Oh no, not another one.
You all knew this was coming, as implied by the title of the previous post.
Some years ago when I was trying to catch up with the games I missed through a pirate genius' invention called "Emulators", there was this old game entitled 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' based on the novel of the same name that I grew quite fond of playing, mainly because it was a strategy game and I loved strategy games. This game puts you in charge of a definite population, a tribe as populous as our country's cities today, but not entirely a nation yet as that is the game's goal, ultimately unifying all of ancient china under your rule. For a ruler such as yourself, money back then meant only a few things:
• for manufacturing weapons for defense and conquering other tribes,
• for patronizing the farmers and sustaining a stable growth in agriculture as food keeps your army in tip-top, fit-for-fighting shape,
• for building a stronger infrastructure so as to prevent catastrophic damages from floods and earthquakes,
• for having an emergency fund in case there is a drought, a famine or a plague causing distress on your people,
• for bribing and invoking defection among important, high-ranking and influential people in other tribes to aid in your cause (I had a ruler defect to my cause, effectively gaining all of their tribe's land, resources and armies), and
• for rewarding the loyalty of your men, and occasionally treating the masses for their collective efforts in nation-building (could be done by giving the families either food or gold, or by lowering tax rates if the monies are overabundant-yes, this can happen if you know how to be thrifty or you have an immense knack and skill for plunder).
To win the game, you must have the support of the majority of the country. Being selfish and wanting to keep all the money to yourself isn't gonna cut it. Using it to keep the nation happy and as one will.
Did I manage to get my point across and make it stick? No? Well, what I'm trying to say is that if trying to win the hearts of the masses, I won't make the agencies rich by splurging on TV, radio, all-nonsense Internet commercials, print ads and all these trash that would add to my problems later on if I win. Instead, I would spend my campaign fund helping the masses, one province and one city at a time. The campaign period is long, but the "presence ads" hung around longer even before and that didn't come dirt-cheap to these candidates. Presidential candidates in the U.S. traveled to each of the States and held conferences to try and win them over, joined the rallies of minorities and advocacy groups and maybe told less bullshit to the country. What if the candidates with all that money started doing relatively small but great-impact helpfulness to the masses? What if someone could say to those candidates, "While you were shooting that TV commercial, I was building a new Gawad Kalinga community and giving out stock medicines to various baranggays" or "While you were recording those radio plugs, I was busy ordering a construction of a public hospital up north. And buying shoes for children who walk bare-foot to school on oven-baked pavements everyday who believe that what they do will make life better for themselves in the future, but will they have it with YOU around?". These candidates use money to get their faces and their voices recognized throughout the whole archipelago and use lovely words concocted by the ad agencies just to tell the people to vote for them. As someone had jokingly defined what advertising is, said "it is the art of convincing people to buy the things they don't need", it may most likely be the same with all these campaigns. Words are powerful as they can be the catalyst to change, but what if everyone assumed they were all empty in the first place? We're not talking about Jesus Christ here, who refutes "seeing is believing". We're talking about people like us, who are most likely to change given absolutely the most powerful position of the nation. Even I am at qualms with positions of power as I tend to be materialistic sometimes and I am afraid to see myself at my worst. I have a hard time keeping to a code of honor and nobility because I understood a long time ago that life is unfair, and I might relish a macabre moment to deal this unfairness to others. But it goes both ways too, and I know I will choose to make a legacy out of doing the right thing instead of fighting for top rank next to the past evil patriarchs of the world.
In defeat, a villain quoted the 26th verse of the evangelist Matthew's 16th chapter, saying "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?" and acknowledging that he had been wrong and he deserved the consequences of his actions. Afterward, the protagonist left the other protagonists a clear message, stating "Remember, the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.". My weapon is the keyboard, I'm trying to do my part by blogging about it.
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
Not-so breaking news: I still haven't got a job and making some money is all I can think of right now when suddenly this idea pops in my head: what if we can harvest all this nerve-wracking, blazing heat-that-can-cause-someone-to-die-spontaneously from equatorial countries and "sell it by the pound" to northerners who would gladly have it such as Russia, Canada and other countries in the arctic circle?
