Slovak Zizek says of these:
"Remember. The problem is not corruption or greed. The problem is the system. It forces you to be corrupt. Beware not only of the enemies, but also of false friends who are already working to dilute this process. In the same way you get coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol, ice cream without fat, they will try to make this into a harmless, moral protest. A decaffienated process. But the reason we are here is that we have had enough of a world where, to recycle Coke cans, to give a couple of dollars for charity, or to buy a Starbucks cappuccino where 1% goes to third world starving children is enough to make us feel good. After outsourcing work and torture, after marriage agencies are now outsourcing our love life, we can see that for a long time, we allow our political engagement also to be outsourced. We want it back."
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
PLDT services
I like to thank the services of PLDT's DSL connection. The DSL is know as the Digital Subscriber Line. If you have a telephone line DSL can work on it because it use a high frequency band and it is capable of separating itself from the workings of the telephone to the working in connecting to the internet.
However, PLDT has been experiencing an erratic service. You find a "downtime" where in there is no internet "signal". Or simply put the internet does not work. Thus, I have to wait for the said signal to come. It is indeed a complete waste of time.
I hope that this downtime should be fixed because in my work as a teacher and researcher it can't continue just the way it is.
However, PLDT has been experiencing an erratic service. You find a "downtime" where in there is no internet "signal". Or simply put the internet does not work. Thus, I have to wait for the said signal to come. It is indeed a complete waste of time.
I hope that this downtime should be fixed because in my work as a teacher and researcher it can't continue just the way it is.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Reflected thoughts, wrote in the time of Ondoy
1. Religion is not suppose to answer all the questions we pose about life, rather, it should give us the courage to answer them.
2. One of the strategies that we are going to employ is to finish our second floor area. Another is to prepare sandbags.
3. My main fear was to be caught in our house with rising flood waters. Thus, i sent an SOS to my friends in the Barangay office and in 15-minutes they plucked out my daughter, granddaughter and our assistant house manager. That event stabilized my mind.... I have to keep my feet dry and eat our lunch at the second floor. Lucky, I have my nephew around to help me out and both survive.
4. I do not think we can curse typhoon Ondoy. At best we could harness our energy to survive this event. Typhoon Ondoy do not recognize a name, a village, or a valued status.
5. One of the learning that people affected by flood, and they are around .5 million of them is that thought that a second floor will protect them from the next coming flood.
6. After Ondoy, when the accounting has been done, when the garbage has been thrown out, when things are back to "normal", will it be business-as-usual?
7. We just had our Post traumatic de-briefing session at Miriam College. I like to thank Dr. Roni Motilla, Dr. Grace Evangelista, the Guidance and Psychology department. It helped me a lot in dealing with my feelings and setting goals post Ondoy's ...whims. I think this can be cascaded to the barangay level.
8. My grand daughter and I will go to Ali Mall and SM Cubao, for our post-traumatic session due to the floods that hit our house here at 20th Ave.
9. We are now planning to have our second floor an added roof that will act as a laundry and sun-deck, evening view deck ( I hope to buy a telescope to see the stars closely), and of course an evacuation area in case a new Ondoy type of typhoon will come.
10. Today I took pictures of newspapers headlines that has something to do with Ondoy. I was not able to read newspapers for several days because we are busy cleaning the house.
11. A co-teacher of mine said that he plans to take a housing loan and have a three floor building for his family's use. He is damn tired cleaning his house when flood waters reaches his abode.
12. Some people do not want to revisit the past because they have felt that it can be a burden to them.
13. After Ondoy's wrath, any heavy rain we will be experiencing will be communicating to us to listen to its fall. I pause and listen and time the length as to its downpour.
14. True, Ondoy devastated a great swath of land, it has made a deeper impression to the consciousness of people who have been affected by it. Our contours of thinking has drastically been altered when rains fall even a gentle one.
15. People should be demanding to their government accuracy of weather reports, which means PAGASA should have the necessary instruments at their use.
16. Our memories are the places that we inhabit at will. We can go in and out of it. We can learn from the import of its joy and pain. It is a special place. To some it is a sacred place. I think, this is the reason why it is important that we remember.
