madrasah

DepEd pushes madrasah program [snip] MANILA, Philippines -- The Department of Education (DepEd) is stepping up its efforts to provide high-quality education in Muslim public schools through the madrasah program .. Under the program, the government will solicit "matching donations" from Malaysia and Brunei, its "partners in Southeast Asia for improving the quality of Muslim education in the country."

les écoles publique islamique? should public schools be labeled as islamic/catholic/whatever. should we be teaching lies to our children such as the long process of our existence, biologically speaking? that we didn't come from banana trees like in some fairy tale. nor did we just magically appeared out of nowhere. this is just one of the lies perpetuated by religion. i sight here for emphasis of what kind of lies they are known for. as the famous evolutionary biologist and author richard dawkins pointed out. there are no moslem/catholic/whatever children. there are just children of moslem/catholic/whatever parents who forcing their children to take on their own religion. these children are not given the freedom to choose for themselves. because by the time they develop the sense, they've already been programmed to reject reason (or other lies from other religions). why call it a public school? if it means to teach religion. why call it a school at all. why not just call it for what it is, a brain washing / indoctrination center.

i can see why the government agrees to this arrangement. it does not have much money. and most of the government budget goes to paying off the debt. not to education. think about the repercussions of this decision to our society. call me ignorant. what do they call those schools in the middle east and apparently all over europe as well, which teach hatred and extremism.

SA WAKAS GRADWEYT NA ANG UTOL KO!!

masaya kami kagabi. dahil nagmarcha na ang akong igsuhon. gradweyt na gyud sya. at sa lunes magsugod na siya sa canon, sa libis. hindi sangayon ang among magulang at mga lain na igsuhon na tanggapin niya yung sa canon. pero ang akong giingnon siya na .. gawin niya yung gusto niya. wag syang makikinig sa ibang tao o mas lalo na sa lipunan. siya ay malaya mag desisyon para sa sarili niya. pagkatapos ng ceremonias kumain kami sa teriyaki boy ng salmon sashimi, miso soup, kanin, piniritong tofu at giniling at iba pa. mura lang yung nakain namin. walo kami tanan. pero mga 3k lang nagastos namo. hehe.

quels les états des états-unis as-tu visité? many people ask me why i returned to the philippines. i constantly did ask myself during the early days of being back. i missed the hot water. the bath tub. the car. the tv shows. the easy access to quality porn. the enjoyable experience of driving. the famous places we often see on tv. the financial freedom. back then i was ready to give up my own identity.

i was not able to see the bigger picture. that i wasnt happy. and this is what CEBU taught me. im talking about having meaningful relationships with friends. i didnt have friends in the states. and i was neglecting the other most important part of my life. my family. looking back at this map. at the few places i have been too. this question came up again because another friend is considering coming back. and i can imagine that he has been receiving a deluge of reproach. he made a list of what matters. disadvantages and advantages. in the end, the best advice i could ever give him and anyone for that matter is .. do what YOU want (do not do what someone else wants).

weekend de héros

je viens de finir de regarder les episodes une (1) à douze (12) de la serie célèbre de héros. évidemment mon favori personnage est nakamura-san, le japonais et ton ami qui ont voyagé à new york à sauvgarder claire, the cheerleader. nakamura-san aime le star trek hehe. making him an instant stand out in the series. et bien sur, matt, le flic (cop) qui lis des pensées. je l'aime aussi.

c'est une histoire extraordinaire qui a des personnages qui sont même plus extraordinaires. it has the basic elements of what makes a good show. star trek fans everywhere should be able to recognize these elements. if not then surely they would appreciate the numerous references of it in the show.

what are these elements? first, its science fiction. its intelligent. it has plausible explanations to everything that is happening to and in its own universe without giving in to coincidence and being turned into one of those pathetic public tv shows which features fully customed super heros (it gets tired you know?). second. its definitely epic scale and entertaining. just check out the blonde. third. there is comedy and very likable characters having unique roles to the story. je ne peux pas attendre la saison 2.

