MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

ayan may panahon na para magsulat at finally magupdate na sa blog na to. ewan ko ba kung bakit di na ako naguupdate. masyado ata akong nasindak sa mga prof ko ngaung sem kya sobrang nagbabasa na ako ng readings everyday kaya wlang time para magnet. pero honestly, parang wlang epekto ang pagbabasa everyday. wala rin naman akong nasagot sa mga quiz at recitation. hai.

well, in the spirit of christmas, maguupdate ako. hehe.irrele xa pero kebs lang diba? hai ulit.

one week na ako dito sa bicol. i was so excited to go home kasi maxado nga akong nahagard. five chapters per meeting ba naman. may dala pa nga akong five chapters pauwi para basahin. but no, wla akong ginawa sa one week na yun kundi maglaro ng sims at lumamon ng marami. that's right, may idadami pa ang kinakain ko. hehe.

gumagaling na ako sa sims. super professionals na yung mga characters ko. may vice president na ng kumpanya. may senior officer ng army. may surgeon, top secret researcher, assistant professor, runway model, head chef, tv reporter, stage musician, mountain climber, animal acting coach, movie star, clown, bank robber at madami pa... hehe... ay may congresswoman din pala... hehe... ang galing kasi... you play god for few hours a day... diba? ganda nun... kaya mong sirain ang buhay ng iba (well, ang buhay ng simulated character mo)... hehe... kaya mo din siyang patayin o kaya parusahan... it feels so good that you can manipulate other people... no wonder why people kill just to be god... power makes this world go round and in fact, insane... does god have absolute power over us? does he determine our being just like me lording over sims? absolute power corrupts absolutely. do god corrupt then? with this overwhelming power, how can you not? it's not a matter of righteousness, right? how can you be kind when you have everything? hehe... ewan... wla na naman coherence and unity ang sinusulat ko... hehe..

pero diba? come to think of it. in this day that jesus was supposed to have been born, i can't help but wonder why did god chose to salvage us? is it because he really loves? or is it because he wants to see us suffer more? suffering makes us appreciate what we already have and thus making us a better person. but there's a limit to this positive end of a negative mean. is this day we celebrate a day to celebrate at all? this is the day that perhaps allows us to suffer even longer. this has perpetuated severe pain and agony to exist. and we celebrate it?

christmas. it is an event of the past that we continue to celebrate in the present and will be continued in the future. but is there actual validity to this kind of veneration? i don't know. i only celebrate it for the food and the reason to stay up late.

it's been a while.

walang panahon.

un lang

Last person lang who..
x. Slept in your bed:
<@> ako.

x. Saw you cry:
<@> orgmates ata.

x. Made you cry:
<@> i made myself cry. foolish diba?

x. You shared a drink with?
<@> my mom

x. You went to the movies with:
<@> mom. just watched finding neverland.

x. You went to the mall with:
<@> mom. the movie house's at the mall.

x. Sent you an email:
<@> email? as in email? my uncle from the states

HAVE YOU EVER..
x. Said "I Love You" and meant it?
<@> nope. cant find the courage too. hehe.

x. Gotten in a fight with your pet?
<@> think so.

x. Danced naked:
<@> i refuse to comment. hehe.

x. Dreamed something really crazy and then it
happened the next day:
<@> never. i don't remember my dreams in the first palce.

x. Wished you were the opposite sex:
<@> nope

x. Had an imaginary friend..
<@> hehe. parang.

x. Do you have a crush on someone:
<@> how do you classify a crush? ewan.

x. What book are you reading now:
<@> i was supposed to read donm quixote. but television is a lot easier to comprehend

x. Worst feeling in the world:
<@> pain

x. Future son's/daughter's name:
<@> yung pang telenovela type... fernando jose.. ganun... heheh

x. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal:
<@> never.

x. What's under your bed:
<@> the floor?

x. Piercings/tattoos:
<@> none. wish i had one.

EXTRA STUFF
x. Do you take drugs:
<@> nope. but i'm an addict to the truth. hehe

x. Who is your best friend:
<@> myself

x. clothes u sleep in:
<@> none. hehe

x. Where do you want to get married:
<@> i don't want to get married. marriage sucks.

x. Who do you really hate:
<@> heretics. so that's like everybody

x. Do you like being around people:
<@> i prefer being around people but i also love solitude

x. Are you for world peace:
<@> world peace is nice. but i think it is unattainable

STUFF
x. Have you ever liked someone you've never met:
<@> nakakainis mang sabihin pero oo. and she's still angry at me... hehe... don't ask why

x. Do you have a "type" of personality you always
fall for?
<@> same question that jim carrey asked in eternal sunshine for the spotless mind...

x. Want someone you don't have right now:
<@> i don't know how  to  answer this question

x. Are you lonely right now:
<@> yup. i have always been

x. Song thats stuck in ur head?
<@> lumingon ka lang. hehe. joke

x. Do you want to get married:
<@> never.

