Some essential ideas to have

1. Love of  Truth
2. Narrative of basic  history
3. Origin of man
4. the human body
5. basic philosophy
6. the concept of science
7. basic science - biology, chemistry, physics
8. basic mathematics
9. geography
10. basic humanities and the arts

In the end however, pure knowledge, without action, without deeds, is nothing.

No to misericordia selling

I have no problem with social enterprises that create and provide livelihood opportunities for people. However, I am turned off when it is the poverty or misery of the people that is made as a selling point instead of the quality of the products that they make.

Acceptance of this practice is counter to striving for excellence which is what we should all demand in order for an enterprise to become really viable and not merely a form of charity in disguise.

fidelism - Our task

Our task is not to predict the future but to shape it that we create a better world.

Makibaka laban sa Fake Drug War

 

 

Ang droga ay tunay na salot sa ating lipunan at marapat lamang na labanan at sugpuin.

 

Ngunit kung ang War on Drugs ay -

 

nakatuon lamang sa criminal na pagpatay ng maliliit na drug users at addicts habang hindi nagagalaw ang mga kilalang malalaking drug lords at smugglers kahit kilala na sila;

 

walang malinaw na programa kung paano iligtas ang mga nalulong dito maliban sa pagpatay sa kanila;

 

at ginagamit upang usigin ang ilang mga personalidad kahit walang tunay na batayan,

 

ang War on Drugs na ito ay PEKE at dapat lamang na tutulan.

 

 

 

 

Entrepreneurship is problem solving

Usually when people think of going into business, they think of a product or service which they can sell to other people. This approach has worked for some but unfortunately not for everyone. For every success story, there are also countless stories of those who failed and who never managed to recover.

However, another approach to going into business is to view entrepreneurship as problem solving. Instead of starting with a product, be it an  item or service, one can first try to find a problem then try to find a way of how to solve it. If the problem is genuine and the offered solution is effective such that people encountering the said problem will be will to pay money for it, then a business is born.

Language learning tip

I've tried to learn several other languages - Spanish, Japanese and French - apart from English and Filipino which I speak with a high degree of fluency. However, for those languages I studied, I can not really claim having reached a respectable level of proficiency.

But the desire to become good with those languages and maybe with one or two more is always with me.

As I think of how to achieve my goal, I came to realize that the best way to master a new language is to hear, speak, read and write. And practice, practice, practice. To do this of course, discipline is key.

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.