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I haven’t done this in a while. There’s a high chance I might just crash and burn in round 1. But I’m already happy I was able to do well in the qualifying round (I had to cheat a bit and asked a friend to help with the math for the fourth problem, but I would have advanced without it)
Ryan Liwanag this reminded me of how you wanted to simplify the bill computation for 12 people sa shakeys
Saturday survey: what is your all time favorite song? If you want, leave a spotify or youtube link in your comment (credit: Chery Verano)
Maybe people should try to discuss politics this way
Save this image and use liberally when discussing politics
By request, I did an informal survey among people in the neighborhood while I was out on my afternoon walk. Yes, nang-abala ako ng tao! Ang shy ko pa naman!
I always ask the same line of questions (“Pwede po magtanong? Survey lang po: sino po ang iboboto ninyong presidente?” If they hesitate, I follow up with “Ok lang po kung wala pa”) People listed on the same line were asked as a group. Here are my totally unscientific, anecdotal, meaningless results, presented without further comment:
Aleng tagaprobinsya - Binay
2 security guards sa subdivision - Poe, Poe
guard sa sanglaan - Binay or Roxas
guard sa kabilang subdivision - Undecided
2 middle-aged women - Binay, Roxas
Senior citizen taking a walk - Duterte
3x Tricycle drivers, nakapila - Undecided, Undecided, Duterte
Fishball vendor and spouse - Poe, Poe
Mami vendor - Roxas
Guy on motorcycle nakatambay sa may ministop - Undecided
Security guard sa may ministop - Binay (di pa raw final)
2 kahera sa Ministop - Undecided, Undecided
2 Babae sa may street stand na may bentang chichiria, yosi, etc - Duterte, Undecided
Jeepney driver (nakapila) - Duterte
2 Muslim women selling sa palengke - Duterte, Duterte
Guard sa katabing subdivision - Undecided
Total - 24
Undecided - 8
Duterte - 6
Poe - 4
Binay - 3.5
Roxas - 2.5
Ayan Gerard Dacudao baka sabihin mo never kita pinagbibigyan!
So I watched a couple of eps of the new Criminal Minds spin-off Beyond Borders featuring Gary Sinise’s FBI team intervening in crimes with American victims in other countries. I’m tempted to keep watching solely for the eventual episode set in the Philippines where there are militant leftists protesting against imperialist interference in local affairs
Saturday survey: at what age did you learn to ride a bike?
Guys, nakadecide na ko. Let’s vote for Duterte-Marcos #Du30 If you disagree, you must be a drug pusher!
Edit: Also, let’s vote for the following senators: Sotto, Gatchalian, Moreno, Pacquiao, Palparan, Romualdez, Gadon
Edit ulit (gabi na): In case it wasn’t clear, joke lang po! Happy April Fools Day :p (Medyo kinilabutan nga ako nung pinost ko ito)
Earlier I was walking along Mindanao avenue and there was a guy hanging campaign materials for a councilor candidate on a wire running between two trees on the side of the road. Parang di naman private property and definitely not common poster area. Should I have accosted him?
This month’s Meralco bill is 20% higher than last month’s. Sigh. #summer
Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice Spoiler-Free Review:
Ok, tap out muna ako sa politics until Easter. Penitensya. Wut
Still undecided? Here’s a helpful guide: (source: https://twitter.com/SoWhatsNews/status/712109772586094592)
I sat down to write a poem
Surely it couldn’t be that hard
To stitch words together In rhyme and iambic pentameter
My fingers spun across the keys
And words spilled out in twos and threes
My first efforts didn’t feel like poetry
More like rhyming words trying to tell a story
Dozens of lines discarded
Why did the words elude me?
Are they hidden there, in some unknown shadow of my mind
Running away, burrowing deep, when I turn a corner?
Was I not good enough?
Do I need to find a way to light a spark?
Or maybe poetry isn’t something you force into the light
Maybe poetry only comes to us in the dark
#worldpoetryday
Daredevil Season 2 spoiler-free review:
So I managed to “platinum” Rocket League on Steam (all nonDLC achievements) despite not being very good at it. Goes to show how easy it is to get into, but I guess I’m done with the game for now
Maybe I’ll just vote for whoever can stop my mouse from double-clicking all the time
Android people: my phone is giving me this notification, idk what app is generating it. How can I find out?
Saturday survey: what media player do you use?
Bonus sketch today from a guest artist
Saturday Survey: What is your favorite Piattos flavor?
Uy, may House of Cards na sa #NetflixPH. Sakto kakadownload ko lang ng Season 2 lol
Everything you post today, Facebook won’t remind you about it for 4 years
Survey: In a bag of mixed Hershey’s chocolate, which one do you get: Milk Chocolate, Special Dark, Krackel, Mr Goodbar
Jose Marciano Patino paki-explain. Or paki-fix lol. Also, buying: Used copy ng Ultimate MvC3 for PS3
I should stop looking into the comment threads filled with pro-Marcos propaganda commenters, ang sakit sa ulo. Almost universally bad grammar/spelling too, take from that what you will
My reactions to the first #PiliPinasDebates2016:
As expected, nothing too difficult was discussed, and we got mostly motherhood statements from the candidates.
Format was a bit strange, what is the format for debates in other countries? Shouldn’t all candidates be allowed to respond to each question?
Not enough time to give meaty answers really, and did we really need so many ads?
