An Intellectual Masturbation with the Debonair among Geeks

I am fortunate to have a conversation with sir Jigs, the debonair among geeks, early today. Our intellectual masturbation tackled several interesting thoughts – from model friends turned celebrities, closet queen politicians, some concerns with the academia, and professional schooling among others.

The exchange of oral pleasures climaxed with the idea of renaming my blogsite title page from Starstruck to Between Lines hence this new blog entry.

Between Lines
As I start the new academic year with the century old University of San Agustin, both as a member of the faculty and a student in the graduate school, I would like to reposition myself as someone whose passion is into creative writing and other scholarly pursuits. With this in mind, it would be appropriate if I start the repositioning using one of the most powerful tools of communication today – BLOG.

This blogsite has served several purposes to me. It is one of my outlets every time I experience an intellectual rush. This kind of feeling is induced by my day to day encounters with real people and real life situations. In psychology, we learned that as humans, we have the gift to process these experiences and translate them into learnings. In my case, I make it a point that I share these learnings to others. And I believe the fastest form of sharing these thoughts is through online publishing or simply web logging.

Between Lines as my new bog site title page creates several impressions. For one, our level of understanding is dependent of several communication variables like age, gender, social status, cultural assumptions, and situational context. Between lines could mean bridging these gaps of understanding between the different perspectives that these variables have created.

Another one is that Between Lines could also mean, going beyond the literal sense of things, the attempt to see things from another point of view. This attempt may bring us fresh ideas, news insights and great valuable learning for life.

With these in mind, I formally relaunch this blogsite – Between Lines – my venue for self expression in pursuit of (re)discovering the things in between… the things the keep us going.


PS.
I’m indebted to Jigger Latoza for suggesting the title Between Lines. Thank you so much!