Pinay Matematika: Simpleng Pamamaraan



Pinay Digest Taon 1 Blg. 23, Marso 15, 1994

Ang aking kolum na “Pinay Matematika” kung saan tinalakay ko ang mga “Simpleng Pamamaraan” (pp. 46-47) ng pagsagot sa mga katanungang may kaugnayan sa matematika. Tinalakay ko rin sa isyung ito kung paanong sa pamamagitan ng matematika ay makaguhit ng hugis na korteng puso o cardioid.

“..... Sinabi ng PANGINOON kay Samuel, huwag mong tignan ang kaniyang mukha, o ang taas ng kaniyang kataasan...., sapagka’t hindi tumitingin ang PANGINOON na gaya ng pagtingin ng tao: sapagka’t ang tao ay tumitingin sa mukha, nguni’t ang PANGINOON ay tumitingin sa puso.” – Ang Unang Aklat ni Samuel 16:7, Ang Biblia, Ang Banal na Kasulatan, PBS.

Fan-Fare: Interesting Facts about the Fan

MOD Vol. 43 No. 1891, March 2012

On the cover: Daiana Menezes

 

An interesting article about the “fan” or the pamaypay, titled Fan-fare (pp. 22-24)





 

 

“His (GOD’s) winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear out and clean His threshing floor, and gather and store His wheat in His barn; but the chaff He will burn up with fire that cannot be put out.” – The Gospel According to Matthew 3:12, The Amplified New Testament.

Film Review: "Reflections in a Golden Eye"



TV Star Guide (later Atlas TV Guide), March 2000

On the cover: Summer Glau as the lady-terminator

in the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connnor Chronicles.

 

This is an assigned write-up, a review of the TV-movie titled Reflections in a Golden Eye starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor (p. 21).

 

“....Remember the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the other towns around them. In the same way they were full of sexual sin and people who desired sexual relations that GOD does not allow. They suffer the punishment of eternal fire, as an example for all to see.” – Jude 1:7, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version

 

Dagdag Kaalaman: Ang Salitang "Sinta"

The Daily Sun, Vol. 01 No. 12, Marso 12, 2013
Nasa bungad-pahina ang headline na “Suplay ng Bigas Titiyaking Sapat”
na isinulat ni Jipper San Diego.
Tampok din ang mga larawan nina
Marian Rivera, Angel Locsin, Yeng Constantino at Vic Sotto.

Ang “Dagdag Kaalaman” ay aking kolum sa pahayagang tabloid, The Daily Sun, na nagsimula noong Pebrero 27, 2013. Ito ay naglalaman ng mga kawili-wiling mga kaalaman at trivia sa iba’t-ibang larangan. Tampok sa isyu na ito (Marso 12, 2013) ang salitang “Sinta” (p. 10).

“O pagsintang labis ang kapangyarihan....! Pag ikaw ang nasok sa puso ninoman, hahamaking lahat masunod ka lamang.” – Ika-80 saknong ng epiko ni Francisco “Balagtas” Baltazar (1788-1862) na Florante at Laura.


“Kay ganda mo, aking mahal; kay ganda mo, aking sinta,
          Sa akin ay nagdudulot ka ng galak at ligaya.
Kay hinhin ng iyong kilos tulad ng punong palmera,
          Ang dibdib mong ubod yaman ay tulad sa buwig niya.
Puno niya’y aakyatin upang bunga ay pitasin.
Sa tingin ko ang dibdib mo’y buwig ng ubas ang kahambing,
          Hininga mo ay mabango, mansanas nga ang katuring.
Ang tamis ng iyong labi ay katulad ng inumin,
          Dahan-dahang tumatalab habang ito’y sinisimsim.”
          – Awit ni Solomon, Magandang Balita Biblia, Tagalog Popular Version  

All About the Itsy Bitsy Bikini



MOD, March 2008
On the cover: Valerie Concepcion

An article all about the Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie .... Bikini, editor-titled “Swim Styles: The Itsy-Bitsy Bikini Struggles to Keep Afloat” made it to the “Top of the Month” stories of MOD magazine March 2008 issue.

“Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” – Aaron Levenstein (1911-1986), business administration professor, writer and journalist.

It's a Fact (Magazine Column)



Prime Weekly Edition Vol. 3 No. 10, March 10, 1988

On the front cover: Lalaine Robles

On the back cover: Gymnast Bea Lucero for the Milo print ads

          One of the magazine columns that I pioneered is “It’s a Fact.” It first appeared on Prime Weekly Edition magazine. The column featured interesting bits of information that I’ve collected from various sources since I was in high school. Later, as an alternate to another column that I started, “For the Record,” it was featured inside the pages of MOD magazine.

