Saraah!

If there’s anything at all in this world that I can say to everyone that’s useful or would be of any help, it would be to use OPERA as your browser. Not firefox, internet explorer, chrome or what have you.

I’ve been using OPERA for 7 years more or less and it keeps getting better and better. Firefox and the rest out there don’t even come anywhere near OPERA in terms of speed, security, features/customizability and funtionality. It’s worth mentioning that I especially don’t get the hype over firefox. As far as I’m concerned, it is just an alternative to Internet Explorer. Without IE as comparison, Firefox is a joke.

That is all.

So I’ve been watching all the Obama videos I can get my hands on youtube this Halloween and just days before the US election. I’ve stumbled upon different and interesting links which simply blew me away and took me to heights of satisfaction like the one with Marilyn Manson and Bill O’Reilly. The interview was short and direct yet it gave me profound insights about the man and artist who is Marilyn Manson I never thought was possible! You can easily tell that i’m being an idiot fan-boy over something I saw in youtube.

I always enjoy having an epiphany or a major realization after being stuck in a particularly useless way of thinking for years already. There’s nothing like having conceptions and preconceived notions shattered to bits. In this case, for the longest time I believed Marilyn Manson to be one of those phony artists full of glitz and glam and who are only in it for the money. As it turns out, he is a deeply thoughtful and intelligent artist. In other words, he is the real thing. He has the stuff that great philosophers and artists are made of and abundantly at that too.

Before, I used to see his music as gloomy and lacking in substance. I now realized from the way he presents his case that he does in fact turn or attempts to switch the lights on for everyone. Granted that most people would find his music and lyrics to be too extreme and that his choice of presentation is unnecessarily blasphemous and offensive. Dig but a little deeper and it would be too easy to see that he makes a lot of sense.

We all know him to be the harbinger of doom, the anti-christ, the reason why little kids commit suicide because of his music, someone people of decent minds should stay away from and so on. What we don’t know is that he has something legitimate to say and he conveys his message in a manner fitting and consistent with his theme. Unlike many who would gladly censor their thoughts so then the rest would accept it or would at least turn the ear to listen, this guy simply does what should be done to present an idea.

A little segue: Confusion comes when we say something not exactly what we’re thinking. When a person comes up with a particularly valid retort to an argument, there is this tendency to reply that the premises have been unfairly oversimplified. Yeah right. If your idea was so convoluted in the first place, why bother say and lay it down in the table and expect the correct response from a person who is just as confused as you are; purposefully misled and befuddled to hide the fact that you have nothing good to say anyway. Point is, entering into a discussion and hoping for a meaningful exchange of ideas with a person who is clearly dishonest with his principles and ideals is an exercise in futility. Marilyn Manson is not only true, honest and consistent with his ideas but also he knows exactly what he is trying to say without the usual bullcrap. He gets his point across without wading through the pool of discarded dead meat. Yep. Nice imagery.

Three minutes into the interview video, I slowly began to see him as a decent, interesting if not fascinating and most of all, coherent individual. He may dress up funny, have piercings in his body, paint his nails black and put on dark lipstick etc as O’Reilly pointed out, but all of these consist of something wonderful that on normal circumstances, with the usual backdrop of the oh so royally sacrosanct majority-belief, we would, instinctively, refer to as an art masterpiece. Maybe; may be not in the way most would see a masterpiece but which still, in the end, rightly deserves fair study. It is of no moment that he peddles the idea the he is an Anti-Christ because his argument is founded on seeing things in a different way. His image could have very well been an anti-flying teacup if flying teacups were the established delusion of the day.

I guess at this point I might appear to most as talking gibberish and that’s as expected. I am merely of the firm belief that just as a strange and unfamiliar language would sound like a string of nonsensical chatter, a man who expresses himself in unusual ways would be regarded as all baloney. Well, at least, that until the language or the person is deconstructed and deciphered and before the entire thing comes into place for everyone to understand and appreciate.