I came across the thought while thinking about the oversupply of all this heat we have in our country, and when I see the word 'supply', word associations come into play and 'economics' pops in my head next, and then the names "Largoza", "Dakila" and "Javier". Now, the most obvious method for this heat-selling is of course, harvesting by solar panels, which of course is the most feasible right now. In fact, solar-energy has the thumbs-up for a sustainable future, alongside nanotechnology in Discovery Channel, and they've made progress in making the panel made out of silicon collector more efficient and affordable so everyone can live greener. But thinking outside the box, out-of-Earth and into space - as far as Star Trek's Enterprise can take you, what if there is a device that can suck a definite troposphere (the layer of atmosphere closest to the ground) at a particular time and location, then generate it somewhere else? If there was, not only will there be an acceptable summer heat in our country, we'd also be colonizing other planets and other systems if some authoritarian heard about this and thought about the implications on the macro-level and territorial tendencies take over.
So much for too much imagination. Don't you wish I had a job already? Till next time. :)
I came across the thought while thinking about the oversupply of all this heat we have in our country, and when I see the word 'supply', word associations come into play and 'economics' pops in my head next, and then the names "Largoza", "Dakila" and "Javier". Now, the most obvious method for this heat-selling is of course, harvesting by solar panels, which of course is the most feasible right now. In fact, solar-energy has the thumbs-up for a sustainable future, alongside nanotechnology in Discovery Channel, and they've made progress in making the panel made out of silicon collector more efficient and affordable so everyone can live greener. But thinking outside the box, out-of-Earth and into space - as far as Star Trek's Enterprise can take you, what if there is a device that can suck a definite troposphere (the layer of atmosphere closest to the ground) at a particular time and location, then generate it somewhere else? If there was, not only will there be an acceptable summer heat in our country, we'd also be colonizing other planets and other systems if some authoritarian heard about this and thought about the implications on the macro-level and territorial tendencies take over.
So much for too much imagination. Don't you wish I had a job already? Till next time. :)
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Alam ko nasabi ko na yung hangarin kong maging spy, pero nasabi ko na bang gusto ko maging piloto? Gusto ko kasi bombahin ng napalm lahat ng oil reserves ng mga arabong bansa, primarily dahil gusto kong mawalan ng financial and political leverage ang mga balbasaradong ito sa mga first-world continents tulad ng U.S. at Europe, at secondarily dahil gusto kong mabawasan ng pinagkukuhaan ng pera ang mga terorista (kung mabawasan rin ang bilang ng terorista sa aking pinaplanong bombing run, e di mas masaya). In effect, baka tuluyang mapipilitan ang mga first-world countries magpool ng natitirang resources para mag-discover, mag-invent or mag-manufacture for mass consumption ng sustainable energy source. Pumepetiks pa sila kasi hindi pa talaga ubos ang langis eh. Gusto ko bumalik sa era kung saan powered ng steam ang mga bagay-bagay. Hindi naman tayo siguro mauubusan ng uling noh? Ang dami kasing pinagmamalaking mga technology, pero hindi naman nagagamit ng karamihan at hindi rin nakakatulong. Bad trip lang.