Poe well-prepared, ready with answers and statistics, not much implementation details though
Duterte having trouble articulating himself sometimes, keeps harping on fixing everything within 3-6 months, without elaborating how. IDK much about Davao, but my impression is he didn’t do that in 3-6 months. But I am happy that his “killing criminals” rhetoric now includes the rider that it must be within the scope of the law
Binay’s preparation for this debate seems to have been to keep telling himself “I’m a decisive leader!!! I’m a decisive leader!!! I’m a decisive leader!!!”
Miriam no longer has the fire she used to have, stumbled a few times. She could have a much stronger rebuttal as to why we the constitution has that ban on political dynasties if only her VP candidate’s family wasn’t the reason we needed to put that there!
Duterte agreeing with people and insisting that implementation is the problem - upvotes. But none of the candidates detailed implementation plans.
Discussion on policies and issues generally one-sided - everyone agrees with the stuff that has to be done, but no one really talks about details of how, etc. Reflection of the fact that we don’t really have parties with differing ideologies (aside from Duterte’s federalism. Oh and Binay’s insistence that political dynasties are cool LOL)
Aside from Binay getting shot down a few times, nothing too fiery/exciting happened. Candidates didn’t really do rebuttals so much as elaborate on their own plans
Roxas’ closing statement is a much better approach than all his political ads and strategies so far
I know all too well that you can’t really form an accurate assessment of a person from one interview so I don’t really expect that the candidates will have room to espouse all the details of their platforms, but I hope the succeeding debates can at least give more challenging questions and a bit more time for the candidates to elaborate.
I missed round 1 (rewatched the archive), but on my way home I noticed the security guards in our subdivision listening to the debate on the radio. Say what you will about the debate’s format and lack of challenging questions, but the fact that we are having any sort of discussion at all that manages to capture the public’s attention is already an improvement. Hopefully the organizers of the next two debates manage to learn something and try to improve on the first one
Friends in Makati: Dalawa nga ba ang Makati?
#PiliPinasDebates2016 Tomorrow will be the first Presidential debate. If I were hosting the debate, here are some of the questions I would want each candidate to address:
I suspect none of the above topics will be discussed tomorrow though. And if ever, most will reply with generic/motherhood statements. But maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Here we go, DEADPOOL spoiler-free review:
Standard protocol when dining out with family:
While ordering: parang onti pa yung order, dagdagan natin
When order arrives: parang andaming pagkain? Baka di natin maubos
After eating: simot ah!
2016 Book #5: Triumph of the Darksword. I read the first two books of this trilogy back in high school, and I recently decided to get a used copy from Amazon (special thanks to the courier, you know who you are). I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to dive into the third book without having to re-read the first two, with a general recollection of the events from the first book still intact. I found it a bit heavy-handed with the prose, as the writers spend a couple of paragraphs in each scene for each character to ponder in self-doubt, fear or despair. I forget if that’s something they did in the Dragonlance books as well. The plot of this book went in a direction that I wouldn’t have been able to predict, but I guess the ending was satisfying enough. Time to read: Eight episodes of Battlestar Galactica
2016 Book #3: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I think I actually caught the tail end of the movie for this on cable at some point. Easy read, started it last night to get sleepy and finished up this morning. My reading rate is still a bit slow, I blame Netflix!
Finally finished Wind Waker HD, great game. Didn’t bother with the completion, there’s just too much other stuff to do. If the game had achievements, I’d think about it lol
David Ramirez I feel like we’ve already discussed this at some point
Alvin Tang SF5 beta is up. 3-1 na ako online yay! Lol
Voter preferences for President (from SWS). Miriam is doing really poorly, and afaik she hasn’t really been campaigning too hard (if at all)
There is a possibility that I am too easily engrossed by how passionately gamers on online forums debate non-issues such as on-disk DLC and content locked behind amiibos. Or maybe I just like debates in general
I call the globe hotline using my mobile, and input my mobile number into the dialer TWICE as required by the automated system, yet every CSR I talk to has to ask for my number again. Cool.
Did a quick trial of Netflix PH. I have a 4mbps BayanDSL connection and streaming was ok. Loading time was negligible for a tv episode, around 10-20 seconds for a movie. No buffering or anything encountered so far. Quality is decent (not sure how to tell what the resolution is, it doesn’t matter to me) The selection is as expected, kind of limited. Strangely, there is no House of Cards. Works with our Chromecast! Edit: All the other Netflix shows (aside from HoC) seem to be there. A number of shows I binged while I was in UK (The Office, Fringe, House MD, Fairy Tail) are not there. There are less movies than I would have expected (mukhang malayo pa sa US), but they seem to have all the Batmans for some reason. I suggest people take the free trial first to see if they like the content offered, though I suppose they will try to add more later.
Day after day
Leaving the past behind
Coming to terms
With stitches and burns and
Learning to fly again
Survey: best pizza in Metro Manila?
I have way too many leftover pictures from various applications. Bonus round: sort them in chronological order
Doctor friends: If I’ve been instructed to take medicine once every morning, what happens if my sleep schedule shifts? If I sleep from 4am to 12nn, when should I take the medicine? What if I sleep from 8am to 4pm?
Survey: Dunkin Donut or Mister Donut?
Survey: How much distance is “walking distance”?
That took forever
Upgraded the new rig to Windows 10 today. Super fast and painless upgrade (done in < 15mins thanks to the SSD), and the printer even works this time!
