yuppie life (tama ba spelling?! haha)

i love my job
i love the people
i love the experience

the only problem i have with my work is that i'm not sure if the salary is good enough

Cat News Network

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tNTcZOpZ7c

cute cute nan...
i got that from my job

i won't forget today
first day of work

:)

a graduate's grades

taken from my myuste account

address of thanks (WWJUyseco version)

i may not have graduated with high honors or distinction. i may be as plain as a bowl of soup. i may be just an ordinary graduate, but i can't help but feel so much gratitude inside of me. there are a lot of people that i wish to thank, but words in itself are too limited to fully express my eternal gratitude to the people who helped me along the way.

my family, friends, loved ones, professors
it is with great pride that i finished my degree bachelor of arts major in Asian Studies, but it is with great honor that i finished it because of you.

four years ago, i entered college, hopeful - hopeful that someday i may bring home my degree with high distinction. that obviously did not push through, but because i know i worked very hard for it, i am still proud of myself. i am proud of myself not because i just graduated, but because i know i did my best, not only academically, but also in the extra-curricular arm of my colorful college life. today, i am still hopeful - hopeful that someday i will touch many lives, and contribute much to the growth of society as a responsible citizen.

with this, i wish to thank my parents, classmates, mentors and tormentors for it is through them that i learned how to love, to know, to understand, and to inspire.

Asian Studies 1, you taught me how to reach out, to love, and to hate to the extent of pushing my social responsibilities to the limits. thanks guys

i can't help but mention the names of the greatest professors in the world...
Sir Mabahague, for teaching me the basics of Asian Studies. without you, i couldn't have go on. i learned to love AS because of you. i enjoyed your teachings about Thomas Kühn, paradigm shifts, and so on. thank you sir
Ma'am Eloisa De Castro, for your unending passion to teach and inspire my life. your explanations of geography and or Rizal's life made me a proud Filipino. your teachings of common sensical and in-depth study of details made me critical about my work. thank you ma'am
Dr. Co, for making me become a proud Filipino-Chinese. your greatness is beyond compare.
Ma'am Estacio, for your every advise and teaching that made me learn more about life and of research. thank you very much ma'am, it is through you that i learned how to become patient with my work.
Sir Dalangin, the living legend of AS, i couldn't have succeeded in my pursuit of a degree if it weren't for you and your philosophies. thank you sir, you brought me back to life.
Dean Vasco, Indian philosophy became easier to comprehend and love because of your greatness.
Ma'am Dumawal, thank you for pushing me to my limits.
and Sir Baron, your explanations and intellectual insights made me shine brighter as i finished college. thank you sir!

at the end, it is with each and everyone of you that i believed to become a part of the sea of excellence.

carpe diem!

and as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi once said, and i quote: "man is a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes." i did become great in my ways, and forever will i become sublime because of you

thank you

Bachelor of Arts major in Asian Studies

Asian Studies

Wayne Winter J. Uyseco, B.A.

Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary school of thought that sprouted due to a post-modern way of thinking. Post-modernism refers to the non-structured way of thinking, and the unification of things due to the blurring of ideas using a synthesis type of logic. Modernism, unlike post-modernism, is structured, and separates things with a clear demarcation of boundaries which uses dualistic or binary logic.

The social sciences such as political science, sociology, economics, among others, then became subject to criticism. It was during this time that writings such as the post-modernist Structure of Scientific Revolutions of Thomas Samuel Kühn became popular. Kühn was mainly influenced by Jacques Derrida’s concept of deconstruction and Michel Foucault’s concept of power which is why Kühn explained that the social sciences were said to become and patterned like the natural sciences, aptly referred to as a paradigm shift, using a developmental and linear motion. Methodological problems of the social sciences were also introduced by Kühn, namely, the forms of controlled inquiry (laboratory experiment, field experiment, and natural experiment); cultural relativity and social laws; knowledge of social phenomena as a social variable; subjective nature of social subject matter; and value-oriented bias of social inquiry.

Hans Georg Gadamer’s modernist hermeneutic phenomenology, on the other hand, emphasizes that knowledge is by way of language and that it interprets phenomenon to have a certain perspective. It is through him that Asian Studies can be referred to as an interdisciplinary course since a phenomenon should be viewed from different perspectives and views in order to see a broader and wider picture and perspective.

Asian Studies is a product of post-modernism because it is an offshoot of geography and of political science. As an offshoot of geography, Asian Studies came from the discipline area studies while comparative and local politics from the field of international relations is an offshoot of political science.

According to Josefa Saniel, Asian Studies began as a discipline during the nineteenth century when Harvard University established the Yenching Institute in 1928, the University of Washington’s Department of Oriental Studies in 1909, and the Center for Far Eastern Studies (known since 1988 as the Center for East Asian Studies) to name a few. Asian Studies, also according to Saniel, had their beginnings in the studies of Asian languages and cultures during the Second World War. Asian Studies, according to John W. Hall, became popular due to “a systematic attempt to find out about the peoples and cultures” of Asian societies.

As an interdisciplinary and modern course, Asian Studies uses concepts and theories from other disciplines by “crossing borders” in order to produce a pluralistic field of study. As a multidisciplinary and post-modern course, Asian Studies mixes the concepts and theories of different disciplines in order to have an androgynous field of study.

Asian Studies therefore, in general, uses or borrows concepts and theories from political science, philosophy, history, literature, sociology, economics, development studies, geography, and cultural studies among others.

***this is taken from class discussions***

with honors

a lot of people were pressuring me to graduate with honors,
not to mention myself...

it really didn't matter to me, but it was some kind of
"sense of accomplishment" stuff that bothered me
my family, friends, and an interview with a possible employer bugged me...
"why didn't you reach cum laude?"

well, someone special told me that:

there's more to life than to be an honors graduate...
you've accomplished a lot already
and that you are a graduate "with honors"

:')

not your ordinary family

they say that a child adapts and learns from his environment...his peers and his family...
fruits bloom from the seeds...bad seed, bad fruit

pop, the man
we'll he is my hero...
but for some reason i feel like i don't really know who he is...
a lot has changed between us
we often argue about a lot of things
he exerts his authority in every aspect of my damn life
he expects me to conform by his rules no matter what
the dictator drains the life out of me
it's like i need to go against my nature in order to please him
therefore there is no pleasing him...
i do not conform, i challenge

mo', the woman
well she is my sole ally when life turns gray...when all's lost due to the dictator
but for some reason i can't understand her...
she's driving me insane
she creates all these reasons to make herself angry or whatever
it's totally frustrating
it's as if i'm talking to someone who doesn't even understand herself
it's like she doesn't even know herself
i do not understand just yet, i assess

shobs, the brat
well she understands me the most...
but i just can't get the respect i need from her
she is the favorite
therefore she's to be sided at all times
the law revolves around her actions
everything should be passed to me
she doesn't even listen to what i say
i won't respect you until you show me some reason to give you respect

dysfunctional family...tssss

i am a bad fruit