 

 

 

 

MOD Filipina Vol. 21 No. 914, March 10, 1989
On the Cover: Reyna Arroyo

 

This poem I wrote just after the onslaught of Typhoon Unsing. I was with the cause-oriented group, Lupang Ugnayan, during the time. I witnessed the devastation the typhoon made in Metro Manila. Many large houses in flush subdivisions were damaged, some beyond repair, but to my amazement, the shanties of indigent people near the seashore of Manila Bay, in the Port Area, remained intact and standing. So, I wrote a poem to dedicate that instance in time when Heaven showed mercy on the indigents. It was featured in the "Reflections" section of MOD Filipina March 10, 1989 issue.

SHANTIES IN THE EYES OF GOD 

(A message from Typhoon Unsing, January, 1989)
 
Destructive winds
          rage unchallenged.
All the powerfuls are cowardly hiding
          under their mattressed beds.
Not even the towering edifices,
          built from the sweat of others,
          can stand undamaged.
The oligarch’s mansion,
          built of expensive bricks,
          crumbles against nature’s might.
The blossoming garden of sunflowers
          withers in just a flash!
The fiefs of the corrupt
          are ruined beyond consolation;
          even ants care not
          for the rotten sugar stalks!
But lo! Look in the seashores;
          look in the slums,
          though flooded,
          the poor shanties stand.
Pieces of plastics, cardboards
          and used timber cleats
          – against a howling storm?
Yes, my friend:
          This time the weak are blessed.
For in the eyes of the Almighty,
          they are made of unbreakable bond!


 “Listen, my dear brothers! GOD chose the poor people of this world to be rich in faith and to possess the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him.” – The Letter from James 2:5, The Good News Bible in Today English Version.

Throwback Thursday (March 9, 2017): Pahimakas ng Isang Pag-ibig & Unpublished Caricatures

Thomasian Engineer Vol. 20 No. 3, March, 1979

THROWBACK THURSDAY
PAHIMAKAS NG ISANG PAG-IBIG

Sa ibabaw ng mundong puno ng hapis;

Sa isang sulok ng paaralang liblib,
Natagpuan ko nililiyag ng dibdib,
Ng puso’t kaluluwang kagyat umibig.

Siya na gumising sa puso kong manhid,

Na ngayo’y di na mawalay sa panaginip,
At sa aking guni-guni’y umuukit,
Pagdaka’y bulong ng diwang di-maidlip.

Bawat dakuin isip kong naglalakbay;

Ano mang sandaling lumipas-sumilay,
Ang sinta ng puso ay di na mawalay
Sa kaluluwa kong pag-ibig ang kulay.

Tibok ng dibdib kung sadyang tatarukin,

Malalamang ang lakas ay walang supil.
Ano mang balakid ay handang harapin;
Walang pipigil bundok man ang hilahil.

Kung ganda niya’t asal ilalarawan

Sa madla ng mga engkantadang dilagan,
Walang ‘pinaka’ sa buong panitikan
Ang maibibigkas na pang-uring turan.

Siya na diwata ng bait at hinhin,

Tanglaw ng diwa ko sa gabing madilim.
Siya na mutyang pumupukaw sagimsim,
Sino mang pantas siya’y nanasang kamtin.

Kanyang mga matang tulad sa diyamante.

Na nangagkikinang sa lawak ng gabi.
Kanyang mga namumulang rosas na labi,
Na tumitighaw sa lungkot at pighati.

Sa bawat gabing malungkot at tahimik,

Laging ikaw ang nilalaman ng isip.
Larawan mo kapagdaka’y gumuguhit
Sa dalumat kong alipin ng pag-ibig.

Sa bawat araw na pakikipagtalik

Sa bagtas ng panahon, inog ng isip,
Pangarap ng puso ay huwag maamis,
Pagsinta sa iyong lubhang masigasig.

Mukha mong mala-anghel, ngiting kay tamis,

Ang bawat susulyap mata’y magniningkit.
“O adang sa puso ko ‘tumbas ay langit,
Nawa’y unawain tunay kong pag-ibig.”

Sa pag-ibig ko may babala’ng tadhana,

May bantang ligalig ang bawat ligaya.
Sadya kayang ganyan lihim na pagsinta,
Habang lumilipas nawawala’ng sigla.

Kaibigang lilo, magulang mahigpit,

Dalawang silakbong nag-uudyok pilit:
Tukso at pangaral ay nagpapanglupig
Sa gitna ng nilalangoy n’yang daigdig.

Umihip ang habagat noo’y nagbanta,

At nalagas ang mga dahon ng ligaya.
Siya’y nagbago, ngiti’y naging bula,
Ang dating matapat ngayo’y palamara.

