To honor our heroes...

When a government can just jail anyone by making up false charges and go to the extent of using tainted witnesses, it is not just imprisoning a single person but an entire people. This is what happened in the case of Senator Leila Delima who was jailed on evidently made up drug related charges and the testimonies of convicted criminals.

When this happens, we can not just wait for heroes to save us. We should all be heroes and do the right thing.

Today we celebrate our National Heroes Day. If we truly want to honor them, we should not let their sacrifices go in vain. We should continue fighting for the freedom they in their time fought for and not allow it to be lost by our cowardly and stupid generation.

We are Delima and only ourselves can make us free again.

Exodus 2017

1. seeing red
2. chirping chicks
3. haunting scent
4. weeping and wailing
5. march for truth and justice
6. parade of the complicit
7. sound of resistance
8. rain of hope
9. day of prayer and unity
10. hand of the just angel

third eye race

 

 

Failed attempt at creating a text based hidden image using a free 3d generator in the internet

 

 

While playing around with 3d hidden images in the internet, I thought maybe it would be a nice idea to create a game where clues can be found in pictures with hidden images. Or maybe, a book with a story that makes use of hidden images.

 



Crime and the Law

If crime represents disorder, then its opposite is the Law which stands for order.

Crime cannot be solved by committing another crime, even though it is packaged in a lie. It is just replacing one problem with another.

Those who approve of unlawful and extreme means in dealing with criminals do so only to their own eventual disadvantage. Those who cheer the extrajudicial killing of suspected criminals forget the fact that another criminal has gotten away and they may just be the next victims.  They may feel relief and more safe initially, but this is only temporary. And the sense of peace they claim is at best illusory.

Truth is the basis of honor and honor is the basis of proper duty.

Without proper duty, we are all just like mercenaries.  We can be good or bad as we please. This holds true for all of us but most especially for our men in uniform – the police and military- whom we have allowed to bear arms. Our protectors can just as easily become our oppressors.

Without proper duty of those who should be protecting us, no one is safe and nothing is sacred - not our lives, not our properties.

Without proper duty, we cannot have personal and national honor that will allow us to stand proud and equal among the community of nations.

It cannot be that in order to uphold the law, we break it and disregard all notion of Truth, Honor and Proper Duty in our country.

Those who do so, do not build this country but ruin it.

Being stupid in the time of climate change

I don't think it is the Mayor who is stupid but the people who put him in office. /picture taken from internet

It is difficult to have sympathy for people who behave irresponsibly and stupidly then expect others to help them get over the dire consequences of their action and then still blame others for not doing enough for them.

An example would be people  who willfully and gleefully sell their votes during elections and then expect good performance from the officials whom they sold their votes to. There are people too who tend to  deify personalities out of fear or ignorance in order to have a convenient someone to save them but who of course can only fail their expectations.

In this time of global warming and climate change when disasters occur at increasing frequency and fearful intensity, people should be reminded of Darwin's Law: the fit survive, the weak die.

Be stupid at your own risk.

Brainstorming and creativity as a way to relieve depression

It was while watching the entrepreneurship class/workshop of Stanford University Professor Tina Seelig through the NHK channel in Youtube that I heard this insight.

And yes I agree.

In my case, I know that when I am trying to think of something and creating something, I tend to forget the feeling of sadness, of hopelessness, of depression.

Neurologists may have the explanation why and how brainstorming can relieve depression but in my layman's mind, I liken the brain to a kingdom with many chambers where each chamber represent an aspect of all that we are- from our senses, emotion, consciousness etc.

We as the sovereign occupant of our mind can naturally be only in one place at any time. Thus, if we are in the chamber of creative thinking or doing, we tend to forget the negative feelings we have which reside in other chambers.

So to work!

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Mind map - an aid to memory

I learned about mind mapping while watching an NHK (Japan News Channel) feature on a brainstorming workshop for entrepreneurial thinking conducted by Professor Tina Seelig of Stanford University.

In this workshop, mind mapping was used as an instrument to bring out as many ideas related to a certain defined problem in order to eventually come up with a proposed solution.

I had a chance however to use mind mapping for a different purpose - as a memory aid.

The word I was trying to recall was at the tip of my tongue but I just could not come up with it. What I did was to draw an image of what I wanted to remember and jot down all associations I could think about it. I was doing this just as an exercise and wondering if it will be of help to me.

Suddenly however, the word just popped out of my mind and voila! I got the word I wanted.

Certified good

Looking for a decent Filipino product to give as gift or share with friends and loved ones?

I can certify that this mango leather covered in caramel/chocolate candy will not disappoint. It is not just delicious, it is nicely packaged too. It may not be cheap but it is ok to discourage over eating.

I discovered this treat in Kultura, the Filipiniana section of SM mall but I hope it can be available in more outlets.

And may we have more good quality food products that we can all partake in and be proud of.

Kakistocracy and resistance

Almost overnight, and with the consent of the majority of our people, we abandoned our democracy and embraced kakistocracy.

The successful idea

...is the one you acted on.