Millions share his vision because they see, and feel it. Perlas is someone crying out in the wilderness and asking people to come to him and share his vision for the Nation. Perlas wants to unite people and fight against poverty. Perlas wants to eradicate graft and corruption. Perlas will exercise strong political will to fight the forces that weaken the Motherland. And Perlas will see to it that those who have committed grave injustices against the People are put behind bars.There is something terribly wrong when people like Nicanor Perlas who once lived peacefully in their rich hamlets are suddenly seen in the streets, preaching the Gospel of Salvation from poverty and wants. When people who hate politics are suddenly going around town, preaching of “New Politics”, that’s surely a sign that things have turned for the worst.It just means that the exploitation, the degradation, the immorality, the amorality, the misery of the human condition, has seeped into the comfort zones of those who are not of the hungred kind.And I laud Blogwatch.ph and the Vibal Foundation for allowing me to partake of Nicanor Perlas’ vision even for an hour. Meeting him just makes me realize that the end is definitely not near, because there are still a few good men left who will sacrifice everything, just so that others may live better lives.
via Nicanor Perlas and the Dreams of an Ordinary Citizen | Filipino Voices.
rePost::Red Squirrel's Nuts – 50% Time
The problem is really to work an extra 20 hours per week on self improvements means you have enough energy to to expend in self improvement. This is why I am limiting myself to jobs within 30 minutes from my house optimistically and within 1.5 hours with traffic. If the commute is too long I’m too tired to study/self improve. Life is too short to waste on a commute.
At the time I was finishing Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers, a book that digs deep into the stories and counter-cultural explanations of successful people. Having someone so close to my context tweeting about a topic related to the book I was reading helped me see something I hadn’t noticed before. I’ve spent years trying to make sense of how a person evolves from a novice programmer to an accomplished software developer. And up until now I haven’t paid enough attention to the raw number of hours spent deliberately working to improve oneself. Uncle Bob calls us to work a sustainable pace in our day jobs (40 hours), so we have time (20 hours) to improve ourselves in the off-hours. Most people don’t do that, though. It’s not considered normal. People who spend time doing more of what appears to be their job in the off-hours are seen as obsessed or workaholics. Maybe we are, there is some grey area there, and I know I’ve taken it too far before. One of the ingredients to being an outlier, though, is an opportunity to work hard. Sure, many outliers have had some good breaks, like being born in the right decade (American entrepreneurs in the 1830’s) or even the right month (Canadian junior hockey players in January), but that luck only provided them with an opportunity to work hard at something that they wanted to do.
via Red Squirrel’s Nuts – 50% Time.
rePost::OAP: "Rent is Back in Manila!" | OUR AWESOME PLANET
Haven’t been to the theater for a long time (college was probably the last time I watched a play/musical). Hope I can schedule going to this, I haven’t seen Rent before.
Feb 6, 2010 (Saturday) – OAP Show
8PM/ C.P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza
Reserve Now! (check out the Seat Plan)
Email: amillionmiracles@gmail.com
Mobile Number: +63917 8676332 (Minnie Fong)
(Tell them that you are an OAP reader.
Also, please say hi when you see us in the show)
Ticket Prices:
P800 – Balcony
P1,100 – Loge Sides
P1,400 – Loge Center
P1,600 – Orchestra Sides
P1,700 – Orchestra Center
See you there!
Live an Awesome Life,
via OAP: “Rent is Back in Manila!” | OUR AWESOME PLANET.
rePost::OAP: "Dingdong Dantes on Food, Travel and Book Run" | OUR AWESOME PLANET
Book Run 2010 3/5/10K
January 31, 2010, Sunday
The Fort
RUN EVENT: 3/5/10K
REGISTRATION FEE
450 Php – all race event
400 Php – if you register with donations of books for Grade School and High School levels
Fee includes race bib, race map, singlet and RFIC timing tag.
10K finishers will receive a finisher's medal.
REGISTRATION AREAS:
ROX – at Bonifacio High Street
12nn – 8pm daily
January 15-29, 2010
Visit YesPinoy.Org for more details…
via OAP: “Dingdong Dantes on Food, Travel and Book Run” | OUR AWESOME PLANET.
Hmm may 3k , tempting.
rePost::Samuel Dalembert, back from Haiti with a heavy heart – TrueHoop Blog – ESPN
This just tears your heart down to pieces. With a lot of us working in High Rise Buildings, and some are even living in very High Condominiums , I fear for how disastrous a very strong earthquake would be for us. Hope we can help Haiti.
He cries talking about what he found there. For instance children without parents, wandering in desperation.
“I’m doing my best,” he says. “I’ll take another trip with UNICEF. So we can try to get all those children out there … you know, we have parents who have been trying to adopt for two or three years.”
At this point, tears are streaming down Dalembert’s face. “You know and … that’s frustrating me … you’re asking people to help. And kids have parents over there who want to adopt them. I’ve got a hundred parents, and you have a bunch of guys sitting down with the freaking papers. All it takes is one hour to go over everything, you know what I’m saying?
“I saw somebody’s leg amputated in front of me. Surgeries performed on a kitchen table … I’m talking about a folding kitchen table … I have some disturbing pictures. And it hurts. … There was no surgery room … You heard him screaming. … Not enough alcohol. Things we take for granted, you know. They try to make one bottle of alcohol last.
