Before You Figure Out RH Bill Figure Out This

Literally Taken From Today's Headlines . To be fair this is a tabloid but just shows you the depth our literacy goes here. There is no use doing whatever is proposed in the RH bill if things like this are not addressed first. I am sure this contributes to our population growth. Congratulations again to People's Journal Tonight for crack journalism on this fine day Sept 21 2012. Glad they were able to scoop the other news sources as the underdog. I hope the upcoming Cyberact of 2012 does not hamper their news gathering prowess. One last thing. Why was I not invited?

Chihuahua in Greenbelt 2

For those of you sick of my political rants. Little changeup for  you. Tonight was one of those nights where I saw the traffic and decided to roam Greenbelt instead of get in the driver's seat. I was able to do a few things then came the time to decide where to eat. I saw a niece tonight and I told her the beauty of being single is you get to pick where to eat. The bad part is I argue with myself.

Chihuahua just got hold of me with it's tractor beam. I always loved Mexican but dang it, I love hot sauce, hot peppers etc. My stomach may curse me 2-8 hours later but in the words of Styx "whatever the price I'll pay". Chihuahua is a place for me where the food is something you put on the hot sauce. I did not take any pictures because never thought I would blog about it. Anyway order a burrito, taco, nacho bowl and pick your content. Then experiment which sauce will enhance your food. Another plus though I did not avail tonight is they have draft beer. Tonight was at least my third time there if not my fifth. They also have wifi.

This Week's Gospel Discusses The Concept Of Hardcore

Being a priest I can imagine is hard work. Out of everything they do the one part of their job I think I can get into is composing a sermon . Which is what I end up doing in blog anyway except source material is seldom the Gospels. Though it's happened once or twice. 

Well it's not to well known among my family or most of my friends that I attend a sort of bible study. It's called the School of the Word where we take the Bible dig deeper and appreciate its intricacies even more. This is headed by a religious organization called Verbum Dei.

The last time I attended it was worthwhile as usual. Father Gerson is always well prepared and links several passages together to further stress the theme for that day. What is always enjoyable is wrapping it up with input from the group how the readings spoke to them. 

Last week, I had something to say regarding this week's Gospel but we were running short on time and my thoughts on the matter left my IPad. I just came from church where I encountered the reading again (albeit in Spanish) and it occurred to me to refine my thoughts somewhat and if I could not share it at that moment with our group then share it in cyberspace. Besides my blog my rules. No restrictions on time and I can meander anywhere in my depraved thinking.


John 6:60 - On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?" is the first line. The title of the Gospel in my Bible 360 is Many disciples desert Jesus. 

To follow the path of Jesus is supposed to be hard. Hate to break it to some of you but the last three years of Jesus life was no picnic. This Gospel story struck me because it's very much like life. Anyone who ever tried out for a team will be familiar with cut down day. The day that the pretenders are separated from the contenders. Life is a weeding out process.

The day of this particular Gospel for me seemed like Jesus' cut down day. Where he picked the final 12 he would go to war with so to speak. The ones who would ultimately establish the Church in his absence. It is truly a daunting task and it's not for just anyone. Jesus was just left with the "hardcore".

There is a thing called the 80/20 rule . Which simply means 80% of a business' revenue comes from 20% of its clients. The 20% are the hardcore.

A slightly older blog I recently wrote was about the Philippines lack of success in the Olympics. To medal in any Olympic event an athlete must compete in a series of events leading up to the Olympics to the point that person is one of the top 3 in the world at whatever event. That takes discipline , attitude and consistency . Along the way there will be a weeding out process. There will be talented people who will fall by the wayside only because some less talented people overcame that gap because of desire and discipline. This process is repeated over and over around the world and converges every four years in the Olympics and only three competitors will get to the podium and one of them will hear the national anthem of their country play at the end of the event.  In other words one has to be hard core to get a medal.

My previous blog entry  spoke not so much about the hardcore but the soft core opportunists. The bandwagon that gets filled up quite rapidly by people whose main value is to be with the in crowd. In a previous blog I spoke about Christ being hailed then condemned by bandwagon mentality all in the space of five days. Bandwagon jumping is for people whose values are so weak and undefined that they just want to be seen with the crowd instead of being seen for what they stand for regardless of crowd size.

