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haha saba dinha pre!

Joker joker jud ka uy

hadloka pood na pre. di pood ko gusto ana kai simbako ma brain damage ahong anak.
mo wait nalang after sa delivery.

*chews gum*

So whose gonna be there?

Hahahahaha, wa ko reaction to that, pre.

Think about it this way, if i do punch you (which will never happen, LOL) you'll pass out for like? sigoro 5-7 hours diba? Thats enough time for your face to heal

LOL!! Talawan o!

Menstrual cycle is such a bummer for guys tho. Whenever we want to do it with our gfs, we can't. Then there is that 1 week where you have to wait. Wait.

Sucks.

hahahaha! bugul bugul-on jud ka pre

hmm, LOL.

I actually thought about shaving my pubes, pero i hear if you shave it, ingrown hair will occur. Pre, the last time i shaved my pubes was in football season several years ago. One thing i must admit, it makes things look bigger. LOL

hahahahaha are you serious, pre?

No way id do that. Yack! Imagine, once a month--for a week--you will suffer unbearable cramps and bleeding? I cant deal with that.

What if you decide to go swimming and then..

haha, pre why would i be mad at you? You're a good person with a sharp whit. Fashionisto pa

lol

Rarely do I ever get angry, Mike. But when I do--you don't want to be there for it. One of my main pete peves, bro, is when people show disregard for the elderly. Its my # 1 pet peve.

haha, count yourself lucky man. I sometimes envy my friends who have hairless bodies; it kinda sucks having hairy legs, hair chest, back, where the sun doesn't shine, and of course--facial hair.

Must be the Spanish blood, LOL

Think about it this way, you save money in the long run. Imagine all the shaves/shaving cream you won't have to buy.

Quote from: Happy on February 15, 2008, 08:29:10 AM
Unsa kaha bitaw feeling anang mabuntis no?

Sunod tuig naana koy baby wahahaha, nangambisyon pud

Labor must be grueling. My mother was in labor with me for 28 hours, she was in labor for 24 hours with my sister, 22 hours with my brother Don. And Andre she has a C-section.

Ngek. I can't imagine the pain. God bless all the women. They have it all: menstrual cycle, pregnancy, labor, menopause,

Quote from: ms da binsi on February 15, 2008, 04:05:17 PM

I like this one

Disgusting, she took advantage of his trust, di pa jud siya ma uwaw ana? She has committed fraud,  a federal offense in the United States. Which can lead up to 30 years in prison time.

Give me O Lord, I pray Thee
firm faith, unwavering hope
perfect charity.
Pour into my heart
the Spirit of wisdom and understanding
the Spirit of counsel and spiritual strength
the Spirit of knowledge and true godliness
and the Spirit of Thy holy fear
Light eternal, shine in my heart
Power eternal, deliver me from evil
Wisdom eternal, scatter the darkness of my ignorance
Might eternal, pity me
Grant that I may ever seek Thy face
with all my heart and soul and strength;
and, in thine infinite mercy,
bring me at last to Thy holy presence
where I shall behold Thy glory
and possess Thy promised joys

Through Christ Our Lord,
Who is the Life, the Way and the Resurrection
Amen

Almighty and everlasting God,
You made the universe with all its marvelous order,
its atoms, worlds, and galaxies,
and the infinite complexity of living creatures:
Grant that, as we probe the mysteries of your creation,
we may come to know you more truly,
and more surely fulfill our role in your eternal purpose;
in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen


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Beautiful! Well written, Ate Blue.

You are right jud! Pain reminds us that we are all mortal.

you're lucky, Mike. 

hahaha, LOL

Yes, ma'am

ning ask ra man ko, 'te. personally di man ko mo kusi kai sakit baya..kuan ra ba..gakus.

Knock Knock

haha, bitaw no? mo kusi diay ka, Gai?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ldZoJvY5i1I

wahahaha, E. Coli!



http://youtube.com/watch?v=RjjD5CafbZ0

This video is hilarious!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sO_KILnJdHw

Roflmao!

can i say nutcracker?

Quote from: Ginger on February 14, 2008, 04:16:31 PM

hahahahahaha!
I heard of horse power, but i never thought i'd see 'cow power' roflmao!

Quote from: st. agnes on February 15, 2008, 01:23:22 AM
ENZO, HAPPY VALENTINES To You....!

Els, Happy Valentines to you too!
You are right, let us love each other in this day of days!
God Bless you and your family.

haha

You two and Ate Belle are one of the reasons why I come back to TB. Such warm and good people that I would have never met had it not been for TB.

@ Hazel.

I keep your rosary in my car rear view mirror. It has been with me since
Salmat kaayo.

Quote from: Ginger on February 15, 2008, 12:58:09 AM
Graz, you really made me cry. I'm so touched by your  dedication. I really feel how you love and care for me.

Thanks to you and Bella for always being there for me.

I love you both. And to dodong Insoy pud.

**Bear Hugs Ate Ging and Hazel**

My TB Ates
God Bless You guys!

we're just friends, Els.

would you prefer to live in the beach or in the mountains, 'te?

Quote from: ms da binsi on December 20, 2007, 09:45:40 AM
This is an act that was not seen but i had done...

When i was unloading my tiguwang by the doorway sa Market from our car...

while i was helping my tiguwang to her wheelchair, a car behind us was honking!!!

I dont know how you judge me but...

I really screamed at the driver in that honking car...

"WAIT 'TIL YOU'RE IN THE WHEELCHAIR, MOTHER F---ER !!"

Ang akong tiguwang pwerte gyud hadloka nija naho, kay basin kuno naugon ko sa Driver!!!

diri gud sa America ang mga handicapped are very well respected...

dayun honk-honkan lang mi sa driver behind???

na lechehan gyud siya sa PINAY!

hahahahahhha

Bastos pood tong driver, lami to i-pa sumbagon. When my Lolo Ciano was with us before I took him to Arby's for lunch and when I was helping him out of the car to his wheelchair, there was an idiot who parked beside me and he said to me under his breath, "Way to go putting the wheelchair in my parking space, dumba$$".

Walang Yatang, 'tang in@!