si j'étais un super-héro, quelle sorte de héro suis-je? well. i always wanted to make people happy. and on very rare occasions i wanted people to feel the pain they're causing me. so i guess if i was a super hero i would want to be the one which absorbs or projects emotions. think of a fat betazed. et c'est moi. hehe. this show means a lot to me in many ways. we all want to feel we are special. that we are unique. that we are sons and daughters of some divine being. quelle arrogance. yes?

c'est mon anniversaire aujourd'hui. j'ai maintenant 34 ans. j'ai passé le week-end avec ma famille. mes neveux et ma niece sont tous chez mes parents où j'habite ces jours. je suis très contente bien que j'ai gagné contre jésus et josé rizal qui ont mort à 33 ans. i had a short massage in the afternoon. one of the best birthdays i have had. normally i would be by myself especially when im away.

so i moved back to manila. mainly i thought i need to be spending time with my family. my parents are not getting any younger. they're not sick. i figured how long do they really have to live. i want to make the most of it by being there with them. when i moved to cebu 2003. i needed to get away from everything. i was depressed over leaving the states. my plans and my dreams were temporarily changed. later the changes have become permanent. i sought out new dreams. new goals. then now i dont think about going abroad or leaving the country anymore. this is age talking. im a bitter old man. ^_^

i think about it on occassion. what makes me happy. and the answer is not where i am. or what possessions i have accumulated for myself. it is my relationship with my family and friends. this is the truth i found for myself. i cant speak for others.

at work, i have decided to change names to my home name which is jun. this time its going to be just me. jun. with max. max is the young kid who had big dreams of travelling the world. he is pre occupied with how much he makes. or what he wears sometimes. he is the kid who smokes, drinks, and spends late hours out of the house. he's angry. he's no longer here.

des changements

pour ce site, je vais poster des articles que parlent d'atheisme. in this article, eve (adam's wife) got busy with some neanderthals. hehe. quand j'etais plus jeune, nous avons eu une histoire, elle parle de malakas (fort) et maganda (belle) qui appairaissent de l'arbe banane. une histoire comme l'histoire d'adam et eve. tous les deux expliquent l'origine d'etres humains. mais bien sur, elles sont juste des histoires. they stop being amusing passed adolescence. science offers a more interesting story and one that is most certainly closer to the truth.

CHINA'S EARLIEST MODERN HUMAN FOUND .. An early modern human from China dated to about 40,000 years ago adds to evidence that the first Homo sapiens sapiens occasionally mated with older human species such as Neandertals.

il faut que je fais des changements quand j'ai déménagé à la grande ville. j'ai besoin de me reveiller en bonne heure (6h00). et puis, je prendrai le bus qui me prendrai à makati pour moins que 2 heures. ça fait 50 pesos. la circulation est lourde toujours. makati est très urbain. nous n'avons pas une cantine mais la ville est pleine des 7-11s et mini-stops. les gens-ci marchent rapidement. ils ne semblent pas de s'amuser. moi, je m'amuse de prendre une promenade. il y a des walkways au-dessus de la terre (au-dessus la circulation au-dessous) et il y a aussi des walkways souterrain. il y a le système de train aussi. il y a beaucoup de fumeurs degoutant dans les rues. c'est comme exactement des villes au japon ou de grandes villes aux états-unis. je prend mon petit déjeuner et mon déjeuner à 7-11. je suis seul. mes amis me manquant bien surtout tu-sais-qui. je me demande si j'ai fait une bonne décision. :(

nous nous sommes retrouvé à max fried chicken au midi pour le déjeuner. rico, edi, allan et moi. sunshine n'avait pas reussi à venir avec nous. ni chris qui travaille à ortigas. ni mikes qui travaille aux états-unis. ils sont été mes meilleurs amis à l'université.



toutefois, quelque choses ne changeront jamais.

une chapitre commence

je reviens à manille. j'habite maintenant chez mes parents encore. 6h30, j'ai pris le bus. je me suis senti un peu triste quand le bus est arrivé à la voie publique (highway) parce que la circulation est si lourde. 8h45, je suis arrivé au bureau. je n'étais pas en retard. le travail commence à 9h00. à midi, mes amis m'ont manqué surtout tu-sais-qui. toutefois, nous nous sommes parlé sur skype.

