Wishing you all a merry Christmas
and a blessed New Year!
Remember that Christ is the reason for this season!
Patnugot Jim
full time father, student by day, blogger by night.
I never noticed it but I think it came out naturally because of so many things. I was egosurfing! Just testing what’s been happening to me online. I believe, this episode happened to me a few months ago.
Haven’t you noticed 5 posts in one day!! (this would be the sixth if i press it! actually there’s also post no. 29 which i intend to post till Christmas eve)
Well, I’m obviously in a stressful day–a minor problem at home is hovering over my head. Ei! mind you, I still managed to go through two meetings, encode data (for a survey I conducted in three countries) and do my usual stuff in compliance with my TOR (terms of reference).
The minor problem?? well, not sure if i’m going to blog about it. But I might do for your learning enjoyment (thanks to the few people visiting this site, especially to a regular visitor in New York–not sure if you’re a person or a bot of google!). Talking about this, site, it’s been a few months and I’m amazed of how much it’s worth!! Well, a few months and a hundred blogs more, I could reach the 6 figure mark (hopefully!).
I’m a bit lazy now to show you who’s got a 6 figure blog but if you would like to know how much your blog’s worth just click on the link on the right below my various widgets! As for now, I’m trying to relax, unwind in the joy of blogging. (‘di naman obvious na blogbastic na nga ako no?! blog addict!).
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Time is on my side
People can’t believe that I still have time to blog. Well, it keeps me insane from my daily battle with stress and balancing act as a family man, husband, colleague among other things. And whenever somebody comments like that about my blogging, Norman Meade’s Time is on my side comes to mind.
I first heard the song while watching Denzel Washington’s Fallen. Man I enjoyed the movie, the suspense and the thought that, well, it was an endless battle between good and evil. Well, who wins is up to you.
Anyway, in reality, time is not really on my side, you just bribe (well, manage might be a better term!) it to be good to you. SWEET! 😀
‘Tis the time of the year when everybody enjoy various freebies!
Free lunch, the other day and yesterday. Well, no free lunch today, so I’ll search for a lunch site again! On Friday, there’s a Christmas party over a colleague’s place! That one’s a free dinner! 😀
I’m going through my daily routine at the office when I read an article on the FAO website, FAO crisis centre experts in South Korea studying risk of avian flu spread. This is good news with the ever increasing risk of spreading bird flu (scientists still have to establish how this zoonotic disease spread).
I read on to see what’s the composition of the team.
The CMC team includes international and Korean veterinary epidemiologists, wildlife veterinarians, biologists and poultry specialists who will pay particular attention to the relationships between poultry production, marketing and wildlife sectors to gather information that is necessary to better understand potential disease movement among chickens and risks to or from wild birds. The team will be looking at any wild bird deaths on infected farms or adjacent wetlands, as well as collecting environmental samples that may lead to a better understanding of disease emergence in the area.
After reading this, I thought that the touted multidisciplinary team should have included at least a social scientist/anthropologist. They might be able to explain the spread of the disease from one farm to another as the disease spread involves people.
They would have completed a holistic approach in dealing with the disease. Most veterinarians still has to acknowledge that there is a people face in the epidemiology of animal diseases. In the case of bird flu, people are dying and how people and animals interact and spread the disease should also be investigated. This is not an exclusive veterinary medicine affair. I think one should look into integrating social science vetmed, i.e., the holistic approach in animal health (well, what is it? watch out for my posts).
It’s a pity that sometimes, we at the regional offices, and in this case at the international level, sometimes don’t get things done quite precisely than we should (when it’s what’s expected from us!). Well, for now, I’ll contribute whatever I can on my end.
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA–I have just checked-in in the government designated hotel for me. It was my first time to ask the government to arrange the hotel for me and as always I inspected the toilet, the water, the TV–yes! TFC! (this is one I like whenever coming to Cambodia–The Filipino Channel, while I’m a kapuso, I settled for kapamilya to ease my homesickness).
Anyway, as I opened the TV and organized my stuff and settled in bed to watch Willy Revillame’s Wowowee! I noticed an A4-size announcement on the side table.
