How small are we?

Have you ever looked up upon the stars and asked yourself, "Are we alone?". I just watched this cool video about comparing the sizes of our planets and I'd like to share it with you.

I was just wondrin, how small are we? And to think that the universe isn't fully ventured, that the fact of bigger stars than W Cephei is still out there. Compared to other stars our sun is just a mere spec of dust the size of an atom.

If this is the case... are there worlds smaller than ours? Are the dust that sometimes gets in our eyes could actually be a small solar system? We'll as you can see the structure of an atom resembles that of a solar system. And also it'd be hard to imagine that our galaxy is also an atom making up something on other worlds which is far greater than ours.

How big is the Universe exactly? I guess no one knows the answer to this question until now? I guess my perspective of the small things just got a little twisted.

Tuli (circumcision)

Its summer once again during this times some things remind me. Flying kites, going to the beach, picnics. But there's one thing familiar that i noticed during this times. Little children getting circumcised. It may be not done and practiced on some parts of the world but in my country(Philippines) are being maintained. All the children undergo on this surgery.

As i watched on the group of children waiting for their turn. Line by line different emotions from the looks for their face. Some are similing somewhat a little excited, some are obviously scared and crying. Some are comparing their organs to who are ready(palos) and have cleaner penis.

To some reactions when the surgery is going on. Other kids are crying when the needle is injected with anesthesia. Some are crying because of the fear that their penis is cutted off. Other's were calm and steady especially ages 16 above.

After all the slicing and stitching at last your penis looks differently and permanently changed now. And can finally say that im a grown up man now.

HOSPITAL SURGERY SCANDAL

While i was drinking coffee and reading a news paper about this scandal that was done in hospital pertaining to a patient that was mistreated by some doctors and nurses. I watched the whole scene in youtube.

A gay patient when to a surgery and after the process was successful doctors and nurses who captured the whole scene act something which we people can think about and rub our heads.

It's clear in the video that they captured the scene with some foolishness included they put a body spray on the anus of the gay patient and all of the people(doctors, nurses) were all laughing and making fun out of it.

Where is there professionalism of there work? is it ethical to do that? are they sincere of there job? those things when poping at my mind. After the patient gave and owe his trust to this people who are licensed to save lives and help propagate lives. This is what they did.

It's not an orgy thing that they are making. The worst thing is that they uploaded it to the internet so that all people in the world would know and notice. somehow i agree to that decision, its good they uploaded it so that all people will know how idiot we are and how cheap we will be.

With due respect to other good and proper doctors and nurses working on that establishment you are now included of the mess that those dumbs have done. The immoral and misconduct treatments they have done was superb showing there field how awful they can be.

An Idiot's Guide to Happiness

It's been quite a while since I wrote something. I've been very busy with work, and also theres this training that I have to attend after work. There was this experience I had with a little boy that urge me to write this post.

One time, I was with my girlfriend in their balcony when I noticed her nephew. He was almost 4 years old. He was playing together with the other kids. He was wearing an old torn t-shirt together with a pair of mismatched slippers. He had a sister and a little brother. His father has no work or any means of income and is also a drug user. Their mother left them because she found out her husband had another woman.

Funny thing is, as I watch this boy... I couldn't find a trace of loneliness in him. He was the happiest boy playing in the street. He runs around freely, not minding how cruel the environment that surrounds him. Then it hit me right in the face.

Why? Why is he still smiling amidst everything .

I noticed that when we grow older... the better we understand things, the more we get afraid. The more we yearn, the more we crave. Our satisfaction becomes more deeper to fulfill. Why is that? Are we not satisfied with what we have today? Why do we feel envy? Why do we feel hatred? Did we feel those feelings when we were kids?

And one more question that keeps me awake at night. "Am I really happy?"

I couldn't answer that question anymore. When we get older, we are no longer contented with what we have. We yearn for more... thus creating hatred, creating greed and everything.

I wish I'd be the same as the boy, playing in the street. Waking up in the morning, thinking what adventures may lie ahead of me with my friends. Running around freely without the doubt of breaking any laws or hurting anyones pride. Shouting my lungs out in laughter without any worries of politics, corruption or killings.

Ignorance is Bliss...

An Inconvenient Truth

It was a Saturday morning, I decided to write something I was eager to write. I can’t keep my mind off of what I saw.

Last night, Friday evening, I’ve watched a documentary entitle “An Inconvenient Truth” by Al Gore. It was somehow shocking and at the same time keeps you wondering about how accurate the facts that he has shown in his documentary.