In keeping with the spirit(s- of the dead) of sharing, enjoy your own misconceptions shattered by playing the ff vids. Here ya go: marilyn manson with David Letterman

and this, where the fun journey all began: marilyn manson on the o’reilly factor

Happy Halloween! and keep the comments coming. Minumulto na comments page eh. Lolsk.

I am not an American that is why I envy Americans for having a person like Obama run as their president. Judging from the polls there’s a great chance he’d get elected. Thus, I turn more green with envy.

In this country it’s rare to have a national elections that offer real choices. True we have three to four aspirants running for the office at a time but quantity never equates with quality. The shortlist of candidates even at this early stage of the looming 2010 national elections is fairly okay in the sense that we have several to choose from. Yet that same list is already the best we can come up with at the moment, and perhaps will ever.

It is likewise a scary prospect knowing that there is nary a distinction that clearly exists among them.

Happy anniversary to us! Today’s just pure sweet and beautiful. Let’s take on the world uh huh. Happiness.

Kahit ilang daang taon ang lumipas, hinding-hindi makakahanap ng isang katulad mo/niyo.

Pagaling ka Ely. Wish you well and speed on your post-ops recovery. May utang pa kayong half a set.
“wag kang mawawala ‘pagkat ngayong gabi’y puno ng ala-ala” - aug 30 2008, fort open field awash with 90’s eraserheads spirit and memories.

this is the best song of the year: monobloc - pupil.

I have no idea why this song has not generated that sort of popularity enjoyed by the latak 6 cyclemind and the rest. Eh. Strange no? This song topped the charts only at 5th for a brief period of two weeks which does no/gives little justice to a musical masterpiece such as this.

Meh, I think this song is so full of win. I vote for hall of fame despite the lack of mainstream attention. Very well done indeed. 2 tams up!

Actually what’s there not to like? The study of law is the buzz. I’ve heard a lot from people going through different forms of mental high. I know one who claims he’s reached carbon dust nirvana from sorting through piles of xeroxed materials. He says there’s nothing quite like having your thoughts duplicated/replicated/photocopied over and over in your head like that virus/trojan that infects hard coded system files. The last I heard of him he was stuttering provisions like crazy. Kind of like Leonardo on the Aviator: get the blueprint, get the blueprint, get the blueprint and so on more than I’d bother to repeat.

So on to my top ten reasons to like law. First off, drawing up lists is the easiest way to catch people’s attention. Ordered enumerations build high anticipation. Ranking gives the idea of magnitude, of greatness or of other things used to logically denominate one item from the other. If done well the reader will salivate midway through the list until he satisfies his curiosity at the end of the article. Unfortunately, I don’t believe in ranking. All my reasons are equally great. It just so happens that I’ve come across an idea, or more like a realization why I like the study of law. I said ten things but I’ve yet to discover the rest. For now, there’s just one. Okay, boo. You can stop reading now.

I like law because it helps me appreciate what it’s like not to study law, how to actually have a life. The long weekend gave me the chance to look into things not related to anything lawish. I’ve been downloading video clips from ted talks and from the discovery channel and movies I missed out this year. Truth is, I’d filled myself up with new information I’d like to share with everyone now. If there’s anything to this list is the gem of ideas you’d likely love as I did after the video marathon.

I recommend watching the “Biography of Earth”; it’s a three hour three part special of how our planet works. It’s amazing to say the least. The world is just awesome. Bring in Discovery Channel’s new musical spiel: boom tiyaya boom tiyaya boom, I love the mountains, I love egyptian kings ladidada, and you’re all to set to become an instant naturalist convert like me.

If that’s not your thing, you may wish to begin your journey by looking up videos in teh internet. Ted talks’ website is a great place to start. You get a broad range of interests to choose from: statistics, evolutionary ethics/biology/politics, neo-liberalism, economics, automobile, engineering, literature etc. There are law topics as well but I find that they are not as well-presented humor-wise than the rest.