Masalimuot nga ang landas sa lungsod,

Tahana’y matibay, pinto nama’y gapok.
Siya’s natangay sa malakas na agos,
Naging makabago at naging marupok.

Habang ‘nulat ko bahagi nitong tula,

Kaluluwa ko’y sa dilim lumuluha.
Ako’y nalulumbay, ika’y nagsasaya,
Sa pagkasi, may dupil man sadyang aba.

Damdaming nanangis sa bawat puntod,

Paraisong kay saya, ngayo’y kay lungkot.
Sa altar ng sawi ako’y nakaluhod,
Laging dalangin ang magbalik ka irog.

“O lakambining hiyas ng aking buhay,

Sa bisig ng siphayo ako’y hihimlay.
Ang tanging hiling ko aking sintang tunay,
Tanggapin tulang ito – munti kong alay.

Ngayon sinta ako man ay lilisan na;

Mananatili tangan kong alaala.
At kung sakaling magbago ang tadhana,
Maghihintay pa ring taos at malaya.         

 

Isinulat noong Pebrero 7-8, 1978, ang “Pahimakas ng Isang Pag-ibig” ay maituturing na isang pagliliwat sa Pilipino ng tula ko sa wikang English na “To Salve” (1975). Ang tula ay nagwagi ng Ikalawang Gatimpala sa Thomasian Engineer Second Annual Literary Writing Contest, Pilipino Poetry Category. (Naaalaala ko pa ang sinabi ng aking guro sa Pilipino, si Ms. Carminia Carrasco, na kung sa pagkakataong iyon ay “nadaig ng salapi ang pag-ibig,” marami pang darating na panahon na “ang pag-ibig ang siyang magwawagi.”) Inilathala ang “Pahimakas ng Isang Pag-ibig” sa Thomasian Engineer, October 1979.

 

MY CARICATURES

The first two caricatures, I drew when I was in fourth year college. I submitted them to Times Journal, but it was never published. The third, a sort of revision of the second caricature, is intended for a book titled It’s A FACT, still unpublished.

“If only you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a river, your integrity like the waves of the sea. Your children would have been numbered like the sand, your descendants as many as its grains. Never would your name have been cut off or blotted out before me.” – Isaiah 48:18-19, The Jerusalem Bible.

The Eastern Sarus Crane: Is the Philippines' Largest Bird Already Extinct?

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 20 No. 43, March 4, 1997
On the cover: Tom Cruise
 

For the “Let’s Save Our Planet” section of Mr. & Ms. March 4 1997 issue, I did a research about the Eastern Sarus Crane, the largest bird in the Philippines, and discovered that there are very little information about the bird available locally. The concern agencies of government have not taken any concerted effort to study this precious endemic bird. The information that I gathered were taken from foreign research and studies. And so I asked, “The Eastern Sarus Crane: Is the Philippines’ Largest Bird Already Extinct?”

Atlas TV Star (Later Atlas TV Guide), March 2000
On the cover: The Launching of Disney Channel
 

For the article "Anime vs. Animation vs. Cartoons" (pp. 26-27), I surveyed and interviewed 120 people, mostly kids and teens, to know what anime, animation and cartoon series they like and dislike.

"A poor but wise boy is better than a foolish but old king who doesn't listen to advice." – Ecclesiastes 4:13, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version.

 

What the Bible Say About Homosexuality

Woman Today, February-March 2017
On the cover: Representative Geraldine Roman of  the First District of Bataan

 

My first article published in 2017, in Woman Today, February-March issue. Originally titled "Biblical Abomination." It was written after eight-division world boxing champ Manny Pacquiao's "encounter" with the LGBT community last year, when he supposedly compared members of the so-called "third-sex" to animals. In this article, I expound where Pacquiao (now senator) missed to cite in his arguments. That is, what the "Holy Bible (really) says..." about homosexuality (pp. 60-61).

 

 

 

In Solomon’s wisdom: “People who listen when they are corrected will live, but those who will not admit that they are wrong are lost.” (Proverbs 10:17).

 

Poems to begin 2017: Language of GOD & A Vision Of Acquaintance

LANGUAGE OF GOD

Look upon the Himalayas:

At the foot of this gigantic mount,

The secrets of the world are hidden,

Untouched, virginal and immaculate.

          Pray, this is the sanctuary of discipline

          Where man meets the heavens.

In the snow resting humble and low,

Faithful of the descending bliss,

The flowers bloom in ivory white,

And the berries ripe in bloody red.

          Above the crown of winter and green,

          The seraphim sing in Holy Name.

The light showers and gives warmth;

The clouds baptize the roots,

Nature is like to a temple

That cleanses and serves her people.

          For the sun is the power

          And the rain is the life.

The wind murmurs in worship;

The leafage dancing, shadows in silhouette.

