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FREEDAY, SEPT 05
I heard/saw/read somewhere
that indeed FRIDAY means FREEDAY!
Opened TV for morning news... GMA7 featured SMARTEST ANIMALS - ZOOLOGY showing two intelligent beasts - DOLPHINS & ELEPHANTS A guest animal trainer said according to scientists some of the most intelligent animals are RATS (metacognition) & CROWS (tool-using). There was a brown-white rat named GENSAN raising the Philippine Flag (something to do with
Mindanaw? [An MNLF told me a long, long time ago that INDONESIA considered Mindanaw as its 27/28th PROVINCE! Small wonder Philippine Star cartoon shows MIndanaw map & Burning Kubo... WHY is GMA not attending UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY in NY? A political move?]
I have always considered rats & mice as extremely intelligent animals. I have read that they survived extermination by HUMANs because they lived close to them/him! So to survive, live as
close as possible to your enemy! I call this the MOUSE STRATEGY. There is even one excellently written science fiction short story which concludes in a very surprising end: the crafty enemy of man turned out to be the rodent!
More about ANIMALS: the MEDIA again shows demonstrations by pro-animal activists: anti-JAPAN killing of DOLPHINS & they show BUTANDINGS in LAMON BAY... My QUESTION: are the animal activists really concerned about ANIMALS or are they only using the animal issue for something POLITICAL? Like the anti-JAPANese would definitely support anti-dolphin killing & whaling for the Japanese go ocean-hopping/fishing for these. I remember one HOLLYWOOD show which showed a man wearing "NUKE THE WHALES" shirt HAR!
AND about TREES/BOTANY there is now the BAMBI HARPER & MANILA CATHEDRAL INTRAMUROS TREES ISSUE... WHICH is more important BOTANY/ZOOLOGY or JURISPRUDENCE/POLITICS?
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A SCANNED page (p.244) from the book by
Chandler, Owen (ed.), Roff et al
THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN SOUTHEASE ASIA: A NEW HISTORY
SINGAPORE: SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2005
ISBN 9971-69-328-3
New Thick Book at the UP MAIN LIB SOC SCI SEC
If I had the time I would have read this (BUT I have a THESIS to finish)
& written a BOOK REVIEW as practice on SERIOUS WRITING
Note that it says NEW History as if history can be old or new...
MR. WHITE POLICEMANDutch Cartoon(?) showing two animals (or sub-humans?) with MR. WHITE POLICEMAN.
Try changing the DUTCH POLICEMAN with either an AMERICAN or SPANISH POLICEMAN. What would then be the equivalent to the ACHEHNESE & the INDONESIAN (=JAVANESE or MOLUCCAN)? MY GUESS: A TAUSUG & a FILIPINO (TAGALOG or ILONGGO) Is the analogy accidental, CHA or CHO? Try changing countries (IRAQ, VIETNAM, MEXICO, MOROCCO etc etc) & guess what/who would be the equivalent to the three characters.
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Some apparently worthwhile movies around 2-3 o'clock in the afternoon Saw on CH9 George Clooney in IRAQ, another apparently related to MUSLIMs Are these channels (HBO, CINEMAX, STAR, HALLMARK etc) programming their shows to cater to MUSLIMS who most likely would be watching TV on RAMADHAN afternoons. So mind-manipulation/propaganda via MOVIEs...
Denzel Washington COURAGE UNDER FIRE about IRAQ...
They are showing on SATTELTV "PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY" about the story of the PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC) - that ubiquitious machine used by billions of people nowadays & taken for granted by almost everyone... The movie is about the story of Steven Jobs (APPLE), Wozniak, including Bill Gates (MS/DOS), & other Steves & Bills... Those hippie-looking, long-haired BEARDED creative thinker-dropouts from Berkeley, Harvard etc who started the PC REVOLUTION while circumventing the CORPORATE WORLD of BUSINESSMEN those conformist beings with their clean-cut looks, shaved & short hair-cuts & neckties & all... Icons like the ALTAIR computer, APPLE II, the style of dressing, the background pop music, roller-skating (no rollerblades then), other historic icons/markers of that period are quite accurate (A song: "EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD"...) When one hears this, one is reminded of that era/time - Of course younger generations have no or another "meaning" to associate with such sounds & sights...
JOBS = led to many jobs via the computer... CHA or CHO, I mean his family name???
The movie ended with Bill Gates buying the APPLE company. Gates simply buys out the opposition - including FOXPRO's Dr. W. Kennamer whom I admired...
I remember in the late 70's & early '80s when I took additional short term computer courses on ASSEMBLY language programming (IBM 360) to complement my FORTRAN language in UP undegrad ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING course. Most of my close-associates in UP became full-fledged programmers, engineers, professors with U.S.-PhDs (My joke: they are now all DOCTORS while I ended up as QUACK DOCTOR/HERBOLARIO (dalam Bahasa: BOMOH)!) CHAnce or CHOice? One can simply reduce my case to that of one lazy, weak-willed tropical-dweller... BUT If one believes in something beyond MATTER, then one can say my life's course was WILLED by something higher than me... I may not have become a successful VICE-PRESIDENT for EDP/MIS OPERATIONS of a big-time company or govt agency but I personally realized that HUMAN PROGRAMMING PREDATED MACHINE PROGRAMMING BY at least 1 MILLENIUM... REMEMBER: I am A SELF-APPOINTED FOUNDING FATHER OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN THIS PHILIPPINESIA.
I was supposed to embark on a career as COMPUTER PROGRAMMER. I worked for the Philippine government (both national & local) in starting positions doing actually SYSTEMS ANALYSIS & PROGRAMMING though without the proper/corresponding working item/position & salary!!! (This is one problem with 3rd World countries where ENGINEERS work as TECHNICIANS, DOCTORS as NURSES etc etc!) I knew that I was just at the starting point & I passed the exam of the National Computer Center/Institute for further training so that I could get an official COMPUTER PROGRAMMER designation by passing its training course & national board test. SO working on weekdays & studying on week-ends for career advancement... I do not know but the FRUSTRATIONS - working long distance waking up early & going home late the tiring travel (I TRULY UNDERSTAND HOW HELPFUL THE MRT HAS/HAD BEEN TO WORKERS IN the METROPOLIS!) for a measly salary compounded by my weak will & lack of competitive urge (no actual CAREER PLANS in Life!) led me to GIVING UP that I.T. CAREER... I gave it up - just let the whole thing go comparable to releasing one's grasp on a rope while on a hanging position... I became a MUSLIM/reverted to ISLAAM while still working for the govt. though I DID NOT really PUBLICLY DECLARE (as in FLOUT my OLD religion) my CONVERSION (PROPERLY: REVERSION). In fact I hid it which was a mistake...
Stories about My Life later in my other blogs...
Evening, Sept. 6
Partly-watched a Mel Gibson film about South American Indians or is it Mayans/Aztecs/Incans??? Included human sacrifice during a solar eclipse but I did not get its title. It has something to do with PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA. The natives were shown killing each other & at the end when the protagonist was about to be caught, a new group appeared: the CONQUISTADORES. Need to watch it with closer attention to see its underlying theme, purpose, message...
Remember: the Native Indians were the original owners of the whole 2 continents of the AMERICAS & any CORRECT HISTORY of that part of the world should present this HISTORICAL FACT.
TMNP
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