Improvement in ones social status allows a person to elevate the status of those close to him/her.
An executive in either government or private institutions or organizations who got his elementary schooling from a far flung village where he/she grew up, his high school from a municipal school and college from among the schools located in his/her home province will tend to enroll their children to exclusive schools for their elementary and high school education and bring them to the national capital for college schooling in one of the prestigious universities.
It is their right to do so.
It may be because he/she did not find the education he/she got from his/her schools to be adequate. It is every parent's dream to give their children the best education there is.
But when it comes to looking back, only a few of them do try to reach out to their former schools to help make it better. Some will just tend to put down their alma mater while still some will not take notice nor take action on anything.
Is it human nature to keep on improving yourself and leave everyone else behind? Is it because of the so-called crab mentality of people that they will just pull themselves up and leave the rest to fall? When will it become our task to help others up? When will we make it our principle to be the one to take someone to a higher plane, even higher than ours?
Unlike the crabs in the final installment of Pirates of the Caribbean who, even though they walk over each other to bring the Black Pearl to sea, put others ahead so they can all move forward, we tend to move forward on our own leaving the others behind.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Baseless accusations
Often times we hear people defend themselves from "baseless accusations."
In a recent post in her column, Ms Patricia Evangelista claimed that based on her assumptions "the men who put together the CEP are, scientifically speaking, idiots."
To claim that other people are idiots supposedly based on science, where is the "scientific" proof? Assumptions are just assumptions. Hypotheses, they were called during my elementary and high school days. To be scientific, a hypothesis must be proved or disproved using scientific methods. Where is the method here to prove that?
I do not have any scientific proof, but I do have various references.
According to wikipedia, idiot means (1) person lacking professional skill, (2) a private citizen, and (3) individual based on the Greek word idiotes. A modern day meaning is uneducated or ignorant person from a 1300 French word idiote.
In dictionary.com idiot means (1) an utterly foolish or senseless person and (2) in Psychology, a person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25.
I'm afraid I do not have enough time to look for a scientific study on idiots. Based, however, on what I have gathered from the ethernet, the "men who put together CEP" cannot be described as idiots. Here are the reasons why:
1. As opposed to the wikipedia definition, the "men" are professionals, working in the public sector, and are part of a group (ergo men - plural).
2. In contrast with the French word idiote, if those "men" are idiots, how could those "men" have finished their college and post graduate courses? And if they are ignorant, how could they have seen the need for the education sector to find a solution to put to scale all successful pilot project of the government and its partners?
3. And finally for the dictionary.com definition: these "men" are not senseless for they see the need to give poor children from far-flung schools a chance to learn from among the internationally recognized teachers of the country; and these men could not have the mental age of three because if they did, they will be talking about three year old stuff like bunnies and ponies and airplanes and candy.
When I was three, I began gathering an army of toy soldiers and vehicles and was on my way to planning world domination and intergalactic conquest.
In a recent post in her column, Ms Patricia Evangelista claimed that based on her assumptions "the men who put together the CEP are, scientifically speaking, idiots."
To claim that other people are idiots supposedly based on science, where is the "scientific" proof? Assumptions are just assumptions. Hypotheses, they were called during my elementary and high school days. To be scientific, a hypothesis must be proved or disproved using scientific methods. Where is the method here to prove that?
I do not have any scientific proof, but I do have various references.
According to wikipedia, idiot means (1) person lacking professional skill, (2) a private citizen, and (3) individual based on the Greek word idiotes. A modern day meaning is uneducated or ignorant person from a 1300 French word idiote.
In dictionary.com idiot means (1) an utterly foolish or senseless person and (2) in Psychology, a person of the lowest order in a former classification of mental retardation, having a mental age of less than three years old and an intelligence quotient under 25.
I'm afraid I do not have enough time to look for a scientific study on idiots. Based, however, on what I have gathered from the ethernet, the "men who put together CEP" cannot be described as idiots. Here are the reasons why:
1. As opposed to the wikipedia definition, the "men" are professionals, working in the public sector, and are part of a group (ergo men - plural).
2. In contrast with the French word idiote, if those "men" are idiots, how could those "men" have finished their college and post graduate courses? And if they are ignorant, how could they have seen the need for the education sector to find a solution to put to scale all successful pilot project of the government and its partners?
3. And finally for the dictionary.com definition: these "men" are not senseless for they see the need to give poor children from far-flung schools a chance to learn from among the internationally recognized teachers of the country; and these men could not have the mental age of three because if they did, they will be talking about three year old stuff like bunnies and ponies and airplanes and candy.
When I was three, I began gathering an army of toy soldiers and vehicles and was on my way to planning world domination and intergalactic conquest.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
The traffic is heavy
There is traffic and there is heavy traffic.
In my country, when people say it's traffic, they mean heavy traffic.
I found out from my high school English teacher that the proper term is "heavy traffic" when the vehicles crawl inch by grueling inch along a city street. She also told us that traffic means movement of something along a predetermined path to a destination or from a source. So when we say, "It's traffic," what we really mean is that the traffic heavy.
