Why I will not vote (and has not voted) for incumbent VP, JeJoMar Binay

A true-to-life confession (published in the national broadsheet) from his former batchmate at UP and business partner, who happen to later become United Nations diplomat. Seriously, until now, I am really wondering why so many people are pleased and convinced of this man, who flaunts his name's nomenclature is an indispensable triple combination of Jesus-Joseph and Mary. (And does that make him honest, credible and holy? For me, it's blasphemous.) He always boasts that 'fact' about his name origin on his rallies. Now, definitely, we are a democratic country, a nation of free speech and opinion. And we are also a nation who makes it a habit to criticize, condemn and stereotype all government leaders that we ourselves have elected to office. 

This is the post from: 
https://teoryakosabuhay.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/why-i-will-not-vote-for-jojo-binay/ 

WHY I WILL NOT VOTE FOR JOJO BINAY 
Editorial-Cartoon-September-13-2014 
Editorial Cartoon from opinion.inquirer.net 

Nitong mga nakakaraang araw walang humpay na lumalabas sa Facebook feeds ko ang mga balita tungkol kay VP Binay. Kesyo magkakaroon daw siya ng sariling SONA, nagsa-cyberbully daw siya, mga at iba pang mga balitang patungkol sa pagka-epal niya. Pero syempre hindi padadaig si Kris Aquino at kailangan na may balita tungkol sa kanya weekly. At ang latest sa kanya, isama na ang mga ate niya, ay ang balitang hindi nila susuportahan si VP Binay sa darating na eleksyon. Umani ng libo-libong likes ang post na to ng Inquirer at may nakita akong comment gusto kong i-share din sa inyo. Mon Tim Sharing the blog of a well-respected urban planner who has known VP Binay for a long time. WHY I WILL NOT VOTE FOR JOJO BINAY Nathaniel von Einsiedel The recent columns of Randy David and Sara Soliven de Guzman in the major dailies give us a pretty good picture of what a Binay presidency would be like — it will be a disaster. The problem, however, is that the average Filipino does not read or understand their analytical writings. Anyway, I agree with them a hundred percent, not just because I believe in their analysis, but because I had worked directly with Binay in the past and, therefore, have personal knowledge of how he thinks and does things. And it is based on this that I will not vote for him come 2016. I have known Jojo Binay personally since we were in college at UP Diliman. He was a fraternity brother of one of our neighbors in Area 1 where I grew up. He frequented our neighbor’s house and that’s how we got to know each other. After college, it was already in 1986 when I saw Binay again, when he was appointed by then President Cory Aquino as acting mayor of Makati and later on as Governor of Metro Manila in a concurrent capacity. Because of my job at the Metro Manila Commission, I got to meet with Binay on a regular basis, often assisting him in his meetings with the Metro Manila mayors and senior officials of national agencies. On many occasions, I had to join him on early morning site inspections and even late evening meetings. My working relations with Binay took a break when I resigned from government accepted the invitation of the United Nations and worked abroad from 1990 to 2004. When I returned home, we revived our relationship. From 2004 up to a few years ago, my consulting firm, CONCEP, was engaged by Makati City for a number of projects, such as the Makati Pabahay Project, Makati Development Agenda for the 21st Century, the Jupiter Street Urban Renewal Plan, the MACDA Housing Project, the Barangay Rizal Disaster Oriented Urban Redevelopment, and the Makati Poblacion Heritage Conservation Program. In the course of working on these projects, I had to confer with Binay frequently and thus developed a deeper insight on how he thinks and operates as a public official. It is based on this that I’ve become convinced that Binay is not the kind of president I would vote for president in 2016. My reasons are as follows: 

1. He will befriend you if you can help him achieve his personal objectives, and will not hesitate to dump you when you’re no longer useful to him. He is a master of charming people whom he can use to further his personal ambitions. But once they’re of no use to him, or don’t like to work with him anymore, he will readily get rid of them and fabricate a story on the reasons why. 

