So who's brain is better, huh?

Reading now this article from WashPost. Got me laughing. I don't know. Good stuff there. Heck, female brains has" juice?!" Uh huh. "Males and females may perform similar calculations, but they use different "circuits." Woman is Mac. Man is PC. Blame the brain".

So, the Brain of the woman is well more equipt to handle everything, in softer kinder way, and men, they tend to shut the crap up. Well pardon, obviously I'm female and think some aspects of the men's brain is really much more better than women. They excel more (though now there are more bums than ever. Heh) and sure they "think about sex every 52 seconds, while a woman does only once a day, while a woman does only once a day." Baloney! There are a lot of nymphos out there who always think about (having) sex every 52 seconds! (oh not fricking me, I belong to nunnery once a day..or week perhaps..swear not lying, hehe). But I think this right here "a woman knows what people are feeling, while a man can't spot an emotion unless somebody cries or threatens bodily harm" is not really true, I mean, yes, it is right but not all right is true. There are men who are sensitive who can spot feelings. But maybe most of them are just defensive to readily admit that they do feel. Wimpy willow! Heh.

So the consensus: men are good, but women are better? Uhm, I don't how to use mac! Er, cos I don't have one!

Hounding barks, frightening dream

Damn it. I dozed off while laying down in bed and I dreamnt about a pouring rain, an unknown man, darkness and big dogs. The rain, the man,the dogs barking (advancing and sniffing) scared the mind. Vivid vision of the dogs with fangs got me the chills. The dream lasted five minutes. Creepy. I have dog phobia. Getting sleepy. I'm rambling babbling scary crap hence not making sense.

*edit.. Siesta time. Boredom blog. Bad me! I didn't go to the blah blah for some blah bah. I let it pass..yet again! Had a bit of white lie (we all make white lies from time to time!). I reason upset stomach. And earlier, I just didn't feel like it again.

Too fast too furious

Get well soon Richard Hammond! The 36-year-old was thought to be driving at about 300mph on an airfield near York when he crashed on Wednesday. Hammond was driving a jet-powered dragster similar to the Vampire - used by Colin Fallows to set the British land speed record. It is thought Hammond was attempting to break Fallows' record of 300.3mph (BBC)

If you don't know who he is, you don't obviously watch BBC's Top Gear motor show and you probably wouldn't give a shit. But I watch the show, the presenters are charming, plus cars are awesome! Richard is one of three presenters (along with Jeremy Clarkson and James May)

And this according to Clarkson "I would just like to say how heartened Richard will be when I tell him just how many motorists and truck drivers on my way here wound down their windows to say they were rooting for him."

Aww, sweet really. Hope the " Hammond " recovers and be back presenting.

New word to hate: "Repurposing"

That's according to Judy Muller. Link via Romenesko. Article here

Yeouch! Got me thinking now. Hmm, I wonder if I'm guilty of"repurposing?" Eh, I don't think I am so but anyhow, my blog is just amateur wannabe trying hard to be professional but failing by long long standards plus it's personal crap hardly newsies but when I blog a certain news item from other newsources- like many online news sites- (yahoo and others, I give credit and links). I don't post anything as my own 'cept my personal dramatics and nonsensical social commentary only I would bother to blog about.

And yes, plagiarism definitely sucks and is evil. Heck one blog entry I made was plagiarized before.

On a sunday morning, hunting high and low

I'm hungry. I remember breakfast before but not anymore. It leaves a bitter pill of thought inside and I want to rage but I'm devoid of anger. I know when to stop and look. But I still hunger.

So what's for breakfast right? My thoughts and they are good. Freeflowing with richnesss only I could I taste. I'll share it but, it's contagious. Either it'll bring one to madness or I get slammed but whichever, I'll still share...the hunger.

*edit. But I eat breakfast alone.

Late pm: I'm redundant. Thesame blog for now (minus breakfast whine).

Fuck. I'm grinning! Stoooooop it! to feel a feel is but wonderful, even as I'm the only one who feels. I don't care. It's stupid really(on my part) but as long as I feel, I'm fucking alive! And thelark still grins! changes mood. I feel solitary desolation. *sigh*

No need to apologize

This is what triggered the Muslims reaction of protest and violence:

Pope Benedict cited the words of a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhuman," particularly "his command to spread by the sword the faith."The pontiff did not endorse that description, but he did not question it, and his words set off a firestorm of protests across the Muslim world

The Pope said he regretted offending Muslims with the remarks he made, I don't think he needs to apologize!

I won't expound and give any long blog thoughts because it's about religionism and plus I don't really know the whole philosophy of being Muslim. But as a Catholic, I could say a lot about Catholicism and it's doctrines but I won't. I know nobody reads this crap but one might chanced upon this and I don't think I'd want to inflame anybody's beliefs and whatever the hell their religion might be.

Newslink via Yahoo/AP

US supreme court transcripts now free online

Bound by the revolution of the world wide web, oral arguments transcripts will be made public and easily accessible to everyone via their website http://www.supremecourtus.gov.

Coupled with another recent innovation, the identification in the transcripts of which justice is asking a particular question, the court's new policy "creates the potential for more intelligent speculation by more people than just those who were in the courtroom.(WashPost)

I don't think we'll see these mighty oldies in black robes pretty soon in our idiot box but at least trasncript are now free. If you're potential lawyer in the works, this is helpful.

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I'm sleepy. *yawns*. I feel like lazy tired kitten. Hungry as well. Damn. I'm always either sleepy, tired or hungry. I bore myself!

The big F

Tired and worn out at the end of the day. I went up the mountain, came down on hill! For the second time, I felt the stung of Failure lashed at me. I'm flailing at life. Downcast right now. Maybe third time will be lucky one. Haay, I dunno. The trip to heaven wound me up in hell.

I'm hungry and haven't eaten. It's hellish outside.

*edit... forgot to add. I'm giving myself a pat on the back. I did a random act of kindness earlier :) Not much really, but I bought me a large orange juice from Starbucks and after couple of sips, didn't feel like it anymore. I looked for some streetkids loitering but couldn't find any then I saw this young girl pushing a cart and sweeping the streets. Yep, you guessed it right... I gave my still full to the brim juice to her. Got rewarded with a smile and a thanks. I guess that made it up for feeling disconsolate (not really *sigh*). Oh well it was so freaking hot and she was cleaing the street so...

Shit. I a think I just didn't feel like carrying a large cup of juice! But nah.

The mind is fragile

I'm sleepy. I'm still tired one. Funny thing is, I don't do anything. Yet I'm tired. Tired of fucking empty space! Tired of nothing! Just feeling empty makes iteven more tedious. The fact that I'm still able to express hate probably means there is something more deep and intense longing. Bound by the pride of trying to prove once more. It drives me to the brink of insane delight. Fuck. Maybe I cherish my misery alone. Damn it! Plight of the pathetically apathetic! Heh. The future is blurred by visions of nothingness. Uncertainty leaves me wondering.

On the other hand I'm crushing and it gives me something to feel. I'm sleep bound for now. Maybe in a little while.

9/11 lest we forget..

This from NPR

9/11 (with Allen Ginsberg in mind)
by Andrei Codrescu

Listen to the poem read by the author.

9/11, I can barely remember you, they’ve buried you in so much hype!

9/11 I wept when you were first on television! I wept for New York, for the dead, for all of us, for myself, for the world!

9/11, I was sure that the world had changed forever because bad guys wanted America dead and hated us because we listen to rock 'n' roll and wear no miniskirts on our naked faces!

Click the links to read or listen to the whole poem. It's the reality of the sad tragedy.

Tired

Water was everywhere. It started to rain heavily and when heaven opens up, the house gets washed away..inside..literally. Knee dip in floodshit. The whole of the inside quickly turned into water park. Had to wait for the rain to subside before cleaning the ark. So for almost 5 hours been doing nothing except cleaning.

And now I'm tired. I don't think I''ll stay all the way till sunrise. Mmm, I wouldn't mind a back rub.

I'm hungry and sleepy. The knackered one off to la la land.

The madman and his cohorts

The 9/11 anniversary just two days away, Al- Quaeda shows a video of Bin Laden and other hijackers planning the seed of terror that would become 9/11.

