I Am Over You

I am over you.

I don’t love you anymore.

You go strutting around with your new boyfriend. You display your affection to each other in public. You kiss, you hug, you dance, whatever. You shout to the whole world that you love him and you won’t ever let go of him. You tell all your friends that you’re the best couple. You both like pasta – CASAA’s pasta, romantic-comedy movies, going out on gimmicks, riding in cars with boys (in your lover’s case, riding in cars with girls), chatting on IRC day and night (well, that’s how you met him), surfing the internet (your guy does it for porn, I guess) stupid tagalog romance pocketbooks, and pathetic high school, big big big elephant pants fashion. You think you are really, really compatible. You think you can piss me off and ruin my beautiful day with all that. I don’t think so. As I’ve told you a million times now…

I am over you.

I don’t love you anymore.

You call me on the phone to tell me just how wonderful and exciting your new boyfriend is. You say he never forgets to send you goodnight text messages, which I think is sick. You say he takes you out to dinner every Friday night. You say he invites you and the whole barkada to a gimmick at Libis’ different clubs and bars every Saturday night. And despite the lack of sleep and rest (beauty rest for you), he never fails to go with you to church and hear mass every Sunday morning (now that’s truly pathetic). He even goes to your place after the mass, takes his lunch there, and bonds with your family. He gets you and your mom a bouquet of fresh roses, your dad and brothers a bottle of brandy, and your sister a stuffed toy. You say he takes you home from school in his car almost everyday. You say he loves you so much, as much as you love him. You think you can piss me off and ruin my beautiful day with all that. I don’t think so. As I’ve told you a million times and once more now…

I am over you.

I don’t love you anymore.

Now, you ask me to come with you two as your chaperone. I refuse to. You ask me why I don’t want to. I ask you why I should. You say it’s gonna be fun if I join you. I say it’s not. You ask me why it’s not. I say we were a couple before and your boyfriend won’t feel good about me joining your date. You say he wouldn’t mind. I say I’ve had enough of this. I’m not coming with you whatever you say. You think you can piss me off and ruin my beautiful day with all that. I don’t think so. As I’ve told you a million times and twice more now…

I am over you.

I don’t love you anymore.

But not really…

10 Things I Love About Being Alone (Lovelife)

1.) I don't have to save money for dates.
2.) I get the freedom to chat on IRC day and night.
3.) I don't have to send "Good Night" messages every night. I'm sick and tired of it.
4.) I don't have to get hooked on the phone for three hours a day.
5.) I get better grades in my subjects.
6.) I can smoke until my lungs break down (and cry).
7.) I don't have to drink liquor. There's no reason for me to get drunk anyway.
8.) I can make fun of couples who display their affection in public. Seeing them doesn't make me bitter, mind you.
9.) I cut down my fuel consumption by 45%. Well, that's really something.
10.) I get more quality time with my family, friends, and pets.

The Hosts

On June 1, 2004, MJ received this totally suprising email.

Hi,

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After making a few calls to this Alvin guy, he was officially hosted by i.PH. He was offered to use the BlogStarter service, free for two months, and could be extended forever. What a perk.

Not a month later, Chico from IRC also offered MJ free hosting service to his recently purchased domain, screwedprophet.com. The archives of this website and index page were transferred to Chico's.

The author now uses his i.PH hosting account for other files like photos and music files.

Photobucket also hosts some of the photos used in the articles for free.

If you want to have a background music on your webpage, please contact the author at jiminabottle[at]gmail[dot]com.

CommRes in the 1970's

Areas of focus:
a) Communication support
b) Cooperative, multinational studies
c) Policy research for institutional development and support
d) Multisectoral and multidisciplinary studies

Trends and Development
a) Scope - communication studies became narrower, covering a few areas
b) Respondents/subjects - rural respondents, since the Philippines is largely rural
c) Manpower resource - schools offering communication degrees, and government info agencies
d) Method of Analysis-measures of central tendency and chi-square as statistical methods
e) Reporting
f) Research-orientation as against western - problem-oriented vs theory-oriented
g) Research design – action research or operation studies in the country

Problems and Prospects
a) Lack of support from admin or management
b) Inadequate resources form facilities
c) Imbalance, which favors action research

Back to Communication Research: The Philippine Advent

CommRes in the 1960's

In the 1960's, researchers initially focused on the essential elements of the communication process. Their initial efforts focused on media studies were to determine the comprehensibility of informational materials, and the style (so that it should faithfully adhere to the meaning of its content) of the presentation of such materials to the consumers.