Hard core can be defined as not casual or devoted. That is what it's going to take to excel at anything, even as a follower of Christ.   I never paid much attention to this Gospel before much less break it down. Guess I had to be hard core before it spoke to me. 

Ed

Sorry to Multiply, Blogspot and Livejournal Readers

Sorry guys. You know I preach loyalty and staying true to your roots and not selling out. I have not been blogging in the usual spots lately because I have been accepted by a blog site that stands for what I stand for . I am glad to take psycho blogging to a different and wider audience. I know what you are thinking, "there are others like you?" Well a place where I fit in anyway. The editor told me he prefers my blogs stay exclusive to his site and I have no problem with that. I always refer to all my old online work whenever I reference. Also I doubt everything I will want to write about will fit the scope of Get Real Philippines. I wrote a tribute to Donna Summer when she died I have yet to get around to finalizing it. Please do drop by and add a comment or two. Also read the others there who I am fortunate to be accepted in their little corner of cyber space. Recently my ninth piece got published. You can subscribe to the site via Facebook, Twitter and email.

Thank you for reading me in the usual places and for continuing to read. In the words of Sandra Bernhard "Without you I am nothing".

Ed

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Why I Want Jessica Sanchez To Lose

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill;
I will choose a path that's clear-
I will choose Free Will.

Rush "Free Will"

Pinoys Pathetic Pandering

No matter the outcome of American Idol whether Jessica Sanchez wins or loses, face it Philippines you have serious issues when it comes to voting.



What you did in May 10 2010 as Marcus Aurelius once said will echo in eternity. Look at who you voted for in the top two slots. How did that work out for you??? Noynoy won the presidency on the back of his barely buried mother. Proud to be PINOY!!! Second place a guy who was found guilty of plunder, a crime punishable by death but gets second most votes in an election: Proud to be PINOY!!!




I thought the whole idea of a vote was to give you a choice and make up your own mind. If your choice is presumed what does that say about the exercise?? The manifestation of Filipino voting prowess currently sits in Malacanang. Choice based on offspring not merit. You know what they say about family? You can't pick your family. Enuff said.



She was not born in the Philippines, her father is Mexican , she does not live here . I don't know if she has ever been here. What the heck makes her yours? Are you that desperate for attention that any semblance of a racial connection will give you cause to hoot, holler and chest beat like King Kong grabbing Jessica Lange?




BS Aquino the turd swept into the highest office in the land. Not based on any tangible achievement on his part but by basically reminding you who his relatives are. You fell for that. Anyway we are reaping what we sowed. This man is our duly elected leader and what does it say about us??? BTW he supports Jessica Sanchez.








The main theme of my piece here is that the pinoy values pansin above all. Pansin is so valued they will ignore anything. In 2010 the entertainment headlines read Four RP films in Montreal (film festival). They included my niece Kathleen Jayme. Again, not born here, educated abroad, lives abroad so this country has little to do with anything but pinoys are so consistent in grasping at anything to be noticed.




http://manilapophits.blogspot.com/2010/08/news-four-rp-films-in-montreal.html



http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20100829-289423/Four-RP-films-in-Montreal




Let's reverse this whole pansin thread. Do American sports pages brag that Kirk Long starred for Ateneo? Do Canadian sports pages brag that Sean Anthony (McGill) is a pro basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association? It would be ridiculous if they did. But we do it all the time sa 'Pinas because our standards are so low.




Maybe the problem with me is I watch sports. I do root for teams but the beauty of sports is its supposed to be the ultimate reality TV. Even the contestants and the organizers don't know whats going to happen. In order to achieve that , there has to be a level playing field. Same rules apply then you compete in that sport. The problem with Pinoys and I have said this before is they don't know how to compete. If they did we would dominate international basketball since it's the only team sport we play as a nation. We are the only nation with basketball tunnel vision. All the other countries , their best athletes play soccer or baseball and the rest go to basketball. They still beat us.