I shut my mouth and put my Lolo in his wheelchair and after that I walked over to the man who said that to me and called him out. I told him, "If you ever do something like that again to someone who is helping someone, i'll make sure i come for you." "Do you want to fight? I'll personally break your face right now, sir"

He didn't even say a word to me, he didn't even look at my face. This was a man who was fat and running to arby's to get something to eat for himself, without the care of others at all. I so wanted to break his face there. But I had to control myself.

I went back to Lolo and he asked 'ngano man to?'
I told him everything. And when we went inside the restaurant, Lolo personally asked me if we could sit in a table right next to that man. And I did just that. Lolo stared at that man the entire time, and before we left the restaurant he said to him, "Excuse me sir. Don't say that to my apo! He is my apo!"

I cried as we drove home. That an @sshole would do something like that to my Lolo.

Quote from: C2H4 on December 31, 2007, 12:53:18 AM
ahahaha

kuyawa oi

naa diay guapa nga lubot

Yes, there is
Its eye candy for men, 'te.

ehem, 

Chest hair. I'm a bear.

I still cannot fathom the extreme pain a woman experiences when a baby's head comes out of her 10-cm stretched cervix. Sakit, hapdus jud na uy. For others raba, the baby's head is so big that the physician has to cut the skin flap that separates the vagina from the anus to allow proper stretch.

I cannot begin to imagine the pain.

really? is that bad diay, 'te?

Because I also bite my nails when im nervous.

wow, so heart warming, Ate Ging.

So beautiful, and it fits the occasion jud.

luuy pood na, Gai, kai walay babies

Quote from: ligiah on February 14, 2008, 06:39:11 PM
i don't think i taught you this... where'd you get this from? oh! meget dygtig!

did I tell you that I bought a 'Learn Danish' book this weekend? ive been studying, slowly, tho

Nice video, can I say "Guapang Pilipina"?

What is this like a pnoy reggae ?

Quote from: ligiah on February 14, 2008, 05:12:57 PM
Tusind tak min rigtig rigtig god ven! Du er så sød... (A thousand thanks my very very good friend! You are so sweet!)

det var så lidt!

en Espanol: De nada, mi amiga. Sueños dulces

Pepsi; and yes you can taste the difference

Would you rather get a hilut from your room mate or from your siblings?

haha, well put Mike. LOL

I say its an effect of stress that comes with the profession. More Filipinos are getting education and jobs, not enough time to rear a family. 10 million Filipinos are working abroad, who has the time to get married any more? When 1/9th of a nation's population is working abroad---there tends to be socio-demographic consequences.

This article indicates one result of that phenomenon.

Quote from: ms da binsi on January 30, 2008, 01:21:25 AM


A young man with an arrow in his head arrives at hospital following ethnic clashes in the town of Nakuru in the Rift Valley area January 26, 2008. Kenyans in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru feared more violence on Saturday after a disputed election triggered pitched battles between ethnic gangs that killed at least a dozen people.

The entry wound, though the picture only shows the anterior view, looks like it pierced through the upper right quadrant of the temporal lobe or the lower left quadrant of the parietal lobe. The consequences of this is disastrous for the individual in the picture, neurologically speaking.

1. Any subvisceral damage to the left parietal lobe will lead to "Gerstmann's Syndrome." It includes right-left confusion, difficulty with writing (agraphia) and difficulty with mathematics (acalculia). It can also produce disorders of language (aphasia) and the inability to perceive objects normally (agnosia).

or

2. If the entry wound was in the upper right quadrant of the temporal lobe, the effects of any subvisceral damage would be decreased recall of verbal and visual content, including speech perception. Additionally, a decrease in memory recognition would manifest.

The individual in the picture survived the attack; however, not without suffering irepairable damage in the central nervous system. Particularly in the periphery of the cerebral cortex.

Quote from: Bohol Bol-anon on February 14, 2008, 01:21:14 PM
Dear (blank - - - -),

Please, don't register in Tubag Bohol. I don't want you to reply my unknown letter.


Sincerely,

Mike, who is this one?

hahaha, I'm happy that you're happy, Gai! Happy Valentines Day diha, ha. Stay safe always, mi amiga.

God Bless you and your family, Gai. Always.

BranBran

LoL, c'mon 'te you wouldnt for a 50 inch plasma tv?

Dear ______

Remember when I told you that i rated it a 4/4? Well yea, I lied. It was a 2/4. And the only reason why I didnt do what you requested is because well..

Truly,

Happy Valentines Day, Gai
I hope they're sweet as you are.

Your Friend,

Quote from: Z153090 on December 31, 2007, 09:47:45 PM
your must be right but, there are many Filipino working in Malaysia too, any way our people should be discourage in working in that area

What Filipinos in Malaysia need to do, Z, is to demand the right to vote to either stay with Malaysia or cede back to the Philippines! Just as what the East Timorese did with Indonesia!

Quote from: Z153090 on December 30, 2007, 11:39:57 PM
Exactly you are right; currently we are enhancing our arm forces. We should be able to move next year in implementing this effort.

However, the Philippine government made a statement before (1960's) that we will do it in a peaceful way; I think we should start campaigning it to our citizens about the issue since most of our people are not so familiar with the issue.

I would suggest that we should include the history of Sabah to our curriculum and by doing so our people will be conscious enough about the Sabah claim.

Absolutely. The Philippine government needs to do as what you just stated, Z, to place clear emphasis on Sabah's historical link with the Philippine Islands.

The Philippines, under the administration of the Spanish Empire included not only the Philippine Archipelago proper, but also island of Guam, Palau, the Marianas and Sabah. All of these regions were regarded by the Spanish colonizers as "Las Islas Filipinas", and have been inclusive since the 16th century. This is before the creation and the construct of a 'Malaysia'.

Malaysia in all reality should not even be a nation, as it is a failed state. It is a nation that lives by a state-sponsored segregated society where Malays have Islamic Law to better place their role in society and the Indians and Chinese are marginalized. Malaysia should only be limited to Peninsular Malaysia, where they have historical links to it as the Kingdom of Melaca was stationed at. However the two states in East Malaysia: Sarawak and Sabah are totally foreign to Melaca. Sabah, was subject to the Sulu Sultanate and under the administration of the Spanish Empire, while Sarawak was a distant vassal of Yogyakarta (Indonesia).