Video footage in which Osama bin Laden is shown meeting some of the hijackers responsible for the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington was aired last night on al-Jazeera television. In the film Bin Laden is seen sitting with Mohammed Atef, a former lieutenant, and Ramzi Binalshibh, another suspected planner of the suicide hijackings. Bin Laden is also shown greeting several of what the tape said were the hijackers. The film, produced by As-Sahab, al-Qa'ida's media branch. (Belfast Telegraph)

All I can say is bless this world we live in. Get those terrorists!

The illusionist or delusionist

Arrrrgh. Whew. One of those early morning Fridays. Heh. I'm staring. As usual. Meandering of the mind plays. I'm full of thoughts about nothing and everything. Personal bleedings of the mind. Matters of importance to me. It's mostly the great expectations. Failed endeavors of fucked matters of the soul..which left me feeling a bit phobia..tic. Still trying to be optimistic. I will try once more but I don't expect much now. Dont wanna be crushed again and feel the need to drown once more in my own sorrow.

I should put this in the journal but don't feel like babbling crap there. the journal is full of heart and feelings and once I start I won't be able to stop and whine will turn sour and I need some cheese for that so.. here is where this accomodates a short personal social sentiment. I must be having delusional thoughts right now. Blah. I'm currently not reading the book on the left. Halfway through, I got bored. Must be me I guess... or the book sucks! I dunno. I'm pretty sure I'll delete this nonsense blog later for it doesn't really make sense. Just psycho babbling here.

Just a thought before I blagh out. For Catholics 08 Sept is Mama Mary's Day. So now you know.

Oh and uhm, by the way, maybe title fits British PM Blair! said to be resigning within a year. Perhaps a realist. Politics kills us all, if you noticed! Hah.

Psycho rambling goes on and I still bleed from the mind. Thinking. Oh well, there's always comfort.

Raging bull...

Read something from CW Nevius of SFChronicle

36-year-old assistant coach of a youth football team from San Joaquin County, watched a kid blindside his 13-year-old son at a game in Stockton. In response, Petero basically lost his mind. On the video, he can be seen sprinting onto the field. He tracks down the kid on the other team and rams him from behind, knocking him flat. The sight of Petero, a grown man, clobbering the kid is enough to make anyone wince.

What kind of man would do something like that? What kind of father would allow himself to lose control so completely? Can you imagine someone who would?

I can. Me.

The kid saw a chance to tee off on a smaller, unsuspecting kid, and he did it. Petero's blood must have boiled. Bet he wishes he'd managed to control his temper. Continue reading

Haaay, just blogging this. Life's a lesson.

Croc hunter, Dead!

Steve Irwin was killed by sting ray while making underwater film documentary.

The job killed him. If it wasn't the crocs, it was bound to be something of animal nature.. but a stingray? Now you know how dangerous those stingrays are.

Convert of terror?

There's an American in Al-Quaida. He wants you to convert! Scary!

Is it Christmas already?

Oh my dollars! whew! a $10,000 tip left to bartender and the tab was only for like $26. Lucky lady! Company declined to name the man who left that whopping tip. Must be santa clause!Hey, I am here.. alone and I've been good! *SIGH* oh well when you're lucky. Now I feel sad. *sigh*

Bored outta my wits!

Yes, the days of blogging whine! I should be sleeping. It's past six in the morning here. Sheesh, I must be freaking loser eh! I suppose I could have fun with my mind. Yeah..larky sheesh. Skye is high Skye will fly if those CO's arn't dumb maybe Skye will not be numb so then Skye high will ride and she'll fly high! Wootness! is that poem or is that frigging poem?!?!?! Talk about limerick freaking lark! the frggin' title says it all!

Aww fck it! Too freaking bad I don't drink! Yeah, a Catholic shmuckness! Larkiness..ugh ugh! Two minds should be consensual..with the bodies entwining! But aloneness leads to nonsense wittiness! or wetness! bwahahaha!

Okay. I've calmed down..just dull now. Weirdo me.

Careful you never know who's reading!

Saw this article. It tells a lot about how one should think what sends via SMS and later on selling that old cellphone! Yikes!

WASHINGTON - The married man's girlfriend sent a text message to his cell phone: His wife was getting suspicious. Perhaps they should cool it for a few days.

"So," she wrote, "I'll talk to u next week."

"You want a break from me? Then fine," he wrote back.

Later, the married man bought a new phone. He sold his old one on eBay, at Internet auction, for $290.

The guys who bought it now know his secret.

The married man had followed the directions in his phone's manual to erase all his information, including lurid exchanges with his lover. But it wasn't enough... Read more

Ugh. And I always send text internationally!

But so okay... isnt' it that all informations are stored in the sim card? or is that stupid question!?! Haha.

A Year After the Flood of Emotional Disaster

One year after the worst hurricane disaster, people are still coping with the loss. Mentally and emotionally. They're slowly rebuilding but the trauma of the past year really makes it hard for some..maybe for most to get on with their lives. It's not only in New Orleans, other states too like Mississippi, and even some parts of Alabama are still coping with the disaster, one year after. People are optimistic though. Despite the continuing argument about the slow federal response and what the government should've done when the magnitude of the hurricane started to unleashed before everybody else's eyes, resiliency of the many residents and their determination to bring back everything to normal is great challenge to them but at the same time challenging themselves to rise after the storm of disaster. The photo is the remnants of hurricane Katrina. The homes and possessions of many residents became trash.

Photos by AP/WashPost. News link via WP

Fox journalists freed

The two Fox new journalist describes their ordeal while in capitvity.

In a phone call with Fox News, Centanni said they were abducted Aug. 14 by four masked gunmen on a side street in Gaza City. He said the assailants covered his head with a black hood, and crammed him and Wiig into a small car. Their possessions were taken, and their wrists were bound behind their backs. "I still have some sore wrists," he said. "It was digging into my wrists really badly." In captivity, Centanni said, he was laid face down in a dark garage and tied up in painful positions.

We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint," Centanni told Fox.

I guess when somebody points a gun on you.. you have no choice but to abide. Scary. Glad they're free now. Got soft spot for journalist/reporters.

Idiot!

I decided to upload pics from cam, after uploading, I deleted everything. Idiot! So now, all the 100 plus pictures are gone from the comp and the cam. Idiot!

Value

I saw this while browsing. Just blogging it here.

To realize the value of one year:
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.

To realize the value of one month:
Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the the value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one hour:
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of one minute:
Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one second:
Ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of one millisecond:
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.


Nice isn't it? If I can add up to this.. it will be something like ...

To realize the value of friendship or love: Don't be annoying.

To realize the value of humility: Try saying sorry.

I'll add some more but..my brain's a bit spaced out. Happy Sunday morning.

Old piece of blahness

Blogging an old news. I was fixing my documents and I saw I had saved this one I made. I lost the link somewhere but nevermind. Everybody knows about this since it's old. And so....

Incumbent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman got blogged down by his multi millionaire opponent, Ned Lamont for the primary battle for the Democratic race for the states senate seat. Man, it pays to have good blogging support group eh? The powers thy bloggers yield in this tech savvy world of politcal crapness. Eh.. *scratches head* Hihi. Poor Lieberman, he will run now as an independent. Lets see if Republicans will back him..for all it's worth. Heh.

One thing I can surely say about my blogs, I don't have that yielding clout power. This blog sucks and I'm the only one sane enough to read it. Of course..it's my damn blog! But hey, if I can use this blaaaahg to help (someone/something) in a positive way..I'll glady blaggghing do it :)

Oh yeah, make love not war! :)

Oh no we're Plutoless!

Planet Pluto demoted to being a 'dwarf' by leading (Goofy) astronomers!

For now, membership will be restricted to the eight "classical" planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."

Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's.

Aww. Why oh why did they do that?!?! Our solar system will not be thesame. Oh pluto! Nine planets will be come eight.. ack! we're Plutoless!

Hotness!

I feel the sweat trickling down my tummy!

Fartness! I was laughing so hard hearing this one performer comment "Oh vanilla Ice is back?!?" referring to the performance of guy named Federline. Hahah.

