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You know, I think a lot about how 13 year old me would look at 27 year old me now. How far I've come. What I've done. They'd probably ask if it actually got better because they couldn't believe it. 13 year old me would probably fall to their knees and cry at what I look like today. That it was real. The way I felt was real and I looked just like I thought I should look. They'd probably ask if I was a famous artist yet and I'd have to chuckle and say no. It probably wasn't going to happen anyway...
Why?
Well, a lot has happened. Didn't really have time.
But you're a boy now so uh, maybe get on that easier stuff!?
Easier stuff?
Uh, like how we were supposed to be real life supervillains?! Did you forget?
Trust me, we are living in a dystopian movie right now and we are not the bad guys for once. I could go for mundane.
What about the comic book? Did we make that yet?
We start one or two but never finish em.
And then you remember your silly dreams. That you'd travel the world and save animals. Become the next Steve Erwin! Get so good at piano and trumpet and all the other instruments to outclass Beethoven, Mozart, and all the other stuffy pricks! (Because, at the time, you didn't know that Beethoven was just depressed and that Mozart resembled your daddy issues a bit too closely.) To be remembered as the next Van Gogh. You always idolized that man because his life was so sad but he made such pretty things that were in his head. You can do that too! But, back then you didn't really think about the how so much, only about the result. Then, you learn. And you stopped wondering about those dreams, too, when the how got a little too tough. Didn't you?
One day, me 20 years in the future's gonna reblog this and I wanna ask a few things. Actually, I wanna say a few things.
Dude if you still did not start that fUCKing comic after 20 clownass years...
Also, if you're having a midlife crisis, fucken COME BACK! These stupid dreams are what make life worth living! Remember!!! You are the conduit with which the universe lives. So is everyone who perceives it! Don't you see? The greats didn't know where they were going and neither do I. It's a 1 in a million shot (obviously a lot more, there's like a few BILLION PEOPLE on the planet right now.) We're all one in a million. It just so happens that I'm also one in that million.
Why not try?
You still got time, bitch.
The Implications of Train Law to the Life of Juan Dela Cruz
Observation One of the goals of TRAIN law was to reduce income tax and allow more individuals with less income to be exempted from it. It aims to give a more equal opportunity to all by giving more income to the poorer individual by lowering their income tax but rather increase the tax on some products to compensate. After the law was passed back in 2018, a noticeable price hike to numerous products specifically related but not limited to sugar-sweetened beverages, cars, and fuel. People that got more income from lesser tax, now experienced a higher monthly bill or living expenses due to the increase in price.
Insight Like every other reform, there are pros and cons. Depending on the status of people affected by this law, some people especially those employees that has lower income had benefited increasing their take home pay. On the other hand, there are individuals who do not get a monthly income like small time vendors who is also directly affected by this law. These people don’t receive a monthly income, yet they still suffer from the price increase of their regularly consumed products like instant coffee, fuel, sugar, etc.
Learning TRAIN law can be a start of something that can improve people’s lives and narrow down the line between upper class and lower class. At this point in time, this law is undoubtedly incomplete due to its deficiencies to focus its greater effects on people that actually needs it. Making more refinements while considering its flaws can achieve bigger goals and can actually help more people without the repercussions.
Tell me how tired you are
I wake up, tired, longing for more sleep, but I cannot afford to hit the snooze button one more time. When you wake up you will see the clutter you used that night. Do you know the feeling that you just woke up but your mind and body are immediately tired? To be honest, I always feel that it’s like I don’t want to wake up. I just want to lie down all night without thinking about activities and requirements. Sometimes I don’t have time for myself, I always just chase the time so I can pass the requirements needed. I can no longer do the things I used to do before. Sometimes I have a negative mindset that I can’t finish something and every now and then I give my best to answer but it seems like there is missing. Even if it’s not school related, I’m literally tired of myself. I know I’m always strong but I’m tired of doing my best but still not being good enough. I’m tired of being hurt every time I get my hopes up. I’m tired of anticipating the worst and watching it play out. I’m tired of being let down and always blaming myself for things. I’m tired of overthinking. I’m tired of staying up at night as thoughts consume me and I can’t sleep. I want to have a positive perspective in life even though it’s really difficult but I tried my best it’s good for me. Solving my problems that I encounter alone makes me feel stronger and determined. I always put in my mind what my dad taught to me that I should be stronger and there is solution in every problem that I can encounter. He speaks that it’s okay to cry, it’s okay to take a break sometimes but after that you should stand again for yourself. My father trained me to be an independent woman even though he is far away from me. My father gives me the best advice I need to remember and take it as my guide in life. To be honest, every time I think that I can’t do things I silently cry and I prayed to God that I can do it, with that I feel relieved. Always remember life isn’t always easy. You never know what’s going to come next. But with life, you only have one chance. One chance to make the best out of every single year, month, day, minute and even second of you. No matter what happens, you have to learn to move on, take a breath and be prepared to work and stand for yourself through whatever is going to occur next. You have to learn how to make the best of every day, enjoy the little things and to live life to the fullest extent. In my everyday life, I realized that I couldn’t control some factors in my life. Just let them go through your life and don’t be distract about it. Now, I know what I will do every time I can encounter the same problem. Especially this exam week and peta week I need to know how to balance and divide my time so that I do not have difficulty. I believe that you have to be completely generous and learn from everything you do. You have to be sure to get through every obstacle and even if you fail, get back up and try again. You need to make the best out of each day, because “Nobody promised life would be easy, they just promised it’d be worth it.”
What are the prospects and limits of my power as a Citizen?
By: Luis Emmanuel G. Fleta
Sometimes I think that us regular citizens are just mere sheep being led into place by government sheepdogs, and we’re not allowed to go astray or deviate.