2. He is a congenital liar. He has perfected the practice of looking you straight in the eye and lie without blinking an eyelash. His political ads project a lie. By claiming that he will do to the country what he did in Makati, he creates an expectation that is intended to mislead people. Common public perception of Makati is that of a first world city — high rise offices and condos, glitzy malls, beautiful parks and myriad jobs. But that is Ayala’s Makati, covering only 6 of the city’s total of 33 barangays. He makes people believe that he can transform the whole country into Ayala Makati’s likeness. He knows that is not true. He had no hand in Ayala Makati’s development, and he knows he cannot replicate this anywhere. 

3. He wants to perpetuate people’s dependency on him, especially the poor. He doesn’t believe in genuine development that uplifts the living and working conditions of the poor. This is reflected in Makati’s dole-out approach to urban management, for example, its education and health programs. His political ads project the message that this dole-out system can be replicated throughout the country. He knows that the only reason he can do that in Makati is because the city has the biggest revenue among LGUs, all due to the thousands of the biggest firms located in the Ayala part of the city. 

4. He wants complete control over all programs and projects. The programs and projects of Makati city’s departments have to be approved by him directly. Thus, in Makati’s annual budget, most if not all programs and projects are listed under the Office of the Mayor, and only he can authorize budget releases. Binay also established a system that consolidates the incomes of all of Makati’s barangays and directly controls the approval of and budget releases for all barangay projects. But look at the majority of the barangays — from Kasilawan, Tejeros, Sta. Cruz, Singkamas, Bangkal, Guadalupe Viejo, Pitogo, Pinagkaisahan, Guadalupe Nuevo, all the EMBO barangays, and even his own San Antonio. There is so much poverty in these areas that no amount of dole outs throughout his as well as his wife and son’s terms of office have been able to diminish much less eradicate poverty. The incidence of poverty in the premier and richest city in the country is appalling. 

5. His pro-poor actions are all for show. He actually loathes the poor. On a number of occasions when we were discussing in private the housing projects for the poor, he used the term “salaula” (Tagalog for “uncouth” or “uncivilized”) to describe them. He has perfected the act of conveying his “concern” for the poor by, for example, setting aside time and a percentage of the city’s budget for the poor’s “KBL” — kasal (weddings), burol (wakes), and libing (burial). When we were planning the MACDA housing project, he’s approach to the issue of relocating the informal settlers was to pay them off without caring where they were to be resettled as long as they vacated the site. 

6. When we proposed a massive workforce development program to include the poor in the productive milieu and benefit from the jobs available in the city, Binay turned it down, criticising it as “small-time.” But he did not offer any alternative. It was obvious that he did not want the poor to improve their economic well-being and status. He wants them to be perpetually beholden to and dependent on him, and therefore, under his complete control. 

7. His management style is 101% patronage politics. There is absolutely nothing developmental in his system of management. He may have introduced some innovations, but these have been mainly for his and his family’s benefit rather than for the good of the people. He criticizes the Aquino administration as being inept, lazy, and slow. But what has he done, as Chairman of the Housing & Urban Development Coordinating Council for the past 5 years, to reduce the housing backlog? What has he done in the barangays of Makati to address poverty? Are the living and working conditions in the poorer barangays any better than before he first became mayor? When my team and I started consultancy projects in Makati in 2004, its incidence of poverty was higher than the national average. Binay was not alarmed by this and, in fact, seemed to be pleased with it. Perhaps because it meant he could easily manipulate the poor. Today, after almost three decades under the Binays, Makati’s overall quality of life, especially in the 27 poorer barangays, isn’t much better. Is this the kind of person who will be our next president? I certainly don’t think so. 

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6 Ways Medicine in Space is Completely Different from on Earth

