Bear with me

Desperate for food?

Be careful where you put them or where you eat them. You might end up like the bear in this video.



Eeeeewww...

Philippine government lifecycle

This is what I think the Philippine government life cycle looks like.

1. Person A gets elected.
2. Person B accuses Person A of cheating
2.1. Person A gets disqualified. Go to #6 or
2.2. Charges against Person A is dismissed. Go to #3
3. Person A takes office and goes about his job.
4. Person A is accused about whatever.
4.1. Person A gets convicted and removed from office. Go to #6
4.2. Person A is cleared of all charges. Go to #5
5. Person B continues to accuse or Person C accuses Person A of more charges. Go to #4. Or Person B and/or C gather supporters to call for the resignation of Person A.
5.1. Person A gets ousted. Go to #6
5.2. Person A remains in office. Go to #2
6. Person D gets to replace Person A by legal transition. Go to #2 and replace letters accordingly.
7. Come next election period. Persons A, B, and C run for office.
7.1. Person A gets reelected. Go to #2
7.2. Person B or C gets elected. Go to # 2 and replace the letters accordingly.

And this vicious cycle goes over and over and over again.

Basset Hound Rock

Another cute video from Yahoo! videos uploaded by commercialbob26.

First, there was a cat. Now comes the dog.



Enjoy the music!

DJ Kitten

Got this one from yahoo videos.

Watch this kitten play DJ in the house.



The cat really knows how to play good dance music.

Unfaithful

I have just noticed this afternoon an unfaithful display by a person.

Toni Gonzaga's suitor has been unfaithful. He is a two-timer. He enjoys Toni's company but also keeps the company of another. All of you have seen this guy though may not have noticed it. Let me refresh your memory a little.

Here are the proof of such unfaithful behavior:

Proof One.
He picks up Toni from her house on a motor cycle just after Toni brushed her teeth in the Close-Up with cooling crystals commercial.

Proof Two.
He works as a dentist for the Colgate commercial.

See? Don't you see the two-timing there? He appears on both commercials for about the same duration. Where's the loyalty? Where's the trust?

Potty time: lucky or unlucky

During one of my regular visits to the throne, I was playing up my imagination. What if when I step out, a monstrous wolf (similar to the beast in Lady in the Water) appears before me? What will I do?

Decision 1.
Slowly remove my slippers and start towards the door. When the monster leaps, make a quick turn for the stairs and run up.

Decision 2. (if the monster pounces me while I remove my slippers)
Make a circular downward punch (with all my strength plus some body twist and knee bending to add power) to the floor timing it when the monster's skull is inside my path of attack. This, hopefully, will crush its skull against the floor.

Now, thinking over it, I got the following scenarios:

Scenario 1.
I run away and hide in my room.

Scenario 2.
I kill the wolf (and proclaim myself Beowulf... hehehe)

Scenario 3.
I get eaten.

Scenario 4.
I kill the wolf and it turns out that it was there to play with me. It turns out it is my old pet that I have forgotten.

Scenario 5.
I get pounced for my slow reaction and get licked. It turns out it is my old pet that I have forgotten.

Decisions and possible consequences. Who will be the lucky one? We can only find out in the end when it may be too late.

Potty time: (might be) icky subject on sleep

Do you drool in your sleep? Or do you wake up with a dry throat?

I have just recently surmised that I is better to drool in your sleep than to wake up with a dry throat. For when you drool in your sleep, you wake up with a moist mouth and throat sans the inconvenience of having the need to force yourself to get out of bed and gurgle.

Have a good night's sleep. :)

Haitian UFO

Watch this... It looks weird but seems real!



I got this when I opened my Yahoo! account just this evening. You can view the comments at this site

Chain of ideas - nuclear powered car

During my childhood days, I had conceptualized the construction of a nuclear powered car. All electronic, all automatic, all power.

My concept then is the creation of a compact fusion reactor. Heavy water is fed to the reactor chamber that is teeming with deuterium that will allow for sustainable fusion reaction. The deuterium is heated by multiple lasers focused at the center of the reactor sphere.

Heated water produced by the reaction is taken into a steam generator whose steam propels a steam trubine attached to a generator. This generator provides the power for the car and its on board electronics.

All these are in the hood of the car. Electric motors attached to the rear wheels move the car.

And this car is an example of something powered by water. Very abundant. Now being abused.

Potty time - daylight saving

A most common problem with the working folks like myself is getting to the office on time. And the major factor that is involved in being successfully in the office is t-i-m-e. Time that people say you do not have. But time is what you have.

Take for example your wrist watch, mobile phone, pager, computer, wall clock, or alarm clock. What do they all have? Time!

In order to be in the office early without having to reset your daily schedule is to reset your time pieces.

The most effective resetting I have had is putting my time pieces in various times of advancement - i.e. advance the time that you see from the real time.

What I did was set my watch, my computer's time , and my mobile phone 30 minutes in advance and our dinning room wall clock to about 45 minutes in advance.

Looking at the time when I open my eyes gives me jolt and sets me on a rushed start. By the time I get to the dining room to have some milk before leaving, I realize that I am already running late and try to rush things and be in the office well before 8:00.

On the down side, once you get the hang of what the real time is, you get back to getting late.

All you need to do now is to really work hard to leave early. Well, you can always set your time piece back to the right time and have someone else reset the time to the previous advanced state. :)

Potty time - cooking tips

Another concept during drought.

A friend of mine came home late and came in hungry. Our staple during hours beyond the reach of waiting for a regular meal (breakfast, lunch, supper) is a pack of noodles. So when he got home, he immediately opened his supply box and took out two packs of noodles.

