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amazing.  mighty proud of this.

Robert De Niro

Amy Carter

Mark Twain

Winston Churchill

Paul Krugman

Always turn and look when your cat gazes behind you with that intent look in her eyes. Some day there might actually be something there. - T.S. Eliot

Ernest Hemingway

somewhere along the way... nakat-on kog wa tuyoa nga di mokaon, kutob sa mahimo di gani moduol, ug table nga naay paig nga baboy nga nagnganga sa kasakit.  i knew then that i've grown older and have simply become too aware that there are some things that i'm totally helpless about.   

first there was marlon brando, and now this.

goodness me, how are we to know that ernest hemingway had boholano blood?  how eerily similar, from the gaze to the total ambiance.  something's happening here; the effect on the viewer is almost psychological... 

I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. Psalms 4:8

gtg, lorenz.  bedtime.  till tomorrow.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. Titus 3:9

Quote from: Lorenzo on July 15, 2012, 12:44:16 AM
I'll definitely drive this when I come to visit you in Louisiana.

great.  just see to it that you won't drive fr chic crazy.

  my lips are sealed.

what faith, what hapless, innocent faith.

Quote from: chicogon on July 14, 2012, 02:55:49 AM
In short, we had the opportunity to visit Fr. Aloy Cartagenas in Louvain, took a peek of Luxembourg, Netherland and old castles of Ghent, Brugge and the capital city of Brussels. Then we added Lourdes, Monte Carlo, Pisa, Rome... and from Rome we decided to skip Athens instead and went north to Vienna.

skipping athens?  sayang.  well, greece will be there for another day.

OT: my sister was shocked when i told her about fr aloy cartagenas.  she never knew.  what i know is that she'll always take fr aloy's side.

the thread titling, i presume, is true to the bogus headline.

naa.  si bugsay.  si hubag ang mo-drive.

Quote from: Lorenzo on July 09, 2012, 01:42:57 PM
Doesn't she have a beautiful smile?

so have you.  i'm even tempted to believe that she copied your smile.

bilib ko.  niya ug sa abog sa awto.

alphabetical ba kaha ang basis for numbering ani?

naa ba niy button para eject sa driver ug passenger?

i doubt.  a prince is not necessarily a future king, especially in some middle east countries where a king's brothers and nephews are all princes.  (some royal titles in some countries are either sheiks or emirs.)  my take on this news item is that, unless proven otherwise, it's too good to be true.   

Quote from: vrglguapo on July 14, 2012, 02:10:58 PM
Bago nga Mercedes limo   

kuyaw pa ra ba gyod ug ngan ang mga models-- okey, ambrocio, ug patrick (hehe, naa pa gyoy irish).  but i was more attracted to that street sign behind patrick.  it says "capantawan".  daghana siguro ug pantaw aning dapita sa?  

a certain forum called 'nairaland forum' has the thread "Kuwaiti Prince Abdullah al-Sabah Converted To Christianity - Islam for Muslims".  it's 6 pages of different ideas and faiths with posts that spanned almost two months.  it's an interesting thread as it shows how immovable people can be when it comes to religion.  more interesting is that tbland's quarrels are mere playground quarrels compared to theirs. 

for those who may find the time, this is the link: http://www.nairaland.com/851635/kuwaiti-prince-abdullah-al-sabah-converted/6

As speculation over the validity of the audio file continues, the Kuwait News Agency reports that Mohammad Al-Nomas, minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, released a press statement encouraging peace and cooperation among the nation's Islamic majority and its Christian minority.

According to the Canadian-based organization The Voice of the Martyrs, Kuwait is more religiously tolerant than other Persian Gulf States.

"Religious tolerance in Kuwait is significantly higher than in most of the region. Immigrant religious minorities are permitted some worship facilities," reads VOM's website.

"However, proselytizing Muslims is forbidden, and Shariah (Islamic law) influences much of the legal system. Teaching Christianity is prohibited, even to legally recognized Christians."

more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/did-a-kuwaiti-prince-convert-to-christianity-67857/

"In actual fact, the name Abdullah does not appear on the list of the 15 members of the royal family who rule this small, extremely wealthy country in different capacities," writes Tosatti.

"That isn't to say that this high-profile convert is not hidden somewhere within the extended family, under a different name."

One online source claimed that the "Abdullah Al-Sabah" on the audio file was Shaikh Faisal Al Abdullah Al Sabah, a Kuwaiti prince who in October 2010 was found guilty of murdering his nephew and was sentenced to death.

