Kitty Chronicles: Cat Pig

Ever watched Cat-Dog the cartoon?

This is Cat-Pig.

Why is his nostrils so large?!

Must be the smell of the other kitty cats

that is driving him nuts.

Do not follow the light kitty nooooh !

This is kitty's fave place, guarding the door

para makapuslit siya palabas.

Disaster Design: Paper Plane Line

I want this wallet,

I am not a mad bag/purse collector

who is into luxurious leather stuff.

I want no fuss,

no maintenance bags

that can survive everyday abuse.

I adore the airmail envelope detail.

I am a sucker for nostalgic stuff.

I am posting it here for my reference.

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Can be bought online yey.

Firefox 7 is Out

I was a rabid avid user of Firefox before.

Then out came Chrome with its almost

lightning speed browsing.

Then I got carried away and

installed multiple add-ons

and it slowed to a crawl.

Heck, I cannot even play Farmville

without it crashing on me,

but I know Adobe Flash is to blame for that.

I also know my pc is miserably ageing on me.

Its a pre-loved pc so I can't complain much.

Hopefully Firefox 7 will perform a bit

faster and not be memory hog anymore.

They even included a nice quiz in their site here

I hope my desk is as nice as this,

but I abhor housekeeping.

The quiz supposedly tells you your personality

by collating all the data into these symbols.

Yey!

Judgemental

Here I am again complaining,

I was lightly punched in the arm

by a Badjao lady who hitched

on our baby bus ride.

She distributed little envelopes 

with scrawls on them which I did 

not bother to read, why?

Because both my arms 

were holding bags.

Plus, I had no spare change,

I am financially-tied up, 

on a very strict budget so to speak.

Sakto lang ang dala ko para sa araw na iyon.

Plus may umakyat ng bata

before pa sa kanya at namigay din

ng envelopes para

manghingi ng donasyon.

But no this lady would not take no

for an answer, she had to lay

her hands on me and berate me

in her dialect about not giving her alms.

Kung pwede ko lang siyang sabihan

na akala niyo po ba porke't maputi

ako at mukhang kano e sandamakmak

ang pera ko at dolyares pa ito?

Kaso hindi niya maiintindihan yun,

namamalimos nga siya eh

at mukhang di nakapag-aral,

indigent talaga.

Medyo nagsasawa na din kasi ako

na laging pahabain ang pisi ko

pagdating sa ganyan.

Na ako ang laging kailangan umunawa,

Hanggang kailan?

Pag may sumampal na sa akin or worse?

Hindi ba ako pwede maglakad ng

 hindi tinitingnan or pinangmumulatan ng mata

or may libreng side comment pa?

Bakit hindi na lang sila 

maglakad minding their own business,

kasi ako pinalaki ako ng mama ko

na wag mag-stare sa mga tao

dahil bastos yun.

At wag magbitaw ng salita na 

makakasama ng loob nila.

If you do not have anything good

to say keep it to yourself kumbaga.

Kailangan pa niya ako talaga hampasin

sa braso, naiiyak na ako nun

kasi napuno na din ako.

Pinigilan ko lang, kunyari nagpunas ako ng pawis.

Hindi ba nila naiintindihan na may

kaniya-kaniya din tayong pinagdaraanan?

Na baka yung iba sumakay sa bus na iyon

para pumunta sa ospital o 

kung ano man.

Hindi kasi sa lahat ng oras

kailangan maawa,

ad misericordiam is a fallacy nga di ba.

This is one of the reasons kung bakit

ayoko manatili dito sa Pilipinas,

may pagka-racist din naman 

at judgemental.

Veggie Wrap

Because of my hybrid state,

I have mixed requirements for food.

Yeah, I maybe as large as a whale,

but I really try to balance my meals.

I love eating veggies more than meat

and I prefer seafood and chicken to beef 

or the occasional lamb.

I do not eat pork period, except

for morcon and chicharon.

I just do not like its texture.

I only started eating rice

when my lola died way back 2001,

I subsist on pasta.

I survived on eating snacks

and pasta and juices and loads

of fruits and veggies.

Till now I am experimenting

but my choices are limited.

The ingredients I worship most

are butter, pasta, cheese
(especially stinky Camembert)

and Aromat (the Knorr seasoning).

Anyway, we tried this at home.

Veggie wrap.

Tortillas were bought from SM

(I made irregularly shaped ones dati)

Veggies and dressing from the local palengke.

Childish art dressing.

Veggies 

More veggies.

Cheese.

The dressing is unhealthy

but I love my veggies

and this appeals to my palate.

