#philippines

We’re Just Human

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I see this “Anti-Dis­crim­i­na­tion Bill” being talked about ear­li­er in the news here in the PI, I say cool. At the same time, ques­tion: “It’s 2012? Is this just anoth­er act of pol­i­tick­ing? Etc.”

I won­dered why this isn’t already inclu­sive; as part of the PI’s Bill of Rights (Arti­cle 3)? A quick research of the Philip­pine’s Con­sti­tu­tion (been a while since I’ve seen this as you may know), ain’t these enough com­mon sense to abide by?

  • Arti­cle 3, Sec­tion 1
  • Arti­cle 3, Sec­tion 5
  • Pre­am­ble, “under the rule of law and a regime of truth, jus­tice, free­dom, love, equal­i­ty, and peace…”

You would also think for a pop­u­la­tion that is dom­i­nant­ly Chris­t­ian (90%+), a reli­gion that holds “Love” as the great­est com­mand­ment (all reli­gions and belief sys­tems do), would­n’t this be instilled from the start of one’s upbring­ing and social inter­ac­tions. But I guess, that’s just part of the strug­gle.

We live to be our best self one day at a time. We’re just human.

An August Sunday, East of the Barrio

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Blessed with a blue sky and fluffy clouds after weeks of rain, I fig­ure I take the GoPro for anoth­er spin and a time-lapse of the Bar­rio. I faced this one towards the east, over­look­ing Pasig Prop­er (Down­town) and part of C5. This has a total of 217 pho­tos, each tak­en at a 30-sec­ond inter­val. So that’s a total of about 1:48:30 of real-time footage of the area.

Enjoy!

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A July Sunday in the Barrio

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Was look­ing out­side the win­dow and noticed that it’s going to be a gor­geous Sun­day. So I decid­ed to test out my new GoPro’s time­lapse. First one I have ever done. I still have to fig­ure out how to make a 127-degree FoV vs. this 170. Any­ways, I have it take a pho­to every 30-sec­onds; a total of about 1′15″ of real-time footage in the bar­rio.

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“ill-ocano” — An Adobe Illustrator Warmup

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I’ve been doing some exper­i­men­ta­tion with Adobe Edge this past week since it’s pre­view release on Mon­day. I fig­ure to have a break, and do some exer­cis­es with Adobe Illus­tra­tor. Hence, the above: “ill-ocano”.

The Ilo­cano or Ilokano peo­ple are the third largest Fil­ipino eth­no­lin­guis­tic group. Aside from being referred to as Ilo­canos, from “i”-from, and “looc”-bay, they also refer to them­selves as Sam­toy, from the Ilo­cano phrase “sao mi ditoy”, mean­ing ‘our lan­guage here.’ The word “Ilo­cano” came from the word “Ilo­co” or “Ylo­co.“1

Yes, it looks like the spelling is off, but the expla­na­tion of why it is so and the exer­cise is right after the jump.

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  1. Source via Wikipedia [↩]

Filipino Obama

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Alright, if you have said “WTF” to your­self right away—you aren’t alone. I decid­ed to post this as it has been going around via var­i­ous email lists. I don’t know how to react to this but damn, you have to admit its fun­ny and he does a good job as a look-alike of Pres­i­dent-elect Oba­ma. I just won­der if peo­ple in that office had bet­ter things to do that day. But I guess you can’t blame them for hav­ing fun and giv­ing peo­ple a rea­son to chuck­le, laugh, smile…

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