Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Once an activist

I need to say something here even though no one might be listening or should I say reading. I am beginning to think that there are certain thoughts that dominate our lives and for me that thought would have to be activism. I don't mean that in the run-of-the-mill way that activists go. I don't think they think anything through at all and a lot of their energies get lost in the rhetoric.


I keep repeating myself, this I have observed and I know how I hate repeating myself. The problem is not in the repetition but rather, where there is nothing new that is synthesized with every repetition. I repeat things because I want to remember them. This might be true of everyone else but some people just don't have anything else in their heads and so they repeat.


There is a better way, I know that and I am slowly getting there. I know that something great is about to happen and this is due to the fact that I have realized there is an order to things and that time is a function that cannot be discounted. I move forward and backwards in time and sometimes I just get lost in the traffic.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Bananas

It is a good thing to do, plant bananas in Cagayan de Oro City where there are good planting materials available. One can get suckers or tissue culture plantlets. Banana suckers are easier to plant and less expensive too although there is an advantage when one plants from tissue culture plantlets. For one thing, all of them would bear fruit at the same time.

Thinking back on the times when I qwas a young man in Cagayan de Oro City and all the activism in my heart, I could not refrain from thinking that my life had been wasted in the pursuit of things which are not really making any impact on today's world. Nothing seems to matter now and the old fire that burned seems irrelevant.

This might be construed as being sad and wasted. I might have lived a stupid life but I am here and there must be some point to this puny existence. I do not see the point and everyone who knows me must think, what a stupid life he has lived. Who cares?

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Mind Control

The battle has been joined and I have been taken by surprise. My opponent which is my own mind has taken the upper hand and I am reeling from the ferocity of its attack. It has struck me where I was most vulnerable and I got hit hard. I will be leaving tomorrow and this will give me some respite from the terrible battles that I have been waging with a surrogate which is very powerful. I will at least have a few days rest while I try to recuperate and gather strength and momentum for that which I am planning to do. On the other hand, I have been able to make some money through mylot.com and that is a good thing. When my earnings reach $10 they are going to pay me through my paypal account and that is another good thing. As I said before, the proof of my success in my experiment to change my life is in the amount of money that I am able to make.

Mylot is one way of making money while having fun posting on things you care about.

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Anyway, here's Cagayan de Oro City with another one: Cagayan de Oro City. My Cebu City site has made pr1, surprise, surprise. Dumaguete is still in the boondocks as far as Google goes but Dumaguete has made some headway. Jai Alexander rocks!

There is always: Ching's Way and Ching's Web along with Ching's Best and Ching's Illusion. Way to go, Ching!

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Some SEO Succcess

I found something very gratifying that caused me to have the enthusiasm to make new posts to my blogs. One of my sites, Cagayan de Oro City recently found itself on page 4 of the Google search machine. I had been trying hard to get it out of oblivion for many, many years and when it seemed to me that I would never succeed in doing this, voila! there is was on page 4.

You might think that page 4 is not too big a deal well, you should try caring enough for a website to want it to be found on the higher pages and you will know what I mean by this. I have tried doing this for Dumaguete and I have had a measure of success there too, another page 4 entry but it has gone back to a dark hole and I don't know if it is ever coming back to light.

One surprise was Cebu which suddenly got a pr1 when all my other sites remained at przero-nada-nothing. One of the things I did was to do some checking with a tool that came my way and I was surprised to find Cagayan de Oro on its pages. Good show!!

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Monday, November 19, 2007

Driven by Demon

Sometimes when I think of those times when my mind was constantly troubled by adolescent angst, I think that I was mostly driven by demons I did not understand. There was a lot I know I needed to do but I did not know how to go about doing them. I needed to be part of the mainstream of life, to straddle the dual teams of wild horses running where they wanted. I was bound to fall and fall I did. I never knew how and why but I was shunted aside by the desire for peace that oblivion brings.

There was a fleeting flirtation with activism but deep inside I knew that I did not identify with the masses that I so loudly protested for. Somehow, I believed that the very masses that I professed to speak for would kill me in an instant of blind ignorance. Such is the power of a mob and the masses could very easily turn into a blind, raging mob for little or no reason at all.

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Activism, A Virus?

It can be observed that Activism exhibits the traits of a virus in its ability to be transmitted from one host to another. I guess this characteristic is not really exclusively native to activism but is more the domain of ideas. Activism is the result of an idea taking root in a person's mind and pushing that person to feel unhappy unless he or she is doing something about that idea. Thus, activists might be construed as being the hosts of an idea and the vessel for creating action on that idea. Is this a fair assessment of this thing called activism? If the person is nothing more than a vessel for an infectious idea, then killing the infected person would not really stop the idea which spreads like wildfire through the population.

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Where does this virus come from? Does one man generate an original idea and spread it around? Or does the phenomenon have a more common origin like pain and despair at prevailing conditions?

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Friday, August 03, 2007

Idealism

It is all very well to be idealistic when you are young and without real responsibilities, it is completely another matter when you have mouths to feed and bodies to keep warm and shelter. The great modern composer Charles Ives made his living as an insurance executive even though he wrote some really fine music. When asked once why he chose to earn his living that way and not through his music he answered, "When you have a nice wife and nice kids, you wouldn't want them to starve on your dissonances".

In life, there are always compromises to be made. When Charles Ives died, his attic was filled with unpublished music of unparalleled beauty and inventiveness. He was true to his responsibilities as a husband and a father while quietly being true to his music and his art. He could have easily have found fame and fortune as a musician but he succeeded in keeping a fine balance between business and art.
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