The Revolutionary Disney Film

In the past, Disney had always been the most hopeful, peaceful cartoon flick anybody can watch on screen. But when the Lion King was released in 1994, it had changed everything.

When the lion king died, it made me cry. I never thought a Disney character will ever die on screen. The once "Disney imagined community" suddenly became a reality. Did the Disney myth died or it had simply made a connection to reality?

The death of the king is a tragic reality even for a young, innocent Simba. What message is Disney sending to us? Is this really the sign of the times that even a cartoon fantasy world can be faced with troubles, with pains, with concerns, with sacrifices? Maybe you can tell me..

I still admire the film. I still have a heavy heart whenever I reach the part when the king died trying to save his son..

Note: I came to post this an hour and a half after I learned a good friend in our community lost his husband, an OFW on duty. They have one child.

The Emblem of the Modern Filipino Culture

What is singing yet out of tune

What is high scores yet shouting

What is hoping to have a chance when you are not heard

What is sarcasm when you have the trophy

What is whining when you have no audience.

Note: This was originally posted in one of my earlier blogs. You might be interested to guess what it is..:)

The Downside of Blogging

What's the beauty of blogging--it's free. It's paperless. It's easy to use. It's accessible anywhere. It's unrestricted. Anybody can use it to publish his ideas virtually. Ideally, this is for individuals dedicated to the promotion of thinking and to those who are committed to sustain it.

What's the downside?? When students like us consider the use of blogs as a very convenient class requirement to get an A. This is a big waste of cyberspace and resources.

Are you a JERK? If you happen to think that it's fun and easy to create blogs to post the class requirements here without consideration to the huge physical & virtual storage consumption your blogs will eat up--then you are a JERK!!

Are you TROUBLED? If you happen to find blogging as an outlet of your repressed emotions, enjoying the journal writing hype while you are silent during actual classroom discussions--you are sick and you are TROUBLED!!

Are you a PARANOID? If you believe everyone will read your blog and will give comments because the professor told the class, and you think all your classmates will agree to you, then you're nuts! You're a PARANOID!!

If you're a JERK or TROUBLED or a PARANOID---PLEASE STOP BLOGGING!!

The Unusual Tarsiers

The Tarsier. It is considered as the oldest and smallest primate in the world. Once an endangered specie, now a protected specie in Colon, Bohol where more than a thousand are being cared. While most of them are protected, there are few renegades in the forests of Bohol. Here are some of the unusual tarsiers.


Tanod. Very evident with his big, open eyes, he’s more of an observer and is trying to fit in. He has a natural sense of humor.

Teacher. He can memorize all the names of the tarsiers. Of course, he’s the teacher. He tends to change his mind a lot. He is funny, though.

Tina Taba. She should have been a parrot and not a tarsier. She talks a lot that drives each one to its nocturnal state at an earlier time.

Tony Wisdom. He could cite all the fancy German tarsier quotes in the world. Some like it. Some don’t have the bit of care of what those quotes mean.

Princess Trisha. The teacher thinks she doesn’t understand. What the teacher doesn’t know, everyone is laughing because Princess Trisha knows every bit the teacher is joking about.

Tom-Tom. They are called Tom-Tom. Those are Tommy and Chuckie. Similar to the rugrats, they are friends and friends of everyone.

There are really unusual tarsiers. As a primate, the tarsier is already unusual--quite small, quite fragile and odd looking (looks partly like a monkey, partly like a bat, partly like a mouse). That's what makes it unique. And what is good to know, they are now safe gizmos in the country..