The Root of Racial Discrimination

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Gwapito.com

Money is generally the root of racial or ethnical discrimination. It’s not about the color of the skin, not the accent or the language, nor about the educational status. It’s money.

Money has also used the media to indirectly or directly support racial or ethnical discrimination. Money in itself is not bad.

Caucasians. Why do the Caucasians (used to or still) think of their race as higher than the other races? You can answer it by yourself by looking at the countries dominated by the white people. Let me name a few like England, USA, Germany, France, Australia, Spain, Belgium. These countries belong to the first world category. They were the first to cover their selves with cloth while at the time the Southeast Asians and South Americans were still wearing leaves and shrubs.

Since the white race has the money, Continue reading →

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Comments Fixed

Posted on April 4, 2007 by Gwapito.com

The comments options is now fixed.

You can repost your comments again for those who attempted to comment previously.

Thanks.

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Rocky Balboa Review

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Gwapito.com

I just finished watching Rocky Balboa about an hour ago.

I have one word for it: Boring. Nevertheless, i do admire the intention of the movie, and that is basically to go against the odds that we as humans encounter, to fight the unhelpful traditional beliefs.

Stallone just isn’t yet at the level with other good Hollywood directors. He needs to polish his directorial skills. I sensed that the movie was done in haste.

Rocky’s african undisputed heavyweight opponent should have workedout together with the 300 spartans cast. Rocky has better body sculpt than the black guy.

The previous Rocky movies was much better in my opinion.

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2007 Philippine Blog Awards

Posted on March 31, 2007 by Gwapito.com

I only knew weeks ago that a local awards event such as this intended for blogs and its authors. Though it placed an interest in me of attending the said event, but for some reason i altogether forgot about it.

Then an officemate who is into blogging asked me if i wanted to go to 2007 Philippine Blog Awards, all of a sudden my interest woke up from its slumber for many weeks.

Get your tickets here.

Philippine Blog Awards
Awarding Night
March 31, 2007
6PM – 8PM
Podium 4, RCBC Theater
RCBC Building, Ayala cor. Buendia Ave., Makati City
Attire: Semi-formal to formal

guapwong at yahoo.com

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Interested to Learn the Cebuano Lingo?

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Gwapito.com

Proud that I am of my first language which is Cebuano, I would like this language to be known to everyone, and spur interest to those who aren’t familiar about it. For that matter, I will be devoting a page solely for learning Cebuano. You can click English – Cebuano page for updates.

Note:
I will only put which doesn’t have a tagalog equivalent. Tagalog is one of the official languages in the Philippines, the other one is English.

For example:
English – Cebuano
Monday – Lunes – Lunes is no longer necessary since it has an equivalent in tagalog.

Sunday – Dominggo – In tagalog, it’s Linggo. That would be the last tagalog word here. Remember, this is exclusively for English – Cebuano learning *winks*.

Before I start, I thank and give credit to C.S. Canonigo, the writer of the book English – Cebuano Made Easy. I purchased the book at Book Sale. I based this tutorial on that book.

Ok, let’s start!

Pronuciation guidance:
a can be pronounced as a in alamo
u can be pronounced as o in ursula
i can be pronounced as e in illiterate

Days (Mga Adlaw)
English – Cebuano
Sunday – Dominggo Continue reading →

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King Xerxes in the Bible

Posted on March 17, 2007 by Gwapito.com
Xerxes

King Xerxes, the bad guy in the movie 300 is not just a character to make the film exciting. This guy was as famous as our modern equivalent evil rulers that we all love to hate, such as Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Ferdinand Marcos etc.. Xerxes was so renowned that he filled practically all the world history books including the Bible, my much loved book. Although in the Bible, Xerxes is not portrayed as the modern Hitler, but the king’s assistant named Haman, whom the Bible described as “the enemy of the Jews.” Continue reading →

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Online Livelihood Part One

Posted on March 10, 2007 by Gwapito.com

Want to make a living online? This is not a get rich quick scheme just in case you’re looking for one.

There are a lot of money-making avenue around the internet, some are legitimate and some are the exact opposite. So how to avoid the latter? Based on my own experience is I join community forums for webmasters, affiliates, web designers. I read news sites, blogs, articles. Lastly, certainly not the least: Google, there you can find practically everything about sites that offer you ways to earn dollars, in the same way, you can search for greedy, selfish scam sites that will do nothing, but purge all of your savings.

First that i would recommend is Continue reading →

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Web Designing with Web Standards

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Gwapito.com

Currently, I’m reading a book about web designing, mainly urging not just the designers and developers, but the site owners to pay attention to web standards. The book is Designing with Web Standards, it’s already in its second edition authored by Jeffrey Zeldman, one the first web designers and an advocate of web standards. For Zeldman, a table based website is “yucky,” a “waste of time and money” and etc.

Though, I still have to read 300 pages more before I could call it done. But what spurred my interest to read is the “highlights” found in page 41, I will quote a few: Continue reading →

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Autistic Fantastic!

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Gwapito.com

This is an inspirational video of an autistic basketball player, an unlikely teammate as most of us would think.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi137rZ_lmM[/video]

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School Bukel II

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Gwapito.com

People in Manila have a notion that they are the center of correct accent and right pronunciation.

But the longer I stay in the capital city of the Philippines, the more it revealed to me that Metro Manila is too a cradle of funny and erroneous pronunciations.

If you’ve been born in Manila or Luzon, this is for you. If you’re a promdi (from the province), this is a guide for you not to mimic the tagalogs’ pronunciation blunders.

English word Tagalog pronunciation (Incorrect) Correct pronunciation (click the speaker icon)
Battle Bat-tell http://www.answers.com/battle
Boxing* Boksing http://www.answers.com/boxing
Boyfriend Boypren http://www.answers.com/boyfriend
Concert Koonsert http://www.answers.com/concert
Eagle Egel http://www.answers.com/eagle
Fifty Peptee http://www.answers.com/fifty
Five Pive http://www.answers.com/five
Girlfriend Gerlpren http://www.answers.com/girlfriend
Google Gogell http://www.answers.com/google
Office Opis http://www.answers.com/office
School Is-kool http://www.answers.com/school
Seconds Sekoons http://www.answers.com/seconds
Single Sing-gell http://www.answers.com/single
Stupid Is-toopid http://www.answers.com/stupid
Taft Tap http://www.answers.com/taft
Triangle Trayang-gell http://www.answers.com/triangle
Uncle Ang-kell http://www.answers.com/uncle

*Because of the popularity of the sport, this error has spread throughout the country.

I therefore conclude that the tagalogs/Luzonians have been fed with erroneous english pronunciations all along.

Related topic: School Bukel

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