FIRE !

Heard the fire truck sirens from afar.

There were so many zooming past.

A fire was raging in a shanty community

near the military base.

This community was held up by cartons,

old rusty roofs, salvaged, wood,

the old mosquito-infested tire, 

cardboard even plastic.

It is one of the many slum communities 

bordering our waters.

So many people live there, that

the community extends to

the bay itself.

You could see the glitter of corroded metallic roofing

around the whole of Cavite City in google earth.

Unfortunately, this is where crime, drugs, prostitutes and violence proliferate.

This particular community is notorious for drugs,

no police force would dare enter its maze of

ruler-width side streets.

People get killed here.

One of my friend's family reside there,

I just learned that their rented home burned down,

they were not able to save anything.

I packed some clothes in a reusable bag,

even if my clothes are giant-sized, they would

be able to have a fresh change of clothing.

Heard on the radio that the alarm is level 5 already,

I think it means that all available firetrucks 

from nearby cities should respond.

It is that bad.

The wind is quite feisty as well, I think

it contributed to the disaster.

I hope there are no casualties.

Domo-kun Fascination

Downloaded a paper craft pattern of  domo-kun.

Everybody loves him now,

but he has been loitering around the Internet for ages.

I think he is the official mascot of a Japanese tv channel.

Why do the Japanese make all things so darn cute?!

Had him printed and cut-out.

No glue necessary.

Rawrrr!

See him on youtube as well.

Kitty Chronicles: Mirror Cat

Was playing around with my mobile phone's image editor.

Behold my cat.

Tinkered with the settings and had a good laugh

with the warp mode.

Then I discovered the mirror effect,

which splits the image in half and clones it.

Only faces with perfect symmetry would end up

still looking good.

I read years ago that Denzel Washington is one of those

blessed with a symmetrical face.

Apparently so is my cat.

Balao

Here in Cavite, we call this balao

in other areas they call it binatog.

Bale boiled puting mais siya with niyog

at either asin or asukal ang panimpla.

Uhm hindi ko alam ang recipe

pero minsan ireresearch ko ito.

This is P20 worth of balao.

Sobrang dami kasi takaw mata ako.

Yung nagtitinda kasi nito e isang aleng naka-bike,

bago pa man kami makalabas sa gate ng compound

upang bumili bigla na lang siyang nawawalang parang maligno.

Wala kasi siyang batingting, isinisigaw niya lang

ang "Balao ! Balao! "

E nung isang araw inaantay namin siya talaga,

kaso nung lumabas na yung isa,

sinalubong siya nung kapitbahay namin

at magpapabili rin daw.

Nag-aantay yung isa kasi

sakto lang naman pera namin para pambili.

Yun pala ang mangyayari kami

ata muna magbabayad at 

babayaran na lang later on.

E P10 lang ang balao?

At saktong bente lang pera namin.

Sana nagpautos na lang sila

dun sa mga tambay na jejemon

na laging nakahambalang sa compound.

Ayun sa kakaantay umalis na yung ale.

Hinanap siya talaga nung isa,

nagbike din siya para mahabol yung tindera

kaso parang sumali sa karerahan yung

tindera ng balao ayaw ata ipagbili

ang paninda niya.

Iniyakan ko talaga ito,

kasi takam na takam ako dito,

ilang buwan ko na kasi

itong di natitikman at isa pa

may season din kasi ang mais.

Umiyak ako maghapon.

Tumulo pa ang uhog ko,

nainis ako dahil kung di

pa nagpa-utos yung kapitbahay

na wala din naman palang dalang pera

e di sana hapi-hapi kami ng balao ko.

Lumipas ang ilang araw,

sumigaw uli yung tindera sa gate,

at finally eto na nga siya.

Happy Ending. 

Cow Economics.

I know this Cow Economics have been

permeating the Internet for years now

but I cannot help but laugh each time I read it.

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Feudalism

You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

Socialism

You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.

Communism

You have two cows. The government takes them both and gives you some milk.

Fascism

You have two cows. The government takes them both and sells you some milk.

Nazism
You have two cows. The State takes both and shoots you.

Totalitarianism

You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.

Traditional Capitalism

You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

American Capitalism

You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.

Corporate Capitalism

You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead.

Enron Venture Capitalism

You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank. He then executes a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by your CFO who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on six more.

Arthur Andersen Model Capitalism

You have papers for two cows but no cows. You shred them.

Bureaucratism

You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

Surrealism

You have two giraffes. You are required to take harmonica lessons.

