Anti Hazing Flick
This is a different rendition inspired by the video shared by the Jester of Exile, and a few lines from the Philosophical Bastard’s Poem.
Ateneo De Naga University)
To embed video, get it here. “ANTI HAZING”
crossposted from my blog…
Dried Emotion can be Tragic
Walking home the other day with an earphone stuck on one ear listening to one of my old fave songs, emoting at every word, taking a ride on my own emotional rollercoaster I almost saw what could have been the nicest tragedy I could ever imagine happening on me.
*warning, suicidal emo shit below*
So yeah, ever since the bloom of the Kami nAPO Muna album, I’ve been asking where this song was and who revived it for the tribute. Yes, ladies and gentlemen through the influence of my own mother I’m a die hard fan of Apo Hiking’s songs even when I was just a little girl, while everyone else were dancing through the tune of 100% pure love plus more of the Universal Motion Dancer’s Butterfly and I saw the sign, and some other danceable songs which I think I better keep to myself now before you start throwing tomatoes at me saying “booohoooo….”
The melody of the song really struck me at a young age, just the melody coz I never really knew or remember the lyrics, not until I heard it again being played on the radio just recently. The melody was so strong (the same feeling I get after watching a powerful play) that after learning how to play ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’ on the piano, I was able to widow the first few lines of this song (which is really quite simple anyway).
With the power of technology (thank you Google!), finally, I’m able to savor the song more.
DONE WITH SILENCE
In view of Wika2007:
Some of the participants and non-participants question the aim of this contest; obviously, I don’t think its self-promotion, so scratch that. If you’re going to rant about the poll think twice (I was actually doing this before I read that there had actually been rants and now I realized that it’s still ongoing with it), the poll is just a part of it, so I do hope you have read the part where it states that the other percent comes from our judges. A distinguished panel is going through the entries along the week of the poll itself, more likely, as you read this entry.
Unlike its predecessor, the Kalayaan 2007, this time we made sure that the competition wouldn’t be focused on popularity alone. That’s where the decision of having it on 50-50 basis came in. However, there had been claims (just when it’s too late) that 50% for poll is just a bit too much. Geez! As far as I know, they should’ve read about it even before they submitted their entries in the first place. Also, let us not forget that we did ask for your opinion while we were still deciding about this contest and the mechanics were presented for review before it was officially posted on the contest page. Remember the conference?
Another thing, mind if I remind you of one more thought brought to this poll issue. I bet that you’d agree that being able to register is better than what used to be a click all you want scheme. In short, what you’re getting now is what we thought was the better option… better than the previous one, that is.
Still, to compensate the freedom of speech, we made a couple of suggestions to be responded by the participants to make them decide what to do with the percentage on whether or not the poll be eliminated and place the results instead as a “texter’s choice award” (or in this case, net fave? Pulse award?) sort of idea. The answer now lies in their hand.
Who are the judges? Please be reasonable enough. How could you assume that they could actually be a part of the participants? That would be a little too silly for my taste.
Our Judges identity were withheld for their own security, and might I say for the participants as well. Besides, why worry about it if we will be giving you the names at the end of the competition anyway? Be advised not to focus on the idea that we have experienced bloggers in the panel because those bloggers aren’t necessarily blogging only people. Take note that we also have Filipino and English professors from a highly reputable university in it. Try not to underestimate our judges.
Next:
Just what exactly is wrong with the theme? I guess it all lies on how one perceives it. The truth is: there is nothing wrong with it. How about the contest? Again, if the idea confuses you, it’s not bad at all to ask those who know about it right? Well, I’d still want to answer the raised question regarding the theme…
Bangkero Festival 2007
“Viva Señor San Roque!”
That’s what you’d be hearing this whole week as Barangay San Roque, Legazpi City celebrates the Feast of their patron saint San Roque.
Living along side an ocean, the people of Brgy. San Roque commemorates the legend of Bangkero (boat man/people).
In the story, the Roqueñans were living peacefully by the beach with fishing as their source of income and life. Sharks and all sorts of huge scary fishes are not much of their concern because they have become used on encountering such situation, more like happy
about it too since that would mean something bigger to catch. However one day, a sea monster we Filipinos have come to know as “syokoy” (merman) appeared suddenly in the ocean and threatened the peaceful life the Roqueñans have.
People were screaming, children and women alike running away from the horrible creature. The brave men of San Roque all gathered up and faced the beast while the whole Barangay prayed sincerely for Señor San Roque to bless ang guide them. In the end, the scary sea monster was defeated and the whole barangay rejoiced.
Today, every Purok within our barangay prepares a street presentation and exhibition for a competition. Naturally, the best interpretation of what happened in the legend will win. The theme of this year’s celebration focuses on the little kids of Barangay San Roque. Night after night weeks before this feast, my brother Jasper, and sister Sami together with the neighborhood kids practiced their performance.
