I couldn’t be more proud
My brother, proving to be the best and fastest Filipino. Rubik’s Cube: Cyber Open Malaysia 2011
His fastest 3x3x3 solve:
His 3x3x3 average:
His 4x4x4 average:
Congratulations, Durben Virtucio! Filipino Pride :)
To all Anti-RH Congressman
You’re Honorables,
The Reproductive Health Bill is not a new bill.
It’s no secret that the RH Bill has been languishing in Congress for the last 16 years.
And unfortunately, the problems we face today are not new as well.
Because after all your fancy words have been said and done, your economic numbers and scientific data thrown about, one thing will remain for sure: outside on the streets, life is a living hell for a majority of Filipinos.
We’re still plagued by high infant mortality, high maternal deaths, overpopulation, & a skyrocketing HIV and abortion rate and it’s the worst it’s ever been in our history.
And for the last 16 years, people in Congress have been trying to pass the RH Bill, a piece of legislation that would holistically address these issues. And this bill has been held back, delayed, and shot down by Anti-RH lawmakers such as yourselves for reasons that were either legal, economic, or religious.
But it also seems that for the last 16 years, these problems that I have mentioned have gotten worse. So tell me, your honors, if your alternate solutions to the RHBill are so great, why haven’t you implemented them in the last 16 years? Why haven’t I felt its effects on a national scale? Your honors, tell me: After 16 years, why are we STILL where we are?
And since the RH bill has been shot down so many times by lawmakers like you, in effect, we have been trying it your way for the last 16 years and we haven’t seen any tangible results at all. The mortality numbers are still there and staring at us in the face.
So as a member of the public and as your boss – so to speak – allow me to say that either your solutions to these problems have failed, you aren’t doing your job, or you are just plain ineffective as public servants.
I sincerely believe it is time for us to try a different strategy, a new one. We don’t have much choices anymore. Your side has never really presented us with any. It is time to turn away from this ineffectiveness of the last 16 years. It is time to activate the RH bill and let the power of education, information, and choice create a better Philippines before it’s too late.
Because unless you Anti-RH lawmakers can present a cohesive, concrete plan of action to solve these problems holistically TODAY and right now. I’m not going to wait for another 16 years.
Let the RH Bill start doing it’s work or get out of the way. Because if you have no better solutions, then you are just part of the problem.
Sincerely,
A Filipino named Kenan Biel S. Virtucio
(From Carlos Celdran)
Snapshots
I have this CW 10 class where we have this workshop period and it’s already time where we apply what we have discussed, collaborated and reported in class. Well, technically this isn’t a part of the workshop activity yet but I want to start here, the snapshots activity, where I took 3 different shots around the University using my camera phone and put some description about it.
Mastermind
Let there be light, please.
AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, logical operations. I love you, but I hate you for not being with me when I needed you the most.
After months of lectures, a dozen of experiments, hours of logical analysis, hours of implementation, money spent on resources, one project proposal, and minutes before the deadline, *poof* the LED lights shine upon our logical expectations. A working game built only with wires, logical gates, 7-segment light, a switch, batteries and a breadboard but still isn’t enough for me to pass the damn subject.
Wireless Router
*ring* *ring* DilNet support needed. My favorite pastime, to give basic troubleshooting around the University. <insert technical blabber here>, and it’s fixed, just like that.. Even though we’re already in the ‘technological age’, there are still a lot of people being left behind, especially around the University.
Maybe I’m a geek, but we never exist to fix your computers.
Acad Oval
Just look at the trees. Aren’t they beautiful?
*brake*->*click*->*go* With just a capital of seeds and time, random yet lovely, we have THIS. Just a breeze of not-so-cold-air hitting me in the middle of 12 noon sunlight makes everything worthwhile. Tall and very old trees closing in together to provide shade to joggers and people passing by.
How to install Adobe AIR in Ubuntu 64-bit
Adobe Air is a must-have cross-platform runtime environment a user needs in order to install *.air application such as Tweetdeck and other stuff.
All you need to do is just follow, and copy-paste everything:
- Open a terminal. Applications-> Accessories -> Terminal
- Download the latest .bin file using any terminal based network downloader from this site:
wget airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
It will just ask for your password. The normal installer will open, install it. From now whenever you download a .air file, just double click it and it will be installed.
Disclaimer
Just in case. If I say something stupid in the future, it’s better to be able to point out that the stupidity is mine, and mine alone. My stupidity! You can’t have it! :)