The main point here, my friend, is that the Philippines has the most historical claim to Sabah:
1. The Spanish Empire have maps that includes the territory of Sabah with the Philippines
2. The Sultan of Sulu, who is under the Republic of the Philippines, owns Sabah and the Malaysian govt still to this day gives him monthly payments for 'renting' the land
3. The people that live in Sabah are Filipinos, mostly of Bisayan origin. There are over 2 million Filipino workers in Sabah, most of them come from Mindanao and the Visayas
4. There are more Filipinos in Sabah than there are Malaysians. And even the term is arbitrary. As Malaysians are Malay; so are Filipinos.

5. The Philippines is the 2nd largest nation in south east asia, with a population that will soon peak 100 Million. Why in God's name do we acquiesce to the demands of Malaysia, which is 1/4th our size? Malaysia is weak.

This country needs to claim what is rightfully ours. The Malaysians' tactic is to let time 'kill' the Filipino claim. This is absurd. If our country wasn't as weak as it is today, why, The Republic of the Philippines should invade Malaysia proper and 'claim' the entire Malaysian nation as our territory. And be made part of the 'Greater Philippine Republic'.

Most of you might be enlightened with the situation concerning East Timor (Timor Leste), which is a tiny nation surrounded by Indonesia, which was granted independency by unanimous vote and by intervention from the United Nations in 1999. The East Timorese demanded independence from the giant that is the Republic of Indonesia due to the religious incursions the latter inflicted on the East Timorese, who are predominantly Roman Catholic, as a result of 4 centuries of Portuguese control. Indonesia, since usurping control of East Timor from the Portuguese after Indonesia's independence instituted an edict known as "Pro dens Indonesi" or commonly known as "Pancasila Indoneseeya Raya".

By executive order and by military protocol, all regions of Indonesian territory were to learn and read Bahasa Indonesiya (the national language) as well as adopt Islam as the national religion, despite the clause within Indonesia's constitution that declares the republic as a secularist nation.

This was made evident in Indonesia's pacification of rebel insurrectionists in Sumatra and Irian Jaya, which were all summarily eradicated by the TNI (Tentara Nacional Indoneseeya), its Armed Forces. One region that Indonesia failed to silence was East Timor. Due to the deep rooted christian characteristics of East Timor, specifically Roman Catholic, the East Timorese drew support from sympathetic catholic nations, primarily the Republic of the Philippines, which is the only Christian-Roman Catholic nation in Asia (over 95% of the nation is christian; and 83% being Roman Catholic). The Vatican as well as most of the west demanded a ceasure of Indonesian violence in East Timor and its Islamification process.

So great was the global uproar that the United Nations intervened and demanded that Indonesia allow the people of East Timor to vote if they wished to remain part of Indonesia or receive independence. The vote was cast in 1999, and the majority of the people demanded independence. And it was so.

Post-independence East Timor has suffered from military weakness, political corruption and regional wars. The nation is on the verge of a civil war, as recent news have documented recent attempts to kill the president as well as members of the congress.

There are also talks within the Indonesian community, mostly in Jakarta of taking necessary steps to 'save' the people of East Timor from a bloody civil war by militarily taking over of East Timor for the time being until the region stabilizes. It is clear that Indonesia is pushing for an aggressive 'reconquest' policy to save its face after it lost its southern province in 1999. The Republic of the Philippines, as an economic and diplomatic patron of East Timor has sent hundreds of peace keeping troops to maintain stability in the country. And if there was to be an Indonesian-led take-over of East Timor, what do you think would be the response of the Philippines? Do you think that East Timor should remain independent, despite the anarchy in its demographic circle or should it be allowed to be unite with Indonesia for stability's sake?

Your views in this matter is imperative.

El Hispanisacion de las Filipinas. ¡Sirva de madre a la influencia cultural de España de las islas filipinas! ¡Mitad de un Millenia de la historia común!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Oj5lCeTN_qc&feature=related

An interesting video that illustrates what we've been talking in here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1OrBf90kotU

Filipina-Espana-Mexicana Relations:
Half a Millenia of Common History

they are of the past, sheila. I still seek for my other half

Proverbs
Chapter 21

Like a stream is the king's heart in the hand of the lord;
wherever it pleases him, he directs it

All the ways of a man may be right in his own eyes,
but it is the Lord who proves hearts.

To do what is right and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Haughty eyes and a proud heart-
the tillage of the wicked is sin

The plans of the diligent are sure of profit,
but all rash haste leads certainly to poverty

He who makes a fortune by a lying tongue
is chasing a bubble over deadly snares

The oppression of the wicked will sweep them away,
because they refuse to do what is right

The way of the culprit is crooked,
but the conduct of the innocent is right

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop
than in a roomy house with a quarrelsome woman

The soul of the wicked man desires evil;
his neighbor finds no pity in his eyes

When the arrogant man is punished, the simple are the wiser;
when the wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge

He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor
will himself also call and not be heard

A secret gift allays anger,
and a concealed present, violent wrath

To practice justice is a joy for the just,
but terror for evildoers

The man who strays from the way of good sense
will abide in the assembly of shades

He who pursues justice and kindness
will find life and honor

The wise man storms a city of the mighty,
and overthrows the stronghold in which it trusts

There is no wisdom, no understanding,
no counsel against the Lord

The horse is equipped for the day of battle,
but victory is the Lord's

haha how cute

Dear K,

Ah, K, my sister's closest friend. I like you. Hah! I admit it! I had a crush on you in high school and I teased you, but it wasn't because i disliked you, no, it was because i liked you. You call me 'dork', 'silly', 'nutty', hahaha, all that you could say to displease me, I took and swallowed every word of it. Every word that came out of your mouth, i consumed in my mind, in my thoughts.

Whenever you would come to our house to study with my sister, I would offer drinks to my sister and her other friends and pretend to not give you anything, and your response of, "where's my drink, Al-bundy?". I laughed inside, you are such a cute person, K.

Graduating high school was somewhat difficult because i would never hear your voice amusing me during gym class, during engineering class, during study period, and during the drive home.

You silly little girl, little cute girl..

Al-bundy,

Give

Would you rather eat out or cook your own food?