Anyway, there are new things to learn everyday and it’s nice to break away from all the stressful conditions of law. Albeit the midterms for property is just around corner, I’d rather spend my free time really learning something useful. As was said before, life is one big entree, don’t fill yourself up with bread. Hmm. Maybe I can squeeze in family guy episodes in my hectic alternate learning experience.

Have fun!

Real trial action in Court:

Lawyer: Were you there when your picture was taken?
Witness on stand: lololololololol wth?! Are you serious? Your honor I think I need another defense lawyer. Mine has stupidity written all over his face.

IF you find this funny, read on.

Law students are trained to master the law. No other profession demand more effort to memorize than the practice of law. Unlike other disciplines, law students, teachers and lawyers have to contend with the fact that the doctrines and provisions that are in force today will most likely change in a few years. The profession is a shifting dune that imperceptibly walks, so speaking, inch by inch to different directions.

Yet those who study law have the tendency to think that the compact substances that make up/undergird the present jurisprudence and laws will hopefully retain their permanence. It is this impetus that drives us to memorize each word of each line in the exact order as written.

Of course this is never the case—pun intended. For while law students get busy with reading and learning the day’s assignments, someone somewhere or something outside of the classroom begins or ripens to fruition that will shake things up and consequently shuffle the black letter/words in the syllabus.

This is distressful for the students and the teachers because if nothing ever stays the same then there is nothing that needs remembering. In the extreme sense the students face only a blank paper, a magic etch-a-sketch, or an unsaved word document. The words just do not seem to stay put, prepositions, articles, qualifiers, nouns prancing about before eventually disappearing completely.

To go back to the primary proposition, if you find the lawyer joke funny then you need to, alas, read some more.

You and I are in reality face the same danger of disappearance, of non-permanence. Recall an event from any of your happiest childhood memories, something strong and vivid. If you were then asked whether you were actually there in that particular moment, then you would have probably said you were.

Surprisingly, that is not entirely accurate. You were not there. Truth to tell, not one atom that is in your body today was there. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to make up you. Whatever you were then before you are not the stuff you are now made (Richard Dawkins – Queerer than we can suppose).

Wherefore, it follows that the lawyer asked a valid question about the photo to which the proper answer would have been that the witness was not actually there at that time, which would have probably and ultimately exonerated him from/of his criminal charges.

Who said lawyers were stupid? That is all.

I must memorize labor standards provisions now!

Kkthxbye

(click on image)

So FN true. lulz

I don’t care if Marquez outscored Manny in punching points, all that a skeptic needs to see is the full knockdown in the third round. Boxing rules intact but without a referee, Pacquiao, in a real boxing match, will have killed the mexican. Undoubtedly.

In popular Western lore and literature, we read exaggerated accounts of national heroes–mythological or real. There’s Beowulf of the scandinavian tribes; Hercules in both Hellen and Hellenistic civs; Rama of Hindu Ramayana ad infinitum. Save the criticisms until the next millennia but Pacquiao is and will be among the great heroic figures of the world.

It’s not about boxing per se. It’s about the brute physical strength and skills necessary to win a match. There is no trial of intellect neither a test of integrity. Thor, for all his bombast and conceit, did more to defend the Aesirs from their enemies than his greatest dissenters. Achilles, a tragic hero, counted for a hundred men in the battlefield for the Hellas, more than the effusive number of hate-talk against him .

Give Pacquiao the same freedom to boast and talk funk. He deserves it. How many politicians ply the news with self-praise but without the credentials to match the talk? Plenty of course. if I were Manny, I would be more conceited like hell–after all, I’ve been there and back.

And, don’t mind the politics because that is part and parcel of being famous for strength. We can learn a lot from Agamemnon if we decide to bash the President for being extra accommodating to Pacquiao. History does not repeat but goes unchange from across different contexts and cultures. Only the names are different.

Okay.