Modern day problem: lack of sleep because you could not resist replying to social media comments even when lying in bed trying to fall asleep (Yes, yes, I should turn off the devices or something lol)
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Nov 2016
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Isang alamat:
Isa kang pamilyado at may hinire kang kasambahay. Tapos sa simula, parang ok sya, maayos ang trabaho, nagagawa lahat at minsan sobra-sobra pa.
Tapos later nalaman mo na kinukupit pala nya yung iba nyong gamit sa bahay at sinasangla. Tapos sinasaktan nya ung mga anak mo pag umangal at nagsabing magsusumbong.
Tapos nalaman mo pa na ang haba na pala ng listahan ng utang mo sa tindahan kasi yung binibigay mo sa kanya na pambili binubulsa lang nya at pinapalista lamang ang mga bilihin.
Anong gagawin mo, syempre patatalsikin mo na yang kriminal na yan diba? Sabay kakasuhan mo pa sa korte para maisauli sayo yung ninakaw sa yo at sana’y makulong pa!
E biglang namatay, hindi na tuloy umasenso yung kaso at hindi mo na mapagbayad. Tapos eto yung anak ng kasambahay, pupunta-punta sa bahay nyo, hihingi ng abuloy para pambayad sa libing. Gusto pa magara yung libing, dun sa mamahaling sementeryo na prestigious. May banda pa at parade.
Aba, ano sya, siniswerte! Di ba parang ang kapal ng mukha. Nung pinagsabihan mo, hiniritan ka pa nung anak:
“Bakit po ba hindi kayo makapag-move on? Patay na nga po si nanay sana respetuhin nyo na lang. Madami naman po syang nagawang mabuti para sa inyo diba? Pinagluto nya kayo at pinamalengke at pinagsilbihan? Kung galit po kayo sa kanya bakit naglalakad pa rin kayo dyan sa sahig nyo, di ba sya ang naglinis nyan at nagtawag ng taga-ayos nung nasira yan? Bakit nakatayo pa rin yang Christmas tree nyo e diba si nanay ang nagdecorate nyan? Bakit hindi nyo na lang sya patawarin para magkaron na ng healing?”
Moral of this story is left as homework for the readers
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Peace and goodwill to all my FB friends annoyed with my preachiness~
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A friend asked “Would there be as much attention, flak, protests, etc. to/against the Marcos Burial if the Republic Memorial Cemetery was never renamed to Libingan ng mga Bayani?” and I guess you can say I’m kind of preachy, so my reply turned out a bit too long. I thought I’d share it here para mas sulit yung effort sa pagsulat lol
We as a people, we have short memories and we forgive easily, putting us in danger of forgetting the atrocities of that era and hence risking that we are condemned to repeat it. The Marcos family knows this and have taken the time and effort to try to turn back the judgment of history. You need only look at all the propaganda during the last election as evidence.
Many people see these videos and memes praising the Marcos presidency and the martial law era and we see a danger, a danger that is already coming true now. Many of our fellow citizens are already swallowing the Marcos propaganda that somehow the Martial Law era was good for us, that somehow a president who has been tagged as the second-worst plunderer in the world was a hero that needs worshipping. This burial is yet another step, an important step, in the Marcos family attempting to redeem their legacy and revise our national memory.
Yes, it’s just a name. If it were just people like you and me who could easily dismiss the burial by saying “that’s just a name, madami namang andyan na hindi bayani”, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But like all tyrants know, names are symbols and names and symbols have power. People believe in name and symbols, no matter what our rational minds think.
Why do you think they are fighting so hard for this? Marcos has been dead for ages, why not just bury him in Ilocos Norte where they know he will be loved and his grave left unvandalized and not risk all this outcry? Why is the president so insistent on this, when even among his own followers there are many who are against the move? It’s true that we have so many other things to worry about as a country, so why insist on this, when they know it’s a deeply divisive move? They know the stakes. They know they don’t have to insist on declaring him a hero openly, the mere symbolism of him being buried there is enough, for now.
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I’ve seen a number of people posting/sharing something promoting the idea that instead of blaming the Marcos or Duterte, we should be blaming the people who were in power for 30 years for not passing a law to prevent the dictator from being buried in an place of honor. This is a ridiculous, after-the-fact justification to attempt to shift blame and wash hands of a betrayal done to the people.
Think about it, of those 3 parties: a) one party has been negligent b) one party has purposely and systematically abused power over this country for more than a decade c) one party has purposely traded this country’s dignity for the sake of political patronage
All of these are things we should condemn, but the last two are betrayals while the other one is at worst stupidity. If you think (a) is worse than (b) or (c) and that we should just move on or something, you are contributing to the problem of our short-term political memory being akin to a goldfish.
#MarcosNotAHero
“Moving on” shouldnt mean setting aside these betrayals and letting their memory fade, otherwise we are condemned to history repeating itself. Instead we should #NeverForget and remain vigilant against abuses by current and future governments.
