The Soggy End of Science
By Celia Warren
I'm sitting at the soggy end of science;
Can't grasp how it works, but value each
Electrical appliance,
I try to understand
But my brain is in defiance,
So I'm fumbling at the foggy end of science.
I'm stumbling at the sticky edge of science;
Though fascinating facts intrigue my mind
I'm not up with the intellectual giants,
I try to follow theories
But my brain shows no compliance,
So I'm tripping at the tricky edge of science.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Analysis of Reunion by Herminio Beltran Jr.
The Green Tomato
The story is about a typical Family from possibly all over the world. This story is very common that we often don't recognize this as one big event of our life but actually it is and this is a very important thing in our life, we may not have known this but this is one factor that built a family closer together.
The Character "I" talks about the characters in the story talks about the situation happening in their reunion. First Lola Susing lessons about how the generation now don't even know how to cut tomatoes. This is a really good question, why do our new generation teens lose their interest in the house chores? Is it because of the lost of interest with the things itself? But why do they don't like to do common house chores that we usually do before? Maybe the reason is in this generation there are many things that divert the attention and think less of the house chores. There come a stage in a family's life that a father maybe or a mother should be doing everything to start a family, meaning they will be working hard for the future and thinking about their children's life, after that stage of hardship and hard work people will eventually prosper and the money that they earn will be spend on the needs and wants of a child, it then I think gives an idea to the children that this is the new life, they ask and the parents would literally give what their child wants. Unlike before during the time of our parents when they don't have a lot they don't usually get what they want, they work for it.
Then the character talks the usual way of the elders when they meet with their relatives they always want to show off and tell stories of how they have started being the person that she was. Her grandmothers sing and show off her talent. In reality we never really get tired of the elders doing this kind of stuffs they are our own entertainment that makes us happy during family gatherings.
But what is really with reunion? What does it really brings or gives to the family? Is it really important to us? Do we really have to celebrate our own family reunion? For me family reunion is a very important part of our family, because it gives us the time to know more about our other relatives that we don't usually see every day, we get to know their habits and what they do and what makes them laugh and continue living. We get closer to them more and more. I think it brings something special to everyone that we cannot get from outside our house or our family because this bond that we have with our family is something that we should not neglect and that we should not turn our back on. I would say reunion is one way of saying thanks to our elders for giving us a good life and shaping our personality, they are a big part of everyone's life so it is important to say thanks to them at least once or twice a year. But sometimes celebrating reunion is a little hard specially in a Filipino setting, because in most cases some families goes abroad permanently and it would very hard to go home because of financial stuffs, it gives a gap on the family when we allow this to happens.
In the story the character talks the different family members, which are all busy telling stories of their own. Childrens are left to run and play and others engaged in meaningful conversation that increases their knowledge of the family history. We have The Marciano family who has been with Lola Susing since Aunt Rening and Uncle Sebio married in 1958. They have five kids namely Rita, Hannah, Gina, Serenata and Viola. Uncle Gusting and Aunt Cely with only daughter Tricia who studies in Paris. The Rimorins, Aunt Lenny who loves Estrella D. Alfon, husband Uncle Ross who works as a clerk in Saudi Arabia and Uncle Manding the youngest of Milaños with wife Meding and their four children Robin, Rico, Reynald and Rupert.
There is an important passage in the story that sum up the important things in a reunion or in the story.
".I must thank you all. And I must take this occasion to tell you, my apos, that it won't be long." and she shifts to the heroic tone again, ".when I pass away into God's paradise. At this hour on this day seventy-five years ago, I was born. Anyone who is born will one day pass away. But before I pass away, I want you to remember one thing. We, your grandfather and I, and your parents, worked hard to keep our family whole and united. We never forgot to pray through many years of hardships and trials.we even went through a horrible war.your grandfather died in that war. We went through many difficulties you never went through. We were poor but we worked hard. And we kept our dignity as human beings, we kept our dignity as a united Milaños family. We trusted God, we trusted ourselves. Now we are proud and happy because we are respectable. People respect us. We must remain respectable. That is very important. All will pass away. The Holy Bible says, 'As there is a time for birth, there is a time for dying.' If we are good in this life, we'll see each other in heaven. So there is only one thing I ask of you: Keep the family together, work hard, respect each other, keep the dignity of the Milaños clan. So let's go to church now to thank God."