Newness! Blogger, yes the one who publishes my blogs you're readng right now has new beta features. One needs to switched from the old to the the beta version so one can use it. Looks good. About time they change something and enhanced their blog features. Remember it's beta so there's still some bugs. Eh..squash those bugs ye hear!

Reviews for the Spike Lee documentary

When the Levee Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Click this HBO link for more information.

Even when Lee's subjects are calm and composed, their words cut to the bone. Along with visuals that capture all aspects of the disaster, these bitter, wounded, poignant, thoughtful, expert and often foul-mouthed voices are knitted together in a tightly edited film that manages to sustain four hours without a central narrator. (Washington Post)

Although seeds of hope are woven into this tapestry of rage, sorrow and disbelief, the inability of government at almost every level to act quickly and decisively leaves you aghast at what amounts to a collective failure of will. Some of the stories that hurt the most describe indignities suffered by ordinary New Orleanians leaving the city, like those who were turned back by armed police officers as they tried to cross a bridge into the town of Gretna. (NYTimes)

In this way, "When the Levees Broke" isn't so much investigative as impressionistic, the kind of storytelling you still get on a radio show like Ira Glass' "This American Life." But it's the accumulation of anecdote, not the rhetoric, that makes this such a valuable document. "When the Levees Broke" is like the New Orleans jazz funeral — a dirge on the way to the cemetery, an up-tempo parade in the deceased's honor on the bittersweet walk back home. (LA Times)

I'm not sure if HBO Asia will air it here but I hope they do. I've seen 9/11 docus before (haven't seen Oliver Stone's film, WTC or the film flight 93,though). I'm sure Hurricane Katrina, will resonate with emotional thug just as 9/11 documentaries.

Btw, I hope HBO Asia plan to show the Kevin Carter documentary also.

Source for many reviews from Metacritic

Truce be told...

Israel has right to defend it's nation. And if that means stopping (by raiding) re arming of Hezbolla by Iran and Syria then what's wrong with that? And UN peacekeeping force from muslim nations like Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh..c'mon, if ever there's conflict again, do these UN peacekeeping force have the power to even patrol the borders or prevent militias? Unifel wasn't even a success you know. Hezbolla extremist and their masters, Syria and Iran could wipe them out. Plus the fact that Malaysia recently hosted an Islamic conference that included calls for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

Okay enough said.

Newslink via Washington Post

Photographer McCusker out of the hospital

Link via Romenesko. Article from Photo Distric News. I blogged about this guy who snapped and wanted to die (8/13 blog). He seems alright for now. He's out of hospital but will still be facing four criminal charges.

Finally a suspect murderer arrested!

John Mark Karr, a 41 yar old American teacher was arrested in Thailand. He said that '" he loved Jonbenet" and that "death was accidental."He confessed to the killing.

What led to his arrest was the emails sent to journalism professor which became suspicious of him

Oh my God. I can't help but cringe and get scared. This man, who is now a very much suspect in that brutal murder of a child beauty queen had been living in Asia. A decade ago six year old Jonbenet Ramsey was brutally murdered. It became a high profiled case and for ten years the Boulder police didn't have any success finding out who killed the little gir (they suspected the parents). And now this breakthrough and the guy all along had been in Asia.

The little girl, would've been 16 years old right had she lived.

Sadness, Anger and Grief Took it's Toll on Him...

This is what Hurricane Katrina did to well known local photographer John McCusker.

He wanted to die.

“You have to understand the depth of the horror that the city was,”

This is from the New York Times article (NYTimes reg req'd)

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 9 — On the morning after Hurricane Katrina, when members of The Times-Picayune’s staff found themselves marooned in its flooded building here, John McCusker refused to join most of his colleagues in relocating to a remote newsroom in Baton Rouge.
After the building was evacuated, Mr. McCusker, a photographer for the paper, swam through muck while managing to keep his equipment dry and, from a kayak, captured some of the most harrowing images of the storm’s immediate aftermath. Then, for months, he lived the misery he had been photographing, having lost his possessions, his family’s home and his entire neighborhood to the hurricane.

On Tuesday, nearly a year after the storm, he seemed to snap.....read more

Please... if you're interested. I wanted to post all but it's quite long. It's a reminder really that people still are dealing with the mental grief and trauma hurricane Katrina brought to them. New Orleans residence still suffering from the tragedy.

In many instances like in strife torn places and countries were poverty is rampant, people suffer from the trauma of what they're going through.

I'm not a photographer but seeing and snapping photos of tragedy can really take it's toll and then one just snaps. Pulitzer-prize winner Kevin Carter of South Africa is an example. After seeing the famine in Sudan and snapping that now famous photo of vulture waiting to eat a child, he committed suicide. (Click here to see the photo).

Emotions and tragedy are potent mix. For some it's hard to disassociate themselves from the subject of their profession. It's hard not to get affected. Snapshots of tragedy specially, can trigger despairing feelings and then one just wants to end it all and just die to block it all out.

It's all sad.

Amazing wonderful shots from Afghanistan

Saw this beautiful Flickr photo by violinsoldier a US flag flying and with a close up of the rainbow so vivid. The other similar photos with the rainbows are just as amazing. Click the link will ya. It's really lovely.

So who do you side with?

The innocent civilians of course and especially the children. They are really the victims in these tit for that bombings. Telly is on right now and Haifa hit by heaviest rocket attack by Hezbolla. Somebody please not glorify militias and extremist groups!

News link (AP/Yahoo)

Un hibernating, un hiatus for today now

I'm still sad about about last Thursday (7/27). But I will try again! Last week I thought I would be on cloud nine but turned out to be hell. Frustration turned into tears and silence soon followed and sadness never left. I hope to rectify everything. But for now...ciao.

Ganging up on Mel Gibson

Un hiatus for today. I am adding my own two cents worth of blahg! Not that it matters. And so....

Yes. He deserve all the hate and bigotry and for his drunken anti semitic slurs. But c'mon! He already said sorry! He apologized and I believe he is sincere and he meant it. Of course some would argue, he should have said the apology right then and there and not when he sobered up did he profusely apologized to the jewish community.

There are conservatives defending him. In defense of Mel Gibson, John Derbyshire in his NRO column said....

The guy was drunk, for heaven’s sake. We all say and do dumb things when we are drunk. If I were to be judged on my drunken escapades and follies, I should be utterly excluded from polite society, and so would you, unless you are some kind of saint.

But yet again people would argue, is it really the drunken state or there really is more deeper hatred against the jews hence anti semitic tirade?

Where is Hollywood and why wont they defend one of their own? They're nowhere to be found. They are silent. Hell, most of Hollywood bigwigs are Jews. Deep inside they are disappointed with Mel and his tirades. Would they Abandon him? It looks to be heading that way..for now it seems. Will he lose fans and his movies will tanked? Yes. He did make an ass of him out there. Getting drunk, and saying those slurs. He deserved it. No excuse for it.. except him being drunk and all. He is paying the price now for his actons. His image tarnished.

But... Mel Gibson is one powerful movie star you rarely hear anything from his family..his wife especially, his children had been shielded mostly and free from all the hollywood brouhaha. So Give the guy a break!

Celebrities and famous personalities have been charged with drunk driving too many times, and this time around, Mel Gibson arrested for misdemeanor DUI created a lot judgement because of his anti semitic slurs, truth is if it weren't for those remarks, it probably would made less of an impact. Of course it would be created a lot of publicity because he is a big star. Powerful hollywood player.

At the end of the day once sober, he apologized and made amends again and owned up to his very very stupid grave mistake (that will probably ruined him in hollywood and with friends as well though I doubt. Heck, hollywood is hollwyood if you know what I mean.). He should be getting help now and for his alcoholism problems.

Missing peace

Give war a chance? I've seen and heard that reference while watching the cable news and browsing sites. Israel has the right right to defend itself from those rockets raining on them. My thoughts exactly. [edit 24.06]

They say is a conflict but really it's like a war with bombs and rockets going off in Israel and Lebanon and people leaving in exodus. Innocent civilians(on both sides) caught in the fighting as they flee for safety and plea for peace.

The latest news is that Israel might launch a full scale invation to stop the Hezbollah.