Politically Correct Capitalism

You are associated ("ownership" is a symbol of the war mongering, intolerant past) with two differently-aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.

French Capitalism

You have two cows. You go on strike, organize a riot and block the roads because you want three cows.

Japanese Capitalism

You have two cows, You redesign them so they are 1/10 the size of an ordinary cow and produce 20 times the milk. You then create a clever cow image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.

Swiss Capitalism

You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge owners for storing them.

British Capitalism

You have two cows. You feed them sheep's brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.

Chinese Capitalism

You have two cows. You have 300 people miling them. You claim the you have full employment and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reports otherwise.

Iraqi Capitalism

Everyone thinks you have many cows. You tell them you have none but they don't believe you and bomb the $h*! out of your country. You still have no cows but at least you are part of a democracy.

Australian Capitalism

You have two cows. Business seems good. You close the office and go for a few celebratory beers.

Western Union Gold Card

Received payment again for a

bag via Western Union,

since I am a sucker for cards

and seeing that this is free,

I opted in and availed of one.

I have an inkling what it is for but 

I have yet to read the really fine print.

Ms. Universe Dionisia at ang Philippine Press

Napulot ko din ito sa Facebook.

Kung bawat pag-murder sa katauhan ni

Aling Dionisia ay isang pitik sa katawan niya,

aba e sobrang maga na siguro siya sa sakit.

Aminado ako natawa talaga ako dito.

At oo di ko siya talaga gusto

kasi para siyang nagmumurang kamatis.

Wag na lang sana siya magpa-press sa 

kung anu-anong pinagga-gagawa niya.

Kasi hindi naman earth shaking ang opinyon niya,

sa kabuuan ng bansa at ng ekonomiya nito.

Ewan ko ba ang press ngayon, nakakabobo,

sila ang may say kung sino ang pasisikatin

kung aling opinyon ang dapat mangibabaw

at kung ano ang "katotohanan".

Pweh at leche ang media

walang silbi.

Why ?!

Rode a bus on my way home,

an approximately 2.5 hours worth of bus ride

turned into a public performance of

 excruciating wailing from an infant.

I am shorri... (cue gloria epek)

Gabi na at gusto ng magpahinga ng lahat

kahit man lang sa bus but 

no no no no.

May mga magulang na di nag-iisip.

Isakay ba ang batang nakatube dress

sa isang halos nagyeyelo na airconditioned na bus?

At nakatayo sila.

Bakit mo isasakripisyo ang welfare ng

infant dahil lang sa gusto niyo ng ginhawa?

Nag-ngangangawa na nga ang bata,

naistorbo pa ang ibang pasahero

at nasayang pa pamasahe niyo.

Napilitan sila bumaba ng mas maaga

dahil hindi talaga mapatahan ang bata.

Ewan ko ba sa mga magulang ngayon

kung anu-ano pinapasuot sa bata

kahit hindi akma masabi lang na postura.

Alam naman na uulan,

naka-tube ang bata,

kahit ba man lang baunan ng jacket.

Ang pinaklamasaklap,

na-trauma na ang bata sa public transpo.

Oo hindi ako mahilig nor natutuwa sa bata

pero

marunong ako maawa at umunawa.

Sana may sentido comon yung mga magulang.

On Concealers: Rimmel Vs Pasha

Let my photos do the talking.

Rimmel versus Pasha Concealers.

Authentic versus copycat.

Expensive versus cheap.

Pasha concealers are obvious imitations of the Rimmel ones,
they can be bought as cheap as P20 sa bangketa.
I find it unfair that they blatantly copied the Rimmel packaging design.

I don't have anything against buying cheap but really
this Pasha product is infringing on some IPRs methinks.

Kitty Chronicles: Look Mom No Paws

I find it cute when kitty 

hides his paws underneath him.

Ugh I hate it when kitty

comes home with new battle scars.

Kitty Chronicles: Kitty Reads

Kamusta naman ang paws mo kitty ?!

Tama bang humilata sa libro ha kitty?! 

International Driving License

In this country,

ang lahat ay may katapat na pera.

Nung nagbakasyon ako kina Mama dati,

she asked a relative to furnish me

with an international driving license.

Dahil ang dala pa lang niya noon ay learner's permit

at kailangan ang 'lisensiya' ko para makalarga kami.

At eto na yun,

picture lang at details ko ang sinubmit.

Voila! Instant license.

Edited it at picnik to preserve my privacy

Recycling Old Calendars

Nabasa ko ang instructions para

dito sa cutout & keep.

Madami na din kasi akong lumang

kalendaryo sayang naman

kaya I decided to upcycle.