In conclusion we can say reunion is a big part of our family that we should do once or twice a year, it is important that we stay connected with our family that helps us in times of problems. There are so many important things in life that we should consider one of those is this there are so many things we can learn from our family itself, before conquering the big world we should learn to start on our own family. We, socializing with our family is not a bad thing after all, it is a healthy way of learning in life. Like the story teller in the story, we should also be as excited as he is in all the stories and "pasalubong we can get" because they are precious and cannot be taken away from us.
The story is about a typical Family from possibly all over the world. This story is very common that we often don't recognize this as one big event of our life but actually it is and this is a very important thing in our life, we may not have known this but this is one factor that built a family closer together.
The Character "I" talks about the characters in the story talks about the situation happening in their reunion. First Lola Susing lessons about how the generation now don't even know how to cut tomatoes. This is a really good question, why do our new generation teens lose their interest in the house chores? Is it because of the lost of interest with the things itself? But why do they don't like to do common house chores that we usually do before? Maybe the reason is in this generation there are many things that divert the attention and think less of the house chores. There come a stage in a family's life that a father maybe or a mother should be doing everything to start a family, meaning they will be working hard for the future and thinking about their children's life, after that stage of hardship and hard work people will eventually prosper and the money that they earn will be spend on the needs and wants of a child, it then I think gives an idea to the children that this is the new life, they ask and the parents would literally give what their child wants. Unlike before during the time of our parents when they don't have a lot they don't usually get what they want, they work for it.
Then the character talks the usual way of the elders when they meet with their relatives they always want to show off and tell stories of how they have started being the person that she was. Her grandmothers sing and show off her talent. In reality we never really get tired of the elders doing this kind of stuffs they are our own entertainment that makes us happy during family gatherings.
But what is really with reunion? What does it really brings or gives to the family? Is it really important to us? Do we really have to celebrate our own family reunion? For me family reunion is a very important part of our family, because it gives us the time to know more about our other relatives that we don't usually see every day, we get to know their habits and what they do and what makes them laugh and continue living. We get closer to them more and more. I think it brings something special to everyone that we cannot get from outside our house or our family because this bond that we have with our family is something that we should not neglect and that we should not turn our back on. I would say reunion is one way of saying thanks to our elders for giving us a good life and shaping our personality, they are a big part of everyone's life so it is important to say thanks to them at least once or twice a year. But sometimes celebrating reunion is a little hard specially in a Filipino setting, because in most cases some families goes abroad permanently and it would very hard to go home because of financial stuffs, it gives a gap on the family when we allow this to happens.
In the story the character talks the different family members, which are all busy telling stories of their own. Childrens are left to run and play and others engaged in meaningful conversation that increases their knowledge of the family history. We have The Marciano family who has been with Lola Susing since Aunt Rening and Uncle Sebio married in 1958. They have five kids namely Rita, Hannah, Gina, Serenata and Viola. Uncle Gusting and Aunt Cely with only daughter Tricia who studies in Paris. The Rimorins, Aunt Lenny who loves Estrella D. Alfon, husband Uncle Ross who works as a clerk in Saudi Arabia and Uncle Manding the youngest of Milaños with wife Meding and their four children Robin, Rico, Reynald and Rupert.
There is an important passage in the story that sum up the important things in a reunion or in the story.
".I must thank you all. And I must take this occasion to tell you, my apos, that it won't be long." and she shifts to the heroic tone again, ".when I pass away into God's paradise. At this hour on this day seventy-five years ago, I was born. Anyone who is born will one day pass away. But before I pass away, I want you to remember one thing. We, your grandfather and I, and your parents, worked hard to keep our family whole and united. We never forgot to pray through many years of hardships and trials.we even went through a horrible war.your grandfather died in that war. We went through many difficulties you never went through. We were poor but we worked hard. And we kept our dignity as human beings, we kept our dignity as a united Milaños family. We trusted God, we trusted ourselves. Now we are proud and happy because we are respectable. People respect us. We must remain respectable. That is very important. All will pass away. The Holy Bible says, 'As there is a time for birth, there is a time for dying.' If we are good in this life, we'll see each other in heaven. So there is only one thing I ask of you: Keep the family together, work hard, respect each other, keep the dignity of the Milaños clan. So let's go to church now to thank God."
