Monday, September 7, 2015
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Kanji
After your university years, learning more Kanji becomes like a trap because there are just too many of them, and you should have learned them in childhood. A Kanji dictionary is like a junkyard, as there are many fun vintage things in it, nevertheless.
Friday, August 28, 2015
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Kemono no Souja Erin
Kemono no Souja Erin is a favourite anime series of mine. It's not just fantasy. Anime has a spiritual ambiance.
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
With a series like Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, anime really has made imagination grow. There are zillions of anime now, so there's so much imagination flourishing than ever before. Gargantia is a favourite of mine.
Contact
Contact, I think, is a strange movie that deals with contacting other sentients via a complex apparatus.
The Fifth Element
My favourite scene in The Fifth Element is the glorious aria by the blue-skinned diva.
World Relatively Unimportant
If you knew more about cosmology, you'd think our world is really not important. The Earth, you'd learn, is a only a speck in unimaginable vastness. The stars and planets are sprinkled like dust. It's all relative. You try to find what you think is important.
Esperanto Not Blond
Esperanto having blond hair is only a myth. Its creator, Dr. Zamenhof, was a Jew. As I've Jewish ancestry, I consider Esperanto to be a heritage. Esperanto is spreading everywhere. No other point in history but today is Esperanto having so much exposure to the entire world.
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Richmond Public Market Little Vacation
Before seeing the doctor today, I have vacationed for a few hours at the Richmond Public Market. It's like a big garden atrium that looks like 22nd century tropical Southeast Asia. At Captain Wa, I buy white rice with fried squid, fried fish, and fried tofu. It all tastes like fried chicken because I've been devouring fried chicken for some weeks now. At Peanut's, I get a Sour Plum Bubble Green Tea. At QQ, I get a Cold Mint Bubble Green Tea. At Peanut's again, I get a Lychee Bubble Green Tea. Then, from there again, I get a Starfruit Bubble Green Tea. They're all delicious!
Monday, August 17, 2015
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud is famous in psychology for his theories that say all human activities revolve around sexuality.
Not Attracted to Self
People who can't masturbate seem to be not attracted to their own physicality. At least, that notion is my theory.
No Sex
You see people who look like they're always crying. These people have no interpersonal sexual activity, or they don't masturbate (really also sexual activity).
I know some white men think only sex is important in life. It affects everything else you do.
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Hot Venus
Venus has a smoggier, denser atmosphere than our Earth. It's Earth's sister planet. The surface is like the inside of your hot oven. It sometimes rains sulphuric acid. It's the second planet from our Sun, whilst our Earth is the third.
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.
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Jupiter
Jupiter is one of my favourite planets. It's much bigger than our Earth, with a greater gravity. The Great Red Spot is a raging storm that's bigger than our Earth.
Redundancy
Experts believe in redundancy as does Nature. That reason is why we have two lungs, two eyes, etc. The seasons keep repeating.
Friday, August 14, 2015
Just Like a Dream Maybe
Are our surroundings just like a dream maybe? Maybe, it's an elaborate cage.
Soul Even If
Even if people did have a soul, would it last for eternity? Or, would it dissipate in time, like some volatile energy?
Eternity
Some white people no longer believe in eternity. When they die, they think it would be absolute termination à la light bulb.
Klingons
T always brings up Klingons when others are discussing extraterrestrials. She's trying to belittle scientific enquiry. She thinks Klingons are silly.
Robert Morning Sky
B gave me a document written by Robert Morning Sky. It explained that lower animals like those ape-like, pig-like, horse-like, etc. would sometimes have a tendency to become a bipedal, a humanoid with much intelligence. This evolutionary pattern would be seen all over the cosmos.
Uncentral Humankind
As I understand the Yugloslav B's philosophy, humankind is not central in the cosmos. It is merely one of many species that attained intelligence.
That Yugoslav B
It was fun for the while that that Yugoslav B was around the neighbourhood. We had similar interests, he with ufology, and I with sci-fi. His imagination was remarkable, I thought, for a white man. His thoughts really influenced my thinking. His ideas totally rearranged my thinking of how humankind fit into the bigger scheme of things.
Capitalist Woes
Most people in a Capitalist system just worry about money. It becomes their religion. It even hinders intellectual activity.
Economic Waves
As Y and I have discussed, the economy moves in wave patterns. But we're not sure if planned or centralized economies move differently.