So, mga pinoy, matrapik talaga sa EDSA kasi maraming sasakyan ang dumadaan. Pag walang trapik sa kalsada, ibig sabihin nun (1) nasa probinsya ka at walang sasakyan kasi hatinggabi na o (2) nasa siyudad ka pero Biernes Santo kaya walang bumibyahe.
In my country, when people say it's traffic, they mean heavy traffic.
I found out from my high school English teacher that the proper term is "heavy traffic" when the vehicles crawl inch by grueling inch along a city street. She also told us that traffic means movement of something along a predetermined path to a destination or from a source. So when we say, "It's traffic," what we really mean is that the traffic heavy.
So, mga pinoy, matrapik talaga sa EDSA kasi maraming sasakyan ang dumadaan. Pag walang trapik sa kalsada, ibig sabihin nun (1) nasa probinsya ka at walang sasakyan kasi hatinggabi na o (2) nasa siyudad ka pero Biernes Santo kaya walang bumibyahe.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Drinking tips
Here are some tips for a more enjoyable drinking session anytime, anywhere.
1. Drink beer while cold. It is always best to drink beer cold. You can drink it as fast as you can without much of an after taste. I have been drinking San Miguel Beer myself. And I drink it cold... very cold.
2. Gulp about half a glass of oil. My friends in the street corners once told me, "to stay long in a drinking session, gulp about half a glass of edible oil to line your stomach with water rejecting oil so it will not absorb much alcohol into your blood stream.
3. Eat oily food. Here in the Philippines, we have what we call pulutan or beer-matches - foods eaten together with beer. Again, the street corner boys suggested selecting oily foods as pulutan. This will also line your stomach with oil to lessen alcohol absorption.
4. Hard first before beer. It has always been a good practice to drink hard drinks first - whiskey, rhum, bourbon - before your drink beer. Alcohol content of hard drinks, being high, get's easily absorbed by the body thus affecting the sobriety of the drinker. On the other hand, beer takes longer to affect a person.
1. Drink beer while cold. It is always best to drink beer cold. You can drink it as fast as you can without much of an after taste. I have been drinking San Miguel Beer myself. And I drink it cold... very cold.
2. Gulp about half a glass of oil. My friends in the street corners once told me, "to stay long in a drinking session, gulp about half a glass of edible oil to line your stomach with water rejecting oil so it will not absorb much alcohol into your blood stream.
3. Eat oily food. Here in the Philippines, we have what we call pulutan or beer-matches - foods eaten together with beer. Again, the street corner boys suggested selecting oily foods as pulutan. This will also line your stomach with oil to lessen alcohol absorption.
4. Hard first before beer. It has always been a good practice to drink hard drinks first - whiskey, rhum, bourbon - before your drink beer. Alcohol content of hard drinks, being high, get's easily absorbed by the body thus affecting the sobriety of the drinker. On the other hand, beer takes longer to affect a person.
So, if you drink whiskey before you drink beer, by the time beer alcohol takes effect, whiskey alcohol effect has waned down. But if you drink beer first and then drink whiskey, fast acting whiskey alcohol will come into effect just as beer alcohol hits you taking you taking your consciousness into a wild ride down the rabbit hole.
5. Beer then wash with brandy. In another advise from a professional acquaintance, it is best to wash down beer with brandy. It was indeed. But our situation, however, is that we only had a few beers. We did not have any full blown drinking session that needed us to crawl back home.
After about 6 bottles each from a seaport side umbrella covered side walk drinking store in Tacloban, Cebu, we retired to the hotel's bar where we each had 2 shots of brandy to wash down our beer. In the morning, we were fresh as daisies sans hang over.
6. Brandy before dinner. That same acquaintance gave me another tip. Brandy first before meals. I never got to practice this but this is what he does: He drinks several shots of brandy until he feels a little light or tipsy. When that happens, he goes ahead and eats his dinner. I did not catch the scientific and probably medical explanation for that but he seems to have been fine after.
Happy drinking!
After about 6 bottles each from a seaport side umbrella covered side walk drinking store in Tacloban, Cebu, we retired to the hotel's bar where we each had 2 shots of brandy to wash down our beer. In the morning, we were fresh as daisies sans hang over.
6. Brandy before dinner. That same acquaintance gave me another tip. Brandy first before meals. I never got to practice this but this is what he does: He drinks several shots of brandy until he feels a little light or tipsy. When that happens, he goes ahead and eats his dinner. I did not catch the scientific and probably medical explanation for that but he seems to have been fine after.
Happy drinking!
Monday, September 10, 2007
Dating tips
During the time I was undergoing practicum activities for my course - Library and Information Science - I came across a book we were tasked to catalog. Its title: "Dating for dummies." It turns out that I was not limited to the "dating" I know but goes beyond it.
Once you have spotted someone you are interested in, here are simple steps in picking up a boy or a girl in a bar or wherever.
Step1. Make eye contact. Once your prospect establishes contact, look away.
Step 2. Make another eye contact. This time make it linger longer than 2 seconds and smile then look away.
