Love the nerds

My most fave photo of Vi Herrera, (Penshoppe model). Nerdy look!

(Stole the photo from her Multiply account. Shh)

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Twilight?

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Cafe World

I started playing Cafe World on Facebook a while ago. Yes, I’m being immature now. Blame it on Pam Pastor’s article. I was convinced!

Here’s the link to the article.

 

Your best friends!

Ayos din ang mundo noh. Facebook app na pinagdedesisyon kung sino ba bestfriends mo. Puro “Your bestfriends” laman ng feed!

Ambitions

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

-Mark Twain

Do we need to celebrate Magellan Day?

It was March 16, 2008 when Mr. Baron posted on Fuseboxx Forums that we, Filipinos, should celebrate Magellan Day. And I agreed with him!

It’s 2009 now. And I can’t believe I agreed with his idea before. Perhaps I agreed because what I knew about the Philippines’ history were only the things taught to us in my elementary and high school days — which are not always correct.

Few weeks ago, I was reading Mr. Ambeth Ocampo’s Bonifacio’s Bolo. It’s no secret; I’m a Philippine history-nosy person lately. There was an essay included there, discussing Magellan’s “discovery” of the Philippines.

Your favorite historian Gregorio Zaide suggested to rewrite the Philippine History and to change the sentence “Magellan discovered the Philippines” into “Magellan rediscovered the Philippines” since, according to him, the Negritos discovered the Philippines long before Magellan did.

But Teodoro Agoncillo didn’t agree.

“Rediscover implies Philippines went into the bottom of the sea and miraculously reappeared at the precise moment when Magellan was on his way to the Spice Islands.”

I couldn’t help laughing at Teodoro Agoncillo’s sarcastic reply to Zaide. I never knew historians could be that sarcastic. (And honestly, I had to write down that statement of Agoncillo because I liked it! It reminds me that history is not too serious.) But, well, Agoncillo has a point.

So what term should we use? Should we use discover or rediscover? Neither. Just say “Magellan came/arrived at the Philippines”.

Okay, so back to my first question: do we need to celebrate Magellan Day? The short answer is no. Magellan is a failure. We were not colonized yet in Magellan’s time, since Lapu-lapu defeated him.  And then Legazpi retraced the route to the Philippines. (Elementary info. Different perspective). Along with him was Urdaneta, a priest. The historian Leon Guerrero’s right; the friar had won the Philippines for Spain.

But if we’ll talk about Magellan as an explorer, no doubt he’s amazing for he’s the one who theorized that the world’s round. I was not amazed when he went to the Spain’s king just because the Portugal’s king didn’t believe in his theory though (Remember, Magellan’s really a Portuguese?). I can’t imagine myself jumping to the team of my country’s rival just to prove that my theory is correct.

Some say the world wouldn’t know the Philippines was existing if Magellan didn’t “discover” our land. You think so? No, I can’t agree with that. We could have been colonized by Portugal, and later Germany, America (which really happened), Japan (ditto), Britain. Noticed how the colonizers loved our motherland?

Nihonggo

Konichiwa! Pano ba magmura sa Nihonggo? Nabobobo na ko mag-memorize. First 5 pa lang kabisado ko.

Best anti-cheater tactic

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Survivor

Whoa. Ang ganda ni Justine! Akala ko talaga dati girl sya. Pang babae talaga gestures nya. May poise.

I still like Mika more though.

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Majinboo

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