Once again, however, no independent confirmation has been given that the voice on the audio file and the convicted prince are one and the same.

this news came out in january 13-18, 2012 in different outlets.  mystery still seems to shroud it, from the truth about the conversion to whether this prince is real or not. 

here's an excerpt of a follow-up of that january news item on the reported conversion, as printed in the christian post dated 24 january 2012.  (Did a Kuwaiti Prince Convert to Christianity? by Michael Gryboski, http://www.christianpost.com/):


From the onset of its release, the Kuwaiti government stated that the audio recording was a fraud and denied that there was a prince by the name of "Abdullah Al-Sabah" in the Kuwaiti royal family.

In an article written by Marco Tosatti of the Vatican Insider, the name "Abdullah" does in fact appear in the family tree of the ruling family of Kuwait but not among living family members. 

choice belongs to ladies.

Quote from: bugsay on July 14, 2012, 07:26:50 PM

hmmmm...di katalo.

edited version man god na... ang original kay ang ka-date si bugsay man.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 14, 2012, 02:38:00 PM
Di ni siya mao kay kulot man siyag buhok...

di ba diay na wavy hair?  morag buhok ni webmaster o di ba ni lorenz?

hahaha!  sumpayan na lang nato bi...

BOY:  Ahihihi, overestimating your charms ka naman... Oo nga, kasing ganda ka ni Katrina Halili...
GIRL:  (interrupting) Kasing guwapo ka kasi ni Piolo Pascual, e.
BOY:  True nga, pero nagtanong lang naman ako sa oras dahil late na yata yung date kong si Kobe Bryant.

However dissipated I appeared, I was obviously presentable enough for one person who had arrived out of the blueâ€"the real Baroness von Trappâ€"the actual Maria, a jolly, chortling frau of ample proportions who could not have hidden her oversized shoes under any convent bed in Europe and escape detection.

The baroness did not exactly boost my confidence by informing me how much more handsome I was than her husband. My God! What could he have looked like?! But she was very bouncy and bossy, laughed a lot and really was most likable.

Incongruously for an ex-nun, she was an expert channel swimmer, a prizewinning world-class champion, in fact. All at once she announced in booming tones that she couldn't stay with us very long and I imagined that yet another channel somewhere was already bracing itself for her plunge.

The baroness remained long enough to watch Julie and me shoot our first meeting in that glorious mirrored room, which had been a part of the great Max Reinhardt's old mansion on the outskirts of town. To see this buxom, bovine Maria gazing at the other Mariaâ€"her slim, trim alter egoâ€"was quite uncanny.

-Christopher Plummer on the real Maria von Trapp, in his book In Spite of Myself

http://www.oprah.com/

Photo: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox
If you blinked during the "I Have Confidence" sceneâ€"when Maria is leaving the convent for the Von Trapp homeâ€"you may have missed a very special extra. The real Maria von Trapp, her daughter and granddaughter appear for a split second in the background.

http://www.oprah.com/

10.  Instead of the fictional Max Detweiler, pushy music promoter, the von Trapps' priest, the Reverend Franz Wasner, acted as their musical director for over 20 years.

11.  Though she was a caring and loving person, Maria wasn't always as sweet as the fictional Maria. She tended to erupt in angry outbursts consisting of yelling, throwing things, and slamming doors. Her feelings would immediately be relieved and good humor restored, while other family members, particularly her husband, found it less easy to recover.

In her 2003 interview, the younger Maria confirmed that her stepmother "had a terrible temper. . . . And from one moment to the next, you didn't know what hit her. We were not used to this. But we took it like a thunderstorm that would pass, because the next minute she could be very nice."

http://www.archives.gov/

9.  The family did not secretly escape over the Alps to freedom in Switzerland, carrying their suitcases and musical instruments. As daughter Maria said in a 2003 interview printed in Opera News, "We did tell people that we were going to America to sing. And we did not climb over mountains with all our heavy suitcases and instruments. We left by train, pretending nothing."

The movie scene showing them climbing into Switzerland was actually filmed near Berchtesgaden, Germany...home to Hitler's Eagle's Nest, and certainly not a smart place to flee to. (http://www.ricksteves.com/)

9.  The von Trapps traveled to Italy, not Switzerland. Georg was born in Zadar (now in Croatia), which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Zadar became part of Italy in 1920, and Georg was thus an Italian citizen, and his wife and children as well. The family had a contract with an American booking agent when they left Austria. They contacted the agent from Italy and requested fare to America.

http://www.archives.gov/

4.  There were 10, not 7 von Trapp children.

(The youngest three were the children of Maria and Georg von Trapp.)

