22:56:00.000-08:00

I am officially writing my very first blog entry on the first day of my new job...Haha! That's a good sign I guess..Slacking and procrastinating for the rest of the year! Not typical of me actually, but lately, I've been really really really lazy..I don't know if that is the effect of working in a call center for a year or just me experiencing some twentysomething existential crisis..Aaaahhhhh regardless, Im so glaaaad im free from the bondage of the headset, the flagging of the Avaya, the smell of seventh floor, the shift-long anticipation on when to file for the next leave, blah blah blah blah, most importantly, im free from the bleeping Americans!

But not everything about call center is the next worst thing to hell..believe it or not, i did not regret it at all, the people are sooooo nice, the pay is sooooo good, the working environment is very relaxing..but the job, ohhhhh please, i dont even want to talk about it, maybe i can use up some space entirely about call centers in the future..i dont know, i really dont wanna talk about it...urrrggghhh, the job, the job, the job, working in a call center just made me realize that there must be a special benefit called "stress allowance".. (notice that i said i dont want to talk about it anymore but i still keep on doing it, pardon me, like my mouth, my hands are restless too )
Back to my new job...Im officially starting on a Friday, the last day of the week, another goodish or badish sign I guess..but i sincerely hope that everything will be alright with my comeback to Public Relations..Despite warnings and precautions by my good friend Christine, I still took the risk..I actually miss using my brain for some practical work, not just for some academic requirements in graduate school, but for some tangible (when i say tangible that means green paper for me) reward (good or bad, it's worth it)..And besides, ive been through hell, and i will do everything in my power not to be back there..
I never thought that i will succumb to this blogging trend..I wasnt aware that this has been existing for several years now..I just learned this so-called "neo-journalism" (that's how the Time Magazine referred to this trend) from a report by one of my classmates in grad school..Ahhh whatever, online diary masquerading as a legitimate area of journalism..I also read from some local magazine that blogging is just a "tsismis webpage", an affirmation of every human's fascination to what's going on with the life of the other person, famous or not famous, man by nature is tsismoso/a..I was actually encouraged to have my own blog by reading the blogs of other people..There are blogs that are just stupidly boring, pervertedly entertaining, cynically funny..Regardless, it's still very much engaging..Maybe not unlike Friendster, blogging has already established its ground as a global implication to communication technology..(Disclaimer: That's the nerd in me speaking)
But cutting the crap and getting into the chase, blogging is simply an expression of thyself, and avoiding any form of repression that may result to suicidal words sometimes unfit to any medium of writing..
So whatever you read in here doesn't exactly mean that it is a hundered percent accurate, because I choose to write stories on how I remember them to be, not on how they exactly happened..
With that I just made my very first blog disclaimer, You will hear more from me soon..
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Neo-Journalism, Pseudo-Diary, Blogging Eklavuh