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Takeaway (#1)

Hi again! A week ago I finally returned to this blog, publishing my reflection on Saturdays. I plan to post a blog post fortnightly. But this time I like to do another thing which I hope would be regular in Dispatches. I call this Takeaway . Every Takeaway, I attempt to show below links on things I've seen, read, watched, or listened to in the past days and weeks. And they are all laid out here in bits, pieces, and highlights. Hope you like it. Here we go: 💻  FEED Government media : Government-owned Radyo Pilipinas (738 khz on AM band) has a new program every Saturday. It's Cabinet Report sa Teleradyo . Their second episode is interesting for its discussion about digital terrestrial TV, Emergency Warning Broadcast System, Datacasting, and better Internet connections. Also sneaked in were upcoming improvements on the Philippine Broadcasting Service. On marriage The happier you are in God before you are married, the happier you’ll be with someone else whe

Saturdays

At last, I'm back on this blog. Welcome to Dispatches! R ight away here's my first entry under a new name. I have observed that almost every Saturday has been a bore. That realization hit very deep just this first Saturday of the year 2018. There were only few Saturdays that were fine and satisfying: the Saturdays before Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, the Saturday after a very relieving retreat of our block, and perhaps the Saturdays spent outside the house. Other than those, Saturdays are almost a bore. If it weren't for the remaining school stuff I had to do, Saturdays would likely bore me out.  Sure, it's a good day when there's no job to head to or a class to attend to. But without anything to keep you moving as long as it's not tiresome, Saturdays are almost a bore. Just like last Saturday. Away from computer, the Net If I woke up earlier, Saturday would have been better—I guess. I could have gathered some courage to buy a newspaper