17. Night bath, a good book by Randy David, a night to sleep. This is what I need.
18. At last you are married to your spouse, in due time your will realize "You cannot escape your in-laws".
19. In our modern society the mind will constantly seek its own home. Some say it is a "homeless-mind". Others, will rest in the comfort that the mind is a perpetual seeker. Thus, it wont find a home of its own.
20. There is no (magician) to be discovered in yourself. You have to create that (magician). That requires new imagination about your life, new strategies, new vocabularies and metaphors.
21. Typhoon Ondoy brings out the best and the worst in us. We saw the see of humanity volunteering to help the flood victims. On the other hand, refugees vandalized a school and a report that some robbed the students when the school opened.
22. According to BBC weather report, we will be experiencing sunny days up to Wednesday. I will now have time to clean our concrete slab and apply elastomeric paint.
23. Do you know the value of those photos that have been washed by an un-welcomed storm? God, its priceless.
24. At last you are married to your spouse, in due time your will realize "You cannot escape your in-laws".
25. In our modern society the mind will constantly seek its own home. Some say it is a "homeless-mind". Others, will rest in the comfort that the mind is a perpetual seeker. Thus, it wont find a home of its own.
26. There is no (magician) to be discovered in yourself. You have to create that (magician). That requires new imagination about your life, new strategies, new vocabularies and metaphors.
27. Photos are being dried at the roof. Some photos are now relegated to a tearful goodbye. I simply can't reconstruct them. It's totally destroyed.
28. Sorry if I am not responding to request on remembering my birthday. I am off the calendar and I dread high numbers these days.
29. It breaks my heart when I found out the submerged photos of the past. Its done and over with smudges and prints that can't be recognized. I may just depend on my aging memory to recall what can be recalled.
30. Our concrete slab that acts as our roof is now painted with elastomeric elements. We are now planning to have the second floor fixed for habitation. In case of another Ondoy type we have a place to evacuate.
31. I just finished re-tiling part of our living room floor. It is a social labor.
32. I just finished re-tiling part of our living room floor. It is a social labor.
33. "Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza" - Jacquelyn Mitchard
34. "Few things move as quickly as the future" - Bern Williams
35. "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." John Updike
36. "Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away." - Tom Brokaw
37. "It's never too late for a happy childhood" - Gloria Steinem
38. "Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything". Alexander Hamilton
39. "An Inconvenient Truth" communicated by AL Gore, the media, and other scientists brought to us an understanding of global warming. The recent typhoon that visited us surely says that the weather we are experiencing will never be the same again.
40. Night is for sleeping. And we value it for what it is.
41. We are one who were traumatized by typhoon Ondoy. No control, helpless from the floods. Iba na ngayong ang dating ng ulan.
42. The high point of the floods was at noon time. The sofa is now floating, pails, garbage containers followed the natural course of the menu prepared by Ondoy. Outside the house on the street level was six fee deep. We have a creek that drains the wate...r on this natural funnel that we constructed our house. Some people decided to construct a building beside it. What do we got?
43. When the clear flood waters came in via our main entrance, it was somewhat bizarre that his flood happen to me on a personal level. The floods are there but what can I do? I was sure stamped with "Helpless". Thus, instead of fighting the flood I'd let it enter to see what would happen. It is just rushing water, but it can be fatal.
44. Natural flood waters has the capacity to tilt the way to handle things. When it is your first time, you turn to become a rookie. You estimate certain decisions that you wanted to be safe but in an afterthought, it could turn out to be dangerous.
2. One of the strategies that we are going to employ is to finish our second floor area. Another is to prepare sandbags.
3. My main fear was to be caught in our house with rising flood waters. Thus, i sent an SOS to my friends in the Barangay office and in 15-minutes they plucked out my daughter, granddaughter and our assistant house manager. That event stabilized my mind.... I have to keep my feet dry and eat our lunch at the second floor. Lucky, I have my nephew around to help me out and both survive.
4. I do not think we can curse typhoon Ondoy. At best we could harness our energy to survive this event. Typhoon Ondoy do not recognize a name, a village, or a valued status.
5. One of the learning that people affected by flood, and they are around .5 million of them is that thought that a second floor will protect them from the next coming flood.
6. After Ondoy, when the accounting has been done, when the garbage has been thrown out, when things are back to "normal", will it be business-as-usual?