But before he could cook, he is facing several problems. Two to be exact. One, we have no more water. Two, our electric stove is busted.

Being a brilliant guy that he is, this is what he did:

1. Raid the softdrink supply and get four bottles of clear drinks (my friend chose Mountain Dew).
2. Pour contents of the softdrink bottle on a pot.
3. Get an iron (the one used for pressing clothes) set it up securely where the plate faces the ceiling.
4. Put the pot on the plate and set the iron to the highest temperature rating, in this case the setting for ironing wool.
5. Bring the pot to a boil and just follow the instructions on cooking noodles.

I was not able to get a taste of the "gourmet" cooking but I saw him gobble up the noodle including the yellowish soup.

Bath time - on saving water

There was this time when drought came upon us. Tap water supply is rationed such that we only have water from 4:00 to 8:00am and from 6:00 to 10:00pm. This poses a big problem in a household with almost a dozen boys sharing one bathroom.

Solution 1: Collect water

Buy large plastic drums (previously used to contain unknown fluids) and store at least 2 drums of water. Fill in the drums when water starts to flow in the morning and at night.

For drinking water, take home as much plastic bottle that you can collect from your day out to store drinking water in. This way, you'll never pass the night thirsty.

Solution 2: Maximize the availability of water

Make it a point to take a bath within the period where there is water. Since most of us leave well before 8:00 in the morning, we bathe between 5:00am and 7:00am. And based on Solution 1, we fill in the drums while we bathe. In the evening, it is advisable that you go home early. Arriving home early allows you to clean-up before the water flow is reduced to trickles.

Use this time to fill in all empty water bottles, do your laundry, and water the plants.

Solution 3: Recycle

Here's the trick! Get an empty pale, straddle it and take a bath collecting water in the pail along the way. You can also wash your undergarments on top of the pale while you're at it. This will allow you to collect used water that will be enough to flush your toilet.

Also, brush your teeth near your garden and sprinkle gurgled water on to the plants. Who knows. your plants may become well protected against cavities. :)

Great outdoors - walking in the rain

Right now, the Philippines is experiencing rains... It is rainy season with moments of summer...

During college, a friend and I were contemplating on how we could cross from one building to next to attend our classes. He was deep in thought while I was busy observing the quality of female students when he said, "It will be much better for us to walk through the drizzle than run as fast as we can to the next building."

An then he continued on to explain that walking through the drizzle or even light rain means that our bodies will get in contact with fewer droplets than when we run.

Here is the "scientific" explanation to his concept:

You have 10 droplets lined up level with one another 1 foot apart in a straight line moving downward at the same speed. When you walk through them as they drop, you will only get hit by one or two of them. But if you run through them, you will hit about half of them before they hit the ground.

Similarly, you hit a few droplets walking through a rain than running across it.

In a heavy downpour, however, the volume of droplets is so large that running will be the most prudent course of action.

I therefore conclude that the speed at which a person should traverse an open are during the rain is directly proportional to the amount of downpour. As such, light rain will required slow speed and heavy rain requires racing speed.

:)

Potty time - be sure to wake up early

How should someone ensure that he or she wakes up early?

1. The alarm clock. -if you have an alarm clock or an alarm on your mobile phone even, set it up to alert you at the time you want to wake up and voila! you are up! On the downside, one can get used to the sound and dismiss it as a dream and hold on to slumberland.

2. The television. -some televisions have wake-up functions. Simply set the time of the television to the time you currently have then set the television to turn on at the time you prefer. Some TV's allow users to indicate which channel the tv should tune in to when it turns on. I set mine to the MTV channel with volume at 30. It is a shattering waker-upper.

3. Sleep early. -our body clocks will wake us up after our usual sleeping period, say 6 hours. The bad thing is, sleeping at 8 might wake you up at 3. He he he.

4. Commit yourself to a blissful rest. -take a position, usually laid flat on your back, then concentrate to relax the whole part of your body. After all, sleep is the time when your body is in its resting mode. Unless you dream of something exciting, you will wake up to any alarm you set.

5. Make yourself uncomfortable. -this usually works during summers. This can be done in different ways: (1) Cool down your room to a comfortable temperature using your air conditioner. Just before you sleep, turn off the air conditioner and sleep. At around 4am, the room is warm enough to annoy you to wake up. (2) Turn on the electric fan but tilt it upwards to that the air only brushes you. Lie still until you get comfortable enough to sleep. At around 4am, you will get the same result as with the air conditioner... a sweaty annoying waker-upper. (3) Turn on the fan, this time allow the air to hit you directly. For analog timers, set the timer of your fan to shut down after the most number of hours, usually 2 hours. For digital timers, set the fan to turn off at least 1 hour before your planned waking time. All these will wake you up 100% annoyed, sweaty, and in bad temper. But hey, you are up and that is all that matters.

Have a nice day!

Conceptual History of Cotabato City

A city in the Southern Philippine island of Mindanao is named Cotabato.

During the Spanish period, there is a stronghold in this area with walls, ramparts, and towers made of rock. The natives refer to it as Kuta Bato or stone fortress. The name stuck and was "modernized" substituting "K" with a "C" that lead to the birth of Cotabato.

Believe it?

Movie sequel: Underworld, sequel to Van Helsing

Kate Beckinsale appeared in two movies.

In Van Helsing, she appeared as the descendant of an old family that have sworn to destroy Count Dracula. At the ending, she was killed by Helsing who has turned into a werewolf. But before that happened, she was already bitten by Dracula.

She was resurrected in Underworld as a vampire fighting against the Lycans or werewolves. This is her form of vengeance against the werewolves because of what Van Helsing did to her.

Have a nice day!