Hippie Colors

There’s this jingle on TV advertising a vegetable broth cube. The jingle is very catchy and my daughter and I find ourselves humming it every once in a while.

Last night I realized (a little slow in doing so perhaps, like in most things) that the main target of that jingle are relatively poor people who have a very limited budget for food. Instead of consuming malabnaw na instant noodles (which the last time I checked is the staple diet of those who are really hard-pressed), they would just consume sinabawang gulay, mas malasa at may sustansya pa.

Three straight days of cancelled classes, a child who sleeps earlier than usual, sitting in the Bourdieu class and making a report on Bourdieu have allowed me and inspired me to come up with new ideas for bourdieublog, enough for me to have a regular posting schedule again. I’ll be posting every Friday at www.bourdieublog.blogspot.com.

The new essays will move into the concepts of capital (the stakes that we compete for) and field (the arena of competition) and will move out of the concept of habitus (a feel for the competition).

I’m also thinking of coming up with a natsit site but am still looking for an appropriate host. Gave a natsit recently and I figured it can be broken down into entries.

There’s been a flurry of email from my elementary batchmates because our school, Ruamrudee International School, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Thanks to my father, I had the privilege of studying in Bangkok from kindergarten to Grade 6 and without a doubt, those were the happiest days of my life.

If you go to bangkok and you want to go to mass, you’ll probably end up going to our old campus. The Holy Redeemer Church is a tourist attraction in itself, a Catholic Church designed using Thai architectural principles. The stations of the cross inside was made by a Filipino (continuous stone carving lining the inside wall). Check out some pictures here: http://www.holyredeemerbangkok.net/hrc/

I hear from my batchmates that the redemptorists who run the school are tearing our old campus down to make room for a convent. Kinda sad but I guess that’s how things really are. I guess, images of the place will have to live on in pictures and memories.