Musical and Scientific

                          How peculiar music is. How it can affect people’s emotions just by being combinations of different sound waves hitting our eardrums. Science can explain the movement of sound waves as we are studying in our Physics class. It can also move stuff and and break glass at certain volumes, frequencies and pitches. It is also scientifically proven that music can help us do specific tasks more efficiently like studying, working out, memorizing, or concentrating. But what cannot be explained scientifically about music is why it can affect us. Why can it enhance our skills and performances? Why do we react to it? Why do we relate it to certain memories? Why can they exemplify emotions? Why? I seriously don’t know. I just know that it does.

                          And as music can affect us, it can also be affected by everything else. Emotions, religions, situations, and almost everything related to science. Science can affect music. Science can BE music as it is in Gustav Holt’s “The Planets” where each movement of the music represents one of the planets of our solar system. Science is also dominant in the song “Right Here Right Now” by Fatboy Slim where it narrates the timeline of the universe. There’s even a song enumerating the periodic table of elements.

                          How peculiar music is. How it can be anything and how anything can be it whilst being only combinations of sound waves hitting our eardrums at measured intervals.

Yanna Palo

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Imelda More-cost

I, honestly, am one of those people who were gullible enough to judge Imelda Marcos negatively right at the bat. What can I do, she’s so easy to judge! She is so narcissistic. While she talks about her life, her many suitors, her achievements, her lineage and her beauty, she speaks so highly of herself, it’s overwhelming.  Heck, she’s even proud of the English word, “imeldific”, that is so ego-centric in meaning and is based on her. “I am simple” she says but her extravagant hand-crafted clothes and her lavish collection of thousands of shoes say otherwise. She also came up with a bunch of symbols for life and such which all seemed to make so much sense to her but looked like doodles to me. And a number of people in the documentary about her seem to agree with my thoughts on her. Some of them despise her and her husband, former President Ferdinand Marcos with a passion.

But others didn’t. And that thoroughly surprised me. So it got me curious as to why they did like Imelda. So, first on the list of why these people admired Imelda was how she endured the grief of losing both her parents and her husband whilst enduring also the verbal abuse she is getting from the masses. I am amazed that she went through that situation so elegantly. Imelda says, "When you reach a certain level of leadership, people cannot be neutral with you. They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you". Then, the documentary got to the part where she got stabbed. Another positive thing about her was that she was an active First Lady. I think she was the first First Lady of the Philippines to “get her hands dirty” in the political world. And therefore, she has earned some of my respect. Gosh, I really did not know until watching this documentary that she was a victim of attempted assassination. And that softened my heart for her a bit. So did the time she was talking about Ferdinand while she was beside his corpse. You can feel her grief just by the aura she was giving off even though she was so composed. All of these supplement the fact that she was nicknamed the “Steel Butterfly”.

That scene reminded me that she is still a human being, having problems, feeling pain. It’s just that she’s living in a different world from ours and it might look ridiculous and narcissistic to the rest of us, but that is her life. And, now, I opt to let her be. I still dislike most of her actions, don’t get me wrong, but I dislike her a lot less than before. Actually, I shouldn’t dislike her but her actions in the first place, says my Philosophy I teacher. Her actions don’t reflect her entirely. She may still be exemplifying the “Steel Butterfly” image of hers by not showing anyone the pain she may be feeling deep inside. So I shall let her be and I should remember to not judge a book by its summary or the reviews or, in this case, people by the size of their collection of shoes.

Food for Thought

A Look into Instant Food: GFours Productions

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We are always in a hurry, and because of this, our food tries to keep up with our pace. Nowadays, all types of "on the go" food are available to us. We cannot deny the extraordinary convenience and brilliant taste, at the same time, we cannot put aside the preservatives and processing that go with them.

This is an info-graphic video tackles the different kinds of "instant food" available in the market today. It helps you understand where these foods originated from, how they are prepared, and who eats them the most. More importantly, this video shows the effect of these food on our bodies and eventually, our society.

Opinions about the different instant foods from various people are also shared in this video.