In conclusion we can say reunion is a big part of our family that we should do once or twice a year, it is important that we stay connected with our family that helps us in times of problems. There are so many important things in life that we should consider one of those is this there are so many things we can learn from our family itself, before conquering the big world we should learn to start on our own family. We, socializing with our family is not a bad thing after all, it is a healthy way of learning in life. Like the story teller in the story, we should also be as excited as he is in all the stories and "pasalubong we can get" because they are precious and cannot be taken away from us.
The Magnificent Virgin Mourner Dance in the Weeding Dance
In the story of The Virgin by Kerima Polotan Tuvera, Miss Mijares is a 34 years old woman who lives a dull life and behaves with stiffness and aloofness, camouflaging her tiredness and loneliness with raffled and pastel-colored clothes. She is different among other woman for how she thinks about sexual part of her life. She thinks about it unlikely usual and on the weird context, therefore she of a character that is marginalized, either psychological or physiological.
Miss Mijares is a responsible character that though she had a choice of not doing her responsibilities with her relatives, she still does what she thinks is best. She was able to finished college, send her niece to school and attend to her sick mother. She shows a very good example to all young women. Through her great will of fulfilling her dreams and performing her duties she didn't attend much to her personal life and got stuck up with her dull life. She enveloped herself with loneliness that makes her even marginalized with the rest of the people especially in her workplace.
Unconsciously, some women think about sex more than a man does. Sexual fantasies are very common with the human being male or female. Miss Mijares thinks about her sexual fantasies that may be different to how other thinks about it. She shows a very different side of a woman characteristic that is very unusual especially in the Philippines tradition. We often describe woman as secretive, conservative and soft. We don't associate them with male characteristics, but Miss Mijares shows that it is not only the man who thinks of such fantasies. It is always possible with everyone male or female to think about such because it is a part of our life and that everyone at some point also thinks about weird fantasies.
Estrella Alfon with her Magnificence talks about the love of a mother to her child, the connection between a mother and a daughter. Little girl is physically battered with no strength to fight and innocence with unworldly things around her. A mother is either emotionally or psychologically battered. She is a tall woman with eyes that held pride, a voice that has a heavy quality a bell of safety for the little kid. As a mother, to witness such act of stranger to your child is something that will release your anger and strength at the same time. She shows strength to the scene that reflects a very protective side of a parent, she as a mother shows that a woman can also protect her children thru hard times.
Lumnay in the Wedding Dance described as a best dancer of the village, she has the most lightness and grace, she dance like a bird, has a supple body and is a good wife. Having all these beautiful traits of a woman she cannot give birth to a child, therefore had no choice but to let go of her husband and remarry another women which degrades her femininity. With no choices to make she is battered emotionally. She was not given the right to express her feelings concerning the wedding of her husband with another woman.
As of the holiness of the wedding is concern, she believes in the context of being loyal and contented with your partner. What else could she be lacking of when she does all her duties a wife? She makes her husband happy as she should be, do the chores she needed to do to serve her husband the best way that she can. Being a women with a strong mind with strength that other woman lacks, she is perfectly fit with the role she is being cut of with. She is all of a woman that a man would dream off, only she cannot bear a child, but what if it is the man who lacks the ability?
In the story of Dead Stars by Paz Marquez Benitez on the other hand talks about Julia Salas who is a woman of grace, who knows what she wants and has a charisma that all the man would love and Ezperanza, a well mannered women, efficient, know what she wants, literal minded and intensely acquisitive. She has a grace, a women dressed with self conscious care and often describe as a woman distinctly not average and fortunate enough to have a acceptable appearance. They are both battered emotionally and psychologically.