Colourful M Dictionaries
I've found some colourful electronic and paper M dictionaries. I'm beginning to like M, but it may be a fantasy for me learning it as there's part of the public that's phobic about it. I think I'll stick to my usual J.
No Good English
I thought I heard E say, "There's no such thing as good English." I may have misheard. She's often an Anglophile. Maybe, she's changed. Other languages like M and S may attract her.
Unsettling Identity
My identity is a confusion for most because I've varied backgrounds. I'm like a moving target.
English Utility
English is a useful language because much information is written in it. It's difficult to write "beautiful" English, though. Most of the English I encounter isn't beautiful. I know it's not like that way with some other languages.
Useless English
Some people think my writing just English is useless. They think it's not a beautiful language. I just think I should write in something ordinary.
English Problem on Lulu Island
Most people on Lulu Island don't speak good English as it's an island full of immigrants.
That Ukrainian Y
My Ukrainian friend Y has the philosophy of "plainness." He thinks everybody should be just plain and regular. He's like one of the Amish and other conservative religions, but he's not because he grew up under Atheism. He thinks geniuses and the like stick out like sore thumbs. He grew up in the Soviet Union when a haircut cost a few cents and most things just had an "artificial price." He likes the autumn, which soon will be coming. He thinks it's a "sleepier" season.
Similar Interests
Working in the software industry, I met a lot of people with similar interests to me, but now here in suburbia central, there's nobody.
Incidental Audience
Many don't understand that for my blogging, the audience is only incidental. It doesn't really matter if there's an audience or not. I walk around Lulu Island and see really nobody.
University Living
It would be good to live in a university, even if you're not a student. It's not mentally lethargic like it is here in suburbia.
Next Door
My next door neighbours are afraid of Dagos and such. Maybe, it's really jealousy. They prefer their own English with shorter words. They say they didn't go to university. They think it's important.
Big Family
My next door neighbours have lots of kids and babies. Such a family doesn't feel younger, really.
Buddha Statues
P & T have Buddha statues in their house, but they still show a tendency in liking Western religion, it seems. Maybe, they don't understand Buddhism. They've "across the border" mentality about things in general.
No Use Sitting Around Here
F said, "There's no use sitting around here!" I think he meant it generically. Why linger on?
Nobody to Talk to
I've nobody really to talk to these days. I see nobody with my interests. I just see a lot of women around. They've nothing to say to me, really. Woe!
Preferring Tagalog
Some in my incidental audience prefer my Tagalog over my English. I think I don't need practice in my Tagalog as I don't think I'll return to or visit Philippines anymore. I'd rather live in Thailand or Japan.
Zombies on Lulu Island
There seem to be more zombies here on Lulu Island. They think they're not young. They're just lingering on. They like Western religions. They haven't seen the rest of the world.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Artificial Incubation
Artificial incubation combined with cloning techniques would provide a different procreation option for humankind. It's still the future.
No Women in Outer Space?
Many women don't like outer space. Maybe, there should only be males in outer space, and they would just clone themselves to form families. There'd be just men and boys.
Like Uluru
If you haven't seen Uluru in Australia, does it mean it isn't there? If you can't see Uluru from where you are, does it mean it isn't there?
Exciting Exoplanets
I think this new field of exoplanets is exciting. It was only a dream in my childhood, but now it's reality. There's reality beyond our Earth.
Like Mount Fuji
If you haven't seen Mount Fuji, does it mean it doesn't exist? If you can't see Mount Fuji from where you are, does it mean it doesn't exist?
Tatooine Circumbinary
Recently, astronomers have found several exoplanets that circle two suns, stars. They're circumbinary planets as portrayed by Tatooine in Star Wars. On these planets, there're two suns in the sky.
Naming Exoplanets
Exoplanets are planets that orbit a star other than our own Sun. Now, there are international contests starting to name some of these exoplanets that still have just number designations. Commencing detections since the early 1990's, researchers have found about two thousand exoplanets so far.
Jealousy Like Hatred?
Is jealousy like hatred? I'm beginning to notice only now. A woman is an "emotion machine" that likes devouring emotions and synthesizing new ones. There must be an "emotional calculus" that is mathematics about emotions.
Religion Sought
The topic of religion seems popular amongst Lulu Islanders. Religion's just fantasy, the workings of the right brain. It's the product of creativity. There're actually many religions. Each has an inkling of sageness, perhaps.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Glen
"glen n tani-ma 谷間"
I didn't know a "glen" was a kind of valley until I saw this entry in my Japanese dictionary. I had a friend in university, with that name.
