Roy Sencio

A series of events that involve a few people I know have lead me to some thought; a measure of introspection; in the hope of understanding people’s actions, and in the end I realize people simply cannot be understood entirely but to a certain extent, merely tolerated. There are no published set of rules that document how man acts, thinks and feels. They are just to be simply, accepted as they are, and blamed on man’s simply being human and that these come as part of his innate nature, and akin to his imperfection.

It tires me too much to try to understand something that maybe requires no understanding, to find answers to questions that simply don’t have any answers.

There is no more complicated creature in existence than man, and man’s greatest adversary is his own self.

Unlike other creatures that act and operate on instinct, man has been given an awareness of his own existence, yet he does not get enlightened.

Man has been given choice and discernment, but he squanders that privilege by choosing what’s wrong.

Man has been given the opportunity to feel emotions and the ability to express them, but can change these for convenience and rationalize to excuse him for doing so.

Man has been given the gift of rationalization and thought, and he abuses that to absolve him of his actions or transgressions.

Inevitably, man’s fate shall be his own doing.

There is this old question that goes, who you would rather be with… the one you love or the one who loves you?

The choices are presented before you and the question is simple, yet the answers never are.

Some opt to be with the one who wants them more, believing that in time they would be able to love that who accepted them.

Others burn in desire to be with the one they love, despite obvious disparity in affection or the prospect of love unrequited.

Maybe then to answer this, we must digress from feelings and look at man’s innate nature, the need for belonging and acceptance whether from a group of individuals or from one specific person. Man desires to be desired, needs to be needed, wants to be wanted. The feeling of relevancy and importance in another person’s life, may be the needed perspective to answer the question.

However you choose, there are still no guarantees. In the end, it will not be about who you choose but the reasons for the choice and the attitude you take when things do not go as planned.

Despite the uncertainty of the choice, true happiness is found when you knowingly plunge into it something that you know could potentially make you unhappy, regardless if you choose the one you love or the one who loves you.

Is your life worth a Nokia 3310?

Just a few days ago at dawn, a working mother of two was shot point blank in the head for refusing to surrender her cellular phone to three robbers who had waylaid her as she was on her way to work around 5am of Tuesday.

Just about a week ago a graduating nursing student was also shot dead, for her cellular phone.

It is alarming to note that there are people out there who will kill you just for your cellular phone. Now how do these people look? Who are these madmen who do not seem to have the mental clarity to distinguish right from wrong, nor have enough pity within them to spare a human being’s life? Should they not themselves deserve instant and swift death? Take a look at the picture below of one of these perpetrators.

So how does he look to you? Does he look like he deserves pity? Compassion? Does the image make you want to just smack him in the face and ask them, what the hell he was thinking? Do you think you might even get a coherent answer, was he still hungover? Was he on drugs? Was he drunk?

The three me who were finally caught and charged for the murder of the nursing student say that, it was just a trip of theirs, coming from a night of drinking. Maybe it would be fun to hang them upside down by their balls as we the concerned Cebuano public take turns it it throwing darts at them while their heads are shoved down an anthill?

Some days ago, a news report ran about how some young men tried to shoot it out with police. What emboldens them to even try, what clouds their judgment and discernment?

While law enforcers are doing their jobs in catching these murderers, I believe local legislators are not doing enough to prevent such unfortunate incidents.

There can only be two reasons why these hooligans are getting more bold, drug and alcohol.

About drugs? Well, that is unending issue…and maybe there agencies tasked to fix that.

About alcohol, here is something that legislators can do… and I hope the councilors are listening.

Enforce stricter rules about minors drinking, in fact… it should not simply be minors but those aged below 21. No bars shall be serving liquor to those below 21, or face very stiff penalties. All you need to do is go to places in Mango where you see teens visibly drunk, or other places where bars do not strictly implement this ordinance on drinking. Believe me, there are a lot of those places in Cebu.

There must be stricter penalties and an enforcement of an ordinance on public drunkenness. You can drink and be drunk in your own homes, but if you step out of your domicile, you can get arrested.

Ban public drinking, especially on the streets, or neighborhood sari sari stores because it only further encourages drinking among the youth.

Make alcohol more difficult to be acquired by those below 21, and both the seller (store) or the below 21 buyer can face stiff penalties.

Ban publicly visibly drink, in otherwise commercial establishments like all these convenience stores and gas stations that become hang out places at night.

There are possibly several more than can be done, but I am thinking this will be something difficult to do as it will be met with opposition especially from the establishment, stores, bars, and everybody else who profit from this culture of drinking.

Maybe we can just home that these emboldened, drugged up or drunken cellphone robbers will just rob each other off their cellphones and shoot each other dead, sparing innocent lives.

Photo courtesy of www.cebuonlinenews.com

I just discovered Google Sky and I must say, wow!

If you have not found Google Sky yet, it is another feature of Google Earth, and is a collection of astronomical information made available in the same easy-to-use interface used for Google Earth and Google Maps. The interface of Google Sky is similar to that of Google Maps, with search and alternate views by spectrum.

If you need to know more about stars, Mars, or the vast space at large… check out Google Sky.

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The heath pea is a European herb bearing small tubers that is used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey. However a recent archaeological discovery has proven that the heath pea was used in medieval times as a hunger suppressant and weight loss aid.

Heath pea, also known as bitter vetch, was used in medieval times as a hunger suppressant when the crops failed. It was also passed around the court of King Charles, who gave it to his lovers who had a propensity for plumpness.

