I have come to realized that complaining to a “racial” slur is worth nothing.

We sometimes respond in hate to a hate. We blame the government for all the social problems, accuse them of corruption. Religious debate here and there. Upset because our salaries are too little.

All of these are just trivial. There are more important things in life.

My selfishness disappears every time i watch this video.

Let me waste 2:35 minutes of your time, watch the video below taken using a cam phone.

Somebody bought a coffee from the Nescafe vending machine in our office cafeteria. He noticed something unusual about the sweet smelling Nescafe coffee. There were dark spots, and he took a closer look. He saw that looked like an arm or a leg of a cockroach! The cockroach was shredded into pieces.

A big thank you to the following blogsters who tagged me on their weblogs.

Benj – www.atheista.net
Tess Termulo – www.tesstermulo.com
EmpressMaruja – http://empressmaruja.wordpress.com
Aries the Warrior Princess – ariesthewarriorprincess.blogspot.com
iLookTiny – http://ilooktiny.i.ph
HariSkwatir - http://hariskwatir.luv.ph
Ratified.org
PinoyBlurker
Bingskee - http://bingskee.wordpress.com

Will add later if i remember those linked me up.

God bless you all. I believe in blessings!

I just turned 34 today, August 16.

Many things have changed. Some things have delayed changes, like my good looks.

When i was a teenager, Afterimage’s song Next In Line used to be one of my favorites because it has a good tune. Lame and immature reason, hey i was young and naive then. When i turned 32 two years ago, i heard that song again and the lyrics just out of the blue dawned on me. I could relate to it now. It felt like the singer was talking about me, or about us who are next in line to getting old. Hahaha.

It is indeed an “endless cycle”. I used to ridicule old people, though i no longer do it now. I read in the Bible to respect old people. Although the inevitable will happen, i will be “next in line” to be ridiculed by the younger scums. Hahaha.

Usually the objects of jealousy are famous, rich, achiever and good-looking. While those who are envious or jealous are typically the opposite: not famous, not so rich, and not so good-looking. More often than not, the latter has limited knowledge of those they are in envy of.

David Beckham. Currently, he is the talk of the town in the USA. Despite the fact that a lot of people are admiring his looks, his achievements there are still those who don’t.

Have you mercilessly tossed hate comments about David Beckham? I read remarks like he is the Anna Kournikova of football, all looks and no achievement; he is just famous because his wife is. Many want him to fail and all.

If you do one of the things above, then you’re plain jealous or envious!

David Beckham is not all looks, and no attainment at all. He was a member of two previous champion football clubs. He was practically a starter in all of those games. He is the captain of England Football Team for seven years, a rare feat for a football player. He will most likely lead his LA Galaxy to championship.

Kobe Bryant. The same also with Kobe Bryant haters. Just plain jealous of him. Kobe has good-looks, money; achievement and popularity while his haters, oh well.

Paris Hilton. Although I don’t like her because she is not a good role model to younger kids especially girls. She is also one of the most hated, envied upon famous celebrity. Did I say she’s famous, beautiful, and rich? However, I don’t think she has achieved something positive though.

Younger achievers. You feel uncomfortable, you don’t feel like submitting or you refuse to be taught when a younger, but intellectually gifted or athletically talented is around to teach you something.

If you experience the above, then you’re jealous and mixed a bit with insecurity and pride.

I still do get envious, and do the things I mentioned above when not aware of what I am doing.

English-Cebuano tutorial now updated. For those who are interest to know how to speak or simply comprehend basic Cebuano just click the English-Cebuano link above.

The comments options is now fixed.

You can repost your comments again for those who attempted to comment previously.

Thanks.

This ad has been pulled out by Masterfoods inc, the maker of Snickers chololate bar. Gays and Lesbian group in the US were offended by its message.

According to a gay group leader that “That Snickers, Mars and the NFL would promote and endorse this kind of prejudice is simply inexcusable.”

The two guys in the ad did not even “kissed” , their lips just accidentally touched, but even barely. Some people just want to make an issue on trivial things.

This is not to brag or for you to emulate the silly things i did in school. It just makes me smile remembering those things.

Always remember this: What we do now will always comeback to us in the future. The bible says “What you sow is what you reap.” is always true.

Here it is:

Back in fourth year high school at MSU-IIT.

I drew the face of my teacher in caricature style, then doing the same thing the following week. Then when she was about to enter the room, she saw the cartoon drawing (again) on the blackboard from a distance. She became suspicious. She did not go in right away, but went out somewhere and asked another student from another class to erase the drawing on the board.

