Last night before my girlfriend and I watched the latest James Bond 007 movie, The Quantum of Solace, of which a review of sorts is coming shortly, I picked up a new book from National Bookstore.
It is John Grisham’s latest best-seller The Appeal. Since this is not a review and I haven’t even removed the [...]
In case anyone has forgotten or did not know, this week which started last November 19 until this Friday, the 23rd of November is the National Book Week. Book worms here and abroad must be rejoicing and hitting up their books or their favorite bookstore.
Why didn’t I mention the library? Well here in the Philippines, [...]
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It’s Friday and what better way to end the work week with a healthy dose of link love from the Four-eyed Journal.
Here’s what’s been buzzing in the Four-eyed Blogroll:
Blogging Tips by ProBlogger in the latest installment of his ‘What we wish I knew when I first started Blogging’ Series. How to Write Excellent Blog Content. [...]
I’ve often heard and read that life - some things in it - are a matter of trade-off; I may have been agonizingly unable to get online for the past 4 days thanks to the world-class (you wish!) service of the commercial power monopoly that is Meralco, I was able to catch up on my offline reading. I wasn’t only able to catch up, I was able to finish reading all the new books I bought last month. In the span of that 4 days of living life to the basics, thanks to Ambeth Ocampo and his Bones of Contention: The Bonifacio Lecture, I finally understood the origins of the term ‘Filipino‘ and why Andres Bonifacio has always referred to his fellow Katipuneros as “Tagalogs†some hundred years ago when the Philippine nation was born - right before it was sacked and perverted by Uncle Sam which is another story.
I’m an activist, Left-leaning and both a history and science geek so the books I’d be mentioning would be quite heavy or boring for some, especially the light and fiction readers. So in no particular oder…
George Orwell’s “The Animal Farm†I was hands down to George’s imagination and story telling talent. It made me understand why my rich schoolmates treated me as such; human when you’re in front of them, but inferior when they are grouped by themselves.
Karl Marx’s “Das Kapitalâ€. It was given to me by my grandfather when I was in grade 6. I barely understood the first chapters that’s why I spent the next pre-highschool summer break to read it over again with a thesaurus and dictionary at hand. I entered highschool a changed teenager; idealistic.
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One book that made you laugh:
Pugad Baboy 17 - Brosia rules!!!
One book you have read more than once:
Das Kapital by Karl Marx (direct German to English translation) - my mind went numb for days upon my first chapters. I actually read it over 5 times, I knew I should’ve read Marx for beginners beforehand, oh well.
One book you would want on a desert island:
U.S. Army Survival Manual - Eric and I are on the ’same page.’
One book that made you cry:
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden - a beautiful book.
One book you wish had been written:
Bonifacio: Siya ba ay kilala ko? by Ed Aurelio Reyes - an excellent companion to Ambeth Ocampo’s “Rizal without the overcoat.â€
Hmm…some valid points there. It all goes to prove that writers are some of the ‘weirdest’ or eccentric persons in the planet. I admit that I’ve read only 2 books in the Harry Potter series; ‘The Prisoner of Azkaban’ and the ‘Goblet of Fire’ and their corresponding film adaptations and I’m not a big Potter fan but I would certainly be saddened if Harry would indeed die in the last book. What about you? Would like Harry Potter or Hermione or even Ron to die in the last book?
I’ve seen bloggers tagged by meme chains by other bloggers and I’ve followed some of them knowing that each blogger would be as unique like no other before. It sure looked like fun and I wondered how come no one has tagged me before? Growing out of immature reasons I just settled for the notion that other bloggers might have thought of my blog as too ’serious’ or ‘geeky’ to be tagged or to participate in such blogging activities or that not too many bloggers knows about my blog or about my self. Besides, it’s alright for me thinking that my geekiness might just ruin the fun flow of it already so I settled with not being tagged at all.
This has changed today as for the very first time, I was tagged by Eric to answer the ‘6 Weird Things About Myself‘ tag and I’m quite honored and excited by it. Woot!!!
So what does it all mean? How it will affect us? This is what I meant by ‘like watching those doomsday or end-of-the-world programs or movies.’ Our present generations have never acutally experienced a flipping of the earths’s magnetic field. It happens every thousands of years and when it does, something weird and nearly catastrophic happens.
Aside from ending the summer beach parties, animals who rely on the magnetic field for finding their way around the planet would be cofused or lost or go berserk. Worldwide power blockouts would occur because before a flip, the magnetic field weakens and disappears for a moment and so power grids would be affected by the incoming radiation from space. All of these are just predictions and experts say it may not lead to total catastrophe and chaos but we will be affected by the flip one way or another. It is also comforting to know that a complete flip would take 2,000 years and by that time, we would be prepared for any consequences…hopefully and if calculations are correct.
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