Too much excusivity gets into kids' heads

http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20100327-261151/Film-director-sues-arts-school-for-daughters-hazing

Usually exclusivity can make heads bigger, schools, clubs, etc.

The likes of Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant, where they've been trained to be the best and being to told they are the best since they were young seems to make them out of touch with the real world and a-whacked with social relations.

So these kids who are conditioned that they are the best artists in their feild because they are at the most exclusive art school in an isolated location with the real world seems perplexing.

Unreal location? I went to art school and when I came out of the campus, there is traffic, vendors, street childen, pollution, robbery, etc. Them? rolling hills? Serene vegetation? Oh well

Your pee can be fertilizer

So, it's been a known fact urine (sterile) can be fertilizer. So why hasn't this been a universal approach to farming as well as construction standards all along?

Why is the split toilet just been introduced now?
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/nomix-toilets-positive-survey-in-7-european-countries.php

It seems to be easier to throw away waste rather than collecting it effectively as in the case of the urine fertilizer that it has to be sterile or fresh, so it needs extra effort to do this.

Peeing in a bottle seems so backward and unsightly with all the collected specimens in your backyard or bathroom?

But this is still doable, maybe if I'm retired and always at home, yes I can do this, but for now, the split toilet can help.

I've heard of big realty companies having separate sewage system to be used for methane or fertilizer. I think it would need a large scale collecting system to make it more commercial, for home use will suffice the home garden.

Embarrasment over saving on fertilizer on your home garden and lawn? I can live with it. There's a work around this.


http://www.howtodothings.com/home-garden/how-to-use-urine-as-a-fertilizer

Road Events: Fine for driving without a license down to P150 from P300

Great.

Tinawaran na naman ang buhay ng mga mamamayang bumabyahe.

Fines are there for a purpose. If you don't want to pay, don't commit the violation! Sigh.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20100304-256658/Fine-for-driving-without-a-license-down-to-P150-from-P300

Commuting: Jeepney Bad Design-mounting handlebars

Q: Bakit ang hirap sumakay sa harap ng Jeepney lately (for me anyways)?
A: Palpak na pagkakakabit ng side mirror sa handle bars.



Ipagsama mo na ang madulas na apakan sa tapalodo, mataas na pinto at masikip na lugar dahil sa makapal na dashboard PLUS! hindi pag-full stop o biglang andar ng driver = aksidente

Nung kabataan ko, mahilig ako sumakay sa harap ng Jeepney (bummer ang gitna). Kasi may salamin sa harap at harap ang tama ng hangin sa buhok mo (hindi sa gilid na nasisira ang suklay ng buhok mo).

Plus ayaw ko nagaabot at nakikiabot ng bayad (LALO NA SA MGA HINDI MARUNONG MAGPASALAMAT).

Pero kamakailan, napapansin ko parang nahihirapan na ako sumakay. Dahil ba tumatanda na ako at gumagamit ako ng liksi noong nag-aaral ako?

Ang napansin ko lang ngayon sa sanhi ng extra effort ko sumakay ay:

Side mirror: na nakakabit sa handle bars sa harap. Madalas gawa-gawa lang ng driver o kaya may extension na bakal na muka rin na handle bars mula sa main handle bar mismo. Kinanin na na ng salamin at ng extension bars nito ang bakal na halos wala ka mahawakan pag sakay mo. Pag hinawakan mo naman ang extension bars, masisira dahil nagsusuporta lang ito ng side mirror. Magagalit pa ang driver sayo.

Minsan pampasikip pa ito. Nakabasag na ng side mirror ang pinsan ko na medyo may kalakihan kasi nagpasikip na ang maling side mirror, nawalan pa ng mahahawakan at ayaw mag full stop ang driver. Bakas sa mukha ng driver na mali ang disenyo niya.

Minsan hindi naman kailangn maging inovative or engineer pag pag gawa at paglutas ng mga bagay-bagay. Common sense lang naman po eh.

Earthquake Watch March (from pdi)

Here's a list of newsworthy earthquakes posted on the Inquirer's website for March alone. Almost half of them in the Philippines.


Local-6.1 magnitude quake rocks Tuguegarao
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100302-256230/61-magnitude-quake-rocks-Tuguegarao

Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth
Why does it seems to happen a lot and happen close from one to the next?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100302/sc_space/chileearthquakemayhaveshorteneddaysonearth

3/3/10 3 earthquakes (local) bicol, northern luzon, mindanao
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100304-256597/3-earthquakes-hit-RP

in Taiwan too
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20100304-256613/No-Filipinos-hurt-in-Taiwan-quakeMECO

3/5/10 in batanes 4.7
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100305-256811/Twin-quakes-jolt-Batanes

CHILE- not an aftershock
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100305-256804/Strong-quake-shakes-northern-Chile

Moderate quake hits TaiwanAgence France-Presse
First Posted 23:36:00 03/08/2010
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100308-257495/Moderate-quake-hits-Taiwan

Strong Turkey quake kills 57
First Posted 12:14:00 03/08/2010
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100308-257395/Strong-Turkey-quake-kills-57

Local Mindanao: 3-11
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100311-257978/Parents-give-kids-fewer-bad-genes-than-thoughtstudy

First Posted 16:45:00 03/14/2010
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100314-258624/Strong-66-magnitude-quake-hits-northern-Japan

First Posted 03:52:00 03/27/2010
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100327-261053/Magnitude-5-quake-hits-off-Catanduanes


Strong earthquake hits off Myanmar—US seismologists
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 05:17:00 03/31/2010
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100331-261729/Strong-earthquake-hits-off-MyanmarUS-seismologists