Everything’s different in zero-gravity You may or may not want to go to space, but here’s something certain: you definitely don’t want to get sick there. Ask the crew of Apollo 7, the 1960s mission in which the commander contracted a cold, spread it to the other two astronauts and all three of them spent the entire mission trapped inside a cramped spacecraft, sneezing, hacking and griping at the ground. And that was just 11 days in Earth orbit. What about a year aboard the International Space Station(ISS)? What about a two-and-a-half-year mission to Mars. And what about something a wee bit more serious than a cold—like appendicitis or a heart attack or a severe injury? Zero-gravity plays all manner of nasty games with the bones, muscles, organs, eyeballs, the brain itself—never mind the infectious risks that come from sealing half a dozen people inside a self-contained vessel, where a virus or bacterium could simply circulate ’round and ’round, from person to person indefinitely. These are some of the things that will be on the mind of rookie astronaut Kjell Lindgren, who will spend nearly six months aboard the ISS when he lifts off in late July as part of the station’s next three-person crew. Lindgren is not just a well-trained astronaut, but a specialist in aerospace and emergency medicine—just the kind of expert who will increasingly be needed as the human presence in space becomes permanent. “If we want to go to Mars some day,” Lindgren said in a recent conversation with TIME, “if we want to get further and deeper into the solar system, we need to start thinking about these things, thinking about the capabilities we need to do an appendectomy or take out a gall bladder.” There will be no gall bladder or appendix takings while Lindgren is aloft. For now, he and the ISS flight doctors back on Earth are taking only space-medicine baby steps, learning the basics about the radical differences between medical care on the Earth and medical care off it. Here are a few of the most vexing problems they have to learn to solve: 1. Where is that kidney again? On Earth, your organs settle into predictable positions. A doctor palpating your liver or thumping your chest knows exactly where things ought to be. In zero-g, not so much. “The organs may be displaced a little bit,” says Lindgren. “They tend to shift up a little more. The heart may have a little bit of a different orientation, which may be reflected on an EKG.” Other kinds of shifting or compression—of the lungs, stomach, bladder and more—can cause problems of their own. 2. Your bones hate space: Without the constant tug of gravity, your skeleton doesn’t work nearly as hard, which causes it to weaken and decalcify. Astronauts spend many hours a week exercising to counteract some of that, but nothing can reverse it completely. When Russia’s Mir space station was still flying, newly arriving cosmonauts were warned not to exchange traditional bear hugs with crew members who had been there for a while. The risk: broken ribs. 3. Your eyes do too: Astronauts who have been in space for long-term stays often find that their vision grows worse, and it doesn’t always bounce completely back when they return to Earth. The problem is caused by fluid shifting upward from the lower body into the head, compressing the optic nerve and distorting the shape of the eyeball. Eye infections and irritation are more common too—for decidedly ick-inducing reasons. “Dust doesn’t settle in the vehicle like it does on Earth,” says Lindgren. “So things that are liberated, little pieces of metal from equipment or maybe dead skin just float around and cause eye irritation.”

Diretcho and prangka ala VP Binay to PNoy and Pimenel.

VP Binay is really nailing it with his very brief, straightforward and concise letters lately. Days ago, it was his resignation letter to Pres. Aquino with just 13 words (and was bashed with netizens of Aquino’s virtual reply as: ‘K’.). 'Diretsuhanay' via formal correspondence. Now, he wrote Senator Pimentel with a direct- Magpakalalaki ka! ..all via formal correspondence. 

Binay hits Pimentel's call to audit offices Binay headed, tells him in letter, "Magpakalalaki ka" | via @ryan_chua pic.twitter.com/d4gssnTk9Q

— ABS-CBN News Channel (@ANCALERTS) June 25, 2015

My previous post regarding his resignation letter is at: 

http://manictiger.blogspot.com/2015/06/literally-short-concise-and.html and  

http://manictigerph.tumblr.com/post/122328416567/literally-short-concise-and-straightforward-big

Riverside's highest ranking topnotcher: Jeepney driver's daughter emerges as NLE Top 2

And so I say, HAIL TO THEE ALMA MATER! Riverside College (BSN Class 2008). Record breaker emerges as Top 2 for the entire examinees of the Philippines.

Maria Corazon Familiaran, Riverside College dean of nursing, said the school is very happy and proud of Villa's accomplishment. She revealed that this was the first time that the school got a second placer in the board exam. “Our highest topnotcher was in Top 3.”
The Bacolod-based school has a passing percentage of 90.63% this time, with 29 passers out of 32 examinees.

complete article at: http://www.rappler.com/nation/97339-charlyn-villa-2nd-nursing-board-exam-may-2015  

Never too late: Pinoys plead for UN to intervene the approaching WW3.

Click this link for Rappler's June 25 article: Pinoys plead for UN to intervene the approaching WW3.