Minutes later, she came in, with a trace of anger/blush on her face but in a minimal level (thankfully). She demanded for the guilty one to come out or she will flunk the whole class (i know it was just a bluff). I resisted. But one of my classmates told me to admit.

I heeded.

She was surprised that it was me. I’ve been known to be a “good” boy in school. After some preaching and sermon, she went out again.

Later, our school director (principal) summoned me into his office. Good thing, he was nice. He was smiling while advising me not to draw my teacher’s face again.

Hey, do you have your own naughty experince that you can share? Just hit the comment link.

All men and especially women have the desire to look good physically. As young as three years old already have this consciousness of what is good looks, and little kids know whether they look good or not.

Men particularly the unprivileged ones would like to have Sam Milby’s or Wentworth Miller’s hunky looks pasted on their faces. Those who don’t have enough cash go to the gym while those who have money to burn go to the plastic surgeon. Women wear makeup, jewelry and if those are not enough they put on revealing and tight clothes to show off their bodies.

Men and women do this beautification thing for one or two of the following reasons. Simply to be noticed by everyone around; to dig chicks easily, or lure men without working so hard; applying for a job would minimize all the troubles. I heard some companies accept an applicant because of his or her “pleasant” appearance.

Didn’t you know that there are also downsides of being good looking? Some of you may not believe it, but there are quiet a few.

Downsides of being good-looking:

Pride. It will make you conceited. Satan was guilty of this. He was handsome, and to add to that he was gifted with musical skills, a rank of second in position after God. Because he thought all the attention are all his, but he was wrong. Very wrong. He got kicked out of heaven. Now he is out making everyone ugly. Watch out, stick to Jesus.

Dumb. Everyone thinks of you as dumb. All you have is beauty, and no brains. You can prove them wrong, that if you have the brains to support your good looks.

Hated. Myth has told you that if you have the good looks all human beings and women in particular will love you. You are wrong again. There are a number women and a few gays who just simply hate you for no apparent reasons. Perhaps psychologists have the answer reagarding this strange behavior.

Hardwork. Look at the actors in the movies. Good looking ones always get the lead role, they always get the projects. Producers pick out the pretty ones by default, and that means they are always working, and it will affect your health in the process. In monarch countries during the ancient times they chose handsome men to become their kings, and a king was practically for all time the one who lead in battle, and the unfortunate ones gets killed.

So there. There could be more, but I will add them here if I will experience more downsides in the future. Hehehehehe.

School Bukel
English Pronunciation Reeducation

This is my so-called little analysis on what’s the correct pronunciation of the word “oracle.”

Let me start it with a short story of a man from the Visayas.

His name is Chris, who proficiently speaks three Filipino dialects: Ilonggo, Cebuano or traditionally known as Bisaya, and Tagalog, but formally called as Filipino. He grew up in Ilo-ilo and went to Cebu for his collegiate education.

Chris has a good academic background and an admirable working ethics. In his recent work he is one of its team leaders. His company mainly renders programming for various companies abroad. Adept in English as he is, part of his job is to train people and thus talking is a necessity.

In one of his talks, he mentioned the word “oracle” in a sentence. But right after he spoke that very word, laughter echoed in the room from the mouths of the tagalog-speaking individuals. Chris knew it was the way he pronounced “oracle,” but he just humbly kept quiet because he was sure he pronounced it correctly. Then his American superior’s turn to speak, he also had the chance to include the word “oracle” in his sentences. The American pronounced the word “oracle” the way Chris did. The superior just continued on with his discussion, a deafening shame reverberated in the ears and minds of those jeering tagalog-speaking creatures.

Apologies for the disintegration of your excitement, but the story about Chris has now end.

Now let’s do a little investigation. Let’s dissect the word “oracle.”

According to Random House Dictionary:
Oracle - a divine utterance made by a God through a priest or a priestess in response to an inquiry.

Correct pronunciation: www.answers.com/oracle

It’s an inverted e and not e!

What is an inverted e?
Occurs in unaccented syllables before l preceded by t, d, or n, or before n, preceded by t or d to show syllabic quality, as in:
Cra-dle www.answers.com/cradle
Red-den www.answers.com/redden
Met-al www.answers.com/metal
Men-tal www.answers.com/mental

Let’s compare it with words that has an e pronunciation:
Bell (bel) www.answers.com/bell
Smell (smel) www.answers.com/smell

I therefore conclude “oracle” is pronounced as www.answers.com/oracle / orakal / orakoal and NOT orakel !!! I therefore conclude that our Filipino brothers in Luzon have been fed with some erroneous English pronunciations all along.