Root Of All My Ramblings: Libya versus Switzerland. Sa tingin mo, kanino ako kampi? Shempre dun sa may mga tsokolate at mamahaling relo! Kung hindi lang dahil sa pangangailangan ng aking mga kotse, gagawa na talaga ako ng Facebook Libya Haters Fan Page. Wala akong pakealam kahit na ako lang member.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100220/wl_mideast_afp/switzerlandlibyadiplomacyeu;_ylt=AtOGM49b2nzKWgTmJrk1Lh8LewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTMzbDdpY285BGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDEwMDIyMC9zd2l0emVybGFuZGxpYnlhZGlwbG9tYWN5ZXUEcG9zAzMzBHNlYwN5bl9wYWdpbmF0ZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA3Bhc3Nwb3J0MzlyZQ--
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/15/libya-gaddafi-schengen-travel-ban
Root Of All My Ramblings: Libya versus Switzerland. Sa tingin mo, kanino ako kampi? Shempre dun sa may mga tsokolate at mamahaling relo! Kung hindi lang dahil sa pangangailangan ng aking mga kotse, gagawa na talaga ako ng Facebook Libya Haters Fan Page. Wala akong pakealam kahit na ako lang member.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100220/wl_mideast_afp/switzerlandlibyadiplomacyeu;_ylt=AtOGM49b2nzKWgTmJrk1Lh8LewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTMzbDdpY285BGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDEwMDIyMC9zd2l0emVybGFuZGxpYnlhZGlwbG9tYWN5ZXUEcG9zAzMzBHNlYwN5bl9wYWdpbmF0ZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA3Bhc3Nwb3J0MzlyZQ--
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/15/libya-gaddafi-schengen-travel-ban
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Hello kids!!
I have just finished reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol on the morning of Valentine's day 2010, and guess what I found out? Not much, just that The (not-anymore) Secret's Law of Attraction concept is already a scientifically proven fact. And further research regarding the concepts in the book told me that the human soul weighs at around 21 grams (Google "soul weight" and the first hit is this: http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp followed by Wikipedia article of the scientist).
Noetic Science also claims that thoughts are a powerful thing, being capable of manifesting physical changes in reality, pretty much telling us that energy from mountain monks, ninjas, spiritual leaders, clowns, faith healers, traumatizers, exorcists, Wicca witches, clowns, cultists, voodoo and black magic users are very much potent if the individual is already very skilled in controlling his or her thoughts and channeling the thoughts of others. That makes faith a very powerful thing, because you can't adjust overnight the massive mindset of a crowd or a nation and tell them what to believe and what not to. Weirdly enough, the homily of the priest on v-day is a science lecture: how the hypothalamus works in the brain and lets us think of ways to show our love to those special to us.
Di pa rin gets?
Picture this: a scene in James Cameron's Avatar movie (maybe it's that good that it probably made it on the updated "list of movies to watch before you die"), where the Na'vi prays to their god Eywa following the destruction of Home Tree... I don't believe it was Eywa's response that brought them the victory they sought, it was the collective thought concept at work.
Don't like movies? The 9/11 incident would be more real. Random Event Generators, software which broadcasts, well, random stuff (http://www.damninteresting.com/random-event-generators-predict-the-future) suddenly became less random and actually showed a trend.
Teka teka, bago ninyo ako tanggalin sa reading choices niyo, here's something to think about. Let's say the force or gravity of our prayers or collective thought is equivalent to our soul (this is to say that all of the people in the whole world can more or less control their thoughts, or know how to pray, and all have the equal ability of doing so). There'd be more than 6.8 billion people in the world right now, increasing exponentially as your eyes move through this sentence. Multiply that number by the soul's weight and what have we got? A staggering 142.8 kilotonne worth of product (of course the product could have been larger if we used the exact population at a given time), and a tonne is a thousand kilograms. That's one-four-two-eight then add eight zeroes. Yes, we're done with the math now.
The real question now is, what could we all possibly should be praying for that's worth that much, or weighed that heavily? Fun fact: The "Fat Man" and the "Little Boy" atomic bombs only weighed 4.6 and 4 tonnes respectively. The energy outputs of these bombs are 21 and 15 kilotons of TNT (explosive material) or 88 and 63 terrajoules. I know most people are familiar with computer file sizes and calories nowadays so I wouldn't give the elementary analogy with the figures anymore, hmmkay?
I'm imagining we already have the power to stop the end of the world as we know it, not just how we think.
Still interested?
http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
I have just finished reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol on the morning of Valentine's day 2010, and guess what I found out? Not much, just that The (not-anymore) Secret's Law of Attraction concept is already a scientifically proven fact. And further research regarding the concepts in the book told me that the human soul weighs at around 21 grams (Google "soul weight" and the first hit is this: http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp followed by Wikipedia article of the scientist).
