I created a new page on the site. Prose page. I’ve pasted some short stories that I’ve written three to be exact. It’s funny that the there is short story for years 2004,2005, and 2006. Don’t know what happened 2007(I think , Ok I’m sure I got rejected and It really took me awhile as in probably 2 years to be partially healed). These aren’t all I’ve written these past days but these were at least almost finished. Funny but further inspecting my files I’ve written quite a few stories about a great many things , mostly (dreams,loneliness,joy,happiness,despair, etc). I think my problems with non-romantic emotions are that feelings of joy,loneliness, etc change to drastically and I can’t seem to muster it enough to create. Need to be more disciplined!
Help With Activities?
Going to Camiguin-CDO-CEBU wednesday morning
I belie our outline for the trip is
Wed Noon-Fri Noon Camiguin
Fri Noon-Mon Noon CDO
Mon Noon – (I have no Idea how long the trip is) Travel to Cebu
Our flight to Manila is Saturday in the afternoon 5pm I think .
Don’t have anything/anywhere to do/go.(Yep, have an aversion against planning)
Kind souls please help with what to do? Cheap places to stay? Food to eat? Restaurants NOT to miss?
Thanks In Advance!
rePost::Understanding The Blueberry Muffin – Ta-Nehisi Coates
I used to cook everyday. It was a great way to end the day. Of course this meant that I slept very late preparing the meal for next day, and that I was spending more on food compared to other people and compared to me when I eat out (without factoring the time spent on cooking). But I loved cooking. Sadly our stove and oven conked out and it has been over a year and a half and I’m still getting by with an electric stove. I hope (I will) I can get my stove/oven fixed and start cooking again. In a way it personalizes food. It also is a way to de-stress.
My family, like most families, generally lives on the go, and we rarely get to have a decent breakfast in the morning. So most weekends I make twelve muffins (a different flavor each week) as breakfast for the week. I’m sure that someone, somewhere is scolding me for feeding my kid a muffin for breakfast. But here’s what I know. When you make Mocha Chip Muffins, as I did this weekend, and see the ingredients going in–the copious amounts of butter, dairy and sugar–it makes you think long and hard about what you’re eating, and what you should eat the rest of the day. It’s one thing to know that a muffin is fatty. It’s another thing to actually add the fat in yourself. Moreover, it’s another thing to see the size of your muffins, and then see the gargantuan muffins that are sold in the stores.
Cooking–and really cooking from scratch–creates a consciousness about food. It creates a respect, an understanding of what, exactly, you’re putting in your body. It’s not that cooking is magically healthier. I’m not convinced that, say, my fried chicken has less calories than KFCs. But that isn’t the point. The point is doing the actual work of frying a great chicken. It’s actually having to see all the oil and eggs (depending on your recipe) used in the process. For me at least, doing that, has made it unlikely that I’ll fry chicken every day, or even every week.
via Understanding The Blueberry Muffin – Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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QOTD::Why Speakers Earn $30,000 an Hour – Confessions of a Public Speaker – O'Reilly Media
Our actions tell more about us than what we say.
People talk about sunrises as if they were magical things. Yet here at Fisherman's Wharf, the morning fog forming a glorious orange blanket around a late-winter sunrise, no one except the doorman, the cab driver, and me is awake and outside. You know why? People are lazy. Even if there was a sunrise at 7:47 a.m. as brilliant and soul-stirring as a wall-sized J. M.
via Why Speakers Earn $30,000 an Hour – Confessions of a Public Speaker – O’Reilly Media.
Learned::Biased News Has Delayed Impact | Miller-McCune Online Magazine
This is big. What this means we really have to guard against alot of the things we hear from the media, we must always try to correct media people when they report the things incorrectly. This probably means almost nobody is immune! Better Press Corp Please!
Does Biased News Have a Time Bomb Effect?
A European study shows that, over time, even the most sophisticated readers can be manipulated.
By: Melinda Burns | November 09, 2009 | 05:00 AM (PST) |
Even the most hardened Europeans may succumb to media manipulation and change their political views if they are bombarded long enough with biased news.
There's nobody more cynical about the media than your average European.
Only 12 percent of Europeans claim to trust the media, compared to 15 percent of North Americans, 29 percent of Pacific Asians and 48 percent of Africans, the BBC has found.
Yet new research out of the London School of Economics and Political Science suggests that even the most hardened Europeans may succumb to media manipulation and change their political views if they are bombarded long enough with biased news.
via Politics Articles | Biased News Has Delayed Impact | Miller-McCune Online Magazine.
Praise::Pacquiao TKOs Cotto, makes history
Whatever more happens, politics, fall from grace I will choose to remember when he was fighting in the ring. Quoting from “For The Love Of The Game”. “You and that game, you’re perfect together!”
Pacquiao TKOs Cotto, makes history
INQUIRER.net, Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 13:34:00 11/15/2009
Filed Under: Sport, Boxing, Pacquiao
MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 3) Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao made history Sunday (Manila time) when he bagged the welterweight title, his seventh in as many divisions, via technical knockout of Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto, the reigning champion in that division.