Step 3. Make one more eye contact. Let it linger and smile again. If the person responds with a smile, make your way to that person. But be sure that it is your smile being returned.
Step 4. Once you have approached, start some small talk like "Hi." Talk some more. Start slow. Get to know the person. Be sure to find out if that person is waiting for someone else.
What happens next, is up to you.
Once you have spotted someone you are interested in, here are simple steps in picking up a boy or a girl in a bar or wherever.
Step1. Make eye contact. Once your prospect establishes contact, look away.
Step 2. Make another eye contact. This time make it linger longer than 2 seconds and smile then look away.
Step 3. Make one more eye contact. Let it linger and smile again. If the person responds with a smile, make your way to that person. But be sure that it is your smile being returned.
Step 4. Once you have approached, start some small talk like "Hi." Talk some more. Start slow. Get to know the person. Be sure to find out if that person is waiting for someone else.
What happens next, is up to you.
Reaching to the child in you
If people would just reach into the child in them, life may be more enjoyable.
Children often find joy in the most simple things in life. Even the most affluent ones seem to be more carefree and happy when shown simple things the less fortunate ones enjoy.
When people get older, they tend to become more serious. Most can't even laugh anymore with simple jokes. They tend to look for something better than what they already have. Maybe this helps us progress to the next level of social stature. This attitude does lead towards achieving better things and possessing materials of better quality. This tendency to get more helps us exceed our potential.
Unfortunately, this also tends to take other people away from what is basic. What is simple. What is doable. What is better for all.
Communism for example is a good economic template. Cooperative input for the benefit of all. After reading the Das Kapita, I am enlightened by the concept of communism that I believe has been abused by some communist leaders. It has been abused so that the communist rule that they put in place is not much different from capitalism. What happens is that they now have a capitalism-controlled communism.
Being in touch with ones inner child allows a person the luxury of enjoying what is simple. A candy can make you smile. A day at the carnival will take your worries away. Sitting back and thinking about your childhood is a good way to relax. It works for me. Unless of course your childhood was not that fun.
When I was young, I used to long for toys that look exciting. I used to ask my mom and dad to buy me toy guns. Now, I can take apart, reassemble, and shoot a real gun. But still, the joy of playing toy guns with your friends is much fun.
While in the office, I tune in to Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, or Animax and watch a few cartoon shows. I enjoy a few laughs and I get to relieve myself with the stress brought about by my work.
Behaving like a child from time to time is a more relaxing exercise than having drinks or nights out. It helps me recharge and get a better perspective at what I do. Just don't behave like one when your boss is on to you. You'll get fired for sure. Unless he behaves the same way you do. :)
Children often find joy in the most simple things in life. Even the most affluent ones seem to be more carefree and happy when shown simple things the less fortunate ones enjoy.
When people get older, they tend to become more serious. Most can't even laugh anymore with simple jokes. They tend to look for something better than what they already have. Maybe this helps us progress to the next level of social stature. This attitude does lead towards achieving better things and possessing materials of better quality. This tendency to get more helps us exceed our potential.
Unfortunately, this also tends to take other people away from what is basic. What is simple. What is doable. What is better for all.
Communism for example is a good economic template. Cooperative input for the benefit of all. After reading the Das Kapita, I am enlightened by the concept of communism that I believe has been abused by some communist leaders. It has been abused so that the communist rule that they put in place is not much different from capitalism. What happens is that they now have a capitalism-controlled communism.
Being in touch with ones inner child allows a person the luxury of enjoying what is simple. A candy can make you smile. A day at the carnival will take your worries away. Sitting back and thinking about your childhood is a good way to relax. It works for me. Unless of course your childhood was not that fun.
When I was young, I used to long for toys that look exciting. I used to ask my mom and dad to buy me toy guns. Now, I can take apart, reassemble, and shoot a real gun. But still, the joy of playing toy guns with your friends is much fun.
While in the office, I tune in to Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, or Animax and watch a few cartoon shows. I enjoy a few laughs and I get to relieve myself with the stress brought about by my work.
Behaving like a child from time to time is a more relaxing exercise than having drinks or nights out. It helps me recharge and get a better perspective at what I do. Just don't behave like one when your boss is on to you. You'll get fired for sure. Unless he behaves the same way you do. :)
Home cooking - sauteed in garlic part 2
Another fish produce I like is tuna. Flakes. In vegetable oil. In can. Also from the local grocery store or market.
The cooking process is pretty much the same. Sautee minced garlic in margarine, butter, or the vegetable oil from the can. Add minced onion. But without the tomato.
Add the tuna flakes and sautee until brown or until the garlic is almost dark brown.
Avoid over-sauteeing the garlic. You food will be in danger of tasting bitter.
The cooking process is pretty much the same. Sautee minced garlic in margarine, butter, or the vegetable oil from the can. Add minced onion. But without the tomato.
Add the tuna flakes and sautee until brown or until the garlic is almost dark brown.
Avoid over-sauteeing the garlic. You food will be in danger of tasting bitter.
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