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The Bride of Frankenstein

       In the book Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein film, Dr. Frankenstein is a scientist that has a scientific breakthrough wherein he as able to reanimate a corpse made of body parts coming from different corpses. Upon reanimation, the creature, who most people call Frankenstein, escapes the lab and roams the streets. Because of this, the townspeople come together in fear that the creature that is beyond their comprehension may kill their friends and family. Due to the circumstances unfolding, Dr. Frankenstein bore the guilt resulting from his work and vowed to never repeat his experiment.

Nightfall

Imelda Marcos - Reaction

When anyone hears the name “Imelda Marcos”, the first thing in mind is negative for most people. We Filipinos all know who she is. We may not know her like how we know other people around us. Yet, we at least know her by her surname. Thus, Imelda Romualdez - Marcos is the wife of our late President Ferdinand Marcos. We all know how they are regarded behind the words of corruption and evil at the worst. We all know her husband declared Martial Law and put many Filipinos’ lives at risk. We may all know many common things about her and her husband. Still, there are many different views that we could assert. In terms of knowing, subjectivity is more used than objectivity since it always involves judgments. In line with subjectivity, Imelda has her many own philosophical thoughts and even teachings that are no longer included in a Filipino citizen’s dictionary about her.

Imelda Marcos became known for her lavish spending. She is known for her very large number of collections of shoes. She is known for expensive fashion and luxury items. She is known for deciding to live a wealthy life despite of the people’s poverty. It is believed that all what she and her family have are gained at the cost of the Filipino people. Yet, she never bowed down to such judgments. She would always tell about her thoughts as I label “her own philosophy”. I used that label because of her mistakes of grasping the moral values when it comes to philosophy. She is somehow mislead by her beliefs. There is nothing wrong in keeping our faiths and beliefs but there are still limits. On the other hand, I admit that she is really intelligent that’s why I already considered her thoughts to be called as philosophy. Well, I do believe her statement that she really wants to be the mother of our country during her time as first lady. I am impressed on her accomplishments.  She was instrumental in the establishment of the Cultural Center of the Philippines; Philippine Heart Center; Lung Center of the Philippines; Kidney Institute of the Philippines, Nayong Pilipino; Philippine International Convention Center; Folk Arts Theater; and the infamous Manila Film Center. All of these surely benefit the general public. However, bad things should never cover up good things but when it comes to people’s aspect especially for Filipinos, they could forgive but it is very hard for a person who lived in the worst imaginations to forget her and also her husband.

Imelda Marcos - Reaction

When anyone hears the name “Imelda Marcos”, the first thing in mind is negative for most people. We Filipinos all know who she is. We may not know her like how we know other people around us. Yet, we at least know her by her surname. Thus, Imelda Romualdez - Marcos is the wife of our late President Ferdinand Marcos. We all know how they are regarded behind the words of corruption and evil at the worst. We all know her husband declared Martial Law and put many Filipinos’ lives at risk. We may all know many common things about her and her husband. Still, there are many different views that we could assert. In terms of knowing, subjectivity is more used than objectivity since it always involves judgments. In line with subjectivity, Imelda has her many own philosophical thoughts and even teachings that are no longer included in a Filipino citizen’s dictionary about her.

Imelda Marcos became known for her lavish spending. She is known for her very large number of collections of shoes. She is known for expensive fashion and luxury items. She is known for deciding to live a wealthy life despite of the people’s poverty. It is believed that all what she and her family have are gained at the cost of the Filipino people. Yet, she never bowed down to such judgments. She would always tell about her thoughts as I label “her own philosophy”. I used that label because of her mistakes of grasping the moral values when it comes to philosophy. She is somehow mislead by her beliefs. There is nothing wrong in keeping our faiths and beliefs but there are still limits. On the other hand, I admit that she is really intelligent that’s why I already considered her thoughts to be called as philosophy. Well, I do believe her statement that she really wants to be the mother of our country during her time as first lady. I am impressed on her accomplishments.  She was instrumental in the establishment of the Cultural Center of the Philippines; Philippine Heart Center; Lung Center of the Philippines; Kidney Institute of the Philippines, Nayong Pilipino; Philippine International Convention Center; Folk Arts Theater; and the infamous Manila Film Center. All of these surely benefit the general public. However, bad things should never cover up good things but when it comes to people’s aspect especially for Filipinos, they could forgive but it is very hard for a person who lived in the worst imaginations to forget her and also her husband.