Massage available for US$10.00 for men and women.
Now that sounds a reasonable price for a body massage, maybe I should try it. I read on.
Women can sleep
Eheheheh!??????? Ano daw???
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Newcastle Alumni International
A fellow University of Newcastle alumni from Singapore is trying to maintain an unofficial blog for the Newcastle Alumni International. It’s the blog for alumni of the University of Newcastle from around the world. Let’s see how it goes. 🙂
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Time’s person of the Year ver2
Congratulations to all!!
Well, it seems that news spreads, not at the spead of wildfires, but at the speed of electricity! Everybody’s blogging about their awards. Not only wordpress bloggers but also people of the world!!!
I’ll write my speech later. 😀
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I’m Time’s Person of the Year!!!
I was ecstatic when I read it. Yes it was true! I was Time’s Person of the Year!!! I’m not dreaming on a Monday morning on a bus but I can’t believe what I’m actually reading!!! (screeeech!!) Hit the breaks!
Well, actually, it’s all of US using the blogosphere, Internet! 😀 I’m ecstatic, nevertheless.
I remember an Inquirer‘s article a few months back (I can’t locate the article, though) on how some reporters search blogs for news leads or fish for news. Now, the international media is acknowledging that IT IS REALLY HAPPENING. The Inquirer also reported that experts are saying that this might be the end of the printed newspaper.
As Time‘s Lev Grossman wrote about this year’s person of the year, he put Scottish Philospher Thomas Carlyle‘s assumption in the spotlight, writing that this was challenged this year. Carlyle once said…
the history of the world is but the biography of great men
Grossman explains…
“He (Carlyle) believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species.“
Carlyle’s assumption was proven wrong when the new age of the Internet took a twist this decade. The revolution of people contributing to their own style of media. People consolidating news that is feisty, fearless and free (talking about People Power!).
People who used Youtube, blogs, myspace have reshaped the Internet. Grossman also cited that expert are now referring to the new revolution as Web 2.0 “as if it were a new version of some old software,” Grossman commented. This is something different from the first Internet that we knew back in the 1980s, it is different from the dot com hype or the information age revolution. I think I could pitch in my own tag for this age as the knowledge revolution (this might well end up as a thesis topic or a dissertation!).
While there are fears of how the Web 2.0 shape our future, it is worth noting that it is being recognized and people should do something to harness this development to divert it to improve each and everyone not only intellectually, but also financially! There could still be many debates (as with Time’s choice of person of the year like Adolf Hitler in 1938 and Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979) if Time chose the right person(s) for this year. However, I reiterate that this is a good start while you would find lots of stupidity on the Web you could also see the best of it.
I loved how Grossman made my last point in his article.
Sure, it’s a mistake to romanticize all this any more than is strictly necessary. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
But that’s what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There’s no road map for how an organism that’s not a bacterium lives and works together on this planet in numbers in excess of 6 billion. But 2006 gave us some ideas. This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person. It’s a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who’s out there looking back at them. Go on. Tell us you’re not just a little bit curious.
From the Dec. 25, 2006 issue of TIME magazine
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Gamers, Wii have a problem.
At first, I thought the article on INQ7 was funny, well it is at first. It was about Nintendo’s new Wii. The article was about the hazards of gaming using Wii.
Wii is innovative as it allows gamers to use body movements to stimulate movement in the game (well using a wireless remote) unlike just sitting on the console and pressing buttons (as to Gameboy and Sony’s Playstation).
One user was playing bowling on Wii then the sound became so real—crack! She didn’t hit the strike it was kind of surreal, actually. I thought I was dreaming at first,” she said—she actually hit the screen of her 37” TV as the wireless remote snapped.
Apparently this wasn’t a problem of one, Wii fans have set up a site to discuss the problem. Nintendo has since, well subtly, given out a safety precaution in using Wii. So, as for me, I’ll just stick, well for now, to pressing CTRL, ALT, arrow up, down, right, left as I play my RTS Company of Heroes!
Blogbastic! 