What happens when the world goes crazy…

Posted February 10, 2006 by xilamaree
Categories: kapeng barako

Original Post: You gotta love Robin Williams…

Even if he’s nuts! Leave it to Robin
Williams to come up with the perfect
plan. What we need now is for our
UN Ambassador to stand up and
repeat this message.
(My reply: If this DID come from Robin Williams, he just lost a fan. Mr. Williams, that is why we have politicians and lawmakers, so people have you who have absolutely no clue about anything can just sit back, relax, and make stupid movies about cross-dressers).

Robin Williams’ plan…(Hard to
argue with this logic!)

“I see a lot of people yelling for peace
but I have not heard of a plan for
peace. So, here’s one plan.”

1) “The US will apologize to the world for
our “interference” in their affairs, past &present.
You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega,
Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those “good ole
boys”, we will never “interfere” again.
(The US has to “interfere” to maintain their superpower status. If you have the interest of the U.S. at heart, you wouldn’t dare make this suggestion)

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the
world, starting with Germany, South Korea, the
Middlle East, and the Philippines. They don’t want
us there. We would station troops at our borders.
No one allowed sneaking through holes in the
fence.
(I can only speak for myself, but I am a Filipino, and I want the US there.)

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs
together and leave.We’ll give them a free trip
home. After 90 days the remainder will be
gathered up and deported immediately, regardless
of whom or where they are. They’re illegal!!!
France will welcome them.
(Yes, they should all leave, and you can hire Americans to wash your toothbrush and bleach your socks. Let’s see if you can pull that off. I’d actually love to see you do that. Hey, you can make a movie out of it!)

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and
limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!!
No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If
you don’t like it there, change it yourself and don’t
hide here. Asylum would never be available to
anyone. We don’t need any more cab drivers or 7-
11 cashiers.
(Oh, really? New York City’s taxi drivers are mostly composed of Pakistanis and other people coming from “terrorist” nations. If they leave, the streets of NY will be empty. Great. Let’s see you drive your car. That is, if you even know how to.)

5) No foreign “students” over age 21. The older
ones are the bombers. If they don’t attend
classes, they get a “D” and it’s back home baby.
(Great! 3/4 of NASA employees are retiring in a few years. Let’s see if you have enough human resource to fill that space. Because you don’t. China is making more scientists than America. Again, if you drive away the few talented “foreign students” that you attract, you will lose your superpower status. Remember, the best “American” scientists are all immigrants and refugees. Take Einstein.)

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-
sufficient energy wise. This will include developing
nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a
temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness.
The caribou will have to cope for a while.
(Ah, if that was possible, that would have happened by now.)

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing
countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don’t like
it, we go someplace else. They can go
somewhere else to sell their production. (About a
week of the wells filling up the storage sites would
be enough.)
(Again, if this was possible, would have already happened.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe
in the world, we will not “interfere.” They can pray
to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or
whatever they need. Besides most of what we give
them is stolen or given to the army. The people
who need it most get very little, if anything.
(Whatever happened to compassion?)

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island
someplace. We don’t need the spies and fair
weather friends here. Besides, the building would
make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal
aliens.
(This is wrong in so many levels, I’m not even going to go here.)

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty
school. That way, no one can call us “Ugly
Americans” any longer. The Language we speak
is ENGLISH…learn it…or LEAVE…Now, isn’t that
a winner of a plan?
(You will only be an ugly american if you completely disregard what this country stands for.)

“The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying “Give me
your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.”
She’s got a baseball bat and she’s yelling, ‘you
want a piece of me?’ ” (I’ll believe this when I actually see the Statue of Liberty carrying a bat. So far, her livelihood comes from the millions of aliens coming in, illegal or otherwise.

To those who condone this “perfect” plan, especially to those who have become naturalized by marriage or other “easy way out” methods, SHAME ON YOU. Look at yourself in the mirror and see who you are, and remember where you come from.

Language

Posted February 9, 2006 by xilamaree
Categories: kapeng barako

On the train on my way to Farrah’s, I read some of my students’ homework. I made them write a friendly letter. I’d have to say, I never had so much fun reading stuff coming from my students. Usually, I simply get very frustrated when they get their tenses all mixed up and they spell all kinds of words wrong.

Today I realized that when God decided to divide the people of the world through different languages, it was a punishment, indeed. We are born into this situation, so we take for granted not understanding each other. Having different languages is as real as night and day. But seeing my students struggle to understand me, I can’t help but feel dismayed. And reading their letters made me realize that people aren’t different at all — we experience the same things everyday, like getting locked out of our apartments in the dead of winter and getting sick of working so hard for very little money or satisfaction. The only difference is that we express our feelings in different tongues.

Now more than ever I am determined to teach these people English. It has become a personal agenda. And now more than ever I am determined to learn a few more languages. Nothing is as frustrating as not being understood.

My job is hard as hell, but is sure is rewarding.

Go, Steelers!

Posted February 6, 2006 by xilamaree
Categories: Uncategorized

Pittsburgh Steelers win the SUPER BOWL! Yey!

Go Ken! Hehehe.

Romance, Romance, Romance

Posted February 5, 2006 by xilamaree
Categories: white chocolate mocha

This weekend has been a marathon of romance for me — Sleepless in Seattle, The American President, and Match Me If You Can. I cannot help but overanalyze myself on why I love watching romantic movies and reading romance “bobo” books. I am perfectly happy with my three-year relationship with Paolo, albeit I have to admit, it’s hard to feel romantic after three years. We have bills to pay, quirks to understand (mostly mine), a future to prepare for.

I guess that is why I am reading and watching a lot of romantic crap. There is always something sweet about starting a new relationship. But I don’t want to do that. I love seeing this one man — this only one — everyday when I wake up in the morning. I love getting pissed together with him when we can’t find parking in the wee hours of the morning. I love calming him down when some cab driver decides to make his own traffic rules. I love it when he asks my permission to have a LAN party with his friends. I love it when he tells me I am “exhibiting symptoms” of annoyance, and when he tells me “‘Wag na tampo, baby.” I love every single day I’m with him, in this tumultuous journey called life. And I look forward to every single unromantic day for the rest of my life with him.

This one is for keeps, and I do not care if I will never feel the kilig of a new relationship again.

That is what movies and books are for.

Wake up and Smell the Coffee

Posted February 5, 2006 by xilamaree
Categories: Uncategorized

There is something in coffee that brings out a different persona in you.

Coffee addicts in the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your starbucks cards!