7. We just had our Post traumatic de-briefing session at Miriam College. I like to thank Dr. Roni Motilla, Dr. Grace Evangelista, the Guidance and Psychology department. It helped me a lot in dealing with my feelings and setting goals post Ondoy's ...whims. I think this can be cascaded to the barangay level.
8. My grand daughter and I will go to Ali Mall and SM Cubao, for our post-traumatic session due to the floods that hit our house here at 20th Ave.
9. We are now planning to have our second floor an added roof that will act as a laundry and sun-deck, evening view deck ( I hope to buy a telescope to see the stars closely), and of course an evacuation area in case a new Ondoy type of typhoon will come.
10. Today I took pictures of newspapers headlines that has something to do with Ondoy. I was not able to read newspapers for several days because we are busy cleaning the house.
11. A co-teacher of mine said that he plans to take a housing loan and have a three floor building for his family's use. He is damn tired cleaning his house when flood waters reaches his abode.
12. Some people do not want to revisit the past because they have felt that it can be a burden to them.
13. After Ondoy's wrath, any heavy rain we will be experiencing will be communicating to us to listen to its fall. I pause and listen and time the length as to its downpour.
14. True, Ondoy devastated a great swath of land, it has made a deeper impression to the consciousness of people who have been affected by it. Our contours of thinking has drastically been altered when rains fall even a gentle one.
15. People should be demanding to their government accuracy of weather reports, which means PAGASA should have the necessary instruments at their use.
16. Our memories are the places that we inhabit at will. We can go in and out of it. We can learn from the import of its joy and pain. It is a special place. To some it is a sacred place. I think, this is the reason why it is important that we remember.
17. Night bath, a good book by Randy David, a night to sleep. This is what I need.
18. At last you are married to your spouse, in due time your will realize "You cannot escape your in-laws".
19. In our modern society the mind will constantly seek its own home. Some say it is a "homeless-mind". Others, will rest in the comfort that the mind is a perpetual seeker. Thus, it wont find a home of its own.
20. There is no (magician) to be discovered in yourself. You have to create that (magician). That requires new imagination about your life, new strategies, new vocabularies and metaphors.
21. Typhoon Ondoy brings out the best and the worst in us. We saw the see of humanity volunteering to help the flood victims. On the other hand, refugees vandalized a school and a report that some robbed the students when the school opened.
22. According to BBC weather report, we will be experiencing sunny days up to Wednesday. I will now have time to clean our concrete slab and apply elastomeric paint.
23. Do you know the value of those photos that have been washed by an un-welcomed storm? God, its priceless.
24. At last you are married to your spouse, in due time your will realize "You cannot escape your in-laws".
25. In our modern society the mind will constantly seek its own home. Some say it is a "homeless-mind". Others, will rest in the comfort that the mind is a perpetual seeker. Thus, it wont find a home of its own.
26. There is no (magician) to be discovered in yourself. You have to create that (magician). That requires new imagination about your life, new strategies, new vocabularies and metaphors.
27. Photos are being dried at the roof. Some photos are now relegated to a tearful goodbye. I simply can't reconstruct them. It's totally destroyed.
28. Sorry if I am not responding to request on remembering my birthday. I am off the calendar and I dread high numbers these days.
29. It breaks my heart when I found out the submerged photos of the past. Its done and over with smudges and prints that can't be recognized. I may just depend on my aging memory to recall what can be recalled.
30. Our concrete slab that acts as our roof is now painted with elastomeric elements. We are now planning to have the second floor fixed for habitation. In case of another Ondoy type we have a place to evacuate.
31. I just finished re-tiling part of our living room floor. It is a social labor.
32. I just finished re-tiling part of our living room floor. It is a social labor.
33. "Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza" - Jacquelyn Mitchard
34. "Few things move as quickly as the future" - Bern Williams
35. "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." John Updike
36. "Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away." - Tom Brokaw
37. "It's never too late for a happy childhood" - Gloria Steinem
38. "Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything". Alexander Hamilton
39. "An Inconvenient Truth" communicated by AL Gore, the media, and other scientists brought to us an understanding of global warming. The recent typhoon that visited us surely says that the weather we are experiencing will never be the same again.
