Wednesday, December 27, 2006
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Okay. Oo. Makapal mukha to blog sa randomly after months of worthy-cause posts. Pero bakit ba? Na miss ko eh. Wag ka epal.
On a happier note, Happy holidays to all of you! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Chrismukkuh (Nagmamaka-OC pa kayo. Di naman kayo Jewish.)or not celebrate Christmas at all, I greet you on this momentous day. Well, on the momentous day of the 25th. I guess this is a belated greeting then.
Since it is a day in between Christmas and New Year today, I'd like to share some trivia about these in-between days with you. Do you know that these days are called "Dead days"? Idea, have not I on why. But I am sure of this because I saw it on a book in Fullybooked I want to purchase. It is entitled "The book of dead days" So research, I shall, on why.
Hold on.
Apparently, the eponymous "Dead days", or the days in between Christmas and New Year, in other cultures, are the inter-calery days that adjust the 360 days of 30 day months to the 365 days it takes to circle the sun.
So there you go.
On other news, I have been going crazy lately. I need help. My insanity has gone rampant. I've been going out non-stop and spending money like crazy. Like crazy, I tell you. Get me away from Shrangri-La. Pretty soon, I would have bought the entirety of that mall.
By the way, Cheers to all who gave me gifts this year. I love every single one of them to bits. And this is no over-reaction. Hahah. You can even say that was an understatement.
READ The Devil and Miss Prym. I LOVE THE BOOK. It is by Paulo Coelho. In this breath-taking novel, Paulo Coleho takes as his starting point the basic theme of good versus evil. "ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS ESSENTIALLY EVIL?" At this moment, I have read 5 books by Coelho (The Alchemist, Veronika Decides to Die, Eleven Minutes, By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Wept, and The Devil and Miss Prym) and cannot wait to read his other novels (The Zahir is supposedly good.)
So far, in this post, I have brought up The Holidays, The Dead days, My insanity, my presents, and books.
Speaking of the Holiday
s, I want to watch it!
Okay. Now the non-sensicality is complete.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Open your eyes
When will we begin to live again? When will we fight for something we strongly believe in? I say drop everything you're doing and LIVE.
I received an email regarding a site that was removed by Google from the AdWords, whose posts have been blocked by Yahoo, and whose book reviews were deleted by amazon all because the writer Obadiah Shoher, an anonymous politician in Israel, writes extremely controversial articles about Israel, the Middle East politics, and terrorism. Shoher is equally critical of Jewish and Muslim myths, and advocates political rationalism instead of moralizing.
Does this sound fair to you? Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Are they so afraid of the effect this will have on the people? Don't they think that by banishing this blog they are too seem as if there is something wrong with what they are doing? Or that there are actually sense & truth to the points being raised by Shoher?
I say stand up. Stand up and fight. Fight and make something out of nothing. Make something out of nothing and go against the grain. Go against the grain and support Shoher.
SupportKudos to Obadiah Shoher and Mr. Eugene Gershin.