With greater amount to spend for financing fieldwork, communication researchers focused on the audiences/recipients of messages. Their studies covered the multi-disciplinary studies of the first audience, the barrio interpersonal network, and different ways of message perception, such as how professionals, in particular, act as receivers of information. As the researchers gained skills and expertise in research methods through these studies, their interest turned to the sources/producers at the urban level.

To recap, the type of studies done were:

1. studies of communicators/sources of information
2. message studies
3. media studies
4. studies on audience/receiver of information or messages

The following are methods and techniques the scholars used during their course of study:

1. historical studies (useful in origin, growth, and development of communication media in the country)
2. media studies
3. case-study approach (valuable in analyzing particular communication patterns and behaviors; also, useful for generating benchmark data at a small-scale level before doing a large-scale survey)
4. surveys (useful in exploring the causes of phenomena affecting the communicaton process, and in determining skills and levels of knowledge, and attitudes and habits of audiences relating to communication media and messages)
5. experiments (enables the study of and comparison between the effectiveness of varied communication activities)
6. content analysis (interpretation of media/messages)
7. readability studies (researches developed these to make readers readily understand written work)
8. feasibility studies (useful in predicting how viable it will be to set up communications institutions for carrying out new action programs)

The materials and finding of the researches conducted were used to develop priorities and needs of an individual or community, as institution building requirements, to professionalize the print media, and to solve communication problems.

The problems which deemed to be solved by these researches were hardly understood communication messages, non-existence of benchmark information, limited physical reach of messages, lack of informational and educational materials for classes and on the development orientation of media, and limits to press freedom.

Back to Communication Research: The Philippine Advent

Communication Research: The Philippine Advent

There were a few researchers and communication scholars that made significantly revolutionary changes to the face of communication in our land, and eventually gave birth to a new form of study - communication research.

John de Young.  A visiting sociologist at the University of the Philippines.  He conducted studies on literacy levels of Filipinos, and the availability and use of rural communications media, which extended to the context of village and interpersonal networks.

Marjorie Ravenholt.  An information specialist.  She made an assessment on how much of the information materials disseminated in villages by the National Media Production Center (NMPC) could be received, processed, and understood.

Juan Tuvera.  A practicing journalist.  He conducted a status analysis of mass communications in public information offices, and had given explanation to such problems like no coordinated planning, proliferation of public information agencies, and lack of professionalism among government information offices.

These three key personalities collaborated with other particular journalists, market analysts, and historians.  Their team produced a collection of written historical journals and periodicals, and economic profiles of Philippine consumers.

Professors at UP who have had advanced training in journalism in the US pioneered in the 1960’s in communication research.  They established a Western-based concept of communication research as a cross-disciplinary area of inquiry, and conducted studies on the elements of the communication process like media, messages and media effects, and feedback.

Read more:
CommRes in the 1960's
CommRes in the 1970's

Communication Research - The Special Section

Welcome to the Communication Research Special Section of ScrewedProphet.com.  This section serves as my group's (Josa, Mariel, Kriz) project.  This is a source of historical information of communication research in the Philippines and in the greater Southeast Asia.  If you are one of our classmates, let this be of help.  I heard there's going to be a quiz on the next meeting.  Read on!

Subsections
Communication Research: The Philippine Advent

About ScrewedProphet.com

In Summer of 2003, a self-proclaimed intellectual/atheist/writer/singer named MJ came to know the existence of weblogs, more commonly known as blogs, courtesy of honeylemon (Janjan) from IRC. He thought instead of waiting months for his articles to get posted on Peyups.com, why not establish his own web presence by keeping a blog?

MJ then set up MushExchange.tk, and posted his first three articles, Wish Ko Lang, Letter of Secrets: A Sequel to Wish Ko Lang, and Songs on the Radio in February of 2003. The posts were written in English-Filipino. After switching to a more seriously effective mode (English, for that matter), he came up with 10 Things I Hate About Being Alone (Lovelife) and I Am Over You.

Getting fed up with mush writing, and being a little worse than desperate during those times, he settled for a curse-hate blog. And this change signified a major revamp which ranged from the template, the name of the website, and of course, the mood and tone of writing. Thus, the Screwed Prophet. The second setup started out with a very dark mood. The template was dominated by black and other dark colors. The articles, moreover, were totally disturbing. Self-pity, curse, and hate were the bloodlines of the website.

Upon the realization that no one dared visit the website, let alone post comments, for its dark mood, MJ switched to loving life mode. The name of the website was not changed, only the template and the mood. A lot of people hailed the switch, and we have recorded a major increase in hits and comments.

Now, you have ScrewedProphet.com. The author doesn't stick to just one topic anymore. He writes about whatever he likes. Reviews and comments on different products, events, and other what-have-they. Rants and raves, thoughts on different things, light and heavier, more intellectual alike.