This is in relation with my previous post regarding maritime entitlement dispute between China and Philippines:

http://manictigerph.tumblr.com/post/121415465917/ww3-insight-the-war-has-already-started-a-decade

 Well, It’s never too late to start even if we are over the definitions of being late. I still trust in Divine Providence and may God hear us.

Neurotransmitters from the intestinal microbiota! 'Green-minded' theory proven!?

Yes, you have read it right, a recent study of Mark Lyte involving feces of monkeys reveal that neurochemicals like dopamine, serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) produced by enormous gut microbiota.

Eighteen vials were rocking back and forth on a squeaky mechanical device the shape of a butcher scale, and Mark Lyte was beside himself with excitement. ‘‘We actually got some fresh yesterday — freshly frozen,’’ Lyte said to a lab technician. Each vial contained a tiny nugget of monkey feces that were collected at the Harlow primate lab near Madison, Wis., the day before and shipped to Lyte’s lab on the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center campus in Abilene, Tex.

Inside a closet-size room at his lab that afternoon, Lyte hunched over to inspect the vials, whose samples had been spun down in a centrifuge to a radiant, golden broth. Lyte, 60, spoke fast and emphatically. ‘‘You wouldn’t believe what we’re extracting out of poop,’’ he told me. ‘‘We found that the guys here in the gut make neurochemicals. We didn’t know that. Now, if they make this stuff here, does it have an influence there? Guess what? We make the same stuff. Maybe all this communication has an influence on our behavior.’’

Given the extent to which bacteria are now understood to influence human physiology, it is hardly surprising that scientists have turned their attention to how bacteria might affect the brain. Micro-organisms in our gut secrete a profound number of chemicals, and researchers like Lyte have found that among those chemicals are the same substances used by our neurons to communicate and regulate mood, like dopamine, serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). These, in turn, appear to play a function in intestinal disorders, which coincide with high levels of major depression and anxiety. Last year, for example, a group in Norway examined feces from 55 people and found certain bacteria were more likely to be associated with depressive patients.

At the time of my visit to Lyte’s lab, he was nearly six months into an experiment that he hoped would better establish how certain gut microbes influenced the brain, functioning, in effect, as psychiatric drugs. He was currently compiling a list of the psychoactive compounds found in the feces of infant monkeys. Once that was established, he planned to transfer the microbes found in one newborn monkey’s feces into another’s intestine, so that the recipient would end up with a completely new set of microbes — and, if all went as predicted, change their neurodevelopment. The experiment reflected an intriguing hypothesis. Anxiety, depression and several pediatric disorders, including autism and hyperactivity, have been linked with gastrointestinal abnormalities. Microbial transplants were not invasive brain surgery, and that was the point: Changing a patient’s bacteria might be difficult but it still seemed more straightforward than altering his genes.

When Lyte began his work on the link between microbes and the brain three decades ago, it was dismissed as a curiosity. By contrast, last September, the National Institute of Mental Health awarded four grants worth up to $1 million each to spur new research on the gut microbiome’s role in mental disorders, affirming the legitimacy of a field that had long struggled to attract serious scientific credibility. Lyte and one of his longtime colleagues, Christopher Coe, at the Harlow primate lab, received one of the four. ‘‘What Mark proposed going back almost 25 years now has come to fruition,’’ Coe told me. ‘‘Now what we’re struggling to do is to figure out the logic of it.’’ It seems plausible, if not yet proved, that we might one day use microbes to diagnose neurodevelopmental disorders, treat mental illnesses and perhaps even fix them in the brain.

The complete article is from this blog: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/can-the-bacteria-in-your-gut-explain-your-mood.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

R18: Seriously, what is wrong with you people!?

Saw this video in my feed at Facebook, and so I tried to watch it not because of the characters but the comments that its was really funny, and will drain tears out of Laughing out Loud. This is a crazy music video which showed nothing but a*s. But on a lighter note, try to focus on the lyrics and not on her behind because its quite true, its tacking about the realities of the modern world like plastic surgery, botox injection therapy and other aesthetics.