I can not emphasize enough that I love sports. Because sports is it's own entertainment. It has little to do with nationality. The best get to play and the best get to win. Forget about nations. Just be world class.




The point about competition is the pinoys make American Idol about race and not about merit. Spare me with the "she is good" . She may well be but you are rallying behind her perceived nationality. You are not rallying behind her skill. Which makes your framework a racial one and not a meritocracy. You co-opted what I believe is the intended goal of the show which is come up with a "singing star". You instead made it about someone whose ethnicity you believe matches yours. Pinoys do it all the time because they have what I perceive as an attention deficit disorder. They don't feel they get enough attention so they somehow find it in Manny wins and in Jasmine Trias surviving another round in American Idol. Speaking of which, is she not currently in the where are they now file? They feel that American Idol and Manny Pacquiao and Arnel Pineda validate them as a race. To each their own but in my opinion having a mama's boy who never accomplished anything as a politician sitting as your president speaks volumes of who we really are. Not some singing contest or 7 rounds of boxing.




I don't like the word "support" because it implies you are being obligated to do something that you otherwise won't do. Think of something you love. Do you consider it supporting or whatever you do springs naturally from your love of what you are doing?










I am not the first one to point this out but Crissy reminded me today that American Idol has specific guidelines who can vote yet bolero pinoys in their pursuit for perfect pansin keep telling us that Globe subscribers can vote. Oh if I could harness the mental energy of pinoys in Facebook, I could toast some bread, lightly.




What disturbs me and maybe only me is the meaning Pinoys attach to American Idol. Almost as obsessive the way my dad describes his in laws of ten years. With awe filled reverence. Like nothing else matters. The problem is, this country has problems and this culture has a strange way of ignoring those problems. That is why they continue to be problems. How come a singing contest makes one proud to be pinoy , yet the constant loss of life by violent means does not make one ashamed to be pinoy? Whether its because of political reasons, financial reasons , religious reasons or pure carelessness of the community around you. Life is not valued here but the results of some text tally in singing contest is the be all and end all. Why only define yourself with the trivial and temporary but ignore a more definite and life altering reality? Are you that petty a culture?




Colin Cowherd is a very polarizing talk show host. I have quoted him many times to make my point and I will quote him again. Don't let one good day define you. The real test of a human's capabilities is what they are like in crisis. What they are like when the inevitable bad days come. Pinoys as far as I am concerned could care less about improving on the bad because they rather to focus on the trivial, like a singing contest.




Maybe Filipinos value American Idol so much because American Idol as an institution does not value originality. Filipinos themselves do not value originality because they value public figures who make gaya gaya with no apology.




Seeing other races as inferior last time I looked was racism. Yet Pinoys tell you to vote with no options but their own race on the promo. That is so insulting to anyone with a brain but in my experience you dare question that you are crab. I am not crab I understand the meaning of the following concepts: choice, objectivity, merit and free will.

To answer the question in my title. I want Jessica Sanchez to lose on the remote chance that somebody out their who will initially grieve at the loss might wake up to reality and get some perspective that American Idol is not worth a hill of beans and then changes the nation for the better. Then people might vote for elections based on merit and not some idealized conjured fantasy. Cue Abba.




KSP is the root of all evil . I have learned that living here the last 12 years. Pansin is the pinoy currency that very few people will say out loud.Yet that is what drives them. Affects their judgement, their sense of fair play and totally closes their mind to beauty and ingenuity from other places in this world. Yet it is this that makes them proud to be pinoy. Not me. I will chose free will.



Ed



http://getrealphilippines.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/noynoys-win-might-make-filipinos-the-butt-of-jokes-around-the-world/



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Hockey Is Canada?

"I don't care whether you're black, white, green, or purple I want my offensive players on this bus and the boys trying out for the defense on that bus."

Herman Boone from Remember the Titans




Two of the major themes in my blog have been bandwagon jumping (on and off) and intrinsic value. I can't help but take shots at the typical Filipino sports fan and two examples of those are here and here. Now if there is a bright side to that sometimes the Canadians are not too far behind the Filipinos in being so bush league about sports.