Dear L,

You made fun of me when I was only a child, a little boy who had a puppy crush on thee,
You spurn me like a common straw,
I built you a castle out of clay with colors to adorn, as I saw you as the princess of that castle,
Yet you took it and showed it around to our classmates.

They laughed and mocked and jeered at me,
Coodies, they say, Coodies are for losers
Bah, what do they know?
And who were you to defile my little heart that way?
And now, in the present, you come to me for answers and for comfort
Yet I never tell you of your actions of the past
My heart is too soft, easily misused

Your Friend,

Sometimes, Ate Ging it is always better to tell the truth than to sugar coat things for a person. Ate Ging, when you tell the honest truth to people about their misconduct, it isn't your fault that they are offended. Nay, they are offended because their soul, their consciousness is awakened to the reality of their actions and it is their pride, that makes them believe that you are wrong and they correct.

It is always better to tell the truth, and be genuine behind the the words you use than the inverse.

As for me, I can admit to you that nothing can hurt me more than my mother's words. I would rather be disciplined with my father's belt 100 times than take ten minutes of my mother talking to me in anger. I don't know if it is a trait for all Valencianons or Boholanos, but when they tell the truth and the honest to God truth, it cuts deep. It opens your soul to your actions and your sins. And it sinks in. So strong that it awakens you to reality and accepting your wrongs. That is why, I'd rather be corrected by my mother for mundane things than suffer her deep comments if I wronged something or someone.

And I accept it, who else will tell me the truth and correct me besides my own mother? She who bore me into this world, and taught me how to walk, think, eat, talk.

The truth hurts sometimes, but the truth is the only way. The other leads to deceit, and to damnation. For the Truth comes from God, and Lies come from the Devil, accursed and doomed to the pit of Oblivion.

Zachary

Beautiful song.

NGEK!

I'd rather be 6' foot than 4'10

My God! 4'10 is 1 inch shorter than my sister (she's 4'11 at least) hahahaha!
Di ko ana! Putot ra na uy hahahaha!

Would you rather love or be loved?

Quote from: Bambi on February 14, 2008, 07:25:04 AM
Yes..yesss Blue many times with pink color....i even received love letters nga gipapil-tan ug luto (my Mom read it first).

hahaha, Pare, I have to tell you this:

After my JS prom in 2003, my date and I went to Atlantic City by ourselves without the permission of my parents. We stayed at the beach for the entire night and just talked. Exchanged personal touches, pero nothing serious. We drove back to my place and she dropped me off and I sneaked inside the house at around 4 AM. I did not know that she left a love letter in the mail box of our house that day before she left.

To my disbelief, my mother found it and read everything.

ONE word can explain my situation that day: PATAY!! 

Dear P,

I just wanted to tell you that I enjoyed all the moments we had this past summer, I've never experienced the things you gave me, and I tell you the truth that I enjoyed every minute of it. Had providence made it possible, I would have pursued the relationship we had, but life has a way of turning things around.

You opened me to new methods, new techniques, new sensations that I never knew, it was a soul-opening experience, P.

You were right when you told me, 'Dont be afraid to engage in the spice of life,"

I don't regret anything, thank you.

As I am.

Cement court

Would you rather do cardio work out or body building work out?

1. They tell me the brutal honest truth despite my objections
2. They correct me when I am obviously wrong
3. They know how to console me, whenever I reveal my often-hidden sensitive side.
4. They know how to make me laugh

I know I listed more than one quality, but heck..

Malaysian Indian Casket, a shop on the outskirts of this modern and cosmopolitan city, sells coffins in all sizes: standard coffins clutter the entrance, child-size boxes are stacked high on the shelves and extra-large models, those for the tallest of the deceased, are stored in the back.

But there is no variety in the ethnic background of the clientele.

“All the customers are Indian,” said Aru Maniam, a shop salesman.

In death as in life, Malaysians are divided by ethnicity. The country’s main ethnic groups â€" Malays, Chinese and Indians â€" have their own political parties, schools, newspapers and, in the case of Malays, a separate Islamic legal system.

For years this segregation was promoted as the best formula for social harmony in a country that advertises itself as “Truly Asia” because of its diversity, but where the memory of ethnic riots in 1969 is invoked as proof of the fragility of cross-cultural relations. Nearly 200 people died in that spasm of violence.

Now, ethnic tensions are again rising, driven in large part by dissatisfaction among the country’s Indians, who have mainly lost out in the long battle of all three ethnic groups over power, privilege and religion.

In November, Indians â€" who make up less than 10 percent of Malaysia’s population of about 25 million â€" led a protest march through this city in the first large ethnically motivated street demonstration since 1969. They announced a mainly symbolic $4 trillion class-action lawsuit against the British government, the country’s former colonial ruler, for bringing them as indentured laborers to the region, “exploiting them for 150 years,” then allowing them to be marginalized in postcolonial Malaysia.

The police dispersed the 20,000 demonstrators with water cannons and tear gas and are still holding five representatives of the Hindu Rights Action Force, the umbrella group that led the protest.

Although the lawsuit focuses on historic grievances, Indians’ complaints are anchored in present-day struggles, mainly with the majority Malays. Malays retain a stranglehold on government jobs, and therefore government policies tend to favor them.

Some Indians in Malaysia are very rich, but a majority have not been able to move up from the lowest rungs of society. The children and grandchildren of rubber tappers, they remain poor, poorly educated and overrepresented in menial jobs.

“This is a country that is in search of soul, in search of a common mission,” said Charles Santiago, coordinator of the Group of Concerned Citizens, an organization that seeks solutions to ethnic strife in Malaysia.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is Malay and Muslim, sought recently to woo back the country’s Indians by declaring the Hindu festival of Thaipusam, which was celebrated Jan. 23, a federal holiday. And a court decision in a highly emotional dispute over whether an Indian man should be buried according to Hindu or Muslim rites â€" he is said to have converted to Islam â€" has been postponed indefinitely.

But analysts say race relations could become more tense as the country prepares for elections, which are widely expected to be called for March. Chinese and Indian voters have lost faith in the ability of the governing multiracial coalition to equalize opportunities, polls show, and they are shifting their support to the opposition.

“It will be a racialized campaign, there’s no question,” said Bridget Welsh, a specialist in Malaysian politics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.

