The Four-eyed Journal

Looking back at my 21 years of living on this planet, and not that I’ve been to others, one could say that I’m not that good at keeping or fulfilling those things I’d included in all my previous lists. Mostly because they were too idealistic, grandiose or simply downright inhuman. Like acquire super human powers, conquer the world, become the next .com millionaire or win a Nobel Prize for something.

Joking aside, I really am not good at fulfilling new year’s resolution lists. Out of say, 4 items on every list I make, every new year, one or two are only fulfilled.

So this time around, after much thinking over and reviewing the past lists, years and experiences they represent; I decided to make my new year resolution list for 2007 a lot simpler and very, very practical. Something that would closely qualify for the S-M-A-R-T way of doing things or achieving goals, which what new year resolutions really are.

It’s the second day since my broadband connection returned after a Taiwan earthquake has caused some damages to undersea cables which in turn wreaked havoc to the country by disrupting bandwidth and telecommunication lines. Bloggers, despite the interference or complete loss of connections for some time still managed to blog about it.

Jepoy says the internet has gone crappy, Sir Abe has asked, “How’s your internet today?” bloggers respond varies from field reports to some interesting realizations plus the dreadful news that it may take as long as 3 weeks(!) for internet connections to go back to normal. Because of this, It’s a rugged life and I would have to slug it out for being back to dial-up speeds.

The signal came from the peanut industry led by the American Peanut Council, (Yes, such organization does exists.) They say that competitors from China and India have been working a lot lately on genetically modified peanuts, it’s now America’s time to do it. The beauty of the free economy; in the quest for more profits certain things would have to fly out the window, like social and health concerns about GMOs or genetically-modified organisms.

Now genetic engineering per se is not bad, heck; we’re using it right now to treat certain cancers and birth-defects. Scientists just have to do their homeworks better so that decision makers can make the best of out them. You never know what GMOs can do to your body or to other creatures on this planet, so it will be greatly beneficial to be extra careful about tinkering with the genes of any living organism.

In the spirit of sharing and giving, The Blog Herald is looking for a blogger-in-need. Someone who is in need of some financial help whether be it personal or something directly related to blogging; like paying for the hosting, getting a new web-host or launching a new web project that would in due time help that blogger earn something to make ends meet.

Bilingualism, Tagalog-English adds more burden to those who are not speaking Tagalog, or atleast familiar with it.

This method of instruction neglects the fact that although we are in Luzon, Manila (where premiere Universities are located and is a Tagalog speaking area) there are still quite a number of students who are not familiar with Tagalog because they did not come from Luzon(Tagalog areas), they came from other regions of the country.

I just think that it is not good to be fluent in other foreign languages when we Filipinos ourselves cannot understand our neighbor from Bicol, our classmate from Samar or even our teacher from Cebu. I cannot understand how we are fascinated with the French, Chinese, Italian or Korean languages when we are uncomfortable, even disgusted with Waray, Tausug, Cebuano among others. Our jaws drop in awe whenever we hear our Korean or Japanese classmate speak in their native tongue while laugh our heads off whenever our Bisaya or Ilocano brethren utter even a single word from their dialect or carry over its accent when he speaks Tagalog or English in and outside of the classroom.

I’ve been thinking of making a wish-list for this year’s Christmas, even though most of it would not really come true. With that in mind, I’d like to think of it more as list of goals or stuff that would motivate me to improve the things I do, my studies, blogging, etc. Goals and motivations are indeed important in helping us improve ourselves and our crafts.