Jejomar Contawe

UNPUBLISHED • 11th June 2022

Why Interview Transcripts Should Remain Manually Done, Not Automated

If immediacy or instantaneousness are the only factors that a client is taking into account, he is inadvertently risking the most crucial part of a transcription service: accuracy.

PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER • 10th June 2022

Call center blues

I live for candid moments when I and my colleagues share giddy excitement during payday, as well as the prospect of weekends spent with family and the chance to regain as much sleep as I could. These, alongside being able to pay the bills while saving up a little, are enough to make me stay. (graphics by Rappler)

Letterboxd • 19th January 2022

MOVIE REVIEW: The Piano Teacher (2001)

this film is doubtless sexual, but not the type of sexual to jerk off on, but rather a much deeper examination of a middle-aged woman's carnal desires, and how emotionally excruciating it can be when trying to repress these strong feelings of sexuality. she nonchalantly visits porn shops, sniffs cum-stained tissue papers of porn frequenters, and secretly looks on couples having sex in their cars.

Letterboxd • 4th April 2021

MOVIE REVIEW: The Father (2020)

watching the father was inevitable for me to think of my alzheimer's-riddled grandfather, and how anthony hopkins' impeccable depiction made me think that, yes, these were also my grandfather's perpetual reactions, perpetual confusions, perpetual present reality since 2016.

ARISE • 1st October 2020

Discipline and Duterte

[page 6] In order to discipline Filipinos, we must have a disciplined government first.

PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER • 17th September 2020

Jejomar trending

It was Aug. 25, Tuesday, five days before our online commencement exercises, when I decided to compose and publish a short political commentary that would serve as my graduation post.

ARISE • 1st July 2020

Terror bill passage sparks social media, on-ground protests

Filipinos took their ire to both social media and in the streets to condemn the passage of the anti-terrorism bill.

ARISE • 5th June 2020

EDITORIAL: Oppressed freedom

There is no greater way to fight back than to amplify our voices in a united act of resistance against the state's undeclared penchant for measures only imaginable in a martial-law setting.

THE WORK LITERARY FOLIO • 25th April 2020

Obra: Apu Kusyang

I was the top contributor in this literary folio (awarded best in literary content) with 11 literary pieces, and was one of the writers of the cover story.

THE WORK MAGAZINE • 18th April 2020

Understanding The Powers of Activism

People generally see activists as violent communist rebels—a perilous stereotype that enables such a misconception to thrive in the public consciousness.