Breaking out at 21

12/01/2011 11:49AM

When I was a young kid, my ambition was to be just a driver. That changed when I was studying at the elementary level. I got bullied a lot, though, at lesser times, I fought back at them. At the same time, I became interested in writing, creating PowerPoint presentations and maybe wanted to be a cartoonist after attempting to draw Dexter many times. And I was even trying to do web designing on my own right then. Perhaps, would people think about me being a whiz kid despite having weird antics with those ability to type fast that earned me the right to have a special award for computer subject then?

Random Things that Rocked My College Life (Part 2)

12/01/2011 11:24 AM

College life doesn't revolve around school. For most of the time, it used to be off-campus. Like those that I mentioned in my previous post, it's not primarily happened in class. When my first-year buddy left school for a premier state university then, I knew it would be a heartbreaker for my part, not because of something involved but the fact that she's one of the guys who held me back on my feet through the time. But I have to accept it. People come for a while and eventually leave. Nothing is permanent. And to tell you the truth, my penname (SlickMaster) was influenced by this fellow.

Highway Naming Right Blues

11/24/2011 12:50 PM

Epifanio De Los Santos Avenue was the primary highway at Metro Manila. It has 23.8 kilometers in length and covering the cities of Caloocan, Quezon, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Makati and Pasay. On this road, you will see a lot of industrial and commercial establishments, roadway infrastructures, advertisement billboards, and the Metro Rail Transit Line 3.

Random Things that Rocked My College Life (Part 1)

11/04/2011 12:30 PM

Most of the people had I met told me that high school life was the best part of their school life. However, it's their own opinion, and no one can oppose that. But for me, I'll say it is college. And I know it's been sounding different in your ears? Now, if you're asking me WHY? I have a lot of reasons then, on and off-school-wise.

Locking Out

11/04/2011 11:04 AM

Photo from Basketball Forever

Lockout issues are at it in the NBA again. What is this lockout thing? That is a business term used by the sports league(s) that is (are) suffering from its financial difficulties.

Misconceptions by Heart

11/04/2011 10:33 AM

Before anything else, this article contains my extremities about almost everyone's favorite topic. So, be careful when you rant back on me because this is what you get from yelling words out of your personal experiences—or just a plain observation as well.

Okay, recently, I noticed several reactions about love, especially at the advent where social networking sites serve as the new avenue for dating. It varies. Some were somewhat decent, while more than half are sad to say indecent.

Bullied, and bullying

10.16.2011 10:22 PM

I was inspired by a blog post of one of my college friends, whom she tackled bullying. It’s rare for one to grow without getting bullied when he was a kid. 

Social Networking Blues

10/16/2011 09:42 PM

Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Multiply, and even the pioneer ones like Friendster and MySpace had been the primary reason why most of the world's population have been digging the internet. It became more evident, especially nowadays where being online on either computer or computer or via cellular phone was the best thing in communicating. 

Arrested at my own home.

10.28.2011 / 11:02 a.m.

Here is a small piece of poem I personally composed. It’s about rebelling, being imprisoned, well not literally though. Feeling left alone may be the best description. How can you save yourself under that circumstance? This one’s a free verse and free style, supposedly.

Arrested at my own home.

Waking up every morning

With supposedly a smile from my face

And what I really want

Is just a piece of good vibe for today.

But how can you grow up?

Or even become a better man

When you live in the house

Full of naggers and judges?

Love and understanding are something I need

For me being a radical minded

But it was supposed to be a comfortable place, and

Not a prison cell or the vault of the dead.

No one to hear neither my talk nor my loudest cry

But I can only say “thank you” with a chuckle to the air passing by.

Misjudgments turned me

From a superhuman to a mistaken lazy-ass

Cast out from the streets of reality

With negative idiots surrounded.

Kept praying and working all day long while no one’s around

The only problem though is even gratitude doesn’t pays me back

Like things didn’t worked out

And if it falls apart, I’m gonna be blamed for

I wish I can ask my mom

“am I really your son?”

And wishing for people to understand that

It’s not always easy to be a better man.

Like a bullied student or mis-accused imprisoned man

I’m waiting for explode with my brain and heart’s like a time bomb

And the only thing that can save me here

Is a disease called “breakdown.”

--slick master

Originially written: 10/1/2011, 3.p.m.

© 2011 september twenty-eight productions.

Poppish Sound. Dumbass Mainstream?!

10/28/2011 10:39 AM

I’m not a music guru or something much inclined into (though I’m trying to aspire to be a lyricist for some time). But ever since the new artists showed up on gigs, new songs airing over CDs, MP3 players, and radios, there is one thing I asked over my mind for some time: the music is evolving, but is this the one that I should listen? Take, for instance, the rock genre. From underground, it went to mainstream slowly but surely, and from one old rock genre, it had gone to different classifications. Progressive, metal, other types of hardcore, a mixture of punk, or pop, or even rap, you name them. The same goes for rap. It went to novelty and hip-hop. But apparently, novelty was always a part of pop music.

Sensationalism Kills?!

10/28/2011 10:12 AM

Sensationalism is nothing new in media anymore. It existed even before President Marcos implemented martial law. Probably that guy has prompted to create Proclamation 1081 in 1972—or at least, the part of it. But let's move fast forward to today. 

Discs to Downloads

10/21/2011 11:03 PM

From old, classic, large vinyl, then cassette tapes, and miniature-sized-vinyl-liked compact discs to digital files like MPEG-Layer 3, or much better known as MP3(s). Since the old times of contemporary music, people have been searching and somehow owning at least one of the things I mentioned. If you're a '60s (or earlier) music lover, at least you had a chance of seeing an old vinyl record spinning at an old turntable thing called the phonograph. After all, it was in 1979 when Sony and Philips invented CDs, but I bet cassette tapes were created even earlier than that. But as time goes by, whether it's that little tape or even the Betamax to the discs-era, it can't be denied that music is part of one's daily lives, especially if they don't need the likes of radio. All he does is open up that component and play it in.

Juvenile Injustice?

10/13/2011 01:39:00 PM.

Isang artikulo ko ukol sa isang batas na tila nagiging parte ng mga ugat ng problema sa lipunan ngayon.

Isang madaling araw sa Quezon City, nasaksihan ko na ang mga batang sasampa sa likuran ng isang truck at magnanakaw ng mga bagay roon. Nakunan ng litrato bagamat mabilis ang mga pangyayari (kaya di na rin nilimbag pa). 

At nakakabahala na rin ang mga ganitong klaseng sitwasyon kahit wala na ito sa sirkulasyon ng media. Pustahan, marami pa ang mga batang hamog sa mga lugar tulad ng EDSA Guadalupe, mga nanggagahasa't pumapatay, at nagnanakaw sa bandang Pasay, Kalookan at ibang lugar sa Kamaynilaan (ayon na rin sa mga police beat reports). Unang isinulat ng inyong lingkod ito noong nakaraang taon. At teka lang, hindi naman sila nasasakdal e.

Throwback Weekend Programming

10/15/2011 09:27 AM

I wish I could include RX 93.1's Monstrous Riot here, but its schedule falls on the mid-week. Anyway, to start things out, if you are an FM radio lover, regardless of what station you are patronizing, you will notice this: for seven days that it airs, there will be like a day or two for playing classic songs. 

Chain Message Blues

10.15.2011 1:43 PM

Since not all news are broadcast or published thru the traditional media, text messaging and internet postings were two of the best means in disseminating information at present. 

But the only thing that's quite disappointing is some messages were barely unconfirmed and at times, untrue.