Shakey's Delivery Philippines -- I found a really informative site with their menu and prices

See how easily you can get Shakeys Delivery in the Philippines

I was craving some pizza the other day and figured I should have some delivered to my house. But the problem was I didn't know all the food available in their menu and what kind of prices they offer. At the time I didn't even know what number to dial in order to have Shakey's pizza delivered. And so I found the Shakeys Delivery Philippines website from Google.

In this site you will be able to find their menu that has all their pizzas from thin crust to thick crust. They always have new specialty recipes for pizza and calling for delivery without knowing all their new pizza recipes will really make you not be able to get your money's worth. It is one thing to just ask the delivery operator and another to actually see a photo of what you will be getting and recommendations from someone who has actually tried it out firsthand.

The author recommended that I try out their Belly Buster pizza recipe. It surely made my Shakey's Delivery very worth it. Shakey's in the Philippines is truly very unique and it is always a delight to have their food delivered and eaten at the comfort of your home. I really enjoyed the delivery and so did my family and friends. With anything it is better to be informed about the different prices and offers before ordering or buying.

Check out the Shakey's menu now and try it out. Their pizza is now just a phone call away. You will be eating their pizza in no time. But if you don't have a phone or you find that a hassle then there is a more convenient way of ordering for you and that is Online Delivery Philippines that has all the information about restaurants and fast food that offer online delivery.

KFC Delivery Philippines

Information about KFC delivery in the Philippines

There are a lot of helpful information in the Blog of Harry Santos including a lot of reviews about different places to go to in the Philippines. He has one blog post where he talks about the KFC delivery in the Philippines with a lot of information such as their delivery number. It is really convenient to have these kind of information especially if you are just at home and you want to get some delicious recipes from the KFC menu in the Philippines.

He talked about how he was bored and a bit sickly one day and decided to get some KFC. But because it was raining outside he got lazy to go all the way to KFC and just get the food delivered. He talks about what kind of things to expect like what is the minimum price, delivery charges, and many other things like how long it will take for the KFC delivery to come and what effects it will have on the quality of the KFC chicken or other things. These are really very helpful and his recommendations are truly useful. It's a good thing I saw his site and read his article before getting KFC delivered because it helped me learn many things.

I found his blog in google. There are more stuff there and not just all about KFC and their deliveries. The site also contains his portfolio that has his works on photography, video editing, film-making, music production, and even writings and political commentaries. There are also links to his other sites like his YouTube that contains a lot of entertaining things. All in all, I'm just glad I saw his article about KFC delivery Philippines.

LITFILI *: Genre Expectations vs Social Commentary

Chick Lit is western, modern, and very feminist-oriented. There are many expectations from this genre. Surely it would contain fashion and sex related topics. Surely it would contain some sort of contemporary love story. But how about on the Social Commentary part? Chick Lit deems the upper-class western way of life as something quite desirable. Like those girls in Sex and the City who party every night and fuck around and have interesting and non-boring jobs.



It's seemingly promoting this form of desirable social status. And why is it desirable? Because next to being rock stars or movie stars, the next common dream would be to be in the advertising industry, or public relations, or fashion, or publishing. WHY? because these things are the closest to art that you can get without the risk of starving to death or being a bum. And we all want to be closer to art, for this is the only thing that keeps us from feeling that we are part of a machine or that our lives are full of meaningless and alienating processes.

So regardless of my preference for Chick Lit(I'm not very fond of it), as far as I'm concerned, writers can write whatever the hell they want to write and readers should, with caution of course, read whatever they want to read.

Now with crime fiction, I'm also not very fond of it. I do find forensics very interesting, but not fiction about it, I guess. CSI has very little continuity, and I guess the same goes for most crime fiction, because it would always be the same in the end: either you solve it which makes it cliche or you don't solve it and make your story annoying.

So which is more important? Genre expectations or social commentary? I think we shouldn't really think too much about it. Genre expectations are important but if we think too much about it then it would hinder the evolution of literature, reducing them to merely categorized objects and preventing them from transcending literary paradigms. The more we think of social commentary the more we'll be pulled away from fiction. I mean, it is important for a literary piece to have social commentary, but we also shouldn't forget that fiction is also some sort of imagination commentary(I'm not really sure what I mean by that).

For me, reading literature is like looking at a painting. we'll never really know what the writers really want to portray or express. all we'll ever have are speculations based on our own interpretations. Unless of course you really really want to, cause then you could interview the writer or go to his/her seminars.

LITFILI *: Generations

Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them..." Genisis 19:6-8 (NIV)

Here, Lot(Nephew of Abraham) offers his two virgin daughters to every man in the City of Sodom. Of course this verse is open to interpretation. Go on and look it up if you want.



It's like how the father in Generations allowed her daughter to be raped by those army people, all for his own self-interest.

And now the daughter, near the last part, kills his father. The question is why didn't he just let his father rot in jail? She would never have been raped plus she wouldn't have had to kill her father. I don't really know the answer either. There must be some sort of underlying symbolism or something.

In my opinion, women can really use seduction to get almost whatever they want, specially if they're considered desirable by society's standards.

Perhaps she killed her father because she symbolized a new generation of women who were willing to take up radical means in order to achieve justice?

Ninotchka Rosca is a feminist, so I suppose that feminism would naturally be reflected in her literature.

LITFILI *: Fairy Tales

Some people say that Ring Around the Rosie is actually about the Bubonic plague of 1665. Anyway, in Invader Zim season 1 episode 8, Dark Harvest, Zim steals his schoolmates' organs in order to fool the school nurse that he is a human being. Reminds me of this organ stealer man everyone's been talking about.



I think fairy tales are very culture oriented and have folklore ties. Fairy tales also have a lot of sub-genres, i mean, this is a very broad topic. There are fairy tales for children while there are some that are dark and suited for a more mature audience.

I've been given a chance to really observe the local TV shows since there is no cable in my schooldays home. And so I noticed that we have a lot of fairy tale soap operas. Basically, Angel Locsin can trasnform into a wolf, Richard Gutierrez can trasnform into a snake(he used to be a