5.  The names, ages, and sexes of the children were changed.

Though the von Trapp family did have seven children, the show changed all their names and even their genders. Rupert, the eldest child, responded to the often-asked tourist question, "Which one are you?" with a simple, "I'm Liesl!" (http://www.ricksteves.com/)

6.  The family was musically inclined before Maria arrived, but she did teach them to sing madrigals.

7.  Georg, far from being the detached, cold-blooded patriarch of the family who disapproved of music, as portrayed in the first half of The Sound of Music, was actually a gentle, warmhearted parent who enjoyed musical activities with his family. While this change in his character might have made for a better story in emphasizing Maria's healing effect on the von Trapps, it distressed his family greatly.

http://www.archives.gov/

2.  Maria and Georg married in 1927, 11 years before the family left Austria, not right before the Nazi takeover of Austria.

3.  Maria did not marry Georg von Trapp because she was in love with him. As she said in her autobiography-- Maria, she fell in love with the children at first sight, not their father. When he asked her to marry him, she was not sure if she should abandon her religious calling but was advised by the nuns to do God's will and marry Georg. "I really and truly was not in love. I liked him but didn't love him. However, I loved the children, so in a way I really married the children.  . . . By and by I learned to love him more than I have ever loved before or after."

http://www.archives.gov/

Fact from Fiction of The Sound of Music

While The Sound of Music was generally based on the first section of Maria's book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (published in 1949), there were many alterations and omissions.

1.  Maria came to the von Trapp family in 1926 as a tutor for one of the children, Maria, who was recovering from scarlet fever, not as governess to all the children.


Maria von Trapp, photograph
from her Declaration of Intention,
dated January 21, 1944.
(Records of District Courts
of the United States, RG 21)

http://www.archives.gov/

Quote from: hofelina on July 14, 2012, 03:41:38 PM

when charmian carr sang 'i am sixteen' in the movie, she was actually already 21 years old.

i'm partial to mercedes benz.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 14, 2012, 06:40:03 AM
Ask, and you shall be given. You can even ask for Botoy...

i did.  botoy akong gipangayo, gimantiniran man hinoon kog botay. 

Quote from: Lorenzo on July 14, 2012, 02:14:09 AM
knowing isles, she probably prefers her coffee black.

aherm.  i'm careful lest i be deemed a racist.  i mix it with white cream

Quote from: chicogon on July 14, 2012, 02:13:28 AM
Aha! So you're one of those "can't miss coffee" in the morning.

give me coffee, or give me death.

tug-an na lang god mo nga nag-wig lang mo...

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 14, 2012, 11:30:35 AM
Hmm, unsa guy bijunog? As in pinukyutan?

gikan na sa bijun, binol-anon sa pansit bihun.

brave dog

di maayo nga advice.  ang sakit nga makuha aning klaseha nga partner kay botulism, cholera, peste, letse, ug uban pang klaseng balikas.

sayal atong giistoryahan, di sutana.

pagsayal na lang god mo.  wa man lagiy problema ang mga scots.

ang hitsura sa mga taga-spacex.  morag bol-anon nang naa sa taliwa nga ganganga.

here's an example of a job description and requirements at spacex at its manufacturing/production department:

Manufacturing/Production

One of the most critical needs we now have at SpaceX is for Manufacturing/Production engineers. With two vehicles flight proven, we have a $3 billion backlog of sold flights. The next critical phase is proving our ability to build rockets with increasing speed while maintaining quality in order to meet the markets high demand. We are looking to add manufacturing engineers throughout the company.

Responsibilities

Responsible for setting up, operating and programming a Wire EDM machine.

Must be able to complete machining operations from blueprints, drawings and/or verbal instructions.

Must have experience with complex, tight tolerance parts and various materials.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent. 
Ability to read and work off of a blueprint.
Strong interpersonal skills including, but not limited to, contributing to a team-oriented environment, balancing team and individual responsibilities.

Physical Requirements

Repetitive movement, bending or twisting, using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls, exposure to sounds and noise levels that are distracting.
   
Ability to work 1st shift hours, plus overtime, as needed.

http://www.spacex.com/

ka-cute!

kini pong usa, prayerful pod.

i demand breakfast!  bisag thermos bottle para kape na lang, wa gyod.

give me six (chic)!


give me more!

morag panatang makabayan sa unang panahon, hihihi.

The actors spent about nine months together while shooting, so they say they really forged a family. "We keep in touch at Christmas and the holidays," Julie says.

When Heather lost her husband, actor Robert Urich, to cancer, her Sound of Music siblings were there for her. "They all showed up," she says. "There's no DNA here, but they're a special kind of family. I'm okay, and part of the reason I'm okay is because of these guys right here."