Kenny Bayless, the referee of the match, stopped the fight at 2:04-minute mark of the 12th round declaring Pacquiao the winner in the fight held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Pacquiao bucked a size disadvantage against Cotto on his way to becoming the first fighter to win world titles in seven divisions.
Pacquiao has won the world championships in the flyweight (112 pounds), super bantamweight (122 lb), featherweight (126 lb), super featherweight (130 lb), lightweight (135 lb), and light welterweight (140 lb).
No man has won seven world titles in seven weight divisions and only five boxers have won six – Pacquiao, Oscar de la Hoya, Thomas Hearns, Hector Camacho, and James Toney.
via Pacquiao TKOs Cotto, makes history – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.
Advice::Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson: Make Everything Your Own
When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim on your own. Instead you should have a greater fear of what will happen to you if you remain dependent on others for power. Your goal in every maneuver in life must be ownership, working the corner for yourself. When it is yours, it is yours to lose — you are more motivated, more creative, more alive. The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.
via Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson: Make Everything Your Own.
Hope one day I could follow his advice and take the plunge and do my own thing. I could honestly say I haven’t found my thing and in a way I am working for someone because the work is good and challenging enough to merit my interest yet not too stressful, that I lose time to think and explore what my thing would be or already is! Hope we all find our passions.
AOTD::Leap of Confidence – How to Grow Your Skills – david wurtz
A lot of things you don’t know unless you try. This is true but we forget something, when we try, we must put that skeptical us at the far end of the room. We must learn to invest ourselves fully on something and for a significant amount of time before moving on to the next big thing. Don’t overthink it take the leap, always reorient and rebalance!
Leap of Confidence – How to Grow Your Skills
Remember the scene of The Matrix where Neo is attempting to jump from one high-rise roof top to another? He's told he can make the jump only if he believes. Neo takes the leap, doubts himself mid-flight, and falls to the concrete below. (Luckily, the concrete was really made of rubber).
I think this scene from The Matrix can teach us all something about how to grow both personally and professionally. In Neo's case, he was learning to believe he was the One, and in yours, you're learning to realize the extent of your capabilities and talents.
In many situations, you need to believe you can succeed or you will fail…and its the very act of believing that leads you to success. Public speakers frequently employ the technique by envisioning their speech being well received before the give it, runners visualize a perfect race, and students the perfect test. Visualizing success tricks the brain into beleiving success is possible, and can actually improve results.
via Leap of Confidence – How to Grow Your Skills – david wurtz.
Impeach The Comelec ::Pleasure and subversion: Psychiatric Association of the Taliban
Impeach the Comelec
Psychiatric Association of the Taliban
Dear Editor
Is there anyway to impeach the following Comelec Comisssioners: Nicodemo T. Ferrer, Lucinito N. Tagle and Elias R. Yusoph?
They must be impeached because they have openly decided to turn the country into a religious state instead of a secular one. I am referring of course to their decision to outlaw Ladlad on the basis of upholding religious beliefs. They quote the Bible and the Koran forgetting that they should consult the Philippine Constitution instead. Only in the Philippines would we have high government officials who state that obedience to religious beliefs trumps other more cogent legal provisions as a basis for policy.
If stupidity were a basis for impeachment, the proceedings would be quite short. Their display of ignorance of current scientific knowledge on sexuality is quite appalling. They should have taken the simple expedient of asking any psychiatrist or psychologist who upholds the standards of organizations like the World Health Organization or the American Psychiatric and Psychological Associations. They would have been told that homosexuality was delisted as a psychological pathology more than 30 years ago. They either did not bother to read for themselves or consulted the psychiatric association of the Taliban when they decided that homosexuality is an abnormality.
As a Filipino citizen who is neither Christian nor Muslim; as a practitioner and teacher in psychology and sexuality; as someone who cares that we do not look like backward bigots to the world community; I urge the impeachment of these men who have violated morals, scientific truths and our laws against discrimination.
I am so upset. I'm gay starting today and until Ladlad gets accredited.
Sylvia Estrada Claudio, M.D. PhD.
Director, University Center for Women’s Studies
Professor of Women and Development Studies
University of the Philippines
Posted by Sylvia Estrada Claudio at 4:08 AM
via Pleasure and subversion: Psychiatric Association of the Taliban.
rePost::RP’s Gorres in critical condition after boxing fight in Vegas
Gorres fought valiantly. I hope and pray you that you get well!
RP’s Gorres in critical condition after boxing fight in Vegas
November 14, 2009 16:02:54
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Just as the nation was preparing for the megabout between Manny Pacquiao and Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto, a nightmarish tragedy struck Filipino prospect Z “The Dream” Gorres after winning his fight Friday in Las Vegas (Saturday in Manila).
Gorres, one of the top bantamweight boxers from the Philippines, collapsed after hacking out a 10-round decision over Columbian Luis Melendez at the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay and was rushed to the UMC Hospital in Las Vegas.
via Pinoy Boxing Republic – GMANews.TV Sports.