I was listening to CBC News how they try to portray that the hockey season is over for Canadians coast to coast because Ottawa the last Canadian NHL team in the playoffs got eliminated.I am sorry to all my Canadian friends who may read this but then you are admitting Hockey is not Canada. You all know that I think sports is a stupid arena in which to define one's national identity. But you know what's even more exponentially stupid is using professional sports to define one's national identity.


For those of you who do not know, professional sports is not about local culture. It's about business. A business that caters to the cities that a league is in and a business that provides TV programming to whatever locale on Earth that will tune into that sport. General Managers of any team will fill up their roster based on logistics like budget, quota, salary cap space, parity rules , need etc. It has nothing to do with nationalism or civic pride. Despite all that, tradition is somehow produced from that very cold process. Tradition like the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Montreal Canadians, Boston Celtics, Green Bay Packers etc.


But let's take our example of the myth of the "Canadian" team in the NHL. The Ottawa Senators were Canada's last hope in the playoffs in 2012. How Canadian was Ottawa? Which is the capital of Canada for those of you who don't know.

Their roster was comprised of 6 from Sweden, 7 from the USA, 17 Canadians, a Frenchman , two from Czechoslovakia and finally two Russians.


http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/ott/roster

I then took the roster of a random "American" team that is still playing. The St.Louis Blues. a Swede, 6 Americans, 19 Canadians , 3 from Czechoslovakia and a Russian.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/stl/roster


You may draw your own conclusions from that but mine is, if you can play hockey then you can end up on an NHL playoff team regardless of nationality. Does it matter what city that team is in?

A study based on 2010-2011 NHL said that roughly half the league was Canadian, one fourth of it American and the rest from various places in the European continent. Canada is supposed to be Hockey but 1/4 of their league is compromised of people from a nation that cares more about football, basketball , baseball and NASCAR than hockey.

So Canada. Explain to me why you are hockey? You provide a slim numerical majority to the best hockey league on the planet. Your national network put out a story defining hockey as over after the first round with your own people on the street saying it. The playoffs are just getting going. There are thirty NHL teams and you have less than a third of them.

Actually I was in Canada when the systematic poaching of Canadian hockey teams began and it made anybody who gave a lick about tradition sick. That was the ultimate bandwagon moment. Taking teams that were part of the community fabric and plunking them in hockey hotbeds like Arizona and Nashville. In case there is a real hockey historian reading this , I know Nashville was an expansion team but it goes to my point that Quebec City and Winnipeg don't deserve big time hockey but Tampa Bay and Nashville do??? Hockey of the National Hockey League variety kept trying to be something they are not and they paid the price.

Actually over the years I have met many Canadians who do love their hockey. Guys who could tell you who was on the third line of the Colorado Avalanche. Does not change the fact the majority of people are bandwagon jumpers who do not care about the intrinsic beauty of a sport that is hockey. All they care about are being on the bandwagon.

For those of you who not familiar with the real Canadian tradition of hockey, a ten minute video can tell you more about it than a thousand of me. And that I will provide for you here. And if there was a thousand of me, run for your lives!!!!


Ed




http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/1142/Pinoys_Only_Dig_The_BBall_

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/1246/MVP_NBA_No_Try_KSP_

http://cornholiogogs.multiply.com/journal/item/242/Ho_Hum_The_Olympics

http://www.mediafire.com/?lkja9v4ll0oo7ue

http://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/nationality-totals/nhl-players-2010-11-stats.html

http://kcorreia.com/2011/nhl-player-history/

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/165874-nhl-playoffs-a-different-season-a-different-animal

Out Of The Goodness Of My Heart

BBQ Chicken and Beer in Burgos Circle 

869-1692

0915-522-229

There is rarely any info on this online. Don't you hate it when you are willing to go somewhere to spend money and they barely have info? BBQ does not stand for barbeque by the way. Somebody already posted about it here. But I thought I would give my version. Again tapping from that endless reservoir of love that is in my heart. If you do go there (BBQ Chicken not my  heart) , tell them you got the info from me and hopefully it would lead to some free chicken for me and 25 of my closest friends. Oh yeah, I don't have 25 friends. Well some free chicken anyway.

Ed

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