An opinion poll made public late last month by the Merdeka Center, an independent polling institute in Malaysia, showed that 38 percent of Indians and 42 percent of Chinese said they strongly or somewhat approved of Mr. Abdullah’s job performance, by far the lowest ratings he has received from those groups during his five years as prime minister. Together Chinese and Indians constitute about 35 percent of the population.

Those figures are contributing to an overall plunge in his approval ratings. The poll, which surveyed more than 1,000 randomly selected voters and had a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, showed his approval rating at 61 percent, down from 91 percent when he came to power.

One reason for the dissatisfaction: almost two-thirds of respondents said they were not happy with the way the government was handling issues of ethnicity and inequality.

“Indian support for the government is the worst it’s ever been in the country’s history,” Ms. Welsh said. “It’s profound. Indians have traditionally supported the government the highest.”

With Chinese voters also angry at the government â€" mainly over its handling of the economy â€" Ms. Welsh says the government risks losing political control of the state of Penang, where ethnic Chinese form a plurality, as well as a handful of parliamentary seats scattered across the country. The coalition of Malay, Chinese and Indian parties known as the National Front, which has governed the country since independence from Britain in 1957, is at little risk of losing its majority.

Chinese Malaysians, who form the core of the merchant class, are angry about quotas that keep many of them out of local universities and about the government’s preference for hiring Malay companies, among other issues.

Malaysia’s ethnic tensions were born during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Chinese and Indian workers came to what was then called Malaya and helped drive the colonial economy of tin and rubber. But this influx created resentment among Malays, who lost control of the economy to British plantation owners and Chinese businesses. The Malay sultans later struck a deal with the British: Malays would retain political supremacy in Malaysia after independence in exchange for citizenship for the Chinese and Indians.

Underpinning the anger of the latest generation of Chinese and Indians is an affirmative action program in place for 37 years that favors Malays and other indigenous ethnic groups, collectively known as bumiputra, literally “sons of the soil.” The program was devised to increase the share of bumiputra ownership of the economy, which in the 1970s was in the single digits.

Today, bumiputra make up 60 percent of the population but have 87 percent of government jobs. They receive discounts of 5 to 10 percent on new homes and are allotted 30 percent of stock shares in initial public offerings. Newspapers are filled with notices of government construction contracts exclusively reserved for companies controlled by bumiputra.

“It’s completely unacceptable that you cannot get awarded a contract just because of the color of your skin,” said Lim Guan Eng, an ethnic Chinese Malaysian who is secretary general of the Democratic Action Party, the leading opposition party in Parliament. “That grates tremendously. We are treated as though we are third- or fourth-class citizens.”

Beyond economic discrimination, Malaysians are increasingly divided by religion, with rising assertiveness by Muslim, Christian, Hindu and Buddhist groups. Islamic authorities have ruled that Malays, who are defined as Muslims in the country’s Constitution, may not leave the faith without undergoing lengthy counseling. Christians complain that the Malay-dominated government frequently denies permits to build churches. Hindus and Buddhists decry demolitions of temples. And Malaysian courts have heard more than a dozen cases of disputed religious conversions.

Indians were infuriated by the highly publicized case of a soldier, Maniam Moorthy, who died in 2005 and whose body was claimed by the Islamic authorities for Muslim burial.

The authorities contended that Mr. Moorthy, who was born a Hindu, converted to Islam months before his death, an assertion that his family denies. His wife, Kaliammal Sinnasamy, sued in a civil court to obtain his body, but the court ruled that it had no jurisdiction because the matter had already been decided in an Islamic court.

Although the courts have postponed a ruling on Ms. Kaliammal’s appeal, the case has become a cause célèbre.

“You can push us, you can cheat us, you can discriminate against us,” said Mr. Santiago, who is of Indian heritage, “but you can’t tell us that we’re not Hindus after we are dead.”

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened a new chapter in Australia’s tortured relations with its indigenous peoples on Wednesday with a comprehensive and moving apology for past wrongs and a call for bipartisan action to improve the lives of Australia’s Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.

“The Parliament is today here assembled to deal with this unfinished business of the nation, to remove a great stain from the nation’s soul, and in a true spirit of reconciliation to open a new chapter in the history of this great land, Australia,” Mr. Rudd told Parliament.

This was “Government business, motion No. 1,” the first act of Mr. Rudd’s Labor government, which was sworn in Tuesday after a convincing electoral win over the 11-year administration of John Howard, who had for years refused to apologize for the misdeeds of past governments.

Mr. Rudd’s apology was particularly addressed to the so-called Stolen Generations, the tens of thousands of indigenous children who were removed, sometimes forcibly, from their families in a policy of assimilation that only ended in the 1970s.

In some states it was part of a policy to “breed out the color,” in the words of Cecil Cook, who held the title of chief protector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory in the 1930s.

“We apologize especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country,” Mr. Rudd said as hundreds of members of the Stolen Generations listened in the gallery, some with tears in their eyes. “For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.

“To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry. And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.”

The 4-minute apology, and the 20-minute speech that followed, received a standing ovation both inside the chamber and from the hundreds gathered on the grounds of Parliament House in the capital, Canberra.

“I thought it was fantastic,” said Kirstie Parker, the managing editor of the influential Aboriginal newspaper The Koori Mail.

She said that it was not just the apology that was important: Mr. Rudd recounted stories of the victims, Ms. Parker noted, bringing the reality of the misdeeds to light and publicly confronting those who deny what happened.

But for some people, Mr. Rudd’s apology will not have gone far enough because he has ruled out setting up a government fund to compensate the victims of the policies that led to the Stolen Generations.

“There are many people who are saying that they must back this up with compensation,” Ms. Parker said. “I get a distinct feeling among Aboriginal people that they feel that compensation is an absolute possibility, notwithstanding the prime minister’s very vehement statement about not considering it.”

The Howard government had refused to apologize, partially because it did not feel responsible for the misdeeds of past administrations, but also because it feared that the move could lead to sizable compensation claims.

Last year, a court in South Australia awarded 525,000 Australian dollars to Bruce Trevorrow, who was taken from his mother when he was a baby, for unlawful treatment and false imprisonment.

