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Happy new year! Medyo tinrangkaso netong mga araw, susubukang makahabol. Ang galing at nakaabot na sa buong burador. Ingat lagi, sir!

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For the sake of both sweep and simplicity, we propose the full adoption of the guidelines. We can always revise the details later, but it would be better to start with this base form rather than the current structure.

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Napapadalas kami sa IRRI canteen these past weeks. Minsan inaasahan ka na lang naming sumulpot, naka-grey shirt at may dalang tray! Sana mas okey-okey ka ngayon. Nangungumusta lang!

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Hi Sir! Kumusta, kumusta? Pasensya na talaga’t ngayon lang. Heto ang citation para sa PAGE 4 at ang rebisyon ng PAGE 5 upang hindi na ito mangailangangan ng citation.

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This idea of “hailing” owes to interpellation in Louis Althusser (1971). “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)”. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays.(Verso: 1970, p.11)

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The old song (“lumang kanta”) is being proposed as an alternative here. The artist would enter an old form (such as this present tit for tat), accept its restraints, all to slip from guards and wardens of thought, their prohibition of free speech, disallowing these guards from cutting or blocking their expression, choosing to police the self rather than suffer censorship or imprisonment.

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...pasensya na, Sir. Matagal na pala niyang naiatras ang bahagi niya rito. Hindi ba siya nakapagpaalam sa iyo sa e-mail? Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

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Ayos! Salamat sa clarification. Wala pang panibagong call. May monograph series pero pinag-aaralan ko pa ang parameters, at mukhang di tayo pasok.

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