About Gino Orticio
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- The vulgar sociologist. Gino worked full-time as a research coordinator for an NGO network supported by an international development organization. So he’d go off to some distant part of the Philippines, do some obligatory development research work and some while return to write about the whole thing. When opportunity beckoned, he got to lecture to quasi-sedated UP Baguio students at 1:32 in the afternoon on the subject of Modern Social Theory. His current pursuits are development theory, ICT for development, food security and indigenous rights and knowledge systems. He stopped appreciating popular culture after the 80s, delving deeper on the inner lyrical subtexts of the new romantic wave bands such as U2, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, REM and, of course, the Cure. Nonetheless, eclectic musical fields appeal to him: especially originals like the young Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Benny Goodman, Jimi Hendrix, Jaco Pastorius, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. He is married to fellow alumna Noreen Cayabyab and is blessed with two daughters. Still a sucker for racket sports, he is presently hacking it away in badminton.
