I'm writing again. No, not the poetry or the creativenonfictioney type of writing but the bloggy type. You know. The e-journal type. The e-diary type. You know.
But I'll try not to write crap, of course. There's too much of that in the world already, and I don't want to add to that.
Anyway, I'm back in the University of Iloilo. The past many months, I've been doing a lot of different rackets: teaching here, doing research there, doing tutorials here, etc., etc. In the first semester of AY 2008 I was substitute faculty at the Division of Humanities, UP Visayas in Miagao. I got good feedback from my students (they gave me a good rating in their evaluation, and I believe some of them miss me, hehe) but I was not rehired in the 2nd semester. It didn't feel that bad (meaning it was but only a tiny bit) since there were two of us faculty members who "suffered that fate". Well, I didn't really suffer. It's just the idiomatic expression. But the experience proved to me that there is truth to the saying that misery loves company. That's life.
Thankfully, I got a grant from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts for the project "Glosari sa Kinaray-a", and I was given Saturday classes at UI, so the 2nd semester wasn't that unlucky for me.
And now, I said I'm fully back in UI. Not anymore as a faculty member, but as a part of the Marketing Team. The University of Iloilo is not anymore owned by the Lopezes. It was bought by PHINMA Inc., and I have high hopes for the renaissance of the university. I'm saying "renaissance" because, quite unknown to many, University of Iloilo had silent times of being one of the top schools in Western Visayas. With us on board, and more especially with a management that listens to its stakeholders, we will do our best to make UI at par with the best schools in Iloilo. And who knows, maybe even the whole Philippines.
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