Annan said Hezbollah's actions in launching rockets into Israel and abducting Israeli soldiers "hold an entire nation hostage" and set back prospects for Middle East peace.

Anyway, the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continues as rockets fall inside Israel and bombs shower Lebanon. So many people fleeing the dangerous situation. The foreign nationals evacuating by the thousands and then there are the locals who's feeling the chaos thats happening in their homeland. Tough for all these people and children especially. I see the news and everybody looks tired and weary and scared. Who wouldn't be!

I wouldn't want to experience anything like that. I mean sirens blaring warning of rockets going off and bombing would be everywhere. Just the mere thought of bombs makes me shudder. What more if similar things happened here in Manila. But I seriously doubt anything like that would occur. Save for a coup d' eta t(we've had so many it's like yeah okay it's bloodless revolution..but you'll never know) or an all out war happens(knock on wood!) and Americans need allies to join (Philippines being one of them) then we would be forced to do something. I mean our soldiers. Yikes.

It's scary what's been going and seeing the news about rockets going off and bombs falling. Both Israel and Lebanon have had casualties. People are suffering with this crisis. The "Road Map to Peace" has been shelled and bomb.

It must be said though that Israel's fight is with the Hezbollah and not the Lebanon itself. Hezbolla (I think) is based inside Lebanon and the thing is the government isn't doing anything at all to stop Hezbolla from launching those rockets to Israel. I think everything started because two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped or captured by the Hezbollah and then everything escalated to what it is now.

As I sit here and do this blogs others are fearing for their safety. Lets all hope everything will be resolve.

Accused Marine Daniel Smith speaks out

Lance cpl Daniel smith, the U.S. Marine accused of raping a Filipina, is telling his side in response to questions submitted through his lawyer by The Associated Press.

What he said...

"I think it's horrible what I've been accused of"

"This place has taken a year off of my life that I can never get back and I just hope the lies will stop and the people will start to see the truth,"

"My career and my life in general has come to a screeching halt,"

Well..there's always two sides to the story. That's his side and the complainant, pretty well shielded has had her time in court testifyingto everything that has happened her the night of the alleged rape.

Btw, I hope I won't be condemned by saying this but..... Daniel Smith is a cutie!

Click for more blog related post (since obviously not using Word Press so can't do categories).

Billionaire Boys Club...

I'm just looking at the Forbes website and reading about and finding out who are the World Youngest Billionaires and America's Youngest CEOs. There's a bit of gossip there as well. Hehe.

Google founders (Sergey Brin,32 Larry Page, 33) tops them all and a Prince as well.. with a very long name :). As for the Young CEOs.. Matthew McCauley(he's only 33) of Gymboree childrens clothing. Michael Rubin-GSI Commerce Michael Chaser-Nasdaq listed Blackboard and others as well so click the links to know who these richie richie dudes are.

Man, these billionaires are just wow. I need to think of an internet based idea with billion bucks potential that would propel me to be right there with the boys and also just because there aren't any women in the list. Ack. Boo hoo. I'll be the first.. yeah right! =)

War and Conflict in the M.E

Israel Attacks Beirut(AP/Yahoo]

Looks like Israel has a lot on their hands and armor fighting two wars- Palestinians and Hezbolla. With two of their Soldiers captured by Hezbolla and then one soldier still in the hands of Palestinian last week. Hmm...where's the road map to peace?

Rotoscoping drug paranoia movie

Blah. I feel lonely :(

Anyway...nothing to blog about so.... Pirates of the Caribbean 2 washing away all the competition. Hehe. It's a box office summer hit! I haven't seen the first one so I don't really care(besides, the only Johnny Depp films I liked were Donnie Brasco and Sleepy Hollow). The movie was shown same day as was A Scanner Darkly (it was only shown though in select cities). Now that's movie I wanna see.

It's a film directed by Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Slackers, Waking life...etc) based on the 1977 sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick. He used the rotoscope technique as he did with the Waking Life film several years ago. The effect really is like fluid dreamy like animation. That and the story itself about drug, called the Substance D and the paranoia that is induced by it. The movie had favorable good reviews from critics

It may seem odd in this context to talk about performances, but the actors, rotoscoped though they may be, are phenomenal -CSM

The brilliance of "A Scanner Darkly" is how it suggests, without bombast or fanfare, the ways in which the real world has come to resemble the dark world of comic books - LATimes

Rotoscoping makes certain sense for a film about cognitive dissonance and alternative realities, though both the vocal and gestural performances by Mr. Reeves, Mr. Harrelson and, in particular, the wonderful Mr. Downey make me wish that we were watching them in live action -NYTimes

I think the film is not for everybody. "Either you're on it, or you're not'' to quote(R.D Jr's ?) line in the film. Hehee. But but of course, ulitmately the moviegoer will be the ones to decide. Critics review is just there to help guide.....okay maybe influence(?) somewhat. Hehe.

Seeking answers about humanity

Yahoo answers, one of the many Yahoo services, tapped brilliant, genius physicist, theoretical Author (Brief History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell) and Univ. Cambridge mathematics Professor Stephen Hawking as one of 10 celebrity questioners for their ask the planet campaign.

The question: In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"

Nearly 17,000 yahoo user responded. Some had brief answers others gave long ones offering resasons and explanations. Some were vague.

Check the website link. The answers and inputs of people are soo interesting. :)

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20060704195516AAnrdOD

Officials at the University of Cambridge, where Hawking is a mathematics professor, confirmed that Hawking wrote the message but said he would have no further comment.

Link via SFChronicle

My own two cents worthless piece of answers. To sustain the human race for another one hundred years, well... get rid of all the bad ones (terrorist, muderers..) retain the good ones (hmmm...*thinks*). Find new planet to dwell, copulate, procreate(??? er, hehe). Cloning(?) the best and the brightest individuals (but cloning is bad!....tsk tsk. I'm catholic..sue me!). Get rid of nuclear weapons and missiles.

Yay. I'm not gonna act like I know anything about everything cos honestly I dont... hence my own crappy sentiments. Hehee. I just like to blog about things that interest me.

Missile reaction

Damn, it's scary! North Korea launching test missile. One of then landing somewhere off the Japan waters. They were furious. Of course who wouldn't be. It's very scary. China should do something... I think. According to Washington Post

The Taepodong-2 was the third of at least six missiles launched beginning at 2:33 p.m. EDT and ending four hours later. They included two short-range Scud missiles and three medium-range Nodongs, another type of Scud... "None posed a threat," a Pentagon spokesman said in an e-mail account of the incident, and "no action [was] required." The Taepodong-2 missile failed after about 35 seconds, he said

Right.. but remember the Nodong is a medium-range Scud missile. The Taepodong-2 is a multi-stage missile with a possible range of 2,175 to 2,672 miles, meaning it could hit parts of Alaska.

The thought is scary.

Interview with the accused

One of the accused in the Subic rape case..Marine Staff Seargeant Chad Carpentier interviewed by GMA news

Carpentier said it was painful to be branded a rapist and feared that his two children may find it hard to understand what has happened to him.

Admitting that the past eight months had been hard...Smith, who allegedly raped Nicole, was described by Carpentier as “very quiet” and “reserved.”

“He’s just a kid,” he added. “We’re humans, we’re not the monsters we’re made out to be and I think that’s starting to come to light as the trial moves on,” Carpentier said. Carpentier also said he was “not angry” with Nicole because “I know she’s attempted and tried to do what’s right.” He described the complainant as “a victim,” not “of us” but “of some of the people surrounding her.” Carpentier said he had “nothing to hide” and that, on the night of the alleged rape, there was “another person in the van” where the incident supposedly happened – “the Lord.”

Okay..... I'm not sure if that interview has the blessings of the of embassy officials or lawyers for that matter but at least he was able to say what he wanted to say.

Tomorrow the victim 'Nicole' will be testifying. That's gotta be so nerve wracking and scary. But if you got raped you should be prepared to testify and tell all exactly what happened no matter how much painful it is in recalling ugly meories of that rape crime.

Like I keep saying....if guilty...punish. If not ...let go.

Click for more blog related post (since obviously not using Wordpress so can't do categories).

*edit.. Marines attacked by accuser. (10 July). Venting anger so can't really blame her I guess.