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What a waste of a mandate and potential political capital, to spend it on this ridiculous sideshow that is the Marcos burial. I’m at least able to understand a little bit the twisted logic behind the violent war on drugs since it is supposedly being done “for the good of the country”, but this madness is obviously done all for the sake of an actual temperemental brat wanting to pay back political debts and to whitewash the record of a tyrant. The president of the country traded the dignity of this country for political support, that’s how much he thinks of us.
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After watching the latest fantasy movie, two Filipinas were discussing how there were so many online political groups full of trolls and people who easily spread misinformation and rejected anything that didn’t reinforce their own points of view. A third Filipina came up and asked them what they were talking about. “Fanatics, bes, and where to find them” #sorrynotsorry
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Well, that’s something to look forward to at least. Also, TIL half of Japan operates on 50 Hz electricity. https://cleantechnica.com/2016/09/21/china-japan-russia-south-korea-plan-renewable-energy-super-grid/
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I enjoyed tonight’s sketch, so I thought I’d do something I haven’t done in a while, here’s the timelapse video.
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Survey: Are you doing No-shave November?
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this, too, shall pass away.” How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
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The next time someone brags about getting a mandate from 16M people, remember that even a crazy, racist, sexist blowhard can fool (at least, as of this count) 16M people into voting for him
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I can’t blame the SC for the decision. I blame the one who chose to exercise his office’s prerogative to whitewash tyranny in payment of political debts
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‘There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."’
– Isaac Asimov, Column in Newsweek (21 January 1980) (not really just a US thing)
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With Amazon opening a hub in SG (shipping costs to PH drop) and Customs no longer taxing stuff worth under 10k, I wonder if I’m going to be opening an Amazon SG account
Oct 2016
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DOCTOR STRANGE Spoiler-free review:
- Wow. Great visuals and fight-scenes, very trippy. Possibly the best fight scenes in all the MCU movies so far. You might get dizzy with all the things spinning around though
- Plot is typical of a MCU origin story. Hero’s journey, some light comedy bits, etc.
- I was expecting them to go a different way with Mordo (if you’ve read the comics you know what I mean), but I’m happy with how things went down
- Stakes are high, but failure is not final
- The actors were great; I haven’t seen a lead this good for a role since RDJ’s Tony Stark. Swinton’s Ancient One, Eijofor’s Mordo, and even Wong’s Wong were great
- Doctor friends: Tell me if the medical parts were BS hohoho
- Magugustuhan ba ni Mama: Probably not. She doesn’t like this kind of thing, and the dizziness thing is bad too
- IMAX or not? I think the 3d parts weren’t too exaggerated or critical, but the visuals might feel a bit flat and not as impressive if you don’t go IMAX
- Midcredits scene? Yes
- Postcredits scene? Yes
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“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.” - James Joyce, “Ulysses”
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“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them” - Andy Bernard
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Totally not hyped about new Civ game coming out in approximately 1 day and 9 hours
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See, bow talaga! Jaime L. Garcia Christian Cheng Josiah Tendero Habana lol. Parang walang kneel!
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A fledgling Japanese automobile company asked a veteran German auto maker to suggest a name for its new car. “We need a name no later than tomorrow,” said the Japanese official. “Dat soon?” replied the surprised German. And Nissan’s famous Datsun series was born.
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Konting tiis na lang!
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Survey: what tv show has the best intro music OF ALL TIME? Edit: OF ALL TIME!
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Even if the people in charge were all saints and the opposition were all madmen, any trend towards authoriarianism is a bad idea because saints can become sinners in a heartbeat and when they do, you will wish there was still opposition
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Despite the so-called “media bias”, the president still enjoys a high approval rating, meaning either (a) the public doesn’t care what the media says and believes the president in spite of everything (in which case why complain about the media?); or (b) the public believes the “big media spin” and approves of it anyway. I’ll leave it as an exercise as to which possibility is worse
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Yeap
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A quote from one of my favorite movies. Whenever the president complains about his critics and the EJK accusations I imagine him to be just like Colonel Jessup and he just wants to blurt out “You can’t handle the truth!”
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Survey: which restaurant has the best garlic bread?
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“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
— Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger in The Elements of Programming Style.
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You know things are bad when your online discussions with friends include how to set up a will =|
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“What’s there beyond sleep, eat, work in this cruel life? Ain’t there nothing else ‘round here but human strife?”
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Survey: You are at a wedding, and your wedding gift is one of those chinese ampao envelopes with cash inside. When is the proper time to make abot the envelope to the couple?
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More scary stuff. I wonder how many other things are happening that go unreported because the victims feel helpless
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The problem isn’t the Hitler comparison per se. Leaders get compared to Hitler all the time. The problem was saying he’ll happily slaughter 3 million if they were drug addicts, as if being a drug addict justifies slaughter. Note that it’s drug addicts, not even pushers! (Offending the jews by comparing them to drug addicts was a secondary problem, as I don’t believe he intended that, despite how it seems; just his runaway mouth saying ridiculous things as normal)
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Luke Cage spoiler-free review:
- this is an unapologetically very black show. It highlights black culture, black music, black history, and so on
- gang violence, sleazy politicians, corrupt cops
- most of the cast give great performances
- rosario dawson’s role seems to get bigger with each additional series
- lots of great easter eggs for comic book fans
- might have been an episode or two too long
- I did not like the ending too much, though I can see why they might have gone that way
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When you notice a typo after you submit your post and your mobile internet is so slow you have time to turn off data before it posts so that you don’t have to do post-editing
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“I wassss once a man!!”
