IM NOT A BIG FAN OF CHURCH PERO UMIINIT NA TLG ANG DUGO KO SA MGA CARLOS CELDRAN FOLLOWERS NA 'TO!!!

IM NOT A BIG FAN OF CHURCH PERO UMIINIT NA TLG ANG DUGO KO SA MGA CARLOS CELDRAN FOLLOWERS NA 'TO!!!

MAY I QUOTE LANG from some Jasmin Miralles from Celdran’s fanpage:
"Naaalarma ang simbahan sa dami ng mga sangol na tinatapon at mga fetus sa kung saang sulok ng maynila pero sobra ang pakikialam nila sa paggamit ng birth control. HELLO! choice po yun ng tao at hindi required!kung gusto mo,go! pero kung ayaw mo at gusto mong magparami, go rin! ang gusto ng simbahan turuan ang mahihirap ...na yumaman. Pano? kung ang pinagkakaabalahan nila lalo't malamig ang panahon e bumuo ng bata!"

and i say FALLACY!!! HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF INCONSISTENCY AD HOMINEM? INAATAKE NIYO ANG PAG-OPPOSE NG CHURCH SA RH DAHIL NAALARMA SILA SA MARAMING ABORTION? HELLO!!! CONNECT? HINDI DAHIL AYAW NG CHURCH NA MAY NATATAGPUANG FETUS EVERYWHERE EH DAPAT BUYUIN NIYO NA SILANG ‘WAG MANGIALAM SA RH! YOU’RE FAILING TO MAKE A RELEVANT DISCRIMINATION, WHEN ABORTION AND BIRTH CONTROL ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!!! ONE DOES NOT PRESUPPOSE THE OTHER FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! IF THEY BADLY NEED THIS BILL BE PASSED, I SUGGEST PROPONENTS STICK TO THEIR ARGUMENTS AND NOT PULL SOME STUNTS JUST LIKE WHAT THE CULPRIT HAVE DONE JUST A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO! THAT DOES HARDLY HELP THE BILL AT ALL, DOES IT? IF ANYTHING, IT ONLY PROVES THESE PEOPLE'S IGNORANCE.

GOD KNOWS HOW MANY MORE FALLACIES ARE STUFFED IN THE COMMENT ABOVE. BUT IM COOL NOW. HINDI NA ULIT MAINIT ANG ULO KO.

ETONG MGA PRO-RH KC!!!

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The Uncertainty Principle (draft)

...this sounds like the relationship of uncertainty of position to the uncertainty of momentum of a particle. Some theory by Heisenberg. Well, in fact it is!

     Today, while on my way to Dive Republic for a 1pm PE class in SCUBA diving, I kept thinking why people in UA&P are taking liberal arts. And then it went all the way back to high school rearing. I don't know but these thoughts somehow drove me to take the uncertainty principle into a whole new level. And I believe it was somewhat personal. I just could not put everything into words at this point. I'm still at a task of formalizing (which I mean putting into a clean notebook with all the embellishments and stuff) that I just found out it was a Mg strip that was used in an experiment. So I am putting up this draft just so that I will be engrossed in following up on something unfinished. I promise to get back to this in a day or two.

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Source of Income

Test lang.

Kung sino uto-uto katulad ko, click lang ng click!

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Sa Tabi ng Dagat - Ildefonso Santos

It's been a while since I wrote an entry to this blog. Long time!

Ewan ko ba? Sa diwa ng Semana Santa, biglang may naisip akong tula. Actually, may isa pa akong naalala tuwing mga ganitong panahon. Yung linyang "Ngayon ay Biyernes Santo, Patay si Kristo..." (Well, obviously!) Hindi ko nga lang maalala ang title. At ginamit sa Sabayang Pagbigkas.

Anyway, marahil isa sa mga paborito kong tula of all time. Dahil siguro sa napaka-romantikong tunog ng mga talata. And I'm not writing this to make a review. Gusto ko lang mag-create ng nostalgia center. So sa mga nakakaalala pa, namnamin ang tamis at pait ng pag-ibig na nagsimula at nagtapos...Sa Tabi ng Dagat.



Sa Tabi ng Dagat ni Ildefonso Santos


Marahang-marahang
manaog ka, Irog, at kata’y lalakad,
maglulunoy katang
payapang-payapa sa tabi ng dagat;
di na kailangang
sapnan pa ang paang binalat-sibuyas,
ang daliring garing
at sakong na wari’y kinuyom na rosas!


Manunulay kata,
habang maaga pa, sa isang pilapil
na nalalatagan
ng damong may luha ng mga bituin;
patiyad na tayo
ay maghahabulang simbilis ng hangin,
nguni’t walang ingay,
hanggang sa sumapit sa tiping buhangin...