For whom the Liberty bell tolls

Happy 4th of July fireworks day to all you Americans!

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck

Here in my country, we celebrate independence day 12 June and no we don't feast on food nor have fireworks. We do that during Christmas and New Year celebration. Hehe.

The President and media

As usual President Bush angry at the media. NYTimes in particular for publishing secret tracking of terror funds. Link via Romenesko

I think most most Presidents have love- hate affair with media whether they're journalist, broadcasters or talk radio host, bloggers for that matter. If it's favoring the Commander-in-chief, media gets pat on the back but once the attacks about domestic policies or international issues gets negative reaction by the press, President get's mad. Even here in the Philippines it's thesame thing.

Grrrr! Don't you know blogging etiquette?!

Copy Cat! blogger lazy squash ztidytrish: http://bludrush207.blogspot.com/ whoever the shmuck you are...
Host Name: 210.213.147.52.pldt.net(Mydsl_professional)
IP Address: 210.213.147.52

If you're going to copy word for word one of my blogs at least give a link or acknowledge where you got it from. Doofus! I mean shit, even the typos were copied. That plagiarist blogger made it seemed like s/he made it Freaks me out!

Damnit. Plagiarism could land you in jail you know. Grrrrr!!!!

Holy Kettle Corn

My sister gave me a whole bag of popcorn. I ate it all. My tummy's gonna pop pretty soon. Ugh. I wish I had a slice of German cake Karl said he was eating yesterday. Yummmy.

I wonder why it's called Holy. Hehee.

The saga of that heartbroken MySpace romance

And so the story goes for a young Palestinian man meeting a western girl through MySpace.com (social networking craze of fad right now) and thepromise of love and romance cut short and left pain and anguish and heartbroken feelings.

Abdullah Jimzawi, a 20-year-old high school dropout who lives with his parents in Jericho and Katherine Lester, 16 years old were supposed to meet and have fun, get to know each and marry in the future but sadly....

Lester was en route to Tel Aviv airport when she was intercepted in Amman, Jordan, by U.S. authorities who seized her passport and put her on a flight back to the United States.

Jimzawi, a shy soft-spoken young man with close-cropped hair and a two-day beard lives in Jericho, a town of 17,000 that is largely immune from the violence plaguing the rest of the West bank.

Katherine Lester is now in seclusion with her father after returning from Israel and hasn't spoke to reporterss yet.

Jimzawi was initially reluctant to talk to the media because of what he said was unfair treatment following Lester's ill-fated trip. However, he eventually agreed to be photographed in shorts and sandals, showing AP reporters the computer on which he said he met Lester eight months ago.

Read the whole article and be fascinated by their love story. I feel somewhat sorry for the young man. But I thnk he really should've been the one to go there in Michigan instead of the girl. But anyway he said his next step was to apply for visa so he could travel to the U.S. They should give him one.

About a mall and I'm not even mallrat

Blahg.

I haven't been to SM Mall of Asia. Too far from where I am right now (Quezon City) but hopefully my friends and I can go there next week(yeah if they're not tired of treating me.. yet again. Hehee. Such good friends they are). I wonder what's new with that mall. They do have the IMAX theater but I've been to one already in Darlinghurst. They say the Mall is really huge and four times the size of Megamall. Hmm. I'm not the type who enjoys long walks inside the mall.... unless of course I have money to shop. Hehe. But it's SM so maybe it'll look like thesame as all the other SM malls. My sister said it's really different from the others and she said design was good and it's beautiful. Well see then.

I'm done with my download.

Subic rape case hearing

According to US NCIS report- it was "consensual sex"

Naval Criminal Investigation Service agent Guy Papageorge, quoting from his investigation report dated Nov. 9, 2005, said Lance Corporal Daniel Smith "admitted he had sexual intercourse with the Filipino woman inside the van and that the other Marines cheered him on."

Actually the US embassy at first would not allow the other NCIS agents to testify citing something about diplomatic immunity thing.

"Consistent with our commitment to seeing that justice is served in a fair and impartial trial, the government of the United States has agreed to allow several US Government employees to testify at the trial of four US Marines accused of rape…. The US government has waived [the immunity] for the limited purpose of testifying at this trial," the US Embassy said.

Expect three more to testify for the prosecution.

And but so there you go. Daniel Smith had admitted to having had consensual sex with the victim..

But....I'll say it again and again. Going to a bar frequented by US servicemen, it's given thing already that one should expect that there would probably be some kind of sexual thing that would likely happen. She Should have avoided bars like that in the first place. I'm not chastizing the victim nor am I defending the servicemen.

Rape is something else and it's very grave and violates our worth as a human. One shouldn't get away with it..if found guilty.

By the way .... Carpentier, Smith, Silkwood, and Duplantis are members of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Force stationed on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. They had finished counterterrorism maneuvers with Filipino troops when the alleged rape occurred in a van.

** Related blog topics
Subic rape case: four u.s marines charged with rape
Subic rape case may not be a case after all
Military tales, Military woes

Worm hits Yahoo e-mail

The most popular email service hit by virus.

The e-mail virus, or worm, has been dubbed Yamanner and landed in Yahoo mailboxes bearing the headline "New Graphic Site." Once opened, the message infects the computer and spreads to other users listed in Yahoo users' e-mail address books, security experts said. To protect your computer from the virus update firewall and virus protection and block any e-mail sent from the address "av3@yahoo.com." Good news though.. "The worm cannot run on the newest version of Yahoo Mail Beta," Symantec's site said. [Yahoo/Reuters]

And I don't know what to say, it's fine...

All is well it seems. I'm alright now.

Windows Vista anyone?

You can now download the public beta version of Microsoft's new OS. Be aware though it is just that! a beta version intended mostly for developers. At the risk of having your pc malfunction, hardrive and files gone because of incompatibility with systems, just wait for the Final release January of 2007 . Oh but heck you wanna try downloading it the beta version.. they're out of bandwidth!

Cellphone breakdown

I threw my cheap ass obselete cellphone against the wall just because I'm pissed! It keeps saying sim rejected or the numbers disappear or it would turn off on it's own and then I always have to keep holding it tight whenever I use it! End result....the battery came off but I was able to fix it.

Dangers of being a Journalist

It's tough being out there and covering the news especially in dangerous place like Iraq.

Correspondent Kimberly Dozier, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan - were reporting from outside their humvee and are believed to have been wearing their protective gear. Douglas and Brolan, both London-based, were killed. Dozier sustained serious injuries in the attack and underwent surgery at a U.S. military hospital in Baghdad. She is in critical condition, but doctors are cautiously optimistic about her prognosis. [CBS News]

Here in the Philippines, Journalist are getting killed one after the other and they didn't even have to cover any war.

The nanny PUK my cell

It's only small incident but I'm Pissed!

The nanny here (that looks after my niece) borrowed my cellphone last night. I didn't want to but I'm such a good one I said okay. But guess what? My phone got PUK! Shit! then she asked are you mad? Damn right I am! I was cursing. I didn't know what she did to my cellphone! obviously PUK it! Never gonna let that nanny use it again. It's a cheap ass cellphone but still it's mine and when somebody borrows something they better take care of it. I didn't wanna fix the cell so she couldnt use it but again out of the goodness of my heart I did. If I was in a good mood, I might've let it pass but was in a foul irritating mood!

Nutso hi tech products

According to PCWorld (via yahoo news] these are the 25 worst worst tech products you wish you never had!

1. AOL( how do we loathe AOL? let us count the ways)
2. Real Player (Real annoying) soooooooo true!
3. Windows ME (aka Mistake edition)
4. Internet Explorer 6 (Hoping IE7 springs fewer leaks)
5. Comet Cursor (curse you comet cursor!) gives my pc a headache! comet crap!
   
6. WEB. TV (excruciating)
7. ROKR ( not rockin)
8. IOMEGA Zip Drive (the sound of data dying)

No complete and they're not in order. I just put the ones that I'm familiar with it.

Heres the complete lists of losers

Having these products just makes you go bonkers and make you so fckingcrazynuts.

