albeit always

haze

Wed, 30 May 2012 02:23:32 +0800

i left for some time. and when i came back, some things have changed. so subtly and yet swiftly, i haven’t even noticed up until now.

not until after several issues cropped up. that i’ve realized that something really happened when i left.

they changed. or rather, we are now changing. adapting, transforming.

i can’t believe it’s happened so fast.

how pivotal that time was. the time i left them.

theworldwelivein: Before sunrise - Sun Moon Lake,...

Wed, 30 May 2012 02:02:48 +0800

theworldwelivein:

Before sunrise - Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan
© kolojo

stagnant loves

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:18:00 +0800

see. we’re hopeless. we already know that.

but you can never take away our longing. and with it, our desire, our hope.

so we’re not necessarily hopeless. maybe deluded. or impractical.

but we still love.

jtotheizzoe: astrotastic: romeitoiumono: …don’t ever forget...

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:17:34 +0800

jtotheizzoe:

astrotastic:

romeitoiumono:

…don’t ever forget that!

And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

He really just makes me smile.

Me too.

Remember, you can. I got your back, folks.

tylerdraws: I’ve never been scuba diving and I’m not sure if...

Mon, 07 May 2012 11:19:28 +0800

tylerdraws:

I’ve never been scuba diving and I’m not sure if I’d want to, mostly because of my lingering childhood fear of being held underwater.

I’ve been in kids illustration mode lately and it’s an awful lot of fun.

P23 million worth of rice wasted daily in PH

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:32:23 +0800

P23 million worth of rice wasted daily in PH:

ellobofilipino:

MANILA, Philippines - The country wastes at least $535,000 or P23 million worth of rice per day, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said.

In its Rice Today report sent (on April 19), the IRRI said that the daily rice wastage of the country translates to at least $223 million a year, an amount sufficient to feed 4.3 million people.

Citing data from the Food and Nutrition Research Institute under the Department of Science and Technology, IRRI said that each Filipino wastes an average of three tablespoons or nine grams of rice daily, which is equivalent to 3.3 kilos per year.

Rice is wasted when too much is cooked but is not consumed.

The rice leftover in plates or in the pot for hours will get spoiled and will have to be thrown out at the end of the day.

“This is how a family as well as many households and restaurants in the Philippines waste this high demand political commodity which feeds half of the world’s population,” IRRI said.

“With 94 million and 9 grams of wasted rice per day, the total wastage is 308,000 tons, 36 percent of the 2011 rice imports,” IRRI said.

The country’s rice imports reached 860,000 metric tons last year.

Read more…

And yet we complain why we have to import a lot of rice from Thailand and Vietnam. Ironic though, that we had to get our rice from these neighboring countries, since a lot of the agricultural technicians they have, were trained at the International Rice Research Institute in UP Los Baños.

Photo

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:30:30 +0800

Photo

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:06:29 +0800

AUSTIN KLEON: Don't steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style.

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:05:10 +0800

AUSTIN KLEON: Don't steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style.:

austinkleon:

Caught this NPR piece with columnist Crawford Kilian who advises young writers to avoid novels like On The Road and Catcher in The Rye, because they’re too good, and their styles are “so seductive” that they might “seduce a young writer into imitating them.”

God forbid!

Copying…

"Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally...."

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:00:24 +0800

“Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world. You’ll thank yourself for it.”

- Jason Mraz (via likespancakes)

curiositycounts: Influence: A Brief History200 years of...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:00:02 +0800

curiositycounts:

Influence: A Brief History
200 years of transformative moments
*Click-through to website for best zoom-in-age

(via)

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known..."

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:59:26 +0800

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (via myquotelibrary)

I whole-heartedly agree with this.

(via ohmuffins)

electrikthunder: High-Speed photographs of colour ink on water...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:58:58 +0800

electrikthunder:

High-Speed photographs of colour ink on water by Alberto Emiliano Seveso.

There is something oddly compelling in these pictures that makes me stare at them longer than I thought I should.

world-shaker: GENIUS.

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:53:30 +0800

world-shaker:

GENIUS.

booksactually: “Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:46:17 +0800

booksactually:

“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”

— H G Wells

justojusto: ‘Life is Absurd’ screen print by Keep Calm...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:40:40 +0800

justojusto:

‘Life is Absurd’ screen print by Keep Calm Gallery.

Nostalgia bug strikes again. For some reason, I ended up...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:15:26 +0800

Nostalgia bug strikes again. For some reason, I ended up wiki-ing a lot of groups in the early 2000s—Smash Mouth, A-Teens, Jump5 etc. etc.

danceabletragedy: by ANDY KEHOE

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:53:33 +0800

danceabletragedy:

by ANDY KEHOE

danceabletragedy: by ANDY KEHOE

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:50:43 +0800

danceabletragedy:

by ANDY KEHOE

"Thanks to technology’s mass appeal and accessibility, on a daily basis we collectively produce 2.5..."

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:52:15 +0800

“

Thanks to technology’s mass appeal and accessibility, on a daily basis we collectively produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, and the growth rate is so high that 90% of all information ever created was produced in the last two years alone.

What we can do now has never been possible before: the next IT revolution is happening in the “I” - the information - not the “T”.

”

- BBC News - Data wars: Unlocking the information goldmine (via myserendipities)