Monthly Archives: June 2008

20080629-Golden Glow

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Today between 15:00 and 15:15 (Pacific Time), the sun took on a golden appearance. We have finished eating a late lunch a few minutes ago and ‘Maw’ noticed the golden cast upon the cement of our backyard. I, of course, grabbed my camera and proceeded to take several photos at ‘normal’ range and zoomed up close. I tried taking one movie shot but didn’t want to waste space on the 256MB camera chip or battery of six-double AA.

Image source: IMG_5561 taken on 6/29/2008 3.18.14 PM via Canon PowerShot A610.

My photo showing the golden glow of and around the sun as seen through our trees in the backyard.

In my mind’s eye, I imaged seeing a six-pointed effect of today’s afternoon sun based on one of my many photos. The above sample showed the usual sun’s rays but if y’all will notice the ‘corona’ looks bumpy, almost square, and not at all circular as my previous shots of the sun. I chose this photo because the auto-focus calculated the shot from the leaves of our trees in the backyard. My other photos didn’t flash and showed at least red spots forming a square around bright objects such as the sun.

Below is a photo taken from one movie shot. It includes a vertical purple line going through the sun and from top to bottom of the photo. I could only surmise that the camera itself produces these sort of ‘phenom’, which looks strikingly like another dedicated blogger’s photos, only mine are not concentric circles of various pink and purple colors in nature.

Image source: MVI_5529_0001 originally taken on 6/29/2008 3:10:29 PM via Canon PowerShot A610.

My photo showing a purple, pinkish vertical line going through the sun.

Also, the skies from the northern California fires have not cleared up all that much as seen in the above photo as brownish clouds with some blue skies barely showing up in the background.

I don’t know what to make of this afternoon’s golden glow from the sun. Earlier, I was asking ‘Paw’ what is the English equivalent to the Filipino word ‘hibi‘. He said, ‘It means ‘dried [baby] shrimp’. I was thinking of that cute, ‘small fry’ as in a small child from that photo, of course. So I made a connection of the celestial event with the up close face in this small way.

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20080629-Go Home

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After the 09:15AM mass, we went the parish hall to eat some snacks of crackers, cheese, cream puff balls, fudge brownies and drinking very bitter tasting coffee. My parental units and I took pictures with Father V. and Father P. also. The conversation between ‘Maw’ and Father P. was interesting.

It had to do with foreigners who cannot seem to leave their damn superstition and cultural identities behind for good and move on by adapting to the lifestyles of the United States from speaking English (because definitely cannot understand a damn word from someone) to eating with a spoon and fork properly!

The point is that these people continue to come into the United States for a better life. Yet they complain how different everything is and that is too bad for them. Because for some naturally born American citizens, we don’t give a damn and they could just go back home for all we care.

And for what it’s all worth is but a burden to the government, especially for the free loaders taking what is left our social security benefits and riding on backs of welfare programs. Even those who have lived with the system don’t seem to get enough entitlement nowadays.

Sure there is the continued influx of new groups of hard working people who do the dirty work. But there are the worse kinds who come over with their bars of gold, hop onto a boat (which hopefully doesn’t sink in the Pacific Ocean) and then fight for their rights to bring back bad memories.

So whatever happens to our borders depends on which group of people [wants to stay or get out).

20080629-Daily Diary

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Took pictures with Father Per@t@ and Father Vu after 09:15AM. Left with “Minh” to talk in her house and then the background of big persimmon tree. Let around 01:30Pm.

03:00 to 03:15PM I took lots of pictures showing golden glow around sun after mom pointed out the golden cast upon the cement of our backyard, which would be re-done due to slop of side. wanted retaining wall and removal of cement.

To my right, Father Per@t@ mentioned seven foot and he went to place right wrist on dad’s head. to my left mom talked about how Vietnamese and Chinese need to go back if they cannot adjust. even Fater Per@t@ mentioned that too to some of his parishioners who claimed they are coming back to HOME, which is America.

20080628-Gold Weight

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What is the worth in gold?

‘A bovine devil mooing’ over 200 pounds; some edible, caterpillar fungus for the Tibetan people; my life full of nasty, selfish, ungrateful, lying and deceiving people; or her expensive engagement ring of over ten grand?

Nay! I say gold and its intrinsic value belongs to this world and to the blind, who could only be appreciated in return by those comparing themselves to pieces of shiny, yellow rocks.

Yea! I say gold is priceless and eternal, belonging to the heavens and to those who listen well to the messages sung by the beautiful voices of angels, their sounds bring tears to one’s eyes and touches one’s soul.

This is gold – touching the lives of people through the human voice. Gold shines brighter as the voice of reason, not fighting or bad-mouthing, as the song of love, through unity and hope and as the gift from ‘God’ to bring all of us closer to our souls and to discover each other, too.

Here is a downloaded copy of the YouTube.com video by mdkaye: Canon – Pachelbel – Boys Soprano Choir D Major.

Author’s note: Y’all heard my thoughts again around midnight while viewing some videos of Choir Boys whose voices range in Soprano with Maw. I cried in the middle of the video around 11:33PM on 06-27-2008. This was my inspiration for this blog entry even though the last paragraph sounded oratory.

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20080627-Thank You

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Image source: Scanned image done on 06-26-08 via Canon MP170.

Thank You

Well, I received a simple ‘Thank You’ card of light gray letters framed with black and gray borders against a white background on Thursday, 06/26/2008. The dates within the message and the stamp date were Tuesday, June 24, 2008, which proved to be interesting for I have transmitted my thought about that monthly thingy.

And I guess after two days got a response after submitting ’penance’ [hehe] on Wednesday, 06/25/2008. [Darn! I cannot seem to stop my 'bad' habit -- the same length of time under the current administration!] I believe that our fate, destiny or whatever y’all want to call it has already been penned. And whoever or whatever is reading my ‘book of life’ better stop teasing me! If I ever find out the ‘source’, you bet your bottom’s dollar that I’ll scold you, you hear?

Anyway, on Tuesday, I’ve been archiving old blog entries from two defunct websites for my reading entertainment only later on. First, I was wondering why the RSS feed stopped on Tuesday, March 11, 2008; imagined that certain frequencies burned the mind of the blogger into oblivious retardation and certainly thought that was the end of the ‘babbling’ especially on Friday, June 6, 2008. I managed to save each image separately and do the tedious work of archiving the blog entries one by one onto a word document by coping and pasting.

Second, I went ‘way back’ and pulled up some interesting stuff. The booger of the matter was the thousands of entries that I missed from years ago while lurking; yet not understanding the significance of one person’s effort to connect with humanity. So I did save two full months and some other articles based on the impressive code setup and post identification. The server of that ‘machine’, however, stopped around after midnight. And, of course, I was tired and went to sleep — giving up the goal of retrieving all the stuff from that blogger’s past.

So I don’t know if archiving is worth the effort or blogging anything that I really should learn to keep to myself. Because there may be ‘forces’ out there that I’m not too sure about and hopefully some of my stray thoughts that I failed to enter as either prose or verse would be captured for later review when and if I happen to pass on to wherever that special place may be located. In the meantime, I’ll re-do my old blog entries to kill time while twiddling my thumbs for NOTHING (or something), whichever case may materialize in this lifetime.

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