Six degrees of separation and nothingness

It's halfway through another weekend and I just finished a long journal entry. I had a lot to babble. Rant actually. I'mjust pissed it's making me sad. I know I don't have the right to but I couldn't help it. I know I should be happy and excited but...my phone's not ringing. I haven't heard anything at all. It sucks!

I don't care about about Da Vinci Code

There's still a question mark whether the movie will be shown here or not.

Censor here has yet to grant it a release permit despite a slated opening date of May 18. "We will decide on the permit based on whether the film attacks a religion, creed or doctrine, and if it defames a person living or dead," the censor, Consoliza Laguardia, told local radio on Monday.

Personally I could care less. I haven't read the book.

I know it's a best seller. Millions of people read it (hence the excitement over the movie, I guess). My sister has the book here. Karl even bought one as well. Even my friends (few that I have) who've read it says it's exciting and controversial. Still it doesn't interest me. Jesus having an affair with Mary Magdalene and siring a child and all that. Heh. Riiiight! it's a work of fiction you know.

Lets and wait and see if the movie will be shown here. I think SM cinemas will not show if it's 18 and above. SM has the most number of cinemas here. But their patrons are mostly C and D crowd.

You know what, I thinkI'm more interested about A Scanner Darkly. One of the most anticipated summer movies.

*Edit.. Censors here gave Da Vinci Code R-18 classification. SM cinemas not showing it.

Movie was shown to the press at Cannes Festival. Veridct:
Critics hate it. Majority of them!

Reactions ranged from halfhearted admiration to boredom to derision among journalists.

Ouch!

Wishing on another lucky star

The song really is poignant. JD Souther wrote it.

I like the movie Permanent Record (one of the earlier films of Keanu Reeves along with Rivers Edge..and who says he can't act?!?!.. a lot! haha) it's one of those obscure sleeper movies that hardly anybody paid attention back then. It deals with teen life and how one deals with suicide. I've seen it a number times already. I wanna have the dvd of the movie and also Rivers Edge.

I'm done. I'll just blog when I have something to blog.

I remember, I remember and I saw it

There's something I wanna blog so I'm back from not really wanting to blog cos I have nothing to blog really..but I have one now...

If I heard it correctly, SM (mall of Asia...Pasay which will open sometime this month) will have an IMAX theater(?) and the first movie they're going to show there is Everest. First of all if there's gonna be IMAX here it will be the first one for the country. Second....I've seen Everest(the movie) already back in Sydney summer of 98 inside IMAX theater as well. Just brings back memories.

The interest about Mt. Everest is getting more and more exciting There's this Filipino guy, Romy Garduce attempting to be the first Filipino to climb the summit of Mt. Everest. The very top. Oh yeah hail the pinoy!

Subic case: four US Marines charged with rape

Four U.S. Marines refused to answer rape charges against them Friday in the Philippines, prompting the judge to enter a not guilty plea for them

It seems the Judge for the case threw out the motion of the DOJ for the 3 (Silkwood, Carpentier and Duplantis) to be just an accessory to the crime and (Smith) be the only one charged.

Pozon said he could not allow a downgrade of charges against the three "on the basis of the evidence not yet presented."

Lance Cpl Daniel Smith was actually the supposed date of the rape victim then others joined the two of them in the disco then subsequently inside the van were the alleged rape took place.

The defendants belong to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Force stationed on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. They had finished counterterrorism maneuvers with Filipino troops when the alleged rape occurred in a van at the former U.S. Subic Bay naval base near Olongapo city, west of Manila. U.S. officials have refused to disclose their hometowns.

Well, under the Visiting Forces Agreement, US authorities don't have to turn over the American servicemen facing criminal charges. And that's why there's been lots of protest here for the scraping of the VFA.

The court hearing was the first public appearance by Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith, Lance Cpl. Keith Silkwood, Lance Cpl. Dominic Duplantis and Staff Sgt. Chad Carpentier since the alleged Nov. 1 rape of a 22-year-old Philippine woman.

(By the way, the second and the third one looks cute.. hehehe. Yay).

Anyhow, there were actually six that was initially charged (Albert Lara and another one which I forgot the name). But due to lack of evidence, the prosecution dropped the charges against the two servicemen. I think they went back to Okinawa.

Rape is serious and if these men were guilty, they should be meted proper punishement but if they're not...let them go. They were here for some military exercise and then had some relaxation I guess. They probably shouldn't have gone out of the USS(whatever cos I dunno the name) or their quarters.

Many servicemen go to [war]torn places and they've had enough to deal with as it is. Not that I'm defending them over my own race but like I said if they're guilty punish them if not.. set them free (hehe, it's not like they're inside a jail though, but they've been inside the Embassy for the several months now I think).

The thing I don't get it is that, if you're a girl and then knowing that a lot of servicemen go to that bar you're going to wouldn't it be obvious that there's gonna be bad connotation about you(ie: bar girl), then you'd have avoided it. Not that I'm saying the girl is such..but of course even if..it's still not an excuse to commit rape.

Punish the guilty. If not..set free.

Okay enough, I know nobody reads my blogs thats why I bravely share my thoughts and opinions and I keep blabbing. Hehe.

How blogging is perceive in the Philippines

Blogging in RP still seen as an 'elitist' activity--blogger

BLOGGING is currently perceived as an “elitist” activity limited to people who are educated, have access to technology, and earn higher incomes, said Dr. Ronald Meinardus, blogger and resident representative of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation.

“In most countries, blogging is an activity done by higher-income and educated people,”

“In the Philippines, most political bloggers are from the opposition and are critical of the current administration. In short, political blogs in this country are mostly anti-Arroyo,” he added.

I do agree with that. Mostly the blogs (this one included) I read are the ones that has a lot to say about the Arroyo administration. But as far as blogging being an "elitist" activity..maybe somewhat it is. I mean to be able to blog you need a computer and majority of Filipinos doesn't have one and those who has access to a computer and do blog doesn't really blog about political scene or current events. They would rather spend their time playing pc games or going to sites like My Space or Friendster or surf porn. Yay. Things I don't really do online.

So am I an elitist? Hardly!

Happy Easter

Rejoice for Christ has risen.

Whats with eggs and bunnies during easter? I don't like bunnies. We had one several years ago but after a few days, he died. The poor thing was left inside a cage in the garden in a pouring rain. Somebody forgot to bring it inside the house. Aww.

The world through the eyes of a lensman

View everything here and know more about life and nature.

How do I love thee (cellphone) let me count the hits!

This Washington Post article cracks me up! Hahahaa.

To paraphrase the Marine Corps Rifleman's creed:

This is my cellphone. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My cellphone is my best friend. It is my life. My cellphone and myself know that what counts is not the calls we make or the cuteness of our ring tone. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit.

Some people are so damn attached to their cellphone even making it their weapon of mass/ self destruction!

Hit: Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) is accused of "stabbing" or "jabbing" a Capitol Hill policeman with her cellphone.

Hit: Supermodel Naomi Campbell allegedly smashed Housekepeer with her cellphone

Hit: Actor Crowe, you recall, was arrested last June for assaulting a New York hotel staffer with a telephone.

Meanwhile, the "cellphone bandit," Candice Martinez, stuck up four Virginia banks last year while talking on a cellphone...

Read whole article :)

Oh boy, am I glad I have a very ancient cellphone that only thing I can do with it is to call and text. Hahaha. Ooop, actually I can freaking hit somebody as well.It's biggie! Yay!

To speak or no to speak...English

When Erap testified at his plunder case yesterday, he wanted the proceedings in tagalog but the laywers argued that it's going to be hard for them and the stenographer as well. They wanted to use the English language (easier for them to do their job). Both parties made a compromise. The lawyers will ask questions in English and Estrada will answer back in Tagalog.

And so the interchange was done in Taglish.. Yikes!

It's funny to think about how we are all Filipinos here and yet the court has to have an interpreter just so it can translate Estrada's answers into English. How silly. Hehehe.

Hell, what happens if you're defending somebody poor who can't even understand the English language? Lawyers will just continue their gibberish slangs and and lexicon blabs without them knowing and understanding what the fuck is going on! Just look what happened during Ultra stampede hearings. The victims (mostly poor ones) were so clueless as to whats going on cos prosecutors and and everybody else was talking in english!