Click the images to enlarge.

The pictures are quite dark since I used

my camera phone to document my silly crafting moment.

Organic Ampalaya

Hubby's mom has a green thumb.

Look at this wee ampalaya.

I bought a small potted cactus once,

unfortunately I injected it with too much water.

I was practicing my injection skills.

I already performed skin testing 

thrice on myself on my forearm.

I could not inject myself intramuscularly

on my deltoid muscle so I had to practice on the cactus.

At yan ang dahilan kung bakit ayaw

sa akin ng mga halaman huhuhu.

Taong Grasa

I watched Paolo Bediones' documentary about

the patients incarcerated at the 

Cavite Mental Institution

(its name is different now but I forgot their new name).

I saw this guy again - the singing patient.

He is blind on one eye and mute as well.

He was ill-tempered because the local folks

would always taunt him.

He was a small man and he wore a large shirt,

which would reach till his knees, he would

also crisscross the road bare-footed.

He would always scream incoherently,

scaring most kids including me.

He loitered in the public market,

begging for alms in a cup.

Glad to know that finally he found a home,

with people who could understand him

and truly care for him.

Logic 102

At dahil mahaba-haba ang primer ko patungkol sa Logic,

gumawa ako ng part 2 mwahahaha.

(Cue makapagbagbag-damdaming music

at bokeh effect plus blurriness)

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Fallacy: is a type of argument that may seem to be correct, but that proves on examination not to be so.

Fallacies of Relevance: rely on premisses that may seem to be relevant to the conclusion but in fact are not.

• Argument from Ignorance (ad ignorantiam) - a proposition is true on the ground that it has not been proved false or vice versa.
• Appeal to inappropriate authority (ad verecundiam) - the premisses of an argument appeal to the judgement of some party or parties having no legitimate claim to authority in the matter at hand.
• Argument against the person (ad hominem) - an attack is leveled not at the claims being made or the merits of the argument but at the person of the opponent.
• Appeal to emotion (ad populum) - careful reasoning i sreplaced with devices calculated to elicit enthusiasm and emotional support for the conclusion advanced.
• Appeal to pity ( ad misericordiam) - careful reasoning is replaced by devices to elicit symnpathy on the part of the hearer for the objects of the speaker's concern.
• Appeal to force (ad baculum) - careful reaoning is replaced with direct or insinuated threats to bring about the acceptance of some conclusion.
• Irrelevant conclusion (ignoratio elenchi) - premisses miss the point, purporting to support one conclusion while in fact supporting or establishing another.

Fallacies of Presumption: mistaken arguments arise from reliance upon some proposition that is assumed to be true, but is in fact false or dubious, or without warrant.

• Complex question  - asked in such a way as to presuppose the truth of some assumption buried in that question.
• False cause - when one treats as the cause of a thing what is not really the cause of that thing; when one blunders in reasoning that is based upon causal relations.
• Begging the question (petitio principii) - one assumes the premisses of an argument the truth of what one seeks to establish in the conclusion of that argument.
• Accident - when one applies a generalization to an individual case that it does not properly govern.
• Converse accident - when one moves carelessly or too quickly from a single case to an indefensibly broad generalization.

Fallacies of Ambiguity: formulated in such a way as to rely on shifts in the meaning of words or phrases, from their use in the premisses to their use in the conclusion.

• Equivocation - when the same word or phrase is used with two or more meanings, deliberately or accidentally in the formulation of an argument.
• Amphiboly - when one of the statements in an argument has more than plausible meaning, because of the loose or awkward way in which the words in that statement have been combined.
• Accent - a shift of meaning arises within an argument as a consequence of changes in the emphasis given to its words or parts.
• Composition - committed when one reasons mistakenly from the attributes of a part to the attributes of the whole and when one mistakenly reasons from the attributes of an individual member of some collection to the attributes of the totality of that collection.
• Division - committed when one reasons mistakenly from the attributes of a whole to the attributes of one of its parts or when one reasons mistakenly from the attributes of the individual entities within that collection.

Four Basic Standard-Form Categorical Propositions:

• A propositions - universal affirmative
• I propositions  - particular affirmative
• E propositions - universal negative
• O propositions - particular negative

Happy Birthday !

Went to to SM Rosario last September 8,

I discovered the wonders of having a semi smartphone.

Because I was able to make a list directly on 

my phones interface through its memo option.

Going back, I went to the mall to pay

my outstanding Smartbro bills and complain

about their delayed bill delivery.

I file most of my receipts in a folder,

I have only started organizing them this year

and have yet to organize my whole life 

hahahaha.