When the cast got to Chicago for their Oprah Show taping, they all went out beforehand for a Thanksgiving dinner of sorts. "Everybody tried to catch up so fast because we knew we didn't have that long, and questions were coming from all over the place," Julie says.

"Suddenly you just revert the 45 years," Nicholas says. "We always seem to pick up the conversation where we left off, no matter what the time has been."

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/

Trivia
The making of the Sound of Music

Five months before shooting began in Salzburg, The Sound of Music director Robert Wise set out to find seven perfect children to play the Von Trapp children. He interviewed more than 200 hopefuls, including a young Richard Dreyfuss, Kurt Russell and Mia Farrow.

In the hours before shooting, Robert cast the final members of the most popular family in cinematic history: Charmian Carr as Liesl; Nicholas Hammond as Friedrich; Heather Menzies-Urich as Louisa; Duane Chase as Kurt; Angela Cartwright as Brigitta; Debbie Turner as Marta; and Kym Karath as youngest daughter, Gretl.

Forty-five years later, some of the actors have families of their own and say they love watching the film with their children. "I think this movie is the world's best babysitter," Nicholas says. "Everybody I know has parked the kids in front of it. Three hours of dead silence."

http://www.oprah.com/

Photo: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox/Harpo Studios
Christopher Plummer (Georg von Trapp)

http://www.oprah.com/

Julie Andrews (Maria)

http://jaydeanhcr.files.wordpress.com/

Quote from: hofelina on July 13, 2012, 10:46:55 PM



this is the van that took us to the footsteps of Maria from the Sound of Music.

one my regrets.  with only three days of stay in vienna some years back, we had to forego salzburg where i wanted so much to go.  well, i hope for some other time soon. 

Photo: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox/Harpo Studios
Kym Karath (Gretl)

http://gigisaffronever.files.wordpress.com/

Photo: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox/Harpo Studios
Debbie Turner (Marta)

http://www.oprah.com/

Quote from: Lorenzo on July 13, 2012, 09:51:16 PM
Edelweiss


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQkZD3F2EQ#

thanks, lorenz.  it's a slow waltz or some kind of lullaby, that's why i was taken in at once.  and it's one of the first songs i learned to play on the guitar, as taught by my father.  i had to look upside down to understand his chords because he was left-handed. 

Photo: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox/Harpo Studios
Angela Cartwright (Brigitta)

http://www.oprah.com/

Photo: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox/Harpo Studios
Duane Chase (Kurt)

http://www.oprah.com/

Photo: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox/Harpo Studios
Heather Menzies-Urich (Louisa)


http://www.oprah.com/

Photo: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox/Harpo Studios
Nicholas Hammond (Friedrich)

http://www.oprah.com/

Photo: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox/Harpo Studios
Charmian Carr (Liesl)
she sang 'i am sixteen'

http://www.oprah.com/

40 years after, in a reunion:

the movie's von trapp family

i had heard of the singing von trapp family during the war, our father had declared.  it sounded so remote, so unreachable, unbelievable even.

where i failed visually i made up for aurally.  it didn't take long to memorize all the songs, helped greatly by a local radio station that played the whole movie score everyday at the exact same time.  'edelweiss' at once became my top favorite.

The Sound of Music
(inspired by fr chic's mention of salzburg in another thread)

the movie, oh yes, the movie.  everybody and anybody must have watched this movie sometime in their lives, at whatever age.  i first watched this on the big screen, at a time when there was no such thing as a betamax or a vhs and, who knows, perhaps the inventor of the dvd was yet to be born. 

unfortunately, i guess i was able to watch only half of the movie that first time because everything was a blur; i remember breathing at asses in front of me.  it was a condition that was far from dwarfism; it's just that in that day and age, my height was was just up to an adult's ass. 

that cebu movie house overflowed with people such that what parts i managed to watch i watched only when i was perched on my father's shoulders.

Quote from: chicogon on July 12, 2012, 03:13:02 PM
Reminds me of the old city of Salzburg...

with the von trapps?  edelweiss, every morning you greet me...

Quote from: Desmond on July 13, 2012, 02:23:36 PM
Meat fish if not too much.

anything wrong with too much fish?  and how much is too much?

Quote from: chicogon on July 12, 2012, 02:08:51 PM


Ohio Sunset 1987

grrrabeee.  wowie gyod.  the whole scene makes the viewer wax poetic.