The PC [political correctness] movement exists not in order to improve the well-being of those whose oppression it purports to combat. Rather, its purpose is to wrap its proponents in a kind of verbal comfort-blanket. Beneath its complacent cosiness and nauseating sanctimony, the intrepid shock-troops of 'populist authoritarianism' pretend that suppressing the language of prejudice is the same as eliminating prejudice itself. Smug and self-satisfied, having assuaged whatever guilt they may have felt through their attacks on the 'non-PC', they ignore the real inequalities, ignominies and powerlessness of those whom they pretend to champion. They are instead complacently content at their 'victory' in contorting the language of 'acceptable' discourse in the classroom, in the textbook and in the mass media. ~Erik Kowal, as posted on The Wordwizard Portal

Uhm

Maybe Lawyers should realize that if their clients cannot speak much less understand English, they ought to go down to their level of understanding and talk to them and explain things to them in Tagalog. If you're a Filipino though you should be able to speak and talk argue and defend in your mother tongue and rephrase words in the most effective way.

On the other hand.....

Many agree that when it comes to court cases and hearings, English language is best used for arguments and questions and everything else. They said that terminology and articulation is but hard and will be difficult for them to translate into Tagalog words. Okay maybe they are right about that. Also if you want to be successful in the corporate world and be a professional (Doctors, Lawyers...etc) and travel abroad of course you need to speak good English-correct grammar and the right pronounciation and enunciation. One doesn't need to be so fluent (although it helps a lot).

Communicating effectively is a must. Whether it's in your native tongue or different language.

And just so you know, I speak fluent Tagalog.

Anyhow...

If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.

Hmm. I have nothing more to say.

Why Cory doesn't like Gloria

I think I know why.. it's probably not a secret but here's my theory, it's because PGMA and Mrs. Marcos are talking. Meaning to say, that Mrs. Marcos thinks that with this present government of Arroyo she can get a deal to bury her late husband, and then at the same time, the government was willing to enter into an out-of-court settlement with Marcos over her tiaras, bracelets and necklaces in an attempt to speed up recovery of the assets.

As you know, if was the Marcoses who jailed Ninoy Aquino (Cory's husband) and thought to be the one who killed him which in turn sparked EDSA revolution.

And now, the government is entering a deal with Imelda Marcos ( about the ill gotten wealth cos PCCG said it has been so long.. already and nothing happening..to that effect) .

You get what I mean? Oh well, I know majority of Filipinos doesn't like PGMA. Heh!

The (Subic rape)case may not be a case after all

Accordng to this Reuters report: Manila may drop rape charges against US marine

Last year, Philippine prosecutors charged the four with raping a 22-year-old Filipino woman in early November but, following an appeal by defense lawyers, the government is reviewing the charges before the marines are formally arraigned.

"What I'm studying now is whether the culpability of all these people is the same," Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez told Reuters.

When asked about media reports that the Philippines will drop all charges against three of the four U.S servicemen, Gonzalez said "I do not think so."

The case is weak I think.

The girl who granted news interview (shown on t.v) several weeks ago said she's educated, she's college graduate( Ateneo de Davao.. If I'm not mistaken) and that she was only in Subic vacationing. But why go to a club frequented by marines? Hoes go there! Where there are U.S servicemen, naturally hoes would be there as well.

Gory Hostel Movie

Hot hot heat. Holy crap! It's practically summer already. Just couple of weeks more and it will be official. I wanna write something long and crappy and something quixotically boring about my life but my diary site is gone which is bummer cos that's where I blab about me, myself and my aesthetic crap. My journal of thoughts. My day by day existence(sp?). I hope they fix that site AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

Saw the movie Hostel and that was so fucking gory! Blood gory body parts spilling all over-eye gouching arm breaking knee bending heel cracking finger cutting goriness! I sat throughout the duration of the movie covering my face not because it was scary but because of the blood and yucky cutting body parts thing. Eww.

Bush hit by cricket pitch ball.Yeeeouch!

Uh oh. Something for the late night talk shows monalogues. View photo slide here or watch the video from you tube. You know how they like to make fun one of the President Bush or anybody for that matter. I guess he should stick to baseball. Hehe.

Btw, was gonna post the embed vid but covered a bit of my sidebar.

End Presidential Proclamation 1017!

"I am tired of chasing the bully" she once said. But... isn't it the bully who chases the wimps?!

Enough warrantless arrest! Enough crackdown on media! Enough curtailing freedom of speech and the right to free assembly! Enough being stupidness and hungering for more presidential powers. Enough sucking up to her! End greed! End the so called Martial law like PP1017!

She's been the President since EDSA 2 and will continue to be that way untill 2011! Man, that's like almost 10 years of GMA. It's sickening already. Enough!

Edit* President Arroyo lifted state of national emergency the following day. As far as I'm concerned,....she should lift herself out the Malacanang palace throne!

Saving what I can, missing routinary d-x updates

Yippee. I finally was able to salvage several yearly archives(different months and all that) of my D-x journals through yahoo cache and internet archives. It's not everything but at least I got to save hundred or so from the combined 5 years of journal entries I had with Diary-x. I thought I wouldn't be able to retrieve my life online but..thank goodness for caches. I placed all archives saved in geocities accoount I have since forever.. but I gotta to fix them to make it fucken gruven archive site with custom layout and what not. :)

I'm waiting for d-x to resurrect from it's tomb, In the meantime, I will blahg a bit of my so called life here..until of call the new d-x is ready with it's spanking new life! Okay enough this!

Death of Diary-x: Requiem for my online journal

It;s just a journal.. a an online site to rant about life to and update angst and to mull over things mundane as they can be. But.. with so many words and thoughts gone.. it's kinda hard not to feel something. I use d-x to further improve my writing skills and share my thoughts.

Grieving for the loss of my journal. Five years of my online journal gone. Five years of my life gone. I spent five years sharing my depeest innermost thoughts and secrets to my online journal(especially about the death of my mom) and now I learned that it's dead! the site will be close due to unrecoverable drive failure.

Five years of thoughts and words and memories saved.... and it's all gone. I am sad. I invested my brains and writing skills, my emotional outburst, my happy thoughts, sad painful sorrows of life. Me, myself and I..my life basically since 2002 I shared everything in there. my wit and whining, candor and crappy thoughs about my everyday life. My crushes, my friends, stories of love and hate and melancholy musings. Everything's empty now. I'm gonna miss the long hours of confiding to my journal and updating it everyday. I feel bad that all the hours I spent laboring infront of the pc making layouts are gone (I have 14 layouts there). But mostly I just feel sad that five years of life love and tears and angst that was entrusted to my online journa gone down. All gone.

I'm not mad at Stephen but knwing that it's an online jounrnal, all measures should have been taken care off because hundreds of people uses his site to publish journals. It's easy, it's simple to use (just like blogger) and have good reviews that's why I picked it host my life online so.. why did it came to this? I should've back up my files before but..I didn't.. next time I'll know better.

Bye diary-x. It's not gonna be thesame. I have to start anew. Just glad I have this blog same time I started my online journal.

Crisis gone pffttt!

Argh. Standoff inside Fort Bonifacio left me hanging. I thought there would batallion of marines and throngs of people making a solid stance against government. I was looking for more action. More of the drama. I'm no war freak and I'm very peaceful loving individual. I wanted something significant to happen but in the end went pfffft. Shit! Bitin!

Btw, crisis was solve just before midnight. It was internal problem within the Marines. Military! Tsk tsk! :)

It is exactly like Martial Law!

I'm pissed! disturb actually. The turn of events here and the proclamation of national state of emergency is putting paranoia in my head.

CIDG raided offices of Daily Tribune! Arrested opposition personalities! It is like a pre martial law. And it's happening again. When she declared national state of emergency, she is trying so hard to hold on to her power and will do anything not to be overthrown via military coup or another people power (which nearly happened during the so called EDSA 3). Arroyo is so scared that she's doing these things and actually is the one inciting fear and causing alarm to every Filipino.

