We have been eating grab food deliveries and shopping using lazada or grab mart since the latest ECQ began. Doom scrolling right now. I cannot emphasize enough how fucking unfair life is. When my biggest problem daily is where to order the next meal while a lot of people are fucking hungry.
Life Updates 2021 08 08
Birthday week.
Second birthday in lockdown.
Super busy with stuff.
Wish me luck.
I feel alive.
Crypto!!!!!
Life Updates 2021 07 26
I got a new kid Katie. We are now 5. Me, Angela, Felicity, Amelie, and Katie.
I am now officially starting January of this year as an STTC Short Term Technical Consultant for UPPAF RESPOND, a USAID-funded grantee.
I got renewed twice this year as an HTC Highly Technical Consultant for the Philippines’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
I am still consulting as a part-time CTO, Simply put just trying to tie loose ends. Love our clients.
Trying to get into the crypto space. Have most of my savings in Crypto.
Part owner of a beginner-level Axie team. Grinding as a scholar with Felicity while searching for someone to help with their own scholarship.
It has been a hard couple of years.
I am still standing
Salamat PNoy 2021 06 27
I am still in despair. I feel as if I lost a dear friend. as an introvert I’ve always been drawn to quiet workers such as PNoy and Mar.
2009 was about two years into my career. I was actively interviewing for positions overseas. I wanted to get out as I felt then as I now feel once again that the Philippines, that Filipinos are a cursed people.
PNoy made me stay. Here was a person who was always being asked to serve, to do more. How can someone who has benefitted so much (PSHS/UP) from the country abandon her now when it was so very easy to do so.
I have only regretted my decision during the genocidal president’s term.
I must now always remind myself. The Filipino is worth dying for, the Filipino is worth living for, the Filipino is worth fighting for.
RIP and Salamat PNoy.
Trese and today’s haunted Philippines
Analysis and Opinion By Irineo B. R. Salazar Forget all I wrote about the Philippines in this blog. Watch Trese to get what haunts the country. While my writings touch the auditory aspect of our beings and I have looked at things with logic, Trese goes deeper by touching our feelings, showing us pictures and telling a compelling story. LOOKING DEEPER […]
Trese and today’s haunted Philippines
SB19 Gears Up For World Domination | Cover Stories | GMA News Online
“To have global fans boosting our tourism, learning our cultures, studying our languages,” Josh says. “Just like in other countries, I can see our artists being able to evolve our industries, too.”
These are lofty goals for sure, but not at all impossible. In the three years since SB19 debuted, several Filipino idol groups have emerged and are showing great promise such as 1st.One, Alamat, BGYO and Bini among others. Notably, Alamat has members from different Filipino ethnicities who sing and rap in their own languages: Tagalog, Kapampangan, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Waray, and Bisaya.
Like SB19, P-pop boy group 1st.One, whose Filipino-Korean member Jayson was discovered after appearing on “Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho,” was formed by a Korean management agency. They underwent idol training for two years prior to their debut, during which time they also won two international dance competitions and performed alongside the biggest K-pop idols at the 2020 Seoul Music Awards.
One might think this could lead to a toxic rivalry common among entertainment fandoms; refreshingly, on the comments section of 1st.One’s debut single “You Are The One” are messages of encouragement from A’TIN. SB19 has raised the bar so high for P-pop, they say, and this is the result. Others mention how happy “Pinuno” must be that groups like 1st.One are doing well, since this is his vision.
Source: SB19 Gears Up For World Domination | Cover Stories | GMA News Online
rePost::The Magical Genius of Peter Huber – Reason.com
When the U.S. Department of Justice proved victorious in its historic antitrust suit against AT&T, breaking up what had been the world’s largest corporation in 1984, the feds promised a report every three years to document changes in telecommunications. The first was due in 1987.
But in 1986, with only a year to the deadline, the DOJ was stuck: no team in the U.S. government had the expertise to understand the complexity of this enormous, changing marketplace. A slew of consulting firms was there for hire, but they had all worked for AT&T. So the DOJ gave up on the experts and hired one man who had never studied the communications sector.
Peter Huber had no conflicts and started from scratch. The Geodesic Network: 1987 Report on Competition in the Telephone Industry, later cited widely as “the massive Huber report,” became a runaway bestseller for the Government Printing Office. The report brilliantly detailed how technologies of freedom were primed to crush old monopolies with disruptions at the network’s “edge”—personal computers, software, devices—if policymakers would lean back. The 450-page, data-dense thesis was delivered to the DOJ in 11 months; weeks early, as that was all the time Huber needed to go from zero to the world’s leading authority on perhaps the most complicated public policy issue yet invented.
QOTD 2021 01 17 James Clear: “A brief guide to leadership:
Always know the answer to, “What are we optimizing for?”
Recruit. Recruit. Recruit.
Never ask someone to do something you aren’t willing to do yourself.
Give away the credit. Take the blame.”
James Clear: “A brief guide to leadership:
Always know the answer to, “What are we optimizing for?”
Recruit. Recruit. Recruit.
Never ask someone to do something you aren’t willing to do yourself.
Give away the credit. Take the blame.”
Twenty Years Ago
Analysis and Opinion By Irineo B. R. Salazar Twenty Years Ago 20 years ago, Filipinos massed along EDSA again, nearly 15 years after they had gathered on that avenue to oust a dictator. This time it was to oust a populist who later became Mayor of Manila. Erap or Joseph Estrada was Mayor of San […]
Twenty Years Ago
Musings 2021 01 07 0839
Was about to sleep. Seeing American Democracy like this moves me to tears. Need to walk.