Mr. Howard’s government had been criticized for an intervention in the Northern Territory that curtailed the rights of many indigenous communities, including quarantining half of welfare payments to ensure they were spent on food. Mr. Rudd’s government has promised to review the intervention.

Mr. Rudd recognized that the apology itself was symbolic, and he asked the opposition to move beyond partisan politics.

Mr. Rudd suggested a “war cabinet” on indigenous policy led by himself and the opposition leader, Brendan Nelson of the Liberal Party. Mr. Nelson agreed.

And there are deep challenges. Many indigenous Australians live on the margins of society. Aboriginal life expectancy is 17 years shorter than for other Australians, indigenous unemployment runs three times the rate of the country as a whole and the incidence of crime and alcoholism is significantly higher in indigenous communities.

A senior Hezbollah military commander who was one of America’s most wanted men, accused of involvement in a string of bombings, hijackings and kidnappings during the 1980s and 1990s, has been killed, the Shiite Muslim group said in a statement Wednesday.

Security officials in Lebanon said the man, Imad Mugniyah, 45, died in a car bomb in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday night. He was believed to have been behind attacks in 1983 on the United States Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, the terrorist hijacking of a T.W.A. jetliner in 1985, and a series of high-profile kidnappings in the 1980’s. There have also been accusations that his organization may have been involved in the bombing of the Khobar Towers military residence in Saudi Arabia in 1996, in which 17 Americans were killed.

Hezbollah’s announcement, which blamed Israel for the killing, did not say how Mr. Mugniyah died. But it came just hours after the car bombing in Damascus late Tuesday, in which eyewitnesses said a passer-by was killed. The bomb was placed under a parked car, which was destroyed, and damaged at least 10 others. Syrian security officials quickly towed away the wreckage of the destroyed car and sealed off the area. There was no reference to the bombing in the Syrian media on Wednesday. However, an Iranian satellite channel, Press TV, said on Wednesday that the person killed in the Syrian bombing was believed to be Mr. Mugniyah.

“With pride and honor we announce that a great Jihadi leader has joined the procession of martyrs in the Islamic resistance," said a statement read on Hezbollah’s Al Manar television station. "The martyr was killed at the hands of the Israeli Zionists."

Israel officially distanced itself from the killing and, without specifically naming Mr. Mugniyah, said that it was looking into the attack in Syria. But some former Israeli security officials did not hide their satisfaction at Mr. Mugniyah’s assassination. Danny Yatom, a Labor parliamentarian and former chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, called Mr. Mugniyah’s death "a great achievement for the free world in its fight on terror."

Shortly after Hezbollah announced his death, mourners poured into Moujamaa al-Shouhada, a Hezbollah stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut. In Tary Dibba in south Lebanon, where Mr. Mugniyah was born to peasant parents, black flags were raised and stores were closed.

Hezbollah announced Thursday would be a day of mourning in some parts of south Lebanon, and a mass funeral in the southern suburbs was scheduled for Thursday.

Mr. Mugniyah, who was also known as Mr. Hajj, was one of the world’s most wanted men, with at one point an American price tag on his head of $25 million. He was charged with the hijacking of the T.W.A. jetliner in 1985 and implicated among other things in shipments of arms from Iran to the Palestinians.

American officials assert that Mr. Mugniyah was behind the bombings in Beirut in 1983. A car bomb at the American embassy in April that year killed 63 people, including 17 Americans, while a truck bomb in October at a Marine compound killed 241 American troops.

The United States also assert he was behind the torture and murder of William Buckley, the C.I.A. station chief in Beirut, in 1984; the kidnapping and murder of Lt. Col. William Richard Higgins of the Marines, who was on peacekeeping duty in Lebanon in 1988; and, through the Islamic Jihad Organization, the seizure of Western hostages in Beirut during the 1980s.

In a statement, the office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said: “Israel rejects the attempt by terrorist elements to ascribe to it any involvement whatsoever in this incident.”

Gideon Ezra, a minister from Israel’s governing Kadima Party and former deputy chief of the Shin Bet internal intelligence agency, told Israel Radio Wednesday that many countries had an interest in killing Mr. Mugniyah but that “Israel too was hurt by him, more than other countries in recent years."

Mr. Ezra said, "Of course I don’t know who killed him, but whoever did should be congratulated."

According to witnesses, the bombing of the car took place just after 10:30 p.m. on Monday in Tantheem Kafer Souseh, an upscale neighborhood of Damascus, close to an Iranian school and a police station.

The targeted car, believed to be a black SUV, was badly damaged in the attack “like a shredded metal can,” according to Housham Nasaiseh, 19, who works in a sweetshop nearby, and who arrived at the scene a few minutes after the explosion.

By this morning, the car had been towed away, the scene had been cleared, and the only signs of the attack were a black mark on the ground and damage to nearby buildings.

There is an overarching reason American commanders in Iraq want a pause in American troop reductions this summer: The United States has learned through painful experience that security can rapidly deteriorate if it overestimates the ability of Iraq’s forces to keep the peace.

The case for temporarily halting the reductions was endorsed Monday by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who had previously voiced hope for greater reductions to ease the enormous strain on the military. But the die was cast last month when President Bush said during a visit to Kuwait that he was prepared to give his Iraq commander whatever forces he needed.

With Gen. David H. Petraeus, the senior American commander in Iraq, advocating that the United States “let things settle a bit” after the current round of troop reductions, and with Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff, warning, by contrast, that the Army is “stretched and stressed” by its constant deployments, some sort of trade-off had to be made. For now, at least, securing Iraq has won.

Mr. Gates has not said how long the pause should last before troop withdrawals resume, adding that Mr. Bush must decide the matter. But one senior American officer estimated that a pause of three to four months would be needed after the American force shrinks to 15 combat brigades in July from 20 brigades at the height of the “surge” last year.

“We have momentum, and we must maintain this momentum,” said the officer, who asked not to be identified because final decisions on troop levels for 2008 have yet to be made at the White House. “Without a pause to assess trends, we could make a serious mistake.”

In recommending a pause, American commanders in Iraq are partly guided by the past. When General Casey commanded American forces in Iraq â€" he was General Petraeus’s predecessor and served there from mid-2004 until early 2007 â€" the United States put a premium on transferring security responsibilities to the Iraqis. But insurgents stepped up their attacks. Some Iraqi forces engaged in wantonly sectarian operations. Violence steadily increased.