over the week, i installed ubuntu on the other machine. so that when my brothers are playing games (civilization4 and dota) on one, i could play (learning linux) with the other. im reading red hat linux unleashed. its an old book that i got from a book sale with the hope that someday i will be able to finally appreciate linux. we never took it up in school. we didnt even take up windows programming. back then i was having a debate with my thesismates. we were all desperate to graduate. i was pushing for our thesis application to run on DOS. it was were we honed our programming skills at that time. we used Turbo C. knowing then what i know now of windows. i deserve a a good smack at the back of my head. window programming made it a lot easier for programmers. of course, i didnt know that at that time. back to linux, im now practicing some basic linux commands. they are a lot like DOS commands. or rather DOS commands are a lot like linux commands. ive been hearing stories prior about how DOS/Windows copied from unix/linux.

the next week i installed a more recent version of fedora (fedora 7). i read through the unleashed book. it discusses mostly on tools which are good to know but arent necessary. in fact, i ignored most of it. and focused my attention on gcc and gdb instead. gcc is the linux c/c++ compiler. and gdb is the linux c/c++ debugger. i tried both on a standard bonjour le monde program. i find that there had been a lot of improvement introduced by MS IDEs over the years. i would not want to go back to this manner of programming. and yet i am compelled to continue this path. hehehe

already, i am appreciating many things about the city. a new friend from work introduced me to YELLOWASP which is an interactive map of makati city. it is similar to the online maps of google and yahoo, although this one contains less information. it does provide the basics like building names. et devine quoi? yellowasp est dans le même batiment comme où je travaille au antel corp building. vois la carte au-dessus.

aujourd'hui, un ami m'a appris que ubuntu vient de debian et ses logiciels ont des extensions "deb". et que fedora vient de red hat linux et ses logiciels ont des extensions "rpm" ou red hat package manager. c'est très interessant! n'est-ce pas?

mon dernier jour

[audio podcast] it is maybe similar to the feeling of a loved one dying. and so i searched for answers on how to deal with grief in the internet. similar in the sense that there is a likely possibility that i will not be able to see my friend(s) ever again. or in the near future, we will all just drift apart as i have with my other friends from previous companies, from college.

voici les étapes de chagrin du kubler-ross.

denial. quand ils m'ont demandé quand est mon dernier jour, je dirais le mois prochain. mais la vérité est, c'est la semaine prochaine.

anger. peut-être je suis un peu en colère parce qu'ils ne semblent pas se sentir que je vais partir bientot.

bargaining. je les promets que je vais visiter souvent à cebu.

depression. je pleure souvent pendant les weekends surtout quand le lapin brun n'était pas disponible à partager mon chagrin. there was a lot of self doubt if i made the right decision. one time i experienced a panic attack. i was out of control. i cried. i walked around the city. and i worried for tu-sais-qui .. there is emptiness. there is hopelessness.

acceptance. i spent my last days with people i really cared about. on my last day, i attended the communications meeting where it was clear that there was something not working with the current strategy. no matter how much they downplay the down trend, they should work on a new one. right away. i wish lexmark all the success. they have heavily invested in the philippines. their success is cebu's success is the nation's success. suprisingly, i am not as depressed as i expected. for the very last time today, i left the halls of innove building. and i was in good spirits. maybe it is because i felt i made real friends here. and those friendships will sustain me for a time. as it has done in the past.

je trouve que ces étapes de chagrin ne sont pas comme une fleuve qui a un début et a une fin mais c'est comme la pluie où elle frappe partout ou nulle part et à tout moment. et quelquefois. il n'y a juste rien. et quelquefois, il y a des fleurs dans l'air. je ne suis pas si déprimé parce que mon ami (lapin brun) m'a dit que je vais te manque aussi .. quand nous sommes ensemble. quand nous déjeunons ou nous prenons une promenade. je l'aime toujours. je me le souviens toujours.