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.

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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