Phishing Email Almost Got Me
Honestly, are you still using internet explorer?
Although I know a lot are now using Mozilla FireFox, still there are a number of users out there who are too naive to transfer from the regular IE to the new trend. But in reality, it’s actually more than just a trend, it’s the security that we’re talking about here. If ever this is some old news for you, then that’s great! However, for those who are not aware, there are quite a lot of phishing emails sent lately that you should watch out from.
What are these phishing emails? It’s that sort of email where they ask you to fill out a form where you’re supposed to put personal (more like private) informations to fill up. Most of the time these emails come from early subscriptions you had from company’s and business’ throughout the web.
If you’re not that aware, you would easily believe that the email did come from the company because the email address seen on the “From:” data is the same address used by the company itself.
I have received two emails already: one from GoDaddy, and the latest is what made me panicked: PayPal. Imagine what could have happened if you believed and was able to fill out informations indicating your PayPal account details like passwords, bank account, telephone numbers and addresses good enough for anyone, especially the culprits to use in the future. Gone are your savings including your identity.
Just thinking about the hassles that you’ll go through to claim it again, it would be devastating.
Luckily, I am using Firefox. Firefox has a default warning and security that will inform you that the link you just went to was identified as a “suspected web forgery”.
Silly Emoticons for Blogger
JAPANESE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
if you’ve seen Pirates of the Caribbean, you’d definitely love this miniclip. This is actually an nterview with Johnny Depp in Japan and im pretty sure you’ll enjoy what happened during his interview there…
Independence or In-Dependence?
“oh yeah! a parade is going on in the city with all these majorettes in micro shorts, a band behind them with the government officials and workers beaming gladly probably becuase of the day off.”
other than that, there’s nothing more. the day ended as a usual, plain, nothing so special, holiday of the sort.
honestly, what do i expect? i don’t even know what sort of freedom we’re truly celebrating. is there really something to celebrate about.
true, that our country is free from the influence of foreign land, that’s if ever you consider colonial mentality as an exemption which is undeniably at large. admit it or not we live with products made from other lands, not ours. Our economy’s growth is on and off dependent on chinese businessmen and tourism.
most of our women tend to marry foreigners for money, not realizing that these foreigners marry them to gain authority over a piece of land that should have been ours. (believe me there’s quite a lot of this out there, and i am emphasizing on the word ‘most’).
many of our youth, or better yet our people, plan to work abroad, doubtful of the income they’d get from here… and so i ask, is that independence? or in dependence?
we are free from other land’s influence but we allow the American’s to handle our country’s terrorism problem.
we are free from foreign influence but our government silences the freedom of speech of many of our journalists, activists, all of which still has open cases left unsolved and not a clue or sign of progress.
so in reality, i came to ponder and make the world wonder the same thoughts that i am bothered with. “what are we celebrating really? if it’s freedom, tell me: from where are we free?
simply by looking around us, nothing seems to be free.
we are not free… not yet. and that’s the hard reality.
Wanna Add Smiley on Blogspot Compose?
see? it’s here! isn’t it just ‘asteegin’? hahahhaha! so, what can you say ha? do you want me to help you with it? i’ll be the first one to have this on blogpost as far as i know (i speak about the type of smiley used)… there’s still more trouble about it like the spacing because the script considers the picture a text so there you go… still… it looks great doesn’t it? so im making a poll… leave a comment if you want me to post the java link for this including the instructions. ready to send some love to everyone… what about if you beg me ah? hehehehe…. kidding… (you can always check out view source if you really want to…)island camp…
im back! oh yes, the island getaway was so much fun and as promised, i am posting a few pics (as if this is considered few) and would be telling you all about the trip. first off, i have to state that my schedule to Donsol, with the whale sharks, the next day was cancelled. so sadly, im forced to put off my meeting with the big thing. *sarcastic smile* and instead, spend the rest of my day exploring the beach (which is a fishing village actually) along Behia, Magallanes.we had to wait for the national christian youth fellowship (cyf) president first for we were tasked to meet up with her and be her guide, accompany her on the way to the camp site (that’s because my friend ‘the president of the south bicol cyf’ was under the impression that we knew exactly how to get there, yeah keep dreaming, well i guess we did, a bit). this was the cause of our departure’s delay.
remember too that, that day, i had no sleep yet because i came out from work, went home to get my things, and went straight to the meeting place. having to wait for more than three hours out on the city with no bed whatsoever is tedious and totally exhausting. not to mention money wasting due to the only resort of entertainment we could focus on at that point was EATING. realizing the travel time that we had to endure later on, the exhaustion was multiplied to the nth power even before the journey.