40. Night is for sleeping. And we value it for what it is.
41. We are one who were traumatized by typhoon Ondoy. No control, helpless from the floods. Iba na ngayong ang dating ng ulan.
42. The high point of the floods was at noon time. The sofa is now floating, pails, garbage containers followed the natural course of the menu prepared by Ondoy. Outside the house on the street level was six fee deep. We have a creek that drains the wate...r on this natural funnel that we constructed our house. Some people decided to construct a building beside it. What do we got?
43. When the clear flood waters came in via our main entrance, it was somewhat bizarre that his flood happen to me on a personal level. The floods are there but what can I do? I was sure stamped with "Helpless". Thus, instead of fighting the flood I'd let it enter to see what would happen. It is just rushing water, but it can be fatal.
44. Natural flood waters has the capacity to tilt the way to handle things. When it is your first time, you turn to become a rookie. You estimate certain decisions that you wanted to be safe but in an afterthought, it could turn out to be dangerous.
Arsenal
The government or the State is a place or a repository of arsenal that is filled to the brim by the forced contribution of those who are being governed because in fact, they have surrendered something they may have no use of, that is the concept of human "freedom".
The Aquino government's 2011 Fiscal budget runs to P1.6 trillion.
For the Left's criticism on the budget click on this link.
The Aquino government's 2011 Fiscal budget runs to P1.6 trillion.
For the Left's criticism on the budget click on this link.
Bomb exploding at Edsa
We live in a time of uncertainty.
Last Tuesday's bombing of a bus shattered the "tranquility" of Edsa of what it is and perhaps what it is supposed to be.
The shattering sound of the explosion will still reverberate in the days to come. It is so strong that it has called our attention again to the same old problem of the milieux that we are living in. It was just like the day after the Rizal Day LRT bombing. Why could it be repeated again? What minds is working to do such dastardly and cowardly acts?
Indeed, those who foment terror have been successful in putting us to the edge of our chairs.
Of course we have not fell from our chairs.
We live in our time where the bill board signs says, "These time are unbearable times. We live in a troubled and troubling moments. It is you that has something to do about it.
You government can make just this much given their gargantuan capacity and resources.
And perhaps we always feel we are still short changed.
Sadly we will always remain dis-empowered.
Why are we dis-empowered? Because we have surrendered such power to our government.
Last Tuesday's bombing of a bus shattered the "tranquility" of Edsa of what it is and perhaps what it is supposed to be.
The shattering sound of the explosion will still reverberate in the days to come. It is so strong that it has called our attention again to the same old problem of the milieux that we are living in. It was just like the day after the Rizal Day LRT bombing. Why could it be repeated again? What minds is working to do such dastardly and cowardly acts?
Indeed, those who foment terror have been successful in putting us to the edge of our chairs.
Of course we have not fell from our chairs.
We live in our time where the bill board signs says, "These time are unbearable times. We live in a troubled and troubling moments. It is you that has something to do about it.
You government can make just this much given their gargantuan capacity and resources.
And perhaps we always feel we are still short changed.
Sadly we will always remain dis-empowered.
Why are we dis-empowered? Because we have surrendered such power to our government.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Magic Show
I am looking forward to our magic show that will happen at Sorsogon city this end of November.
Lost
I lost my Samsung camera to some pick-pocket experts at SM North. That breaks my heart when digicam have become part of my body, my life. But there is hope to get a new one. December is approaching and we have something in store for me. Definitely it will come.
What is it to live with something you have lived with and then got lost?
What is it to live with something you have lived with and then got lost?
A disciplined life.
It is called a disciplined life wherein goals are focused just like under a magnifying glass.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Last year
Things have changed for over a year. New plans in my mind. My brother Dr. Nonie Leonidas of Bangor Maine was voted one of the outstanding alumnus of the University of the Philippines.
At this time, I finishing my seminar module on basic communication seminar. I hope to have it tested this coming 16 and 17 July.
At this time, I finishing my seminar module on basic communication seminar. I hope to have it tested this coming 16 and 17 July.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Magic for Beginners
Magic for Beginners, MFB, is an entrepreneurial concept in spreading the value of knowing some magical acts. I decided to share my knowledge in the magical art having been studying and learning the art since 2003.