Quote from: vrglguapo on July 12, 2012, 02:19:24 PM
guapoha oy..

on two counts, yes.  the sunset, of course, and the guy at the foreground, for obvious reasons.  morag porma ug maayong mosayaw, pang-sunrise.

ordinandus ba ning tawhana aning panahona, fr chic?  

we'll do our best to cooperate with you, desmond.  a hearty welcome to you!

labaw pa sa tagam akong natilawan bitaw.  di na gyod pod kog eat-all-you-can.  bati kaayo ning lahi na tag kwentada, kanang math nga kintahay di ta gustong maalkansi.  makagaba as in.  karon, salad ra ug buwad akong gikaon.  lainan pa ko magtan-aw ug sud-an.

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 13, 2012, 11:49:50 AM



Kinsa ni?

zordog.

at the end of the feast, i was already depressed and irritable.  and unusually quiet.

we went home by mid-afternoon.  by dusk, the idea of eating still sickened me.  by dinnertime, i was already vomitting.  ugh.  until today i feel my stomach is still bum.  i swore i'll never overeat again.  price be damned. 

but eat all i can i did.  where usually i forego dessert, this once i tried to gobble everything i can get hold of, from ice cream to a variety of fresh fruits to those quaint french desserts whose names escape me.  the banana republic started to get from my plate.  obviously, he knows my capacity after all these years.

it was an eat-all-you-can fare, with a price that could have brought tears to my eyes were i not a performance artist.   

at four figures a pop, i thought it's a price that would be a windfall for those street people down the street (unfortunately, i'm beset by this kind of math because i do know those people by name).

might as well make the most of this, i decided, even as i thought of a friend who once deadpanned, "if we should not waste food because there are the hungry so we have to finish everything on our plate, would those hungry ones feel full?" 

this was yesterday... banana republic and i invited a visiting couple from europe for lunch.  knowing the taste of the woman, we opted for a five-star hotel restaurant.  we have a gift certificate for a certain restaurant in that hotel, anyway, we thought.  it turned out that that specific restaurant opens at 5pm.  that left us staying put at the hotel's massive lobby restaurant. 

mora lagi ni siyag fast craft padung tagbilaran from cebu.

they may not be in the movies or in the news (the better for us all), but there are still many comedians here at tubagbohol.com.  real ones, unlike those who are in congress or at the senate.

Jupiter Firefighters donate pet oxygen mask, save dog's life

JUPITER, Fla. -- With fire trucks in front of her house, and firefighters going in and out of her house, Sonia Tomas stood nearby clutching one of her 3 dogs. She says its a blessing all three survived.

Sonia was not home at the time and neither was her nephew when the fire broke out in the kitchen of her home on Oak Terrace.

One of Thomas' three dogs, a 6 month old dachshund, was found in a bathtub, motionless and not responding.

Luckily firefighters were able revive the dog with a pet oxygen mask. They recently started carrying these on some of their trucks after a Jupiter resident donated them two months ago.


This photo, taken by a firefighter with a
cell phone camera, shows the dog being treated
at the scene, wearing a doggy oxygen mask.
Since getting the masks two months ago,
firefighters say this is one of the first times
they've used the specially-designed pet oxygen
masks to save a dogs life after being removed
from a burning house.

June 19, 2012
http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/

oh-oh.  poor parenting...

dog's horse mask

matching man's best friend

In sleep he sang to me, in dreams he came
that voice which calls to me and speaks my name...

maita gomez (second from left)

Maita Gomez, beauty queen and freedom fighter, dies

12 July 2012



MANILA, Philippines - Maita Gomez, who shocked Philippine society when she joined the communist underground to fight the government of Ferdinand Marcos after being crowned Miss Philippines-World in 1967, died of a heart attack on Thursday, friends in the mass movement said.

Posts on Facebook by fellow activists, among them Bayan Muna party-list Representative Teddy Casino and Bagong Alyansang Makabayan secretary general Renato Reyes, paid tribute to Gomez and bade her farewell.

Gomez disdained being called a "beauty queen", and spent the rest of her life advocating for social change. She was a founder of the women’s organization Gabriela and, at the time of her death, was co-chair of the Makabayan Coalition, which groups together party-list groups from the mainstream leftist bloc.

Her Makabayan co-chairman, Satur Ocampo, said: “We in Makabayan are proud and honored that she gladly accepted her nomination to co-chair the coalition in 2009, and she consistently and most capably performer her duties until her unexpected demise.”

Ocampo said Gomez “never failed to speak out on the issues being discussed and her points were always well taken â€" reflective of her intellectual acumen and wisdom, built up from a multifaceted life and deep involvement in our people’s struggle.”

more at http://www.interaksyon.com/article/37327/maita-gomez-beauty-queen-and-freedom-fighter-dies

hasta laki duda kong di pod mosukol.

another enlightened one...

and boys go for bargains?

is this in the philippines?  (i have my doubts because of the school uniform of the boys.)  it's sad because the working boys are barefoot.