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ARSIKOI http://arsikoi.multiply.com/ Check out my music collection in my<a href="http://arsikoy.imeem.com"> imeem</a> Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:36:55 -0000 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:55:51 -0000 ARSIKOI http://images.arsikoi.multiply.com/logo http://arsikoi.multiply.com 100 100 Dissent. numb : <a href="http://www.binisaya.com/cebuano/banhod">banhod</a> (adj.); <a href="http://www.binisaya.com/cebuano/naminhod">naminhod</a> (adj.); <a href="http://www.binisaya.com/cebuano/binhod">binhod</a> (v.) dissent : <a href="http://www.binisaya.com/cebuano/pagsupak">pagsupak</a> (n.); <a href="http://www.binisaya.com/cebuano/supak">supak</a> (v.) usahay makapangutana ko, naminhod na ba ang mga tawo aning nasura. grabe jud sa karenderya sa eskina ang usa ka kumkom nga kan-on nga tag-ocho pesos, dili jud na makabusog. Nga gani ako nakabentaha isip usa ka call boy (sa callcenter ba) unya nagdawatan pa jud ug foreign aid sa akong "other ATM" a.k.a "ay ta ma!". pero ngano jud nga hilabihan ko ka reklamador...why cant i just shut the fuck up and live like the rest of the living dead...hahay mangambisyon makatungtong ug amerika... magnar-es or di ba kaha mag-artista. naa ra jud anang duha. mao ra man nay gipangandoy sa kadaghanan. kevs to the fact nga mahal plite..mahal bugas...hasta ang burikat di na madala ug singko singko kay mahal na daw ang kape nga 3 in 1. adto nalang siguro ko sa manok. one thing i realized while i was in the states was despite the fact that everyone lived relatively easy lives...or rather really good lives as compared the shi... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/59/Dissent. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:55:51 -0000 Vanishing heaven's mouth punta engano, lapu-lapu city. last remaining enclave for the free spirited rebels. as what i've written in my last entry. totsie and company including yours truly have made this our nest, this tiny part of a paradise lost. http://arsikoi.multiply.com/photos/album/7/Vanishing_heavens_mouth Sun, 3 Aug 2008 12:39:06 -0000 rest for the weary. finally some stolen moment...in SM, for a coupl'a xtra bucks i get to squeeze myself in a not so crowded  internet cafe. i so Fookin miss blogging like that. anywho i couldn't squeeze all my thoughts for the last 30 something days of my life. all i could say is that its a lot of work..tiring yes but satisfying. i've turned 3x darker than the orginal shade i was before i came back here in cebu. officially last july 1st, i was an islander.. i mean people in the island of cebu have the tenacity to call people in mactan island as islanders? hmmmm its projection i guess. but hell i care, i love my tiny island. everything is?...well almost everything i want is just right there. a respite from all the hustle and bustle of an overpolluted, overated and overpopulated metropolis in my very own vanishing "cielo del boca' (think 'y tu mama tambien' indie movie buffs). a tiny and very threathened haven in the tip of my commercialized and gentrified paradise. as for work, i'm getting by, almost ... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/58/rest_for_the_weary. Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:38:12 -0000 HOW TO FUCKING BARTEND This guy is the BAMF. Mr. Moe Harris, 3 time flair champion also happens to be my teacher in the professional bartending school of arlington VA. <a href="http://www.monkeysee.com/channel/show/77">http://www.monkeysee.com/channel/show/77</a> http://arsikoi.multiply.com/video/item/17/HOW_TO_FUCKING_BARTEND Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:17:17 -0000 warning: call center agents, I kell you! Touch mobile customer rep to http://arsikoi.multiply.com/video/item/15/warning_call_center_agents_I_kell_you Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:38:21 -0000 My Liberal Rants <a href="http://arsikoi.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SFjDWwoKCoMAADW0ANE1"><img class="alignright" src="http://images.arsikoi.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SFjDWwoKCoMAADW0ANE1/church___state.jpg?et=pExoMeKnl2m0eNyqbV1yng&nmid=0" border="0"></a>There are many things that i wanted to see change, therefore i claim to remain an activist, even if no longer as by definition of the status quo left. Having been gone and back gave me the capacity to look introspectively on what makes us tick and not tick as a people. The level of our conservativeness utterly disgusts me as it hampers the growth of our nation. The Philippines is indeed one conservative hell hole, that is, foremost religiously conservative which seeps and interferes government decision making, overruling state policy and hijacking culture. Take for instance 5 issues that government has an awfully backward stance due to Catholic dogma/Christian monopoly on our culture - Abortion, Population Control, LGBT rights, Divorce and the Separation of Religion and State. Among the five, I strongly believe that Population Control should be a top priority of the state. It's even outrageous to think that many activist of the left of center belie the urgency of overpopulat... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/55/My_Liberal_Rants Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:50:22 -0000 a series of alleged sex surveys... The 20 Question Sexual Experience Test <h1 style="font-weight: bold; ">Your Score: Kinky Social Rebel</h1>      <h2 style="font-weight: bold; ">You are  65% sexually experienced. </h2><h2 style="font-weight: bold; ">(Kink = 115, Social = 96, Rebel = 120)</h2>                  The higher your kink factor, the more likely you are to try something new. The higher your social factor, the more likely you are to make sex a group activity. The higher your rebel factor, the less constrained you are by social norms.      Link: <a href="http://www.okcupid.com/tests/6293759969571944130/20-Question-Sexual-Experience">The 20 Question Sexual Experience Test</a> written by <a href="http://www.okcupid.com/profile?u=oralcupl">oralcupl</a> on <a href="http://www.okcupid.com">OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the </a><a href="http://www.okcupid.com/online.dating.persona.test">The Dating Persona Test</a> <a href="http://www.okcupid.com/profile?u=oralcupl">View My Profile(oralcup</a> The How Sexually Open-minded Test <h1 style="font-weight: bold; ">Your Score: Sex Master</h1>      <h2 style="font-weight: bold; ">You scored 64% Sexually Open Minded!</h2>                  You have experience, and skill, and not afraid to try new things.  You have a some... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/54/a_series_of_alleged_sex_surveys... Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:41:08 -0000 gasolina y otros. el precio de gasolina en el mercado del mundo esta aumentado a hoy. Poreso, mejores de los gentes en este paises muy pobres, por  ejemplo, los filipinos tiene problemas con el govierno. hay son muchos manifestaciones y otro accion en el mundo como en el espana y mas en sus reclamos por los aumentos sin finales. ?pero que estamos filipinos? donde son los cojones de los pueblos? por que no hay son mobilizacion en somos calles en demandamos para mas efectivos soluciones en respestua por tienes problemas. en nuestra cultura, un nuevo 'cell phone' son mas importantes compara a los otros necesidades especialimente gratis "health care" para los todos hombres y mujeres, particularimente los pobres y obreros con salarios minimo. 5 anos antes de a hoy, los uniones de los transportacion como KMU y otros, tienemos muchos manifestaciones en la calle para protetestar los aumentos en el precio de gasolina y el policia deregulacion de govierno por la precio de gasolina en este pais... pero los p... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/53/gasolina_y_otros. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:40:04 -0000 Someone told me, existentialism is bullshit.                                                    The Existentialist       You scored 70 Materialism and 60 Phenomenology!           Spending equal time in the material and phenomenological realms, the deep thinker, condemned to be free, you are the Existentialist.Life to you is about choices, and those choices occur not only within the physical environment but the context provided by our individual perceptions and self-moulded codes of behavior. You could be a Christian, agnostic, or atheist existentialist, the philosophy doesn't really force you to choose anything on that front, but while others are merely content with what is, you stand apart by concerning yourself with what it is to be.Thinkers you may agree with: Jean-P... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/52/Someone_told_me_existentialism_is_bullshit. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:32:55 -0000 exactly 5 years ago. While i rode a jeep from shitty hall going to capitol, i wondered about the crazy fender bender when it was 12ish noon. Then as we slowly creep into the decrepit and decaying Colon street, the heart of downtown cebu, lo and and behold where the throngs of militants on the march. nostalgic but sad, i felt i met an ex-wife from a bad court battle. It all came back to me now when exactly 5 years ago, this day was when i officially became a bad ass radical in the city. i gave my dad's 38 caliber pistol away (and without him knowing) to wherever i thought it was more useful. The rally back then was 5x bigger and way more fun with college activists running the show. There was more enthusiasm and optimism that whatever we where fighting for was the "it". So I finally met them in capitol by the end of the march, and i went to greet some old faces and shared some cigs. There was nothing political in our exchanges, or even with the "lords" didn't even bother to talk anything about the current is... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/51/exactly_5_years_ago. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:01:23 -0000 i heart selfishness. Dear Mr. Mike Hunt, the eclectic should never be commercial rather anarchistic and free spirited. It mustn't be tagged and be branded expensive. it must remain illusive, underground and rebellious, to be frowned by the conservatives, the pious and the self righteous, whilst embraced by the libertarians, celebrated by the freaks, a bob dylan's shelter from the storm. It must be revolutionary yet selfish, liberating but self consuming, Indulging yet disgusting. Today i wished.. i was invisible and look at people as they do about their tiny things in life: walking, chatting, laughing, behaving and misbehaving. I wish I had the courage with a video cam and film the random routine-ness of people's lives. I wish I can play the songs in my head out and loud for people to hear. I wish I took to the mirror and a clipper to have a mohawk. I wish i don't have to unbutton my pants after a big meal. i wish they give me more pancakes and a jug of syrup and butter. I wish my coffee isn't nescafe. I w... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/50/i_heart_selfishness. Mon, 9 Jun 2008 12:56:37 -0000 old family pics. http://arsikoi.multiply.com/photos/album/6/old_family_pics. Sat, 7 Jun 2008 06:22:47 -0000 weekened thoughts. Drama Must Die. some people look for drama to feel alive. if people are wired like robots, everyday we would do the same things over and over again and could care less. but nooo, a lot will seek unnecessary drama and emo action so that they have something to rant about in the blogs, something to talk to their posse and an excuse to drown booze by the weekend - ultimately it makes them feel alive and important. Also, some people take too much photos of themselves as they show and tell: "look at me, i'm hot, indulge me". While others are innocently are just into themselves, posting pics of their pretty adobe edited faces with expensive clothing and digital cameras. Also, nice beaches + nice good looking friends, preferably with less clothing = cam-whores priceless moment. *** Cebu is romantic=? tangled electric wires hang loose around claustrophobic smokey hazy dusty potholed streets with stagnated ditches wafting a smorgasbord of smells to the one who dare walk the virtually nonexisten... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/49/weekened_thoughts. Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:42:06 -0000 irritation in tourette's mode the dreadful reality creeps in slowly as the days pass. my armor and first line of defense - will and steadfastness is being tested. Just as my health is being battered by the elements of the third world: pollution, allergens, humidity and unbearable heat, so does my life's compass is being swayed to deriliction by backward elements of Philippine society. I would love to shit and puke everytime i flinch on how things work in my land of birth. It is inevitable that i end up self examining ourselves as a people when coming from a society that has worked well in many ways but utterly fail in our case. The slower pace of time, the satisfaction for the 2nd rate and mediocrity, and most especially the obsession of our people to technicalities and missing out the essence of things. I could care less and forgive ourselves easy, however one thing i can never forgive is how we refuse to reinvent our collective attitudes and worse defend and be complacent to these realities that most of us... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/48/irritation_in_tourettes_mode Mon, 2 Jun 2008 15:50:35 -0000 alkoholismo...the vice that i love. after i shit and puke of a bad morning hangover, it's all coming back to me now. how everything felt so 2nd rate or worse with the bars here not getting your drinks right. hey i've earned the right to be obnoxious since it costs a fortune to drink like snazzy, so here's my bartender's litanny of diss: 1. they had a bottle labelled "martini", how on the earth do you bottle a martini drink? 2. people mispronouncing words and them skanks hating you for correcting them: it's "kyoo-rah-saw" not "kuh-rah-kaw" damn it. 3. Blue Hawaiian is a collins glass drink not a martini drink and most importantly... it doesn't have cream on it. 4. rum and coke is called a 'cuba libre' if you put lime garnish on the highball glass. 5. a zombie is always laced with bacardi 151.5 proof. if its not, it's gonna defeat the whole purpose of the drink - to make you a zombie by the end of the night. 6. rock salt is too big, iodized is too small and tastes too salty, kosher is just right...but please i dont want ... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/47/alkoholismo...the_vice_that_i_love. Mon, 26 May 2008 18:12:20 -0000 La Historia del apellido 'Chavez' en el pueblo de Argao, Cebu. Thanks to my geneologist friend, i have discovered the 7 generations of the Chavez family in the old Spanish pueblo of Argao in southern Cebu. Fortunately, even with the 2nd world war, the town of Argao retained most of her church records and other official spanish documents. The Chavez family is one among the 200 hereditary principalia families (e.g. Davide's, Quintanar's, Flores', Villamor's) among the 4,000 recorded family names in Argao. Recently my geneologist friend came back from his research in the historical archives of Manila and found the signature of my great-great-great grand father Don Victoriano Chavez. I am astounded. <img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/pulahan/arsikoi-1.jpg" border="0"></img> http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/46/La_Historia_del_apellido_Chavez_en_el_pueblo_de_Argao_Cebu. Fri, 23 May 2008 04:00:25 -0000 pahulay sa kalinaw ka bell. <img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://amadeo.blog.com/repository/40432/593103.jpg" border="0"> alang sa katawhang linupigan...sa mga mamumu-o ug sa mga umaabot pa'ng mga sumusunod, iwag ka sa hataas pa nga dalang latason aron sa tunhay, maangay ug makatarunganong katilingban. pahulay sa kalinaw kaubang ka bell. sa imong pagpanaw mabanhaw ta ang bag-ong kusog. http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/45/pahulay_sa_kalinaw_ka_bell. Tue, 20 May 2008 14:01:57 -0000 whats ur personality type? <a href="http://redzeitgeist.mypersonality.info" target="_top"><img src="http://badges.mypersonality.info/badge/0/7/73063.png" alt="Click to view my Personality Profile page" border="0"></a> http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/44/whats_ur_personality_type Sat, 17 May 2008 03:51:06 -0000 damn you mr. gaye. we the men and women in their 20ish and then some are just too obsessed with dramas and adventures in life. we try to cram our nights with endless 'inumans', go to poster perfect places and camwhore till the batteries run out... and especially go over needless drama so that we can feel existentially relevant. but but but... i strive to be the apple among the oranges and i'm gonna flaunt it just like that. and so a blink second ago i happened to find an old marvin gaye cd (care of yansi's stuff)... yes, motown never gets old, so damn you mister gaye, damn you! anyway i took it in, all giddy and itching to hear the first song play... and just like that, there he was. i lay down in a filipino sized couch, where my knees and downwards dangle over the stupid zine rack. i didn't give a fuck about anything and i enjoyed that moment... The moment, my moment. i think for sanity's sake, we all ought to have more moments like this. when we're having 2 week's worth of laundry stacked in a corner ... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/43/damn_you_mr._gaye. Fri, 16 May 2008 04:37:14 -0000 approaching the crossroads I always ask myself, right now am i lucky or cursed? when i'll jump ship and swan dive in the shit infested waters, i will ask myself again the question. you know some people say life is a game of dice, and i just hate it everytime i hear that. it makes people stupider than they actually are. we may as well dumb down ourselves and rely on tarot cards and fuzzy crystal balls, yet it's equally painfull to admit that sometime in all of us, we stand at uncertain crossroads where all but the dice won't help. god help my soul. http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/42/approaching_the_crossroads Tue, 6 May 2008 17:51:32 -0000 United States Of...The Philippines? (disclaimer: wai mupalag, wai but-anay, wai masuko.) <a href="http://simpliving.blogspot.com/2008/04/federal-republic-of-philippines-let-us.html">"11 federal states."</a> 1. Northern Luzon (Ilocos, CAR, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon) 2. Southern Luzon (CALABARZON, Mindoro, Marinduque, Bicol) 3. Western Visayas (Western Visayas, Romblon, Palawan) 4. Eastern Visayas (Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas) 5. Northern Mindanao (Western Mindanao, Northern Mindanao, CARAGA) 6. Southern Mindanao (Davao Region, SOCCSKSARGEN) 7. Bangsamoro (ARMM) 8. Federal Administrative Region (NCR) I just wish that this <a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/91672/Palace-surprised-by-Senates-Cha-cha-proposal">proposal</a> would come true cause it's truly exciting. We and many other "provincianos" won't have to kiss ass with  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Manila">Imperial manila</a>. update: FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES First Regular Session SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO.10 Introduced by SENATOR AQUILINO Q. PIMENTEL, JR., JOINT RESOLUTION TO CONVENE THE CONGRESS INTO A CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF REVISING THE CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH A FEDERAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT EXPLANATORY NOTE Whereas, the Constit... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/41/United_States_Of...The_Philippines Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:15:24 -0000 ILPS To The Tibetan Dalai Lama: You are reactionary (mama say what?) So i read the latest ILPS statement on Tibet, written by none other than the dearest Chairman himself, Joma Sison. As a "deactivated" activist who used to be so gung-ho with ND organizations, i'm so appalled how off <a href="http://www.lfs.ph/2008/04/20/ilps-movement-represented-by-dalai-lama-is-financed-by-us-imperialism-and-is-condemnable/">his analysis</a> is. <img class="alignright" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/pulahan/freetibet.jpg?t=1208918641" border="0"> The first line goes like this: The movement represented by the Dalai Lama is utterly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary">reactionary</a>... (<a href="http://www.lfs.ph/2008/04/20/ilps-movement-represented-by-dalai-lama-is-financed-by-us-imperialism-and-is-condemnable/">read further here</a>). Reaction is supposed to be the opposite of Revolution, and China is anything but revolutionary. I'm surprised how this senile schmuck could've been so off lately, hmm i guess dozing off a lot these days have eaten his maoist magic away. fortunately i'm not alone for i <a href="http://themustardseed.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/the-question-of-tibet/#comment-4415">found this blog</a> (writen by someone still active on the radical left of center) who's bright enough not to drink the koolaid. So I wish upon the red star that pinoy activists who believe the BS faster than China could say to the Dalai Lama: All your dreams are dead, would consider. After all, the movement is not a cult, it's a movement...or is it??? tantadada! for culture,... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/40/ILPS_To_The_Tibetan_Dalai_Lama_You_are_reactionary_mama_say_what Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:53:38 -0000 wtf is w/ the calves? i never felt more gloomier than yesterday, and if it's as if things weren't worse enough, the weather had conspired as it rained all thoughout the day. the kind of annoying stop and go rain, whether to take your umbrella or not and end up looking silly with it, while most people are or aren't using it, you try to weigh things up. just effin' great! both my calves (or as what cebuanos love to say with a heavy glottap stop 'bagtak') where such in a sorry state condition. pain in the ass was also the adhd meets sexist humourist mixology instructor, or maybe was it really him or the 2 cups of coffee, a double shot espresso and countless roll your own cigs in a gloomy day in the city? i can definitely use the dirtiest martini around. http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/39/wtf_is_w_the_calves Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:34:25 -0000 Shortbus OST http://arsikoi.multiply.com/journal/item/38/Shortbus_OST Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:23:49 -0000 Hitchcock's Pyscho Inspired Clip (pathetic attempt) i've been a big fan of the psycho movie remakes, but the mother of all suspense- thriller- scary movies was the original 1960 Psycho by alfred hitchcock which i just worship, so heres a pathetic attempt to capture today's erie morning fog as the local 'hood psycho! hitchcock's other film north by northwest, of which i watched last night is also just... priceless. p.s. "We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you? " - Norman (Psycho, http://arsikoi.multiply.com/video/item/13/Hitchcocks_Pyscho_Inspired_Clip_pathetic_attempt Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:08:42 -0000 Ani DiFranco - Gratitude thank you for letting me stay here. thank you for taking me in. thank you for the beer and the food. thank you for loaning me bus fare. thank you for showing me around, that was a very kind thing to do. thank you for the use of the clean towel thank you for half of your bed, we can sleep here like brother and sister, you said. but you changed the rules, in an hour or two. I don't know what you and your sisters do, but please don't, please stop, this is not my obligation what does my body have to do with my gratitude? And look at your little white lying, for the purpose of justifying what you're trying to do. I know that you feel my resistance, I know that you heard what I said, otherwise you wouldn't need the excuse. thank you for letting me stay here. thank you for taking me in. I don't know where else I would have turned. But I don't come and go like a pop song that you can play incessantly and then forget when it's gone. you can't write me off and you don't turn ... http://arsikoi.multiply.com/video/item/11/Ani_DiFranco_-_Gratitude Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:33:05 -0000