Al Gore was the running mate for Presidency in the US of Pres. George W. Bush. He was defeated in the last city they fought in, Florida. It was a close vote-race, Gore got 48% while Bush got 49% of the votes. That made Bush won the election. Al Gore was very known for his great seminars and slide shows and one of the many well known work of Gore was the documentary mentioned above.

The whole documentary talks about GLOBAL WARMING! When these two words come to our mind and senses, we tend to picture it out as the melting of the ice caps around the world, which is true! He said that if the whole Antarctica would melt, it would create a vast amount of water increase in the whole world, up until 20ft. from its current sea level, the same as with the entire Greenland, if it’s going to melt.

This alone alarms me!

Almost half of the entire Netherlands would be covered with water if this is going to happen and the twin towers where the 9/11 terror attack happened, which they now call Ground zero (0), would also be submerged under water. Thinking about this scene can really be so disturbing in some cases, but according to Gore, it’s the fact and we should be ready for it if we are not going to take actions now.

Billion of thousand refuges would be evacuating, and where do you think we can put them? What a nice question. The hurricane Katrina, caused a lot of trouble in the US, Global Warming is much more complicated to describe.

What about us? How about the Philippines?

Gore said that most countries near the equator wont be that affected due to the fact that the so called “Ocean Conveyor” or shall we say it simply, the “Oceans Current System”, or the movement of the water of the entire globe is greatly happening near the equator, thus, prevent those countries near the equator from too much damage than those who are far from it. I may be wrong about this, but this is how I understand it and I’m hoping I am though it would be very great if none of these are true.

It was a nice eye-opener when I watched the documentary. It made me aware of the great damage that we are doing to our mother nature. It made me realize about the things that we are taking for granted that was given by earth. It made me realize that I was AFRAID.

“Separating the truth from the fiction and the accurate connections from the misunderstandings is part of what you learned here.” – this was what Gore said we he gave a speech in presenting his documentary to a group of youth in Japan, and that’s exactly what I came to realize as I was watching the entire documentary. The facts were so believable that Gore even gathered data from the National Defense, as what he said.

“When the warnings are accurate, and based on sound science, then we as human beings, whatever country we live in, have to find ways to make sure that the warnings are heard and responded to.” - This was Al Gore’s answer when someone asked on what we can do in our current situation now.

Stopping pollutions is part of the response that Gore was talking about. I myself is a great contributor to this tragedy. No one is exempted.

It’s your call now on how you are going to respond to this situation and hope the very best it would be profitable for the entire human race.

God be with us.

Little Girl

"There was this one little girl who approached me when I was crossing the same street where preachers I have found. Her face was filled with dirt all over and there was a grain of rice in her lip. This is clearly a sign of poverty."

She was begging for a peso and reasoned out that she wants to buy food for her to eat. Her eyes can’t look straight to my own eyes, I don’t know if she was just a shy type of a girl or if she was just not telling the truth. I stared at her for some time. She would glance unto me with a very hungry face, and would later turn her head back down as if she was refusing my eyes to meet with hers. I was standing in the middle of the street during that time, and because of that, she would raise her head up stare to the sky for her to see me. Then I decided to sit down for her to easily look forward. She was still evading my eyes as I look at her dirt filled face. Regardless of that, I asked her if where she would by food if I gave her a peso and if what she would buy for what I have given. She answered me with a stare to the ground.

As I was talking to her, I noticed children of her same age at my back. Like her, they were dirt all over their body; some of them don’t even have shirts. They were gambling. Somehow, a pinch in the heart hit me and I began to question myself whether or not it is right to give this little girl what she was asking for. Then the green light stopped me wandering for me to cross the street. I held the little girl with me crossing on the other side of the street. When we reached the other side I pulled her in a not so crowded corner. I gave her a five peso (Php5.00) coin. As she was accepting it, I can see how toiled her little hands were. It was as if it has never been cleaned from the moment she was given birth. I placed it over her hands and said to her to buy bread instead of doing the gambling. She just nodded at me. I shook her head with my hands and told her to go.

After that, I walked to where I was going. I was still thinking if that was the right thing to do. I was thinking, what if she would just gamble just like the rest of the children in the streets. Then I smiled and talked to myself, “Well then, at least I cared.” And with lightened heart I continued my walk.

“We might sometimes think that we were unlucky in life, heavily burdened and problems of no solutions, but I tell you, we are lucky enough for us to read this article over the internet. We still have an edge over them. Keep the spirits up.”