However, I hope you would let me present myself first. For example:
I'm looking for a job related to HRM (Hotel and Restaurant).
I'm also open for a factory worker type of job.
But you're probably asking, "why"?
HRM = I've work in the customer service industry for ten years. I believe that experience and knowledge is translatable to HRM. I also want human interaction.
Factory worker = I'm #autistic so I thrive in an environment where there is routine, is organized, have a system in place. So, factory type of jobs are fitting, and you'll benefit greatly from a person like me who thrives in routine.
I run. I'm careful with what I eat. And I highly value neutrality and peace. (And I hate work politics and drama.)
Lastly, I want to shift because I don't want to sit in front of a computer for the rest of my life. I can even live on a mountain (I prefer that too).
My point is, there is more to a person than what were written on their #resume or #profile.
Oh, willing to relocate. I'm from the #Philippines.
I visited Ayala Museum last week to see the “Splendor” exhibit featuring Juan Luna, which apparently has been extended to March.
I loved the way they built and laid out the exhibit, and all the decorations, and the story that this design tells. It's very impressive (though I don't go to museums often enough, so perhaps I'm just easy to impress? 🤔😅)
Seeing a storied, and historic, painting in person is always nice, the setting heightens the experience and the texture of the work is something that doesn't come across on screens even with high-resolution scans.
The exhibit emphasizes Juan Luna's marriage to Paz Pardo de Tavera, because of “Hymen, oh Hyménée!” that is the centerpiece and raison d'être of “Splendor”, though it conveniently (or necessarily?) leaves out the dark ending to their story.
There's a short film screening at the end about the painting's repatriation story, which left me with mixed feelings about the strange other-world of elite art collecting.
I somehow remember requesting that the Tagalog Wikipedia be created, but I no longer remember when or where I placed that request and I couldn’t find any record of how tlwp got created. 😝 But by convention @joshlim and I pegged the creation date to December 1 as the Internet Archive first crawled the domain on November 30.
#Japan: #Tsunami alert issued for east coast from Kyushu to Chiba and islands off the eastern coast, following a magnitude 7.7 #earthquake off the coast of the #Philippines
All in vulnerable locations along the coast are advised to evacuate to higher ground immediately.
Tsunami is forecast to reach up to 1 metre, and will arrive in Miyakojima and Yaeyama around 1:30 am, before arriving in other locations along the coast from around 2:30am onwards.
Is there a website or an online museum which tracked the originals of traditional #games and how it spread across different nations?
There are traditional games in #Korea and the #Philippines which are (very) similar, yet, there was no known contact between the two nations at the time these traditional games were estimated to have been “developed”.
That only leaves us with two possibilities:
The games did develop independently. Which someone gives us the idea that humans think similarly regardless of place and time.
Another foreign contact brought the games.
Here are some examples:
Korea: Red Light, Green Light.
Philippines: Stop, Go.
Philippines: Sipa (predates Spanish rule)
Korea: I don't remember what it's called, but I first saw it in a #RunningMan episode.
Talking to Filipinos about #degrowth is difficult because everyone here begins at the premise that the country is “underdeveloped.” One person told me that talking about degrowth from the perspective of rural poverty did not make sense because the rural needed development and growth. But what do we actually mean by “growth”? Growth and development means valorization, means creating value and money. If we mean that the rural needs more schools, hospitals, and amenities to improve standards of living, then say that. Because rural poverty is precisely the cause of development, not the lack of it. Value is extracted there in its purest form from the earth, from rent, etc.
We need degrowth precisely because growth and development has impoverished us as so.
Filipinos have a strange custom of putting water around a bottle of peanut butter to keep the ants away. I wonder, do other Southeast Asians do this? 😊
“There’s a new subvariant that’s quite more infectious and this is the reason we’re finding this increase in cases,” he told reporters, citing infectious diseases specialist Dr. Edsel Salvana. “It’s been happening even before. We’re just detecting it [now] because we’re concentrated so much on #COVID,” he said.
The #Philippines has one of the fastest-growing #HIV epidemics in the world dating back to 1984, UNAIDS said.
Decided to try dishes from cuisines not very accessible in Manila, namely from #LaoPDR and #Myanmar.
Left: Ping Gai (grilled chicken), Tam Mak Hoong (papaya salad), and sticky rice. Unlike the Thai version, the Lao PDR version has no peanuts.
Right: Myanmar's Mohinga, a very satisfying rice noodle in fish soup dish. Contains shallots, lemongrass, chickpea flour, garlic, ginger, banana stems, and boiled eggs. (I need to learn how to make this!!!)
Environmental activists killed at a rate of one every other day in 2022 – report
"#Colombia was the deadliest country and a fifth of the 177 recorded killings took place in the Amazon rainforest, says Global Witness.
At least 177 people were killed last year for defending the environment, according to new figures, with a fifth of killings taking place in the Amazon #rainforest.
Murdered by organised crime groups and land invaders, environmental defenders were killed at a rate of one every other day in 2022, figures from the NGO Global Witness show. Colombia was the most deadly country, recording 60 murders. #Indigenous communities were disproportionately represented in the figures, making up 34% of all murders, despite representing about 5% of the world’s population. The new figures mean that at least 1,910 environmental defenders have been killed between 2012 and 2022, according to Global Witness, with most of the murders going unpunished. #Brazil, #Mexico, #Honduras and the #Philippines were the most deadly countries in 2022 after Colombia.
Almost 90% of all killings were recorded in Latin America." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/13/environmental-activists-killed-at-a-rate-of-one-every-other-day-in-2022-global-witness-report-aoe
"When you flee with almost nothing, you need almost everything. So on this morning, her van is filled with the kinds of supplies people need when they've taken refuge in a church.
ATTN #MakanApaToday if you're in Manila, the annual #ASEAN Food Festival (AFF) is going to be at Music Hall, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City, on Sunday (08/06).
Open from 10 AM to 6 PM, entrance is free. Let's go get that tempe!