Julia Salas is a woman of grace who knows what she want, it is a question why after so many years she didn't get married. Showing loyalty. A unique quality of a woman. A quality that more often than not, a man lacks. She is battered emotionally and psychologically that she inflicts pain to herself by choosing to be alone for the rest of her life after experiencing a very traumatic experience from the past. Then we have Ezperanza a believer in the regenerative virtue of institutions. She thinks that if a man is married, why, of course, he loved his wife if he were engaged he could not possibly love another women. She believes in the power of the regenerative virtue of institution too much that it took her 8 years before she actually says something to her husband about what she knows.
Ezperanza and Julia Salas considering their differences, they've shown and respected love. Being love and loving is probably the happiest feeling in the entire universe. They have shown nothing to cross the line hence abuse and disrespected by the person they've love.
The narrator of The Chieftest Mourner is probably the witness of love and disloyalty. Confused with the situation she then doesn't know what exactly she has to do to understand fully what is really happening. She is still a student in all girl school in Manila and probably inexperience with the situation she is witnessing about. She can be possibly battered psychologically by witnessing such acts and would probably be conscious enough to inflict pain to the opposite sex. Having been said, she, along the way is caught between love and disloyalty with the woman they called la mujer Esa a young accomplished woman of means, with elegance and grace. She calls herself the wife of the poet that confuses many people. As a No. 2, she is often discriminated and judge by the poets relatives that makes her marginalized. She is among those women who are acting unethically that are often called bitch. She is the one who take good care of the poet when he is badly ill. She didn't leave the poet in times that he needed her most. She loved him unconditionally and didn't ask for anything in return. Though she was discriminated by the relatives of the poet she never gave up her love for the poet, hence, shows a wonderful affection until the end. Very unlikely to Aunt Sophia who only cares about their relationship but not the person, but the blame is not for her for she is also a victim of disloyalty of the poet. Being battered emotionally and psychologically, she inflicts pain for herself by making untruthful comments for the poets concerning their split up situation. Though after 10 years she never gave up and still hopes for her husband to go back. She still longs for love and like la mujer Esa, she also suffered for the lost of the poet.
Miss Mijares is a responsible character that though she had a choice of not doing her responsibilities with her relatives, she still does what she thinks is best. She was able to finished college, send her niece to school and attend to her sick mother. She shows a very good example to all young women. Through her great will of fulfilling her dreams and performing her duties she didn't attend much to her personal life and got stuck up with her dull life. She enveloped herself with loneliness that makes her even marginalized with the rest of the people especially in her workplace.
Unconsciously, some women think about sex more than a man does. Sexual fantasies are very common with the human being male or female. Miss Mijares thinks about her sexual fantasies that may be different to how other thinks about it. She shows a very different side of a woman characteristic that is very unusual especially in the Philippines tradition. We often describe woman as secretive, conservative and soft. We don't associate them with male characteristics, but Miss Mijares shows that it is not only the man who thinks of such fantasies. It is always possible with everyone male or female to think about such because it is a part of our life and that everyone at some point also thinks about weird fantasies.
Estrella Alfon with her Magnificence talks about the love of a mother to her child, the connection between a mother and a daughter. Little girl is physically battered with no strength to fight and innocence with unworldly things around her. A mother is either emotionally or psychologically battered. She is a tall woman with eyes that held pride, a voice that has a heavy quality a bell of safety for the little kid. As a mother, to witness such act of stranger to your child is something that will release your anger and strength at the same time. She shows strength to the scene that reflects a very protective side of a parent, she as a mother shows that a woman can also protect her children thru hard times.
Lumnay in the Wedding Dance described as a best dancer of the village, she has the most lightness and grace, she dance like a bird, has a supple body and is a good wife. Having all these beautiful traits of a woman she cannot give birth to a child, therefore had no choice but to let go of her husband and remarry another women which degrades her femininity. With no choices to make she is battered emotionally. She was not given the right to express her feelings concerning the wedding of her husband with another woman.
As of the holiness of the wedding is concern, she believes in the context of being loyal and contented with your partner. What else could she be lacking of when she does all her duties a wife? She makes her husband happy as she should be, do the chores she needed to do to serve her husband the best way that she can. Being a women with a strong mind with strength that other woman lacks, she is perfectly fit with the role she is being cut of with. She is all of a woman that a man would dream off, only she cannot bear a child, but what if it is the man who lacks the ability?