“Problems just keep occurring. There’s no machinery to move things around. It’s taking a long time to locate the people. I know everybody is doing their best. … It’s crazy over there.
“One thing really touched my heart the most is all the children. A lot of homeless children.”
Dalembert says he and Medishare are in the process of negotiating to get tents for “a ton” of people in Haiti.
via Samuel Dalembert, back from Haiti with a heavy heart – TrueHoop Blog – ESPN.
rePost:: » How a Haircut Led to a Handy Acronym | Get Rich Slowly
This (WEALTH) is a nice acronym for determining the real reason for a purchase, and alos to think about a purchase more clearly. Click through to the article to read about what each of the words mean, although I suspect that it is self explanatory.
# Want or need?
# Ego?
# Add-ons?
# Lifestyle?
# Time?
# Happiness?
via » How a Haircut Led to a Handy Acronym | Get Rich Slowly.
Musings 2010 01 20
I fear the low hanging fruits have been or would be picked within this year, what I mean is the places to go to/ food to eat / events to experiences that are within easy reach has been. This means that I’d have to earn more to enjoy newer experiences. Thought about this when I saw a post about Sundance, minor want would be to go to those film fest even once.Here’s to dreaming and trying to fulfill those dreams.
this was the post that prompted that thought, from my favorite film blog /Film:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/01/20/film-has-arrived-at-sundance-film-festival-2010/
Quote::The Trials of Tony Judt – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
In one moving essay, recently published in The New York Review, Judt addresses directly his life with ALS. “Helplessness,” he writes, “is humiliating even in a passing crisis—imagine or recall some occasion when you have fallen down or otherwise required physical assistance from strangers. Imagine the mind’s response to the knowledge that the peculiarly humiliating helplessness of ALS is a life sentence (we speak blithely of death sentences in this connection, but actually the latter would be a relief).”
via The Trials of Tony Judt – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
rePost::THE DANGER WITH THE CYBERCRIME PREVENTION ACT OF 2009 « Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2009
We live in a country where the individual is all but forgotten, we must fight against laws which can easily be abused to harass people and quell dissent.
THE DANGER WITH THE CYBERCRIME PREVENTION ACT OF 2009
January 14, 2010
Although we recognize the need for legislation that will protect individuals and institutions from malicious attacks through electronic means, it must not be addressed by a law that sweeps broadly to cover many other electronic devices and many other legitimate electronic activities exercised by ordinary citizens. H.B. 6974 unfortunately, does not provide clear-cut definitions to “electronic devices” nor to “cybercrimes”. By deliberately providing a vague and catch-all definition of such devices and activities, government institutions and agents mandated to execute the Cybercrime Prevention Act, in case it is implemented, are dangerously empowered to intrude into the privacy of individuals, interfere with ordinary and harmless electronic activities and suppress legitimate forms of expression through electronic means.
via THE DANGER WITH THE CYBERCRIME PREVENTION ACT OF 2009 « Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2009.
'Love Story' author Erich Segal dies aged 72 – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Sad day. I’ve watched Love Story about 15 times. I’ve read the book 4 times. The first time I rented Love Story I watched it 3 straight times, I wanted to numb myself by watching it repeatedly. I’m still unsuccessful. I’ve always hated the injustice of that film. How when they are finally going to have a much easier life, cancer takes Jenny away.
‘Love Story’ author Erich Segal dies aged 72
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 11:21:00 01/20/2010
LONDON, United Kingdom—”Love Story” author Erich Segal, whose popular romantic drama coined the phrase “Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” has died of a heart attack at the age of 72, his daughter said.
Segal, who also wrote the screenplay for the Beatles' animated film “Yellow Submarine,” died at his home in London on Sunday, his daughter Francesca Segal said.
The author had been suffering from Parkinson's disease for many years, she said Tuesday.
The United States-born writer was a classics professor at Yale University when he wrote the book “Love Story,” which was made into a 1970 hit film starting Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw.
The movie, which won an Oscar and was nominated for six others, tells the story of a wealthy young man, Oliver, who becomes estranged from his father when he marries Jennifer, a woman from a less privileged background.
But the tale takes a tragic twist when Jennifer develops leuaemia and eventually dies.
Oliver’s father has a change of heart when he hears what has happened and races to see him, telling his son he is sorry to hear the sad news.
This is when Oliver replies: “Loves means never having to say you are sorry.”
In a 2008 article for Granta magazine, the author’s daughter said “Love Story,” inspired by a true tale, captured her father’s imagination and made him “a world-famous author.”
“His agent begged him to put it aside, convinced it would ruin his reputation as a writer of macho action screenplays.
“But it had poured from him in what felt like a single sitting and, although he could not have known to what extent, he knew it was worth fighting for.”
“The two monoliths that dominated my father’s identity—the peak and the trough of his life—were 'Love Story’ and Parkinson’s disease,” she added.
Speaking at his funeral Tuesday, Francesca Segal paid tribute to her father’s tenacity.
“That he fought to breathe, fought to live, every second of the last 30 years of illness with such mind-blowing obduracy, is a testament to the core of who he was,” she told mourners.
via ‘Love Story’ author Erich Segal dies aged 72 – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.
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