(To be absolutely fair, Cobra Commander never killed anyone)
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Saw this going around on Twitter, but either the posts were deleted or were not made public. Can anyone confirm hearing about this stuff? Scary if true
Sep 2016
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If you send me a friend request anywhere and I don’t recognize you or your username, might be a good idea to PM me with an explanation
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Pwede pa ko bumalik!
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Wait, so in spite of the crackdown and the violence, the drug prevalence is actually still increasing? This despite the PNP chief and the palace’s statements saying the drug war was succeeding?
(I still haven’t seen any independent confirmation of where the original 3.7M estimate came from though…)
Quoting the Philippine Star’s post:
President Duterte said that the number of drug addicts in the country is expected to soar from 3.7 million to four million by the end of the month.
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Survey: What does it mean to be a Filipino?
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Repost from Ninotchka Rosca:
Ingat (careful out there) became the word of good-bye, replacing the old “sige,” during the martial law years. It was the last word uttered between and among those meeting to discuss what had to be done, in ways big and small, to end the Marcos Dictatorship. It was said with all the love and respect one was capable of. Because chances were one would meet again only in a prison cell, or a torture house (called a safe house by the military) or at a wake. #neverforget #cultureaswitness #languageofstruggle
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Repost from Maoi Arroyo:
[Martial Law]
In 1969, Marcos instructed Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor and Jose Almonte to study how Martial Law was implemented in different parts of the world. Marcos also wanted to know the consequences of declaring Martial Law. The result of their study stated that, “while Martial Law may accelerate development, in the end the Philippines would become a political archipelago, with debilitating, factionalized politics.” Almonte recalled that their findings led to the conclusion that “the nation would be destroyed because, apart from the divisiveness it would cause, Martial Law would offer Marcos absolute power which would corrupt absolutely.”
Source: Jose T. Almonte and Marites Dañguilan Vitug, Endless Journey: A Memoir (Quezon City: Cleverheads Publishing, 2015), p. 77.
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The attitude “That country should not instruct us on human rights because look at what they have done / are doing” is stupid. That’s like saying “why should I follow the rules when no one else does?” Or “it’s easier for me to go to mass instead of not being an asshole to other people”. This is exactly what is wrong with the entire country.
44 years ago on September 23, 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos declared Proclamation 1081, placing the Philippines under Martial Law. My father was the very first lawyer to challenge the act before the Supreme Court and questioned its legality under the 1935 Philippine Constitution.
Today, the 1987 Constitution safeguards our institutions from a repeat of Marcos’ Martial Law regime. The Supreme Court is empowered to review all official acts to determine if there has been grave abuse of discretion. Congress cannot be padlocked. Martial Law is limited in duration and effects, even if contemplated by a president. (Source: Section 18 of Article VII)
If you really love our country, regardless of political beliefs, invest in it. Give it your love, your forgiveness, your righteous and civil dissent. Obey it’s laws even if you feel stupid doing so because no one else will. Hold your head high when people tell you “masyado ka kasing honest”. Do good work, fall in love, live with honor. Be the best Filipino you can be. And above all, cherish the freedoms that were bought so dearly by so many. Do not abuse them. The Filipino is worth living for, and worth living here for. We are worth changing for, worth loving despite our many frailties. We are worth it all.
The many will someday stand bravely with the few, though we may have to re-learn our lessons because we always had aborted, personal, and unfinished revolutions.
We are impatient as a people and as a culture, perhaps we need an evolution - the slow quiet unsung work of true development - more than a revolution. Maybe that’s what change means.
Hope, prayer, vigilance, strength, and honor. This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility.
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Repost from Richard Garfield:
The following represents my opinion, based on my observations and personal research. I am open to feedback, critique, and correction from those so inclined. I welcome readers to do their own research and draw their own conclusions.
Manifesto: a written statement that describes the policies, goals, and opinions of a person or group
A Game Player’s Manifesto
I believe that in recent years, while looking for revenue models that work for electronic games, game designers and publishers have stumbled upon some formulae that work only because they abuse segments of their player population. Games can have addictive properties – and these abusive games are created – intentionally or not – to exploit players who are subject to certain addictive behavior.
One reason it has been possible for this to happen is that the resulting product is inexpensive, or free for most players, since most of the burden of cost has been put upon the players who become addicted to the game.
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Karlvin King Listana is this true?
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“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” -Ben Franklin (“Western liberal values”)
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Someone on my feed just likened Pacquiao to Jarjar Binks lol
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I wonder if people who think like this have always thought like this and are just being emboldened by the current environemnt