JESUS, I AM IN TEAR FROM LAUGHING LMAOO

LMAO ***This had me dying****

Posted by DeLorean on Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Songs of Rice (How rice in Thailand taste like that of the Philippines)

I love diverse cultures and international relations. This topic and field is very delighting for me because I am a dreamer, supposed to be a traveller but because of sickness, got grounded inside my home--literally.

What I like most about this movie is its relation and similarity with Filipino culture. It seems their rice is of the same taste as ours. Thailand is one of the countries I dream to visit, and I think this nation has good and brilliant minds too in the field of mass communications and international documentaries. On the other hand, I messaged the director of this film, The Songs of Rice:

ครั้งแรกที่ผม ดู รถพ่วงและ อ่าน บทสรุป ของ " เพลงของ ข้าว "ผม สนใจจริงๆ ฉันคิดว่ามัน เป็น ความรู้สึก เห็นคุณค่า ที่จะได้สัมผัส เกินกว่าสิ่งที่ โลกรู้ เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย ลึกลับในการ พูด แต่ จะซื่อสัตย์ หลังจากที่ ฟิลิปปินส์ไทย เป็นประเทศที่ ชื่นชอบ มากที่สุดของฉัน และไม่มีอะไรที่ ดังต่อไปนี้ ฉัน ได้รับการฝัน ในการเยี่ยมชม ของคุณ ( ผู้เขียน / ผู้อำนวยการ ) ประเทศ ในอนาคต ขอให้โชคดี และผลงาน ของคุณมีความ สวยงาม และเป็นความจริง

Thank you google for translating my message.

Synopsis:

This is a visual record of rice culture and its influences on the people in different parts of Thailand. The lyrical structure of this documentary film reflects the melodies in the songs of rice, crafted and composed by the diverse harmonies of the people who may sing in different voices but who share the same heart.This is the final movie in the rice trilogy that began with STORIES FROM THE NORTH and AGRARIAN UTOPIA.

Taken from: https://www.behance.net/gallery/19576471/The-Songs-of-Rice-()-Documentary-Film?

About the author:

Trailer:

This is the link to view his works: https://www.behance.net/harin_p

Literally short, concise and straightforward; Big LOL: VP Binay's one-sentence resignation letter composed of 13 words.

From rappler:

Vice President Jejomar Binay on Tuesday informed President Benigno Aquino III of his resignation from the Cabinet through a simple, one-sentence, straight-to-the-point letter.

"I hereby tender my irrevocable resignation as member of the Cabinet effective immediately," Binay said in his letter dated June 22, 2015.

The letter was handcarried by Binay's daughter, Rep. Abigail Binay, to Malacañang. It was received by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa, according to Joey Salgado, head of the Office of the Vice President media affairs.

Binay was the presidential adviser on overseas Filipino workers' (OFW) concerns and chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDDC). Aquino has already accepted his resignation.

More from: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/509066/news/nation/look-vp-binay-s-one-sentence-resignation-letter?utm_source=GMANews&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=GMANewsFacebook 

This is literally short, concise and straightforward; Big LOL: VP Binay's one-sentence resignation letter composed of 13 words.

Guy's version: Two (is always) better than one - cover

This song simply hits into the subconscious. The melody is simple and the message is exceptional. Myko Mañago sang this cover in such a great versatility. Just sayin'. 

I'm bias on good covers.

BoysLikeGirls Ft. Taylor Swift - Two is Better than One (COVER) by Myko Mañago

https://youtu.be/KiefX6Zt-zo

Epic, as I recall this ep: The Greatest Love Of All Performed By Daryl Ong

The Greatest Love Of All Performed By Daryl Ong

Simplicity not Complexity.

Life is really simple, we just (always) find ways to complicate it. Problems are never problems when we don't assume the affected role. Maybe we can learn to say: “I dont care”. just sayin’

WTH is wrong with Chinese pips- feasting over adorable dogs!?

Straightforward statement: #STOPYULIN2015

Nice song: Night Changes (cover)

I don't really know what's with this song that makes me wanna play it repeatedly. I just love it. I am not a huge fan of 1D, in fact I find them just common bunch of boys with appealing faces and million-filled wallets, but this song is just great. The video is quite cool too.

http://manictigerph.tumblr.com/post/122175032732/better-than-the-original-night-changes-by-1d-i