With the addition of some 30,000 American troops and guidance from a new counterinsurgency strategy, the American military has reduced violence to 2005 levels. The military gains have yet to be followed by the sort of major progress toward Iraq political reconciliation that Bush administration officials had hoped for.

But the gains have had the unintended effect of encouraging an increase in the Sunni volunteers who have aligned themselves with the Americans. And Bush administration officials are still trying to make political headway in Iraq this year by pressing for a law defining the powers of provincial authorities and for provincial elections.

In the United States, politicians tend to speak as if the war is lost or all but won. In Iraq, American commanders suggest that the war still hangs in the balance and worry about preserving tangible, but fragile, security gains.

Military officials and experts outside government who favor a pause make several arguments. First, the military is cutting the number of American combat brigades by a quarter. By July, the reduction will have only brought the number of United States troops down to 130,000 or so from the current level of about 160,000, restoring troop levels to those in place at the beginning of 2007, or perhaps even slightly higher.

Many American forces will remain involved in logistics, training Iraqi forces and other support missions. But the troop cutbacks are a substantial diminution in combat power, one that will make it more difficult to mobilize forces for major operations.

Second, Iraq’s political course is still highly uncertain, and some political steps could add to the demands on American forces there. If provincial elections are held this year, American and Iraqi forces would need to safeguard the voting, as in past elections.

Another variable is that the United States wants to reduce the number of Iraqis in detention centers, partly to encourage efforts at political reconciliation. Along with the potential return of additional refugees to Iraq, that may introduce another complication.

Quote from: grazie7y on February 14, 2008, 02:30:08 AM
Vanilla sugar cookies, Dong!

mmm, yummy.

Daghang Salamat to the donor! And may our beautiful and warm Tubag Bohol family continue to grow and prosper!

God Bless,

Quote from: grazie7y on February 13, 2008, 11:48:30 PM
Happy Valentine's Day to all!

Yummy! haha, what flavors are those, Ate Ging?

Do you want to know something interesting?

When my hiking mates went over a gorge, I decided to stay behind to take more pictures. I was walking down the ravine where some rocks edged, carefully I went down to the bottom of the ravine. And I sat down just to take everything in, to fathom the beauty of the environment around me. I can deliberately remember saying, "How great thou art, Lord,". Do you know what happened?

A gush of wind blew in my direction, and there was a brown maple leaf that floated in the wind, it went around me, and never falling, not once did it fall. I tried to take a picture of it, and my batteries died before I could even take one snap at it. The leaf flew away, up the ravine where I came from.
All I can remember is having a spine tingling moment.

He answered me

lol, silly

ps. nice taste in music genre, btw

Last week, on my hiking trip,




















Breathtaking, you find God in the most loneliest places.


Life, in the bleakest of weather. God is everything, never sleeping.






I took this in a cave; it resembles a reindeer feeding.

Mohammad, Michael, Mandy, Melissa, Maldred, Martha, Marta, Mahmoud, Mufassa, Mildred, Maud, Morris

Kenneth, Kyle, Kingston, Kyoshi, Kung, Kendall, Kelly, Kara, Kandice, Kane

Ignacio, Iman, Imperatriz, Inrique, Ines, Ilena, Idalgo, Ishtar

Francisco, Ferdinand, Fernando, Faril, Farouk, Fatima, Filipe, Francis, Frank

nice, sheila. you like Jennifer paige?

by Eric Clapton

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Mike, I know you said that your dad's birthday was this past week in February.

I heard this song and wanted to tribute it to your Papa.
In spirit he is with us, through you, you shared with us all his life and his persona.

My Father's Eyes

by Eric Clapton

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Lyrics:

Sailing down behind the sun,
Waiting for my prince to come.
Praying for the healing rain
To restore my soul again.

Just a toerag on the run.
How did I get here?
What have I done?
When will all my hopes arise?
How will I know him?
When I look in my father's eyes.
My father's eyes.
When I look in my father's eyes.
My father's eyes.

Then the light begins to shine
And I hear those ancient lullabies.
And as I watch this seedling grow,
Feel my heart start to overflow.

Where do I find the words to say?
How do I teach him?
What do we play?
Bit by bit, I've realized
That's when I need them,
That's when I need my father's eyes.
My father's eyes.
That's when I need my father's eyes.
My father's eyes.

Then the jagged edge appears
Through the distant clouds of tears.
I'm like a bridge that was washed away;
My foundations were made of clay.

As my soul slides down to die.
How could I lose him?
What did I try?
Bit by bit, I've realized
That he was here with me;
I looked into my father's eyes.
My father's eyes.
I looked into my father's eyes.
My father's eyes.

My father's eyes.
My father's eyes.
I looked into my father's eyes.
My father's eyes.

Dioscoro, David, Devin, Devonne, Derick, Daniel, Duy, Donisia, Dominic, Dolton, Dentworth

Dali Na! Balik Na! 

Bitaw. Ate Belle, how old is your son?

Well said, Ate Belle.

We've fought the war for far too long. Let the Iraqi military do their job. The blood of the American is being shed for unecessary matters. Our men are being used to protect Iraqi ministers and warlords. When did the American die for the lives of those who do not matter to America?

Soldiers should not have to be body guards.

Somewhere in Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, California, New Jersey, Tennessee etc, a mother and father grieve for the death of their son, in the far distant desert of Iraq.

So, what is the meaning of your screen name?

What does six, little and docks stand for?

Pray, do tell

Dearest R___________,


It is over. Leave me alone.

Police officer diay?

Kummusta, Ma'am. Hope your day is well.

*salute*

Kummusta Ms mehcar7y! Welcome to Tubag Bohol!