For it is indeed the language of God;

The miracle long forgotten.

          This is Nature’s shrine

          Where truth is clearly seen!

(Written on February 3, 1980. Originally published under the title “Winter Green” in Thomasian Engineer, 1981. Some parts re-written on January 1, 1997.)

A VISION OF ACQUAINTANCE

Journeying the endless distance

In the hyperbole of joy and violet.

Adolescence, an explosion of brilliance;

A sparkling ruby in a golden inset.

There were many roads, unchosen paths;

Many strangers and a frivolous frock.

Indeed! Lingering questions – aftermaths

Of crossroads and a key in a lock.

Curiosity sometimes gives a light

Or leads to a despairing dream...!

Can one foresee what is not in sight?

Can one form an image in a rippling stream....?

The answer is an inquiry – a poem;

A wish that a writer cannot deny.

From the inner voice comes a priceless item;

A future waiting for a reply.

Soon perhaps, palm will clasp palm,

A debonair meeting a lovely lass.

Eye meets eye in a quivering calm....

Finally, acquaintance comes to pass!

(Published in MOD Magazine Vol. XXII No. 964, February 23, 1990)

 

December 31



DECEMBER 31

Prime Weekly Editions Vol. 2 No. 46, December 31, 1987

On the Cover: Janice Veluz Gonzalez

 

Disyembre 31 sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas

          Noong Disyembre 31, 1844, ang sistema ng kalendaryo sa Pilipinas ay isinaayos at iniayon sa pandaigdigang umiiral na kalendaryo. Sa pamamagitan ng proklamasyon ni Spanish Governor-General Narciso Claveria, ang Disyembre 31, 1844, Martes, ay ginawang Enero 1, 1845, Miyerkules.

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SULYAP SA NAKARAAN


Tampok sa ikaapat na labas ng Pantastik Komiks (Disyembre 31, 1950)
ang ilustrasyon ni Alfredo Alcala.

Personalities and celebrities born on December 31:

1880 – Hermenegildo Cruz, labor leader, writer and government official – in Binondo, Manila (d. March 21, 1943).

1943 – Leovigildo Briones Banaag, lawyer and congressman – in Butuan City (d. January 6, 2011).

1945 – Liwayway Vinzons-Chato, politician – in Camarines Norte.

1952 – Benjamin Mendoza Bitanga, businessman-entrepreneur and investment banker – in Manila.

1959 – Alfie Anido (full name Alfonso Serrano Anido), actor and commercial model (d. December 30, 1981).

Alfie Anido
on the cover of TV Times (April 19-25, 1981)



 

1971 – Marcus Antonius Corpuz Adoro, composer, musician and guitarist.

1986 – Mike Tan (full name Jan Michael Silverio Tan), actor, dancer and model – in Angono, Rizal.

THE YEAR OF THE YUPPIE

Illustration by Garretson “Garry” Beekman Trudeau
of the concept of “young urban professional”
popularly coined the “Yuppie,”
on the cover of Newsweek (December 31, 1984).

          During the 1980s and 1990s, a new word, “Yuppie,” became popular, which is the shortened form to mean a “young urban professional.” Joseph Epstein is said to have coined the term in 1982, although the word “yuppie” itself was already published in the magazine Chicago as early as May 1980 through an article written by Dan Rottenberg. The year 1984 was declared by Newsweek as “The Year of the Yuppie” (SEE attached cover page).











 

Picture Trivia

Marilyn Chambers on the covers of
Genesis (December 1977 and December 1979)

          One of the most popular porn stars of the 1970s is Marilyn Chambers (real name Marilyn Ann Briggs). Do you know that Chambers also appeared in legitimate mainstream films? Among them, The Owl and the Pussycat (1970, where she used the screen name Evelyn Long), Together (1971, where she starred using her real name), and sa Rabid (1977, as Marilyn Chambers under the direction of David Cronenberg). Chambers also sang and recorded a disco single, Benihana (1976), the original copies of which are now considered collector’s items.

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WIKApedia

          Alam niyo ba kung ano ang ibig sabihin ng “Manigo” sa pagbating “Manigong Bagong Taon?” Ayon sa Bagong Diksiyunaryong Pilipino-Pilipino ni Julio F. Silverio, ang “manigo” ay isang pang-uri na may katumbas na kahulugang “maunlad,” “mapalad,” “paborable,” at “buwena-mano.” Kung hihimayin, ang “ma” ay isang unlaping nagbabadya ng katangian sa salitang-ugat na “nigo,” na ang katumbas na kahulugan ay “mabuting kapalaran.”

          Kaya ang pagbating “MANIGONG BAGONG TAON!” ay pagsasaad na “nawa’y tamuhin ng binabati ang isang “mabuting kapalaran sa bagong taon.”