x. Do you want kids:
<@>definitely!! even if i'm not married

FAVORITE
x. place in house:
<@> bedroom

x. Type of music:
<@> kahit ano

x. Color/s
<@> blue, red

x. Perfume or cologne:
<@> pheromones

IN THE LAST 24 HOURS, HAVE YOU..
x. Cried:
<@> nope. last last night pa un. hehe

x. Bought something:
<@> with my own money? mcflurry

x. Gotten sick:
<@> sipon. i've got this thing with my ankle that i can't seem to settle

x. Met someone new:
<@> wala.

x. Hugged someone:
<@> wala.

this is just so hilarious that i have to share it with al of you guys. enjoy!! got it from friendster..

a]If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6
days you
would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of
coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

b]If you farted consistently for 6 years and
9 months,
enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an
atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)

c]The human heart creates enough
pressure when it
pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

d]A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

e]A cockroach will live nine days without
its head
before it starves to
death.
(Creepy!)
(I'm still not over the pig.)

f]Banging your head against a wall uses
150
calories an hour.
(Don't try this at home, at work..maybe)

g]The male praying mantis cannot
copulate while its
head is attached to
its body. The female initiates sex by
ripping the
male's head off.
("Honey, I'm home. What the.......?!")

h]The flea can jump 350 times its body
length. It's
like a human jumping
the length of a football field.
(30 minutes...lucky pig! Can you
imagine?)

i]The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of
a pond?)

j]Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next
life...quality over
quantity.)

k]Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

l]The strongest muscle in the body is the
tongue.
(Hmmmmmmm.......)

m]Right-handed people live, on average,
nine years
longer than
left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the
difference?)

n]Elephants are the only animals that
cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing.)

o]A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

p]An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)

q]Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)

r]Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

s]Humans and dolphins are the only
species that
have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)


Now that you've smiled at least once, it's
your turn
to spread these
crazy facts and send this to someone you
want to
bring a smile to (maybe
even a chuckle)....
In other words,
send it to everyone!

i'm so excited. in just a little or less 6 hours i'm gonna be on my way home. as in home sa bicol.
but before that, i have to finish this take home exam. madugo. di ko na ata kaya eh. 10 pages ba naman. but anyway keri lang. i've been doing papers and alike all this sem. so i'll try to do it as fast but as convoluted as i can.
anyway, better get goin. i'm on my 7th page and my back is hurting so i have hurry. as in hurry. nyahah... i'll be posting my next entry when i'm bicol already. doesn't make too much of a difference but i don't knoe, maybe the ambience there would make me write things with substance and less typo errors. hehe.

According to the media and gender group, we can then say that Filipinas today still suffer oppression both at home and at work. The media group discussed about the implications on the images of women as portrayed in TV commercials. In such analysis, they have come into conclusions that women especially those of married women are still regarded as housewives. They are much associated with household chores like washing of clothes, cooking and taking care of the kids. Their images are still anchored to what we have already known to since the Spanish Period. And such image of a housewife is perpetuated continuously at present time by the media particularly on commercials.
It has been a common notion that the media holds a key role in influencing the public. And it is likewise undeniable that media is perhaps the strongest institution of socialization in the country. Through massive technological advancements, media has been so pervasive and ubiquitous in the country reaching people as far as the provinces. Almost everyone either watches television or listen to the radio. Although broadsheet seems to show some kind of elitist nature due to its preference for English, the masses enjoy print media more with tabloids due to its use of the Tagalog and that it is cheap. Aside from this reason, one could say that because of the weakening other institution that is perpetuating the power the media has. Education for example has been replaced by infotainment programs in teaching various concepts and fields. Religion in his role of keeping morality at bay has failed to do so. Although it is normal for a morality to change over time, the morality given out the media is so far out to what has been taught by the church. And church itself recognizes such power when it always castigates the media for irresponsibility and unaccountability to the public through pornography and violence rampant in the media today. We have been to posses such strong family ties. But in the recent years, family has disintegrated into becoming patches of its members. The rise of the concept of shadow families displays what has happened to the Filipino family. Lastly, the politics side of the society which is the government’s concern has come short in meeting what is expected of them to do. Like the other institutions, politics has become dysfunctional in that it declines in influencing the people. Loss of trust due to massive and normalized graft and corruption perhaps primarily have been a factor in all of this. And we may also associate it with their failure in providing the basic needs of the people.
Large-scale unemployment is one problem that the government hasn’t solved. In their part however, the government has tried many means to alleviate the lack of jobs in the country. They have formulated plans of action like granting seasonal and contractual jobs for many, call center jobs for the English proficient and what might have been present all along, promoting labor migration or working abroad. Feminization of this migration has been a trend since 1992 here in the country. Much of these women enter as service workers like caregivers and nurses in different parts of the globe mostly in highly industrialized nations.
Nevertheless, one may ask why has only 8 million people has chosen such path? There are more than 70 million who suffer the same economic state of poverty. According to the website of National Statistics Office, in December of 2004, the unemployment rate is 10.9%. In the face of these numbers, why do we still find people staying in the country instead of washing other people’s white buttocks in the USA or Canada. We may still see the colonial mentality of Filipinos setting in wherein we see most Western countries as greener pasture offering more opportunities.
So what does these issues implicate towards the views of women in our society. We can’t talk about women if we do not relate it to man. In some ways, the concept of a woman being the significant other or of lower status compare to the husband. Indeed, family is a sight for oppression. This occurs basically because the man in the relationship controls the power. Such power comes from him being able to earn for the family, being able to bring food on the dinning table. In this sense, we may see him as possessing the means of production which Marx sees as the source of power in society. In terms of this power relation, when such power is exercised in the family especially on the wife/mother, she has become subjugated and oppressed in the process. In this manner, we may see since the TV commercials showing such images are still perpetuated that Filipinas are still oppressed in the country although the Spanish occupation has ended. Furthermore, we still see women as housewives-to-be. Such perception persists on the assumption that women should only be then limited to house works. Household chores include taking care of the kids, cooking, shopping groceries and other menial tasks.
With this in mind, further study of the feminization of migration, we can say that in some ways this has become an empowerment brought about by resistance from the claws of patriarchy. They already earn for themselves and thus hold the means of production. They have gone beyond the limits of house. However, such resistance may still be seen as a sign of subjugation. The work they are hired in are extension still of their household chores. Caregivers and nurses are some of the example of these works. This entails that certain “taking care” duties are still vested on to women. This is less of empowerment than subjugation. And who is assuring us that these OFWs does not do household chores when they got home?
Women in general can be seen then more as the second sex or the significant other in the Philippine society. Although the image may have generally improved as compared to baro’t saya days of the Spanish Period, women now are still oppressed both at home and at work. And through this I know that it would take a lot of time before we can get over this kind of images or perception of women, definitely and especially when the media still enjoy its oligarchic nature.