Ate Ging, I thank God everyday for giving me loving and graceful parents. What helped me the most was when my Lolo Ciano came to America in 2003-2005. We had many talks, which lasted from the afternoon to the dead of night. It brought me to tears listening his story. When Lolo was only 12 years old he quit elementary school because he was the eldest of 12 children, and his family was form Barangay Anas in Valencia. They came from a very poor and humble background; and Lolo would work in the basak in the day, working to get casava, rice, pick coconuts from the trees; and whenever he had free time he would go fishing with his brothers and his fellow farmers. When he was only 16 years old, he witnessed with his own eyes the Japanese who came to Bohol and he told me one time that one soldier tried to run after him because Lolo was watching them, thank God for my Lolo's speed, he was able to run to the bukid and escape the Japanese who would have surely killed him as they did the young Filipinos in Valencia. He told me that he and his brothers saw with their eyes a japanese soldier throwing a baby in the air and catch it with their bayonnet because the mother and father was suspected to know rebels. I thank the Lord God that i did not have to see such times, such brutality. And what more it humbled me that my Lolo told me this, telling me what he saw through his own eyes. When he was my age, he worked as a hired hand in Cagayan De Oro, as a boy. He provided money to his siblings and sent many of them to college. Luuy pood si Lolo kai he was able to go back to Bohol and there he met my Lola, then-Ms. Fortunata Tan. She was a businesswoman and ingoon si Lolo he 'caught a fortune' hahaa, meaning my Lola. Lolo and Lola, through hard work and through the help of family were able to start a prosperous jeep business. That is why, they were able to send all their children to college; 2 boys graduated as Engineers, 1 boy became an administrator and 2 of the girls (one is my mother) graduated as nurses. In the words of my own Lolo, "Na luuy ang ginoo namo, ondoy, kai luuy man jud mi, imung lola ug ako". It brought me to tears, Ate Ging, to hear such stories from my Lolo.

Ako, my brothers and my sister are enjoying the fruits of the hard labor of my lolo, my lola, and my parents. That is why na lipay2x jud na siya to see all of us, his apos, to be successful in our studies. When Lolo was with us I would always prepare his food, do everything he asked of me, because that was the least I could do for my grandfather, his body is so weak because he worked so much all throughout his life. And I learn so much from him, humble kaayo siya, and very gentle hearted.

I thank the Lord God for my Grandfather and my Grandmother, who instilled such humility in my mother, who then instills it and teaches me in the right path. In always telling me where "you come from".

And if I do something bad, Ate Ging, the face of my Lolo appears in my mind. His eyes, which are so deep and filled with emotion and faith. I fear in ever disapointing my beloved Lolo Ciano.

Ate Ging, your mother and your father are good and honest people  and it is clear that they are good people, honest and faithful; your words and your actions reflect their goodness. They raised a good daughter, and that is what counts the most. Bitaw no? The Lord is kind jud, and hard work does pay off.

Ay...now I'm thinking of my Lolo. I miss him so much


Lolo with Andre, 2003

Proverbs 12:18

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.


Remark:
When you end a conversation, do others bleed or grow? Do others love talking with you, because it is pleasant and profitable? Or do they avoid you, because they fear your harsh and painful words? Are there those that leave you bleeding? Do some encourage and help you? A man’s words reveal his heart (10:20; Matt 12:34-37). Wise men teach their own mouths (16:23), and they avoid the swords of others (9:7-8; 16:27; 21:19; 23:9).
Death and life are in the power of the tongue (18:21). You can cut a person with your words, like the piercings of a sword; or you can heal and nurture him with kind and helpful words. Which are you best at? Which are you known for? Which do you want for your speech? Your number of close friends reveals the kind of mouth you have (18:24).
The tongue is an unruly evil; it is a world of iniquity; it defiles the whole body; it sets on fire the course of nature; it is a fire from hell; and it is full of deadly poison. Wild animals can be tamed, but the tongue can never be tamed. If it could be tamed, you would be perfect. God ignores modern self-esteem and damns your tongue (James 3:1-12)!
There are two kinds of persons and speech. Some people only know cutting words; and some are generally or always gracious. Harsh and unkind speech betrays a bitter and hateful heart. Gentle and kind words reveal a happy and loving heart. Speech can be destructive, or it can be healthful. There are no other options. Your words identify you.
Christians should always speak graciously, with only a pinch of salt â€" criticism â€" seasoning it (Col 4:6). This balance of 98% graciousness and 2% reproofs is how we speak to please God. Biting criticism, harshness, and sarcasm outside this balance are wrong (Eph 4:31-32). You should speak to others, as you want God to speak to you!
Your speech should be a tree of life to others (15:4), and it should be appreciated for its sweetness and health (16:24) and beauty (25:11). If you have few friends and family members who seek you out for conversation, then you need to examine your speech. The rule does not lie. If you have few close friends, it is because you are verbally offensive.
Backbiting, slandering, whispering, and talebearing, which create deep piercing wounds, should never be part of your speech, as they prove an unfaithful spirit (18:8; 26:22). If you criticize others to a person, that person safely assumes you will criticize him to them! And no man wants to be the object of gossip, so he avoids you. Start saying good, kind, and thankful things about others, and you will find men wanting to be your friends!
Jesus said harsh speech could be murder (Matt 5:21-22). Anger and name calling without very valid reasons for holy purposes are violations of the sixth commandment. Foolish and unlearned questions, debate, railing, reviling, and answering again are all sins (II Tim 2:23; Rom 1:29; I Pet 3:9; Titus 2:9). The holy God of heaven expects men to always speak respectfully to employers and honorably to their wives (I Tim 6:1-2; I Pet 3:7).
Good speech is at the right time (15:23), with gracious and acceptable words (10:32; 15:1; 25:11). Such speech causes so much pleasure that men want to kiss the speaker on the lips, and kings want him as a close friend (24:26; 16:13; 22:11). So be slow to speak (Jas 1:19), search out good words (15:28), and say them carefully (17:27-28).
The Lord Jesus Christ could verbally destroy Pharisees and other fools of His day with His learned tongue (Matt 7:28-29; 21:27; 22:46), and sometimes it was appropriate for Him to shut their mouths in order to teach the simple (21:11; 26:5). But He generally chose gracious speech that amazed His hearers (Ps 45:2; Luke 4:22; Tit 2:  8 ). If you want to be wise, instead of wearing a WWJD bracelet, talk the rest of this day as the Lord did.

Interesting, his physical phenotype suggests he's a primordial dwarf. Amazing.
I've only read/heard about this in studies, never seen it in person.

Thanks, Hazel.