While this analogy could go either way and that discipline and control is usually a good thing, it doesn’t mean that citizens should not have a voice and limited stake in issues that really matter.
As we all know, the 2019 South East Asian Games is ongoing (as of this writing). And this is one of the moments I realized just how much power citizens hold as a collective. Collectively, our combined opinions and the overall public sentiment can put so much pressure to the organizers and officials which eventually resulted to better output with regards to our hosting of the SEA Games.
However, that’s collectively. Individually? It’s a different story.
One of the best ways to have a hand in public decision-making is to have enough credibility. Sadly, credibility is oftentimes synonymous with wealth or more specifically, influence bought by money. In these times, government infrastructure projects and contracts get easily handed out to powerful and well-connected people. Ordinary people like those affected by Right-of-Way Acquisitions and Informal Settler Families - these are the people whose voices should be heard.
As an ordinary citizen, I wish that this same credibility and influence be attained by the likes of the masses. And maybe collectively, this potential power can be realized.
Journal #4 -SEX-
The fourth journal entry will be about the topic sex. Yes that is a scary idea for most. I will just keep to my feelings on this subject so this doesn’t take up to much of your time. In my opinion sex is being used as any ordinary person would play X-Box or the Play-station four. It is a joke and a cruel one at that. Women and men everywhere have found a cynical way to ruin sex for everyone. When I was younger the theory was that a man and women would share their first time on the night they got married. What a load of crap! I did not even have sex on my wedding night! I jumped in the Jacuzzi with my pregnant wife naked and after all that heat and alcohol I just looked at her and asked “You really want to do this tonight, c’mom were married now?” She smiled and said “Good cause I am tired.” So when did sex lose its significant distinction of being special? Again, in my opinion is when people started tossing around orgasms like they were candy. Honestly, it is not really fair for the people that actually value relationships. The people who want to get to know someone find out their likes and there dislikes before they jump into bed with them. Sex is many things it is something you see on TV, a game, very rarely is it real. When it is hold on to it!
-Br0k3n
Sex work has received criticism from the white wing conservatives as well as “progressive liberals”. One side argues that it’s morally wrong, while the other claims it’s exploitation. In a capitalist society when you are producing a commodity you are being exploited. We are all forced to work in order to survive, sex workers are no different. I truly believe people look down on sex work because we are taught that you have to work hard to earn a living, but to people sex is easy, so this contradicts this value. I also believe sex work needs to be decriminalized and destigmatized in order to keep sex workers safe, as well as to differentiate sex trafficking from sex work. Sex workers are often left unprotected and suffer from abuse of officers because of their job status. I’m a capitalist society, everything you can do for free, you can do for money, this does not exclude sex work. We cannot claim to be a free market and then rule out different commodities, it’s hypocritical. As we read in class sexual workers can fall victims to police brutality as well as sexual assault because of their status. They can’t go out and receive justice because sex work is criminalized. This can also help perpetuate rape culture, which says that women who are sexually promiscuous or own their own sexual autonomy are deserving of rape. As long as sex work is illegal sex workers will always be susceptible to police abuses as well as sexual assault. Sex work also highlights our culture that rather blame a woman for her shortcomings and assault, then blame the men (and women as well) who create the currency and economy, as well as commit the violence. This reinforces gender scripts that women are not meant to be sexual beings, sex workers defy these scripts in every way, as well as making a living off of this “deviancy”.
SA245: Response for Project#1---On the Way
Response for Project
02/18/2018
A written reflection about your process, the work you have produced and the conversation we had in class about it during your critique session.
- Type
Digital image
- Techniques
PS - Collage
- Theme
On the way
My project relates to travel, it is an archive that includes all travel places where I have been from freshmen year until now. First reason I want to do this topic, because the first word emerged in my mind was “travel”, when I first viewed the image from the envelope. Another reason I want to do this topic, because it is the last semester for my undergraduate year. So, I want to record/conclude which places I have traveled in these years, because there are a lot of precious memory during each travel.
My project totally has four parts, and each part includes three partial images of the image I received in the envelope. These partial images were used as tag card to write some words to record each travel. I wrote the time, the location, the partners who traveled with me in there, and I also wrote one or two words that can represent my feeling toward each location. After joining fours images together, the full image from envelope will be shown in the center.
Why I separate full image to four parts, the first reason is that I want to make a connection between the image I received and the images were shot by myself. The second reason is that I feel when I try to recall bygones, I always put different parts of my memory together so that a complete thing can be presented again. Separating image to four parts can represent memory pieces, and putting them together represents the process of recall. Editing the image from the envelope to be black and white represents the past.
First Part
This part includes four locations which are Orlando, Miami, Lijiang, and Puerto Rico. My first travel experience in university was to go Orlando and Miami. During that travel, I was familiar with Maya and Fred, and we became very good friends until now. The first summer holiday in university, I went to Lijiang with Jiajun, we knew each other from middle school. This travel was very precious, because after graduated from high school, we had less time to meet each other.
Second Part
This part includes three locations which are Guangzhou, New York, and DC. In the summer vacation of the sophomore year, I took a summer school in Guangzhou and live together with my sister. My sister has given me so much help during my stay there, and it was the first time having company of family member, during I studied in a strange city. So I use word “ warm” to describe Guangzhou.
Third Part
This part includes three locations which are Beijing, Toronto, and San Francisco. This winter break was my last winter break in university. I decided to stay in the united states and to travel some places I always wanted to go but never been before. So, from the end of December of 2017 to the January of 2018, I traveled to San Francisco, LA, SD, and Boston.
Fourth Part
Locations included in this part are Los Angeles, San Diego, and Boston.
Take way from critique
I received a lot of valuable suggestion from critique. I think that a good art work not only has the function to express creator’s idea, but also can strike a chord from audience.