Novelty
Lulu Islanders and others can't stick to one thing. They believe in novelty, things always new. They are what are called "modern" people. They believe in fashion. I'm postmodern.
Monochrome Tagalog
Some Japanese think Tagalog looks monochrome because it's all just Roman letters, and they think it could use logograms as does their own language.
More Books Than Tagalog
I've found more books in Esperanto than in Tagalog, in both electronic and paper formats. It's quite amazing!
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Religion as Fantasy
Religion is mostly just fantasy in an attempt to understand reality. Religion is irreality. Some politicians in the past have said that religion is poison to the minds of people.
Translators and Learning
The existence of translating tools does not do away with learning a language. Once you learn a language, you can escape the Anglosphere and live in another language sphere.
Translation Tools
The translation tools are getting better these days, but the resulting translations are still not perfect and sometimes ungrammatical in the target language. There's hope.
Monday, August 10, 2015
Island Southeast Asia
Island Southeast Asia, which includes the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, is not just full of Austronesians aka Malayo-Polynesians aka Southern Mongoloids (undecided English terminology for this people) because there's been mixing with other races, like Arabs, South Asians, Spanish, Portuguese, Northern Mongoloids, etc.
The Southern Mongoloids have an admixture of the Australoid subspecies as an inherent characteristic of their race.
In Malaysia, Southern Mongoloids are simply called Malays, but in the Philippines, people do not use this term as they are perceived as the "default" race amongst others who are mostly mixed. A theory as to why "Malay" is not used in the Philippines is that the word "mal" means bad in Spanish, and "mala" means bad luck in Spanish also.
Whites
Nordics and Mediterraneans are the two divisions of the Caucasoid subspecies. Of course, they freely mix. Nordics have paler skin, whilst Mediterraneans have olive skin. Nordics have lighter hair, whilst Mediterraneans have darker hair. Both types exhibit various eye colours. Saying one is "white" and the other is "brown" is just poetry, and it's not science.
Blacks
Depending on how one looks, there may be three kinds of black people: the Congoid/Negroid, the Australoid, and the Capoid. Capoids have different eyes from Congoids, and they have different skin tones. More often, outsider non-Africans lump the Capoids with the Negroids. Anthropology is a fuzzy science.
Australoids
Australian Aborigines, who are of the Australoid subspecies, may have hair colour other than black. They can have reddish or blond hair.
Veddoids of India, who are also Australoids, freely mix with Caucasoids there to form a hybrid race, with which many outsiders are more familiar.
Dagos
Dago is a slang word, a street term. For locals here on Lulu Island, the dago is the epitomy of beauty. A dago is a Mediterranean person, usually attributed with black hair. Preferably, the male is hirsute.
Not all Caucasoids with black hair have Negro ancestry. Black hair is the original hair colour of Caucasoids. Other hair colours amongst Caucasoids sprung from mutations well over ten thousand years ago. Being a slang expression, dagos may have Negro and/or Amerindian ancestry, but one is not really sure. It's not a scientific word.
Logographic Junkyard
A logographic dictionary is rather fun because it's like a junkyard, full of arcane objects. I like the Japanese word for lantern: 提灯 chouchin.
Logograms as Junk
Logograms are just historical junk. I think there's no use for me to study more arcane symbols at this point in my life. I'm tired. It's The Fatigue Way, or The Paradigm of Tiredness.
5 Minutes
It takes about 5 minutes to masturbate everyday. The rest of the day may be boring or not, depending on oneself.
Religions as Models of Thought
I think religions should be considered as mere models of thought, attempts to seek reality, but they are more like fantasies.
Religiosity with Papa
I'm glad I had philosophical conversations with Papa when he was alive. He believed he'd be transmigrated into a different body on a different planet when he'd die. I hope he's well, too.
Religiosity with Grandma L
I wrote several letters to Grandma L when she was alive. I think she understood my religious stance. She absorbed some of my Eastern thoughts. I'm glad I had that letter conversation with her. Wherever she is now, be it another planet or whatever, I hope she's well.
Interlingua
Interlingua has all the attention it needs from the world. People should try to learn it. It's not just a symbol.
Nobody Owns Esperanto
Nobody really owns Esperanto, which is a good thing. A Jew, Dr. Zamenhof, created it in 1887. I've Jewish ancestry, so I feel the language is like a heritage.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
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