GRAMMATICAL ERRORS

      There is a lot of nitty- gritty of editing and magazine writing. The blogger learned and practiced most of them, not in academe but in the competitive vineyards of journalism and in the rarefied atmosphere of creative writing.
      Maybe the blogger's standard is high. But when you have been in this business for as long as you can remember, you are bound to be critical of sloppy sentences, paragraphs, choice of words-- you have to be excellent in aspects that matter.

Indigenous Ilocos Norte bonzai and the giant dallipaoen along the Pagudpud-Cagayan road.

      The blogger was bringing to them more than 15 years of experience as a no-nonsense writer of the country's most prestigious English daily newspaper. He was bringing his experience as editor of government publications and newsletters in the Ilocos region. 
     You see the symbolism in the pictures? Our mind should not be stunted like the bonsai; it should grow and expand on and on like our native dallipaoen.