hindi pa ako natutulog. bente-kwatro oras na mulat ang mata ko. walang puknat na pagtingin sa nakaririmarim na mundong ginagalawan. bente-kwatro oras na rin akong rinding-rindi sa realidad. sa katotohanan ng pagkakawatak-watak ng iba't ibang institusyon ng paglilingkod. nakasampal ang monitor sa aking pisnging sumisigaw ng tubig at sabon. tigang na ang aking mga mata. nakapula na ito at taas kamaong umaalsa na para makapahinga. walang nagbukas ng gate. pikit pa ang mga matang sing-dalisay ng pag-usbong ng bulaklak sa hardin ng mga birhen. mababango at mahalimuyak. walang kasing-ganda. ilang beses ko na ring ibinagting ang kampana ngunit walang nagigising. nakapikit pa ang kanilang mga mata. nagbibingibingihan ang mga tenga. parang taling-gaga na lamang sa ingay ng mapang-akit na araw. sing-bilis ng mga tricycle na walang paki-alam na dumadalaw sa lugar ang pagtulo ng aking mga pawis. hindi dahil sa pag-eehersiyo kundi sa pagtayo sa ilalim ng mapag-aping araw. pinilit kong tiisin, ngunit mas uminit lamang ang aking pakiramdam. umiinit na ang ulo ko. naisipan ko ng gisingin sa bulilyahaw ang mga kapitbahay ng pagsabog ng gate sa aking harapan. ngunit pinili kong lumayo. ngayon, nag-eehersiyo na aking mga maruruming daliri. ang mga kuko'y puno ng dumi't putik sa kakatrabaho upang mabuhay muli ang pagsasamahang lumabo ang pagkabuhay. hindi ako nagbibilang ng araw. mas umiigting lamang ang aking nararamdaman bawat paglapit sa araw ng pagbabalik. hindi ito drama.hindi rin ito komedya. ito ay alay sa lahat upang pagpiyestahan.ang aming puso't damdamin ay nagpupumilit na bumalikwas sa kung anong inaasahan... hindi ko na maintindihan ang sinasabi ko. antok lang talaga ako.

wlang panahon akong magblog.
masakit pa ang mga mata ko dahil sa dalawang FR na sunod sunod.
una, aplikante ako.
masakit pa ang katawan ko dahil pinag-push up ba naman kami... eh i'm not that physically fit... kaya eto i'm bearing the sour fruits of being fat...
ung natapos pa lang kanina eh member naman ako.
syempre sobrag hagaran sa app.
mabait ako kanina... hindi masyadong nangtrip. sobrang antok pa kasi.
anyway, namis ko na ring magsulat.
kaya eto kahit may finals bukas eh nagiinernet pa ko.
wala lang.
gusto ko lang sayangin ang oras mo sa pagbabasa nito