In the story of Dead Stars by Paz Marquez Benitez on the other hand talks about Julia Salas who is a woman of grace, who knows what she wants and has a charisma that all the man would love and Ezperanza, a well mannered women, efficient, know what she wants, literal minded and intensely acquisitive. She has a grace, a women dressed with self conscious care and often describe as a woman distinctly not average and fortunate enough to have a acceptable appearance. They are both battered emotionally and psychologically.
Julia Salas is a woman of grace who knows what she want, it is a question why after so many years she didn't get married. Showing loyalty. A unique quality of a woman. A quality that more often than not, a man lacks. She is battered emotionally and psychologically that she inflicts pain to herself by choosing to be alone for the rest of her life after experiencing a very traumatic experience from the past. Then we have Ezperanza a believer in the regenerative virtue of institutions. She thinks that if a man is married, why, of course, he loved his wife if he were engaged he could not possibly love another women. She believes in the power of the regenerative virtue of institution too much that it took her 8 years before she actually says something to her husband about what she knows.
Ezperanza and Julia Salas considering their differences, they've shown and respected love. Being love and loving is probably the happiest feeling in the entire universe. They have shown nothing to cross the line hence abuse and disrespected by the person they've love.
The narrator of The Chieftest Mourner is probably the witness of love and disloyalty. Confused with the situation she then doesn't know what exactly she has to do to understand fully what is really happening. She is still a student in all girl school in Manila and probably inexperience with the situation she is witnessing about. She can be possibly battered psychologically by witnessing such acts and would probably be conscious enough to inflict pain to the opposite sex. Having been said, she, along the way is caught between love and disloyalty with the woman they called la mujer Esa a young accomplished woman of means, with elegance and grace. She calls herself the wife of the poet that confuses many people. As a No. 2, she is often discriminated and judge by the poets relatives that makes her marginalized. She is among those women who are acting unethically that are often called bitch. She is the one who take good care of the poet when he is badly ill. She didn't leave the poet in times that he needed her most. She loved him unconditionally and didn't ask for anything in return. Though she was discriminated by the relatives of the poet she never gave up her love for the poet, hence, shows a wonderful affection until the end. Very unlikely to Aunt Sophia who only cares about their relationship but not the person, but the blame is not for her for she is also a victim of disloyalty of the poet. Being battered emotionally and psychologically, she inflicts pain for herself by making untruthful comments for the poets concerning their split up situation. Though after 10 years she never gave up and still hopes for her husband to go back. She still longs for love and like la mujer Esa, she also suffered for the lost of the poet.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Sapatos na sapat sa okasyon!
Since Manny Pacquiao's fight is May 10, how about a Boxer Shoes? For sure if Manny will see this he'll add this to his Pacquiao Souvenirs. Manalo kaya sya if he wears this shoes? Or try mo kaya magboxing with this shoes? Bet mo?
There are many ways to be unique, try mo kaya to? Magenjoy ka kaya?
Sabi nila its hard daw to wear a Stiletto, paano kaya kung ikaw ang stiletto heel? Mahihirapan ka din kaya?
What can be more rakista than this stiletto heel? Makatagal ka kaya? Sabi nga tiis ganda lang!
It's hard to find a shoe that'll make you stand out in a club, so I recommend you this! Tingnan ko lang kung hindi ka pagtinginan, stand out talaga! lol
Soccer has finally made its introduction to the Filipino people, girl fanatic are going gaga with the players, now here's the treat for the ladies out there. Every time you watch or attend a soccer game wear this, lets see it help you goal a guy.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Christina Aguilera - I Am a Good Girl (Clip from Burlesque)
I'm sure a lot of people are waiting for this movie but I wonder if this will be as good or better than CHICAGO!
Basta I'm excited, I want to see the whole thing na!
Basta I'm excited, I want to see the whole thing na!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The Big Bang Miley Cyrus/Rock Mafia
I just saw this new video of Miley Cyrus with Gossip Girl's super hot guy Kevin Zegers.
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