I have achieved performing for large crowd and still performing today.
This coming November will be my first Magic for Beginners Training Seminar to be held at Walter Hogan Conference Hall, ISO, Ateneo De Manila University, Quezon City.
With such entrepreneurial action one should have a particular language and text-write up on the experience of this event.
I have achieved performing for large crowd and still performing today.
This coming November will be my first Magic for Beginners Training Seminar to be held at Walter Hogan Conference Hall, ISO, Ateneo De Manila University, Quezon City.
With such entrepreneurial action one should have a particular language and text-write up on the experience of this event.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Depression and Dick Cavett
Dick Cavett, broadcaster from Nebraska talks about his depression and the US Supreme Court decision on guns.
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/smiling-through/index.html
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/smiling-through/index.html
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Saturday ordinary
An ordinary Saturday. I was expecting the plumber Bobby to come in at 9:00 am and he came in around 9:00 am. The job order was to fix the shower valve. It will be replaced by a ball-valve, Watertec Quatro made in Malaysia http://www.watertec.biz/ I bought it at Handyman Ali Mall branch,worth P229.75. The pack says the device is: "suitable for bathroom and toilets, made of high performance material, excellent impact strength, easy to operate & maintain and easy installation". To get in touch with them an email address appeared on the carton wtc@wtcm.po.my
What I found out was that according to Bobby, who is an expert on waterlines and electric lines said, the new valve would need the breaking down part of the wall where the water line will be embedded. Installing the valve would need a good space to maneuver the pipe wrench. The job will take more time and we have to buy new tiles. He suggested that for easier installation the valve should be placed outside the wall, thus we don't have to break the wall. It will stay as it is. He said that a detachable shower head is available at any hardware.
I told him that we visit Handyman and suggested that we walk to Ali Mall. It was around 9:30 am and we did walked but midway I felt different in my body that I suggested to him that we should take the jeep. We did.
Inside Handyman we immediately proceeded to the plumbing section and saw what we need. We saw the Capri shower head brand which says: "Specially designed shower heads for better spray, Most suitable for instant hot water system, Available in a whole range of pastel colours , Made of high performance ABS, Excellent impact strenght and 24 months warranty." It cost at P299.75.
The device was made by Watertec (Malaysia)SDN BHD, Lot 6, Jalan Halba 16/16, 40200 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. It has a website: http://www.watertec.com.my/ and same email above.
It took us only 20 minutes outside the house and getting a jeep back. Bobby started to install the device. It took Bobby around 40 minutes installing the device and to my satisfaction, we had lunch together served.
A new device at the house with the help of another. Surely this is something to celebrate. How amazing it is to feel that Malaysia is producing a wonderful product like a ball valve being made by Watertec.
I hope I will have more of this satisfaction.
What I found out was that according to Bobby, who is an expert on waterlines and electric lines said, the new valve would need the breaking down part of the wall where the water line will be embedded. Installing the valve would need a good space to maneuver the pipe wrench. The job will take more time and we have to buy new tiles. He suggested that for easier installation the valve should be placed outside the wall, thus we don't have to break the wall. It will stay as it is. He said that a detachable shower head is available at any hardware.
I told him that we visit Handyman and suggested that we walk to Ali Mall. It was around 9:30 am and we did walked but midway I felt different in my body that I suggested to him that we should take the jeep. We did.
Inside Handyman we immediately proceeded to the plumbing section and saw what we need. We saw the Capri shower head brand which says: "Specially designed shower heads for better spray, Most suitable for instant hot water system, Available in a whole range of pastel colours , Made of high performance ABS, Excellent impact strenght and 24 months warranty." It cost at P299.75.
The device was made by Watertec (Malaysia)SDN BHD, Lot 6, Jalan Halba 16/16, 40200 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. It has a website: http://www.watertec.com.my/ and same email above.
It took us only 20 minutes outside the house and getting a jeep back. Bobby started to install the device. It took Bobby around 40 minutes installing the device and to my satisfaction, we had lunch together served.
A new device at the house with the help of another. Surely this is something to celebrate. How amazing it is to feel that Malaysia is producing a wonderful product like a ball valve being made by Watertec.
I hope I will have more of this satisfaction.
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