The 8th of September is special because it

was the day my dear old Papa was born.

I miss him so much.

He died on the 13th of September 2001,

days after my lola died and

days later after his own birthday.

I barely knew him but I miss him

and truly think of him everyday.

Coincidentally, I saw this Marian exhibition as well.

May phobia ako sa mga rebulto na halos malaki pa sa akin

kaya di ako masyadong lumapit

kasi napapaginipan ko sila.

Sabi sa akin ng R.O.D. namin,

ang tunay na Kabitenyo malalaman mong

taal ng mayaman kapag nag-alaga ng ganitong mga santo

at nagpapaprusisyon.

Yung tipong pinapasadya pa talaga ang

damit at accessories pati wig.

At yung may sariling pedestal sa bahay.

Uhmmm hindi ito para sa akin,

I find it too creepy.

Churi-churi.

Logic 101

I miss studying in the university.

My mind was challenged

ngayon its stagnating.

Sigh.

At dahil naghahalungkat ako ng books 

mula sa baul ng kalat sa bahay.

Nakita ko ang Logic Book ko.

Madami din akong natutunan lalo na ang

isa sa mga life philosophy ko.

Na-realize ko na lang ito ng pina-define sa amin ang truth.

This is my version of truth, that there isn't one,

because truth is one's version of fact.

There is no one truth kumbaga, 

it all depends on the perspective.

(walang kokontra gawa-gawa ko lang yan

hindi ako philosopher or logician hahaha)

This is why I tend to take time in deciding,

I look for the pros and cons.

Neutral muna bago ang lahat para makapag-isip.

Ano nga ba ang basics ng Logic,

magbalik tanaw tayo.

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Logic: the study of the methods and principles used to distinguish correct reasoning from incorrect   reasoning.

Propositions: something that maybe asserted or denied; refer to what  declarative sentences are typically used to assert.

Inference: process by which one proposition is arrived at and affirmed on the basis of one or more other propositions accepted as the starting point of the process.

Argument: any group of propositions of which one is claimed to follow from the others, which are regarded as providing support or grounds for the truth of that one

Conclusion:  proposition that is affirmed on the basis of the other propositions of the argument, and these other propositions, which are affirmed or assumed as providing support or reasons for accepting the conclusion, are the Premises of that argument.

Common conclusion-indicators:

• therefore - for these reasons
• hence - it follows that
• thus - we may infer
• so - I conclude that
• accordingly - which shows that
• in consequence - which entails that
• consequently - which entails that
• proves that - which implies that
• as a result - which allows us to infer that
• for this reason - which points to the conclusion that

Common premiss-indicators:

• since - as indicated by
• because - the reason is that
• for - for the reason that
• as - may be inferred from
• follows from  - may be derived from
• as shown by - may be deduced from
• inasmuch as - in view of the fact that

Deductive Argument: is valid when its premiss, if true, do provide conclusive grounds for the truth of its conclusion; one whose conclusion is claimed to follow from its premiss with absolute necessity , this necessity not being a matter of degree and not depending  in any way on whatever else may be the case.

Inductive Argument: one whose conclusion is claimed to follow from its premiss only with probability, this probability being a matter of degree and dependent upon what else may be the case.

Three Basic Functions of Language:

• To communicate information
• Expressive function
• Directive function

Three Kind of Disputes:

• Obviously genuine dispute - in which the parties explicitly and unambiguously  disagree either in belief or in attitude.
• Merely verbal dispute - there is no genuine disagreement between the parties at all and yet there appears to be disagreement.
• Apparently verbal but really genuine - when the parties misunderstand one another's use of terms.

Five Kinds of Definition:

• Stipulative Definition - arises from the deliberate assignment of a meaning
• Lexical Definition - reports a meaning the defiendum already has; if the term being described is not new but has an established usage to eliminate ambiguity.
• Precising Definition - serve to reduce vagueness
• Theoretical Definition - attempts to formulate a theoretically adequate or scientifically useful description of the objects to which the term applies.
• Persuasive Definition - used to resolve disputes by influencing the attitudes or stirring the emotions of readers or hearers.

Denotation/Extension: general term or class term, denotes the several objects to which it may corrcetly be applied.

Connotation/Intension: The set of attributes shared by all and only those objects to which the term refers.

Rules for Definition:

• Should state the essential attributes of the species.
• Must not be circular.
• Must be neither too broad nor too narrow.
• Must not be expressed in ambiguous, obscure or figurative language.
• Should not be negative where it can be affirmative.