Pagdating sa tubig,
mapapaurong kang parang nangingimi,
gaganyakin kata
sa nangaroroong mga lamang-lati:
doon ay may tahong,
talaba’t halaang kabigha-bighani,
hindi kaya natin
mapuno ang buslo bago tumanghali?


Pagdadapit-hapon
kata’y magbabalik sa pinanggalingan,
sugatan ang paa
at sunog ang balat sa sikat ng araw...
Talagang ganoon:
Sa dagat man, irog, ng kaligayahan,
lahat, pati puso
ay naaagnas ding marahang-marahan...

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The Road. Cormac McCarthy. A Journal on the Somewhat Semi-Apocalypse That was. Or You Can Call It a Semi-Book Review

It's been more than half a month now, and I got over the extreme emotions from The Road. But I can still remember having the hardest time finishing the last few remaining pages of the novel not because of laziness but the difficulty of accepting the circumstances in the story beyond my expectations. The ending left me heartbroken for quite some time. But I realized that I just need to remember the miracle of beauty rising from ashes; i.e. hope from despair, love from hatred, life from death. And thus, the essence of the book.

And here is an unfinished review I tried composing but never got the chance completing but worthwhile publishing:

It's been a little over a week ago now that I finished reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road. And quite frankly, I couldn't move on to my other dozens of readings and they pile up waiting. Not until I write something about the extraordinary experience The Road was. And warn you, whoever had the misfortune of coming across this page, that this is a journal, so a lot from the book might be spilled.

The first time I heard of The Road was about a year ago while trying to fish for the runners for the Oscars after mid-year. Back then, predictions were strongly on Body of Lies, Revolutionary Road, The Reader, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Soloist, Doubt, Valkyrie, Defiant, The Road and Australia. Slumdog Millionaire was not even on the radar yet and I was so rooting for Australia. Anyway, to cut the story short, I didn't care about The Road. All I knew was Viggo Mortensen was in it. And just so you know, the film release is not going to be until this November, just found out recently.

So over a year after, it was an entirely different story. What started out as a "maturity" of passion for books became obsession. You see, it was supposed to be Neil Gaiman first and then "the rest". But he used first person in most of his narrations (which I hated). So came Cormac McCarthy's The Road, mass trade paperback, with Viggo Mortensen on the cover. I even had to get it using gift certificates.

Credentials of a certain piece attracts my attention. So when I came across one Oprah episode that somehow gave me an idea that The Road is part of the Oprah's Book Club, I became interested. And then found out that only a few books get into that selection. And then found out that it's won several top prizes for literature, Pulitzer Prize 2007 for Fiction among others. And then it climbed up on my list of readings just behind Neil Gaimans.

The novel was constructed so simply. There was not even an introduction, preface or what have you, that a standard book should have. I even hated the incomplete sentences being the entire sentence already because that would alarm me that a book is too dramatic. Nevertheless, I went on with the book. It began with man waking up in darkness in the woods, reaching out for his son and in that instance, fear and nothingness was established. And during daytime, the world is gray covered with ashes which I imagined falling from the sky as normal as the atmosphere is suspended to cover to a planet. There were no other creatures apart from them, or otherwise they would not let their presence be known. This somewhat prompted me to think, "I Am Legend." What happened? Has everyone caught virus and turned into zombies and monsters? Has the earth collapsed? For some reason, these questions were answered in the slightest clues throughout the entire story. But I do know that apocalypse had happened. So everywhere they turned is danger and they were "each the other's world entire".

After reading the book and after crying so hard that day, it was ironically manifesting outside that Ondoy (or Parma) was already devastating the entire country. So it reminded me that the book can have an environmental angle. That at some point in Homo Sapien history, there will be extinction. And I am optimist that we can still somewhat decide whether it would be in a thousand years or sooner. But it was not obviously the main point of the story. And it was definitely not what I sobbed for.

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Oldboy. Another Korean Super. A Film Review

Another proof that Korean cinema is superior in the world in its creativity. Watching this reminded me of Blue Spring, a Japanese film that reminded me of what it is for a film to be creative and poetic again when all flicks accessible in the theaters today are only those money-making comparable to factory excesses or rather excrements of drought ideas.

OK, enough said about bad cinema stuffs.

I've seen a lot of Korean films in my young enthusiasm for film appreciation. What I dont understand is why there a lot of them but do not fail to surprise you with their twists. And in fairness to these twists, they are very believable. And "Oldboy", wow!, just stood up to the rostrum and shouted out loud to lead the Korean bunch.

The cinema experience is almost or even perfect if there's such a thing. The cinematography is unique. I don't know if it has been copied from something else but it reminded me of the beauty of anime articulation in screen sense. And that was shown during fight scenes and the pans of the screen from one scene to another. It was crazy!

Im speaking non-sense already but I think Roger Ebert understands what I mean. Id rather have him explain everything:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050324/REVIEWS/50310001

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