Proof of its uses were found in a 14th century Soutra Aisle monastery near Edinburgh that is currently being excavated. Evidence shows that the monks cut up the tubers of the plant to make a potion. The “leathery liquorice” tasting heath pea potion caused people to forget to eat.

This recent discovery has given hope to many suffering from obesity, and scientists are working to put the heath pea to some commercial use as the key component of a modern slimming pill for people wanting to lose weight.

In this era of fast food, junk food, hefty servings and up-sizing at minimal cost… it is no surprise that obesity is one of the country’s foremost health concerns with statistics revealing an alarmingly overweight U.S. population and a dangerous trend. Today, 63% of Americans are overweight and the figures increase every year.

Here are some obesity statistics: 3.8 million people are over 300 pounds, over 400,000 people (mostly males) carry over 400 pounds and the average adult female weighs an unprecedented 163 pounds!

With the discovery of proof of its appetite suppressing and hence slimming effects, the heath pea can be what everyone has been waiting for to help overcome obesity.

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Sources:
http://dictionary.die.net/heath%20pea
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http://www.americansportsdata.com/obesitystats.asp

Popfly? Is that the new pop up blocker? The next big alternative act? The new way to keep your crotch sealed shut? Strike 3! You’re out!

Popfly is what is buzzing in the IT scene, or should I say.. popping!

Popfly is Microsoft’s new  tool for a fun and easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, and Web pages. It is made up of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups and a social network where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.

So, what’s that mean exactly.

Simply put, you can now create webpages with advanced features that would have required complicated programs, easily! No programming or coding knowledge required.

The guys at Microsoft have made this extra easy to use, with ordinary users in mind and not simply developers.

So if you want to create pages, or spruce up existing web pages or blogs, give Popfly a visit at www.popfly.com.

Software giant Microsoft  intends to acquire Yahoo, in what is referred to as an unsolicited bid of $44.6 billion.

But to give you a background, the search engine wars have been raging for some years now and search engines are indeed big business, given the millions and millions of people who use a search engine everyday to find information online. But the true winner in the search engine industry has obviously been Google despite being around only in recent years. Yahoo has been the old giant that has been around much longer, but Yahoo has lost the race to Google, and Microsoft who is in itself big in software is looking at going head to head with Google and apparently they see the acquisition of Yahoo as the way in that direction.

For online marketers, this is good news as it would be good to have a reliable search engine advertising alternative to Google AdWords.

Google Adwords is an advertising platform that enables businesses of all sizes to purchase highly targeted ads that appear across a wide network of participating websites and on the search engine itself, and Google provides its advertisers with vast amounts of data on how those ads are performing. While Yahoo and Microsoft have similar advertising platforms, they have struggled in this regard and Google is still widely regarded as the technology and market leader in search engine advertising.

So it would really be good to see Microsoft and Yahoo give Google a good run, but will they really kick Google butt by setting up shop together? Le’s go to the numbers.

For search engine searches, Google enjoys a 58 percent market share for searches, while Yahoo has 23 percent market share and Microsoft, a small 10 percent market share. As far as search is concerned, neither Yahoo nor Microsoft come close to competing with Google. However what may be interesting to watch would be banner and text advertising on website publishers that belong to a merged Yahoo-Microsoft advertising network.

As internet marketer Perry Marshall mentioned, “expecting Microsoft and Yahoo to be better than Google by getting together is like pairing up two people each with an IQ of 75 and putting them in a spelling bee and hoping that together they’re a 150 genius.”

Today I spent some time at the wake of an Aunt, she was my mother’s cousin. She recently succumbed to cancer, a fight that sees more loser’s than winners.

As I sat there, recalling memories of her from my life, and going as far back as childhood, a chill crept through me as I thought in resigned certainty, “there is nothing as inevitable and inescapable in life, as death”. And then I realized, to be primarily focused on our eventual end would be an even greater tragedy; simply reflecting on man’s inarguable fate, death; causes us to overlook the other single most important thing we possess and ought to be thankful for, which is life!

Death indeed is a reminder that all.. come to an end; but instead of living in the fear of what we know will one day come, I guess we should look at the other side of things, and celebrate life as often and as gratefully as we can, in our own individual ways.

What is the iPhone Guitar?

It was not exactly what I expected, and I was really curious… but before anything else… let me say I won’t tell you what it is… you just got to see it for yourself. Check the iPhone guitar video below.

So as you know by now, the iPhone guitar is actually a virtual guitar, it imitates the sound of a real guitar, and because of the iPhone’s touch screen, you can actually fret simple chords or individual notes and with your other hand, pluck or strum the strings.

As a guitar player, to be honest, it would actually be difficult to play an entire song on it, because it would be very difficult to fret, even with simple chords. What makes it difficult to fret is the ratio of the guitar neck width (which in this case is the width of the iPhone) against the width of the individual frets.

The graphics presents you with a view of a guitar neck, frets and strings… but you can only see six frets.

So ok, since we know this thing cannot actually be played.. what use do we have for it?

Well, for those who are interesting in learning guitar, this can be a great way for you to familiarize yourself with chords, what would be interesting is if the developer could come up with an application that would look like guitar tab, which teaches a person how a chord looks, and on what fret every individual finger were to fall.

Other than that, I’d say iPhone guitar is just another cool application to have on your iPhone to impress women or something.

So as far as it being a playable instrument to make music from? The iPhone guitar is crap; as an interesting application, really cool… but as an aid on learning how to play guitar, especially for beginners.. awesome!

Catch more iPhone Info, click the link.