Archive for January 2nd, 2008

You… The One Who Got Away

Posted: 2nd January 2008 by Marocharim in Personal

   You… the one who got away.
   I seem to have forgotten all about you.  I forgot how much I loved you then, how much of my precious time I have spent in either content bliss or blinding jealousy.  I forgot how many times I wanted to talk to you in person, postponing it every [...]

Friend Overload

Posted: 2nd January 2008 by Marocharim in Streams of Thought

   Because I wrote a thesis on this topic, I should know how to explain phenomena that take place in virtual environments.  Allow me to indulge…
   While Friendster remains to be the number one social networking site (SNS) in the Philippines, I’ve observed that more and more people “jump ship” to other SNS’s like Multiply, [...]

The Wheel

Posted: 2nd January 2008 by Marocharim in Stuff

   I’d give my left arm, my right leg, and both of my testicles to drive the 2008 Lamborghini Reventon.  My pet car for 2007 was the Lamborghini Murciélago, which I used to whoop ass in Need For Speed: Most Wanted and Need For Speed: Carbon (although I would never use a Murciélago for a [...]

Signifier of the Signifier

Posted: 2nd January 2008 by Marocharim in Streams of Thought

   Roland Barthes, when he discussed semiotics (or “semiology,” to be faithful to his use of the term), expanded the traditional notion of Ferdinand de Saussure’s sign into two levels: denotation and connotation.  At the level of denotation, there is just the arbitrary and conventional relationship between the signifier and the signified.  At the level [...]