2008 is about to give way to 2009. its 1715H here in the Philippines and a little less than 9 hours till mid night! I am feeing a little nostalgic about the pas years and would like to write about it but, I am still living the moment.
I think I’d write about it later.
This Must Stop-AP study finds $1.6B went to bailed-out bank execs – Yahoo! News
The total amount given to nearly 600 executives would cover bailout costs for many of the 116 banks that have so far accepted tax dollars to boost their bottom lines.
Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services committee and a long-standing critic of executive largesse, said the bonuses tallied by the AP review amount to a bribe “to get them to do the jobs for which they are well paid in the first place.
“Most of us sign on to do jobs and we do them best we can,” said Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat. “We’re told that some of the most highly paid people in executive positions are different. They need extra money to be motivated!”
The AP compiled total compensation based on annual reports that the banks file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 116 banks have so far received $188 billion in taxpayer help. Among the findings:
_The average paid to each of the banks’ top executives was $2.6 million in salary, bonuses and benefits.
_Lloyd Blankfein, president and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, took home nearly $54 million in compensation last year. The company’s top five executives received a total of $242 million.
AP study finds $1.6B went to bailed-out bank execs – Yahoo! News.
Facebook | Which Zodiac Sign Are You Most Compatible With?
Cancer
You are most compatible with CANCER! I’m sure most of your friends are Cancerians! Together you’re going to rock! Cancerians are serious, caring, sensitive people with complex psyches. This is a sign that dislikes taking unneccessary risks. They are able to identify with the situations of others because of the keenness of their imaginations. Their sharp ears and talent for mimicry can sometimes give them success on the stage, though their tendency to be emotional may make them overact. A wounded Cancerian is not an easy person to deal with. Given the opportunity at the right time, people of this sign cope remarkably well with fame, fortune, and responsibility. Money and a sense of security play an important part in the Cancerian scheme of life. Though careful with money they are kind, generous and thoughtful.
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Flip Pride- A Good Animated Filipino Made Film – OUR AWESOME PLANET: Kaya ng Filipino Lumipad… a DAYO Review
1. The Dayo Storyline is solid
One of the things I didn’t like about previous Filipino animated movies was that their storyline was corny. Dayo was able to bring to life our animist world with the Nuno sa Punso, Manananggal, Kapre, Tikbalang, Sirena and Syokoy. The Alikupong concept was brilliant. I wanted to shout, “Finally, Filipinos have made our first digitally animated movie! Yes!!!”
OUR AWESOME PLANET: Kaya ng Filipino Lumipad… a DAYO Review.
UNHCR Awareness Video Directed By Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck is slowly making himself a reputation of being really really good behind the camera.
Kudos to him for going to right way in this video. For the wrong ways people do these kinds of video see this post (This is also where I saw this video): wronging rights.
Philippine province tries to shake off its mafia image – Yahoo! Philippines News
After Edsa Revolutions 2 lots of UP grads were enlisted to become investigators for the Ombudsman (A local constitutional institution that is charged in going after corrupt officials). A friend wanted to help in fight corruption in the Philippines. He tells me that to investigate anything in Abra is akin to a death sentence. Its scary because in my home province of Bataan it seems that although we have not reached that point, we are fast going that route. Sometimes I ask myself, what can one man do? what can I do? I still haven’t found an answer.
But, he added, “we also want Abra to stand for something other than gunplay”.
Here the going rate for a Mafia-style “hit” on a local politician was just 5,000 pesos (about 100 dollars) in last year’s elections, according to people in the know.
“That is the house of a bodyguard of the former governor. Armed men knocked on his door and shot him dead during the election campaign,” a local rental car driver said as he showed visitors the sights of the provincial capital.
Despite its natural beauty and rich mineral endowment, many people here live in poverty. Communist guerrillas operate in the lawless uplands, and some towns have been practically abandoned by their mayors, Bersamin said.
Philippine province tries to shake off its mafia image – Yahoo! Philippines News.
A Comment On Rick Warren Not Believing Evolution from Paul Krugman's NYT Blog
If God exists, my denying it will not make it disappear. If God does not exist, the 96% of the world, according to Warren, who believd a God exists will not make it true.
Evolution, for the most part, is logical, and becomes more valid as time progresses. We already know that everything…mineral, plant, animal…is made of the same particles, both here and in the thus-far tested universe.
On the other hand, I am rooting for a heaven as if my afterlife depended on it.
— Joseph O’Shaughnessy
Huxley wept – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com.
In Flux
Too many shadows in my room
too many hours in this midnight
too many corners in my mind
so much to do to set my heart right
oh it’s taking so long i could be wrong, i could be ready
oh but if i take my heart’s advice
i should assume it’s still unsteady
i am in repair, i am in repair
I have been in a state of flux of late. A complete hodgepodge of undigested may be for never; emotions, half-boiled, thoughts, half-cooked plans and unhatched actions.
I am so obviously in flux that a friend even asked me. (Ano ka ba nag mimidlife crisis —> are you having a mid life crisis?). Midlife at 25, ouch , maybe If I can’t get out of this funk maybe not even midlife but life.
No I am not contemplating suicide but I am somewhat eating myself to death, I’ve been of diet for almost month. A thirteen month pay/holiday season enabled food binge.
I have to say It feels like I am missing something but I still don’t know what, probably this is Why I am missing it. I don’t know how if its the fear of losing this balance or the anxiety with being in a kind of balance that is pushing me to something akin to depression.
I still maintain that I am probably happier than most, this is mostly by design, bu it’s a blue pill , red pill thing. Ignorance is Bliss or Knowledge and Misery. I probably am looking at it the wrong way. When I chose to live in “reality”, when I chose to try to find myself, I knew that it would be hard, I had a hunch it would be lonely, its just that I did not think that It would be this lonely and this hard.
See when you try to change yourself, to improve, to whatever, If you try hard enough you do, change, you may improve and something will happen to you good or/and bad, I just was not able to anticipate somthing like a time shift, either I was standing still and everything around me was changing too fast or I was changing to fast before the people surrounding me were able to get used to me. This makes me feel so alone.
Another thing is that when you remove the multi-colored lenses that we call “our perspective”, when we choose to see things as they are, when we refuse to delude ourselves, when we choose to see ourselves naked, I don’t know if its just me but we begin to view people in this same light. When you try to have all an no perspective everything you do changes, how you understand things become unified. Its a fucked up feeling, a kind of dual extremes I love you I understand you but I also hate you and do not get you.
I seem to be high or something with my ramblings, the truth is I am not. My head , my heart is just hurting but I can’t call what I am feeling anything but happiness.
I don’t know anything.
stood on the corner for a while
to wait for the wind to blow down on me
hoping it takes with it my old ways
and brings some brand new look upon me
oh it’s taking so long i could be wrong, i could be ready
oh but if i take my heart’s advice
i should assume it’s still unsteady
i am in repair, i am in repair
and now i’m walking in a park
all of the birds they dance below me
maybe when things turn green again
it will be good to say you know me
oh it’s taking so long i could be wrong, i could be ready
oh but if i take my heart’s advice
i should assume it’s still unready
oh i’m never really ready, i’m never really ready
i’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
i’m in repair, i’m not together but i’m getting there
–John Mayer, In Repair from Continuum (2006)
my Favorite xkcd : Dreams
let’s just say ,
whenever I think of censoring what I am going to say, or write.
whenever I start to doubt myself or what i can do .
whenever I begin imagining things going wrong even before I start
from xkcd here:
from xkcd Friends
friends from xkcd