If events like what happened this morning continues-arresting people and rading a newspaper company, warning the reporters and journalist they will be next, scaring different media outlets, then martial law is slowly happening. The ghost of martial law is happening again. This time, people will not tolerate it. The first time it happened ithe Marcos era, everybody was helpless against the dictator. Not this time!

I'm putting my own two cents worth of blogging opinions here. I sometimes fear that I better be careful of what I blog and what I say regarding her. But this is the venue for me to rant about what I think of her and the political situation of our country. Freedom of speech, the right to speak should never be stopped. I know hardly anybody reads these blogs but still with what's happening now gotta be aware of what I input here. I remember looking at my tracker and seeing an IP add coming from office of the president Yay! That was surprising. Oh well, maybe somebody browsing there.

Smack Down!

Curtailing freedom of speech and even thinking of shutting down media outlets is damn fucking outrageous! Arroyo declared state of national emergency and with that comes powers that could put people in jail. The news media, television stations and other entities were warned by NTC(telecommunications body here).

National Telecommunications Commissioner Ronald Solis also warned media Friday not to broadcast calls for the forceful removal of Arroyo, urging television and radio networks to "cooperate" with the government for the duration of the state of national emergency. Solis asked for "balanced reporting" from broadcasters when covering events surrounding the alleged coup attempt foiled by the government on Friday morning.

Fuck. If you shut down media outlets..you are creating an even more fear and panic! People Power is being commemorated by thousands of Filipinos today and it's one of the reason why we have democracy right now!

Freedom to speak out and be heard should never ever be prevented! Does she even understand the word democracy and what it means! Goodness! Let the people know what the fuck is really going on! That there is (was) a revolt against her but it sorta of fizzled out cos some of the men in unform became wimps..I guess). It's gonna be her downfall if she shuts down media!

President Arroyo was lucky today for the coup and the revolt didn'tmaterialize. Pres. Arroyo is hanging by thread..again. Up to when can she hold on to the ropes of power? Only the "plotters" know.

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Since I wasn't able to blog yesterday and dx still dead site...

Friday morning. Had breakfast outside then went to the booktsore and came back here. Watched most of whats going on via the telly. I kinda grew tired of it. So while people were out marching/protesting/rallying/ commemorating people power anniversary, I went Cubao. No I did not watch WWE silly gross action slam bang. Went to Gateway instead and watched Final Destination at the Cineplex. The movie was entertaningly suspensefully funny( shrugs.. most people inside the theater were laughing...er, "gaysters."). Wanna see it again. Hehe.

So where were you when it happened?

People Power in EDSA. Do people still care about that historic moment? I hope they do. After reading and seeing(news and documentaries) what it was like during the Martial Law years and the sufferings of people back then-those who were fighting for freedom of everything!, I think taking out the tyrannical ruler through that historical event, should always be remembered. The world was looking in awe as we deposed and and took out Ferdinand Marcos from his high pedestal throne from Malacanang Palace.

Tomorrow will be the 20th year anniversary of the revolution. Do people still care about it. I dunno. I'm blogging about it just because...it's an event. A moment in our nation's history to be proud of and feel good.

The time is ripe for a new People Power revolt but I think most are tired of it. Then again....if it's a way to change and have a better government..why not. Make sure it's bloodless!

Ahh, the Jetson life once more

In the future....

Trash cans will be Touchless!

When you move something about 6 inches from the lid, a magical AI Smart Chip II opens the lid and closes thanks to patented SilenX silent lid closing thing.

Uh huh. Comes in handy for carrying tons of crap. Order it here if you like.





We can now test water right in the comfort of our own hands! Ugh. Am I drinking shitty water full of bacteria? Lemme get my Water Qaulity Tester. Place a single drop of water from any source onto the device then it will display either a happy face or a sad face depending on the quality of water.

Oooh Happy face.. it's safe to drink! *Chug chug*.. Ahhh.



Being lazy or just cost cutting ? Bye bye fastfood crew hello Touch Screen Ordering. This is just a large touch screen where all of the ordering and paying happens. Yeah but what if the customer is blind!? Hello? Anybody here?!

No more work for people who can't find work! Awww!

Links via Gizmodo

Buried in landslide

A village in southern part of Leyte is now buried in mudslides 1,500 feared hurt or dead

I was watching the news earlier and and saw people covered in mud and others digging through and trying to find the missing. Couple of days back floodings in Leyte in was reported in the news even though there weren't any rainstorm and now this tragedy. It's horrible.

Music to my ears

Yey. John Legend won at the grammys for Best Male R and B performance and Best New Artist. I really like his song Ordinary People.

We're just ordinary people
We don't know which way to go
Cuz we're ordinary people
Maybe we should take it slow (Take it slow oh oh ohh)
This time we'll take it slow (Take it slow oh oh ohh)
This time we'll take it slow

Take it slow
Maybe we'll live and learn
Maybe we'll crash and burn
Maybe you'll stay, maybe you'll leave,
maybe you'll return
Maybe you'll never find
Maybe we won't survive
But maybe we'll grow
You never know baby youuuu and  I

Oh yeah I'm singing it now!

Freedom of speech and clash of culture

Poor Denmark and Danish people. They hardly ever figure in any international issues and events and now all because of local newspaper (Jyllands-Posten) cartoon drawing of Prophet Muhammud in a turban depicting that of a bomb, the muslims are now burning their flags and storming their embassy and protesting. What was supposed to be a cartoon aimed to be humorous (I guess they thought it would be that way) turned out differently.

According to the LA Times

It's not the decision by Jyllands-Posten and other European newspapers to publish the cartoons that is appalling, it's the response from the Muslim world. If the Muslim outrage is really about demanding respect for others' beliefs (a valid argument), Arabs should be insisting that their own media stop the almost-daily depictions of Jews and Christians as bloodthirsty cannibals and murderers of children. One tasteless act does not excuse another. Tolerance is a two-way street.

And what of the cartoons? The real issue is not that some of the cartoons portrayed Islam unflatteringly but that the prophet's image was drawn at all. While Muslims are prohibited from depicting Muhammad, and doing so is considered blasphemy, this prohibition should not apply to non-Muslims. Demanding that non-Muslims abide by such a religious edict is tantamount to ordering them to follow an Islamic halal diet or cover their women's hair. In a world with more than a dozen major religions, no faith can prescribe such behaviors to others.

Where does one draw the line for freedom of speech and expression and the respect for other religion? There's an identity crisis happening. Remember what happened in France last year. The riots by Muslims? A clash of culture once again happening.

Btw, Iran said they're gonna boycott Danish products...well...there goes the yummy Danish cookies!

Philippine stampede reflects poverty

It's just a game show giving away prizes (money, car, house and lot) for their first anniversary but more than 70 people were killed in the stampede trying to get inside stadium in the hopes of their names would be called and they might win something.

The stampede just shows how poor we Filipinos are

To the poverty-stricken, such tempting prizes are worth dying for. To many of them, the program is the only way to get hold of some money that, perhaps, could finally set them free from the clutches of poverty.

I don't watch the said show (I watch the rival one..cos it's much better..hehe) but sometimes I catch glimpses of it when channel surfing. The show has many poor contestants and for many it's a way for them to get meager sum of money to augment and alleviate their poverty needs.

The solution would for people to have jobs. Game shows and the prizes won will only bring relief for time being. In the end money will run out and it's back to scraping for food and joining contests instead of getting a job or looking for one. Goverment should provide jobs to the many unemployed.

I salute them

Media people who write the news, report the news. cover the news. They who often becomes a pawn or the ace to create fear and to bargain in exchange for something by the terrorist, has been targeted by these militia men. Ruthtless and no mercy. It's tough job. It's hard and one's life is put to danger telling and reporting the atrocities and and committed by these terrorists. They risk a lot by doing so.

Reporter for the CSM Jill Caroll weeps as she pleads for her life in a video

ABC co-news anchor Bob Woodruff and camera man were seriously injured when they hit roadside bomb.

So many others as well. Not just in Iraq but Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, Philippines and a lot more countries. Many journalist had been killed and/or kidnapped already.

For being what they are and knowing how very dangerous it can be yet not stoppping to bring the news and letting that fear get in the way of what people really ought to kno. Their life put in to peril because of the war on terror and just by reporting the truth and doing so, I salute them