Category: Life And Times
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Documents, Pink Slips, and Guy Montag
Because the family is moving to our new house in Bulacan, the last couple of weeks have been one of decluttering. In an attempt to minimize the cost of transporting so many items and personal effects from Caloocan (while coming at the cost of having to buy more new stuff), we’ve been picking from our […]
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In Praise of Writers’ Desks
This month concludes what has now become half a year that our family has been in the process of searching for, purchasing, and now moving into a house of our own after years spent throwing money at the garbage bin that is the housing rental market. We started in January of this year, when my […]
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A Late Father’s Day Post
There are a number of things my dad and I don’t necessarily agree on. The older I get, the more I come to accept that’s only natural. But one thing has always been clear for me all through my life: everything I’ve become, everything I’ve achieved, I owe to him. Once he told me, after […]
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What a joke
At times I can only sit back in disbelief at how little our own government thinks of us. It’s not really so much of a surprise at this point. Instead, what baffles me is how little effort they put into hiding how things really are. It’s like they know we can’t do anything, even when […]
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Books from Tiktok: An Update
Last week, I posted about taking book recommendations through TikTok’s #BookTok community. Today, I found out that my local Fully Booked now has a special section dedicated to books seen on BookTok. Pretty neat! That’s it. That’s the post.
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What We Were Fighting For
The last couple of days, since Tuesday, have been difficult for me – emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Though we are yet far from an official proclamation, so far reported partial counts from both the COMELEC Transparency Server and the PPCRV Parallel Counts are inching towards a Marcos-Duterte win. And you know what? I can accept […]
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How to study Math while the world teeters on the brink of war
The following blog post was inspired by two things: first, by a Youtube video by the author John Green craftily titled “How to Make Potatoes While Dread Presses In from Every Direction”, and second, by a fifteen minute ordeal I’ve only just now had with a particularly challenging notation from a textbook I’m reading on […]
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Love You For 10,000 Years
I have a feeling my fiancée is gonna have a hearty laugh at me when she sees this, say it it’s symptomatic of my tendency to overshare. I admit that I do have that tendency, but what can I do? You don’t light a candle to hide it under your bed. Sometimes, life goes so […]
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Vertigo
I’m writing this a third of the way through my last month as knowledge management head, in-house data science and visualization expert, and all-around clown for the Quality Management division of Jollibee Worldwide Services (the services arm of the much bigger, much more delicious-sounding Jollibee Foods Corporation). It’s crazy to think that I’ve spent, as […]
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Getting It Out There
Today, the preprint for my thesis finally goes live on arXiv. The paper is a condensed version of the original, hundred-or-so page manuscript that now sits in hardback in my shelf among my prized collections of textbooks and monographs. My initiation, so to speak, into the world of academia. My adviser and examiners had the […]
Dominic Dayta 