Gliding Craft

In the gardens in the Philippines and the misty horizontal freezers in Canada, I used to imagine, as a kid, a gliding craft.  I swooped with my hand or a paper plane.

Sexism

It's easy to fall into the trap of sexism, such as being anti-woman.  But we should be more aware.  The clitoris is just a small rendition of the penis.  Some men behave like women.  The acceptance of a bit of femininity by men may be healthy.  Every person has both masculine and feminine aspects.  The postmodern person isn't limited to the birth gender.

Bell Curve Intelligence

All the races follow the Bell Curve natural distribution of intelligence.  There are smart and dumb people, both.

Technological Retrogression Unlikely

Technological retrogression is unlikely in the future, in my opinion.  As I believe there is intervention, a big war would not transpire that would incur such fate.

Blackout

An extremely long blackout engulfed Lulu Island and other parts of Metro Vancouver yesterday.  What an ordeal it was!  Hearsay told of power lines broken by strong winds.

Language Affects Personality

Your language affects your personality.

Like Philip Tan

The Chinese seem just like Philip Tan in my high school days, as they're more concerned about work and are not too affectionate as a people.  They're not like the Japanese, Hispanics, or French.  I think the Chinese here on Lulu Island show primitive thoughts, and none of them has exhibited the intelligence of my Yugoslav ufologist friend Brian Tepsa.  Don Chan, a longtime friend from HK, is an intelligent sci-fi buff, but I think he's not pure Chinese.  Sigh!

Esperanto and Japanese

Although I involve myself always with numerous other languages on TV, in the Web, in books, etc., I put my attention these days in learning more Esperanto and Japanese by browsing dictionaries, especially.

Sexless Crying

You see people who look like they're always crying.  They evade sexual activity.  They don't masturbate or copulate.

Religions Just Fantasies

Religions are human inventions, just fantasies.

World Unimportant

If you'd study cosmology, you'd feel the world is not really important, the Earth being one of many specks in the cosmos.

Farflung English

When I write English, I don't think of England.  For Filipinos, unlike those British colonies, English comes from the USA.  But nowadays, English may have no more nationality.  In ancient times, the origin of English was not just from England, as parts of its vocabulary came from Germanic tribes in Europe, whilst most other parts Latinate.  English is classified as a Germanic language, as you can note that the German "Du bist ein junger Mann" is like "Thou art a young man."

In these postmodern times, we can detach the nationality from a language.

Religious Sex

My friend KB is rather strange, but is quite intelligent.  He's read a whole ton of books about different religions.  He thinks there should be sex involved in your god.  He might even have sex with his god.  After his thorough religious research, he's picked Hinduism as his very favourite, but his background, being Filipino-Canadian, is Roman Catholic.

Orange Tongue

I've been wanting to learn an Indochinese language, like Vietnamese and Thai, for many years now.  Thai alphasyllabic writing is difficult to remember, and I think some Kanji are easier to remember for me. Vietnamese uses a charming rendition of the Roman alphabet, loaded with accents.  It's my Orange Fantasy.  Hurray!

Future

The past is full of scars and is dirty, so we must look to the future.

Sun Closer Up

Candied Orange Peel

Nata de Coco

Buko Pandan Salad

Terraforming

Terraforming involves the transformation of the atmosphere and surface of a whole planet to make it habitable for humans outdoors.  The graphic shows the terraforming of Mars, the fourth planet from our Sun.

Paraterraforming

Paraterraforming involves habitable enclosures on a planet or moon with a hostile environment.

Balut

Balut is a Philippine delicacy of boiled duck embryo in its shell.

Bagoong

Bagoong is a Philippine condiment made of fermented fish or krill, and salt.

Dioscorea alata

This purple plant is Dioscorea alata, which is ube in the Philippines and beniimo in Japan.  In English, the name seems undecided:  winged yam, purple yam, water yam, etc.

Nonexhaustive Language List

eng English 5 · tgl Tagalog 5 · epo Esperanto 4 · jbo Lojban 3 · spa Spanish 3 · fra French 3 · jpn Japanese 3 · ina Interlingua 3 · por Portuguese 3 · ita Italian 3 · cat Catalan 2 · deu German 2 · haw Hawaiian 2 · nah Nahuatl 2 · cmn Chinese 2 · yue Cantonese 2 · ind Indonesian 2 · lfn Lingua Franca Nova 2 · hat Haitian Creole 1 · cbk Chavacano 1 · hin Hindi 1 · pan Punjabi 1 · fin Finnish 1 · nld Dutch 1 · ron Romanian 1 · yor Yoruba 1 · vie Vietnamese 1 · tur Turkish 1 · bod Tibetan 1 · pol Polish 1 · nan Min Nan Chinese 1 · grn Guarani 1 · pes Persian 1 · cym Welsh 1 · gle Irish 1 · grc Ancient Greek 1 · sjn Sindarin 1 · ang Old English 1 · eus Basque 1 · que Quechua 1 · rus Russian 1 · ell Greek 1 · tha Thai 1 · ara Arabic 1 · kor Korean 1 · heb Hebrew 1 · swe Swedish 1 · lat Latin 1· qya Quenya 1 · tlh Klingon 1 · san Sanskrit 1 · swh Swahili 1 · tok Toki Pona 1 · pli Pali 1 · hai Haida 1 · iku Inuktitut 1 · egy Egyptian 1 · yua Yucatec Maya 1 · tah Tahitian 1 · smo Samoan 1 · mlg Malagasy 1 · ilo Ilokano 1 · ceb Cebuano 1 · ban Balinese 1 · fij Fijian 1 · tpi Tok Pisin 1 · srp Serbian 1 · hun Hungarian 1 · ces Czech 1 · vol Volapük 1 · nys Nyungar 1 · cre Cree 1 · lao Lao 1 · khm Khmer 1 · tet Tetun 1 · jaa Jarawara 1 · arp Arapaho 1 · akk Akkadian 1 · zul Zulu 1 · hau Hausa 1 · xho Xhosa 1 · dan Danish 1 · isl Icelandic 1 · nor Norwegian 1 · lhu Lahu 1 · ahk Akha 1 · lis Lisu 1 · hnj Mong 1 · ium Mien 1 · mri Maori 1 · ton Tonga 1 · tam Tamil 1 · mya Burmese 1 · mon Mongolian 1 · tli Tlingit 1 · ynm Yolngu 1 · blc Bella Coola 1 · nuk Nootka 1 · oji Ojibwe 1 · jqr Jaqaru 1 · wpb Warlpiri 1 · hur Halkomelem 1 · qld Modern Murri 1 · lut Lushootseed 1 · spo Spokan 1 · gla Scottish Gaelic 1 · yid Yiddish 1 · lad Ladino 1 · poo Central Pomo 1 · hix Hixkaryana 1 · zbl Blissymbolics 1 · mlt Maltese 1 · kea Kriolu 1

This list is nonexhaustive, 113 languages in which I have at least an inkling, from 1 as beginner to 5 as fluent or native.

Linguaphile:  I have browsed many, many documents about various languages from Arabic to Volapük to Zulu.  I am a beginner in over a hundred languages.  (I read phrasebooks like other people read newspapers.)  I know that C‑3PO can do better!  He he!  The protocol droid says, "I am fluent in over six million forms of communication..."  Ego es un hobbyista de Interlingua, Esperanto, e Lojban. Homines que ha un passion pro le spatio externe me place.

Kumquats

They're kumquats.

Purple Norway Maple

Acer platanoides (Crimson King Maple)

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