Noetic Science also claims that thoughts are a powerful thing, being capable of manifesting physical changes in reality, pretty much telling us that energy from mountain monks, ninjas, spiritual leaders, clowns, faith healers, traumatizers, exorcists, Wicca witches, clowns, cultists, voodoo and black magic users are very much potent if the individual is already very skilled in controlling his or her thoughts and channeling the thoughts of others. That makes faith a very powerful thing, because you can't adjust overnight the massive mindset of a crowd or a nation and tell them what to believe and what not to. Weirdly enough, the homily of the priest on v-day is a science lecture: how the hypothalamus works in the brain and lets us think of ways to show our love to those special to us.
Di pa rin gets?
Picture this: a scene in James Cameron's Avatar movie (maybe it's that good that it probably made it on the updated "list of movies to watch before you die"), where the Na'vi prays to their god Eywa following the destruction of Home Tree... I don't believe it was Eywa's response that brought them the victory they sought, it was the collective thought concept at work.
Don't like movies? The 9/11 incident would be more real. Random Event Generators, software which broadcasts, well, random stuff (http://www.damninteresting.com/random-event-generators-predict-the-future) suddenly became less random and actually showed a trend.
Teka teka, bago ninyo ako tanggalin sa reading choices niyo, here's something to think about. Let's say the force or gravity of our prayers or collective thought is equivalent to our soul (this is to say that all of the people in the whole world can more or less control their thoughts, or know how to pray, and all have the equal ability of doing so). There'd be more than 6.8 billion people in the world right now, increasing exponentially as your eyes move through this sentence. Multiply that number by the soul's weight and what have we got? A staggering 142.8 kilotonne worth of product (of course the product could have been larger if we used the exact population at a given time), and a tonne is a thousand kilograms. That's one-four-two-eight then add eight zeroes. Yes, we're done with the math now.
The real question now is, what could we all possibly should be praying for that's worth that much, or weighed that heavily? Fun fact: The "Fat Man" and the "Little Boy" atomic bombs only weighed 4.6 and 4 tonnes respectively. The energy outputs of these bombs are 21 and 15 kilotons of TNT (explosive material) or 88 and 63 terrajoules. I know most people are familiar with computer file sizes and calories nowadays so I wouldn't give the elementary analogy with the figures anymore, hmmkay?
I'm imagining we already have the power to stop the end of the world as we know it, not just how we think.
Still interested?
http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
Thursday, February 11, 2010
okay, i really have to get this off my chest. it's been bothering me since high school...
bakit dito sa pilipinas, parang hindi tayo umaabot sa level ng education tulad ng mga nasa first-world countries? i didn't say level of intelligence because we are all humans (assumed fact, matatalo ako for sure), therefore we can also reach what they can (boast not, you ivy league graduates, for one day you shall see kahit sinong pinoy matatalo kayo sa kahit isang bagay, maging sapakan man yan which by the way, talo na kayo dahil sa amin si pacquiao, o pabilisan kumain ng balot..). that's just the foundation of the real concern.. well, here goes: naiinggit kasi ako sa U.S. dahil sa dami ng agencies nila for national security. dito, NICA lang yata meron tayo which stands for national intelligence coordinating agency (kinailangan talaga i-coordinate, parang iniimply na sabog)... anyway, this might have stemmed from watching too many spy movies, reading too many spy novels (okay, maybe not) and watching chuck episodes but the point is, bakit tayo wala? i believe we need these agencies as much as they do, or even more so because we are in Asia and are surrounded by countries which, well, house terrorists (i'm not saying that we don't house terrorists ourselves). clearly, the non-existence of these agencies is a reflection and a statement of how much we love our country. i don't think we need another crisis to realize that. i also realized that i would want to work for those kinds of agencies not just because i'm currently unemployed, (and some of my friends who i'd love to work with too) but it would have been great to say to the future generations how OUR generation served our country. for once, i want to hear someone say, "i work for the government" (or "i'm a spy") and be proud of it. who here doesn't? tignan natin ang mga baby boomers sa pilipinas. i'm proud to say that they worked their ass off so that their descendants, us, could live better. they served their families, that's great, but is that all there is to their lives? parang ni-lugi yata sila ng destiny, lalo na sa pwede sanang mangyare sa inang bayan. nothing, it's just that ever since we were kids, my brothers always joked about my dad being a top secret agent, taking down bad guys in and out of the country and using his middle manager position as a cover. as for my mom, we imagined she's a ninja, because of her insane reflexes, her unusual skills (judo, archery, things-you-don't-wanna-know) and using the nursing degree and friendly housewife facade as cover. we were kids, and boy, i just wished we were right all along. shempre gusto kong masabi na: "wala ka sa tatay ko, mamamatay-tao, este, SPY!" yes it was cool to reminisce, but maybe our stupid idea just might work. maybe it's up to us to show them what we all were missing. siguro nga laging kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan. magli-lead pa sana eto sa usapang eleksyon, pero baka kunin na akong kasapi ng isa sa mga kandidato kaya ititigil ko na. i just wish that this generation is smart enough to start the change.
babawi ako sa fun thoughts next post. CHEERS!
bakit dito sa pilipinas, parang hindi tayo umaabot sa level ng education tulad ng mga nasa first-world countries? i didn't say level of intelligence because we are all humans (assumed fact, matatalo ako for sure), therefore we can also reach what they can (boast not, you ivy league graduates, for one day you shall see kahit sinong pinoy matatalo kayo sa kahit isang bagay, maging sapakan man yan which by the way, talo na kayo dahil sa amin si pacquiao, o pabilisan kumain ng balot..). that's just the foundation of the real concern.. well, here goes: naiinggit kasi ako sa U.S. dahil sa dami ng agencies nila for national security. dito, NICA lang yata meron tayo which stands for national intelligence coordinating agency (kinailangan talaga i-coordinate, parang iniimply na sabog)... anyway, this might have stemmed from watching too many spy movies, reading too many spy novels (okay, maybe not) and watching chuck episodes but the point is, bakit tayo wala? i believe we need these agencies as much as they do, or even more so because we are in Asia and are surrounded by countries which, well, house terrorists (i'm not saying that we don't house terrorists ourselves). clearly, the non-existence of these agencies is a reflection and a statement of how much we love our country. i don't think we need another crisis to realize that. i also realized that i would want to work for those kinds of agencies not just because i'm currently unemployed, (and some of my friends who i'd love to work with too) but it would have been great to say to the future generations how OUR generation served our country. for once, i want to hear someone say, "i work for the government" (or "i'm a spy") and be proud of it. who here doesn't? tignan natin ang mga baby boomers sa pilipinas. i'm proud to say that they worked their ass off so that their descendants, us, could live better. they served their families, that's great, but is that all there is to their lives? parang ni-lugi yata sila ng destiny, lalo na sa pwede sanang mangyare sa inang bayan. nothing, it's just that ever since we were kids, my brothers always joked about my dad being a top secret agent, taking down bad guys in and out of the country and using his middle manager position as a cover. as for my mom, we imagined she's a ninja, because of her insane reflexes, her unusual skills (judo, archery, things-you-don't-wanna-know) and using the nursing degree and friendly housewife facade as cover. we were kids, and boy, i just wished we were right all along. shempre gusto kong masabi na: "wala ka sa tatay ko, mamamatay-tao, este, SPY!" yes it was cool to reminisce, but maybe our stupid idea just might work. maybe it's up to us to show them what we all were missing. siguro nga laging kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan. magli-lead pa sana eto sa usapang eleksyon, pero baka kunin na akong kasapi ng isa sa mga kandidato kaya ititigil ko na. i just wish that this generation is smart enough to start the change.
babawi ako sa fun thoughts next post. CHEERS!
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