About Aissa
Aissa works for a non-profit organization that implements community-based education programs all over the Philippines. Her official job description doesn’t tell you much about what she actually does, which is basically whatever needs to be done, from editing text books to dancing with local government officials at town hall gatherings. She also moonlights in a number of organizations that advocate citizenship, democracy and good governance. She has something of a messianic complex, for which she blames her graduate school program, which impressed upon its students the notion that they can change the world.
Aissa has various academic interests, including political economy, history, and cultural anthropology. She regrets that her thirst for knowledge is far greater than her ability to acquire it, and can only hope that in the future science will make it possible for her to download her consciousness into a cybernetic body and allow her to finally upgrade her processor.
Aissa enjoys traveling, speculative fiction, and stupid conversations with intelligent people. She’s twenty-something and resides in Manila.
hi. u r one admirable lady, with all the things you do amidst the cynicism around us. padayon!
notty279
June 4, 2009 at 11:54 am
Thank you.
Aissa
June 4, 2009 at 1:02 pm
i included u in my blogroll. hope u wouldnt mind.
notty279
June 4, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Not at all. I’d like to add you to mine as well.
Aissa
June 5, 2009 at 3:35 pm
great! here’s my URL http://letters2mindanao.wordpress.com/
nice meeting you here. id like to stretch this further though, ive signed up in YPS website but im wondering why i havent got anything from the group yet. Im interested in helping in some ways…
thanks.
notty279
June 8, 2009 at 11:55 am
, thank goodness, there are still young people like you who are willing to continue what we have started in the 80′s. I was a community devt too,but i have to leave the ngo world to focus on my business and to manage my family’s small farm.I’m with you and the group tindignation.Padayon…
jeng
June 29, 2009 at 10:59 am
Thank you.
Aissa
July 20, 2009 at 10:10 am
if you don’t mind, will include you in the blogroll… thanks
nutheckler
July 18, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I don’t mind at all. Thanks for the link!
Aissa
July 20, 2009 at 10:10 am
Hi Aissa! I linked your blog to mine. Hope you don’t mind. Thanks
sjsanjuan
September 8, 2009 at 11:57 am
Hey SJ! Thanks for the link, though I haven’t been updating much lately. I’m trying to fix that. Will link to you as well.
Aissa
September 8, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Came across your blog conducting a search on Washington ScyCip a great man I had the pleasure and speak with many times.
I read your blog and your ‘bio’. Congratulations!
It is great to see that are some out-of-the-box thinkers out there! Keep on the good work. We are an increasing bunch of people thinking alike despite our difference in ages. But then, shouldn’t things valued from the level of awareness we bring around us?
Would love to know more about what you are doing.
You have my email address: sdaffairs@yahoo.com. Feel free to write at your convenience.
Jean-Pierre
November 10, 2009 at 1:21 am
Cn I place your site in my blog roll too? Your awesome keep writing..
aron
March 1, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Absolutely. Thank you for the compliment.
Aissa
March 1, 2010 at 9:56 pm
passing by. you have a great blog going on here. i saw ‘technology’ and ‘implications’ on your intro. have you read heidegger
passing by
March 5, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Fist of all, anyone who mentions Alexis Tocqueville’s writings is a friend of mine lol. I’ve been to Manilia, lovely place, extremely hot. I invite you to evaluate posts I’ve made. Peace. wjholland.wordpress.com
William Holland
June 8, 2010 at 5:03 am
Dear Aissa: I bumped into your blog while doggy-paddling through the net. It was a memorable experience. Our country, the Philippines, needs more people like you
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Evan
August 11, 2010 at 2:38 am
i’m related to fr. cuenca too i think ikaw din / my lola was closely related to fr.cuenca
divinagracia de bacolod
December 7, 2010 at 9:51 am
i am glad to hear you acknowledge the greatness of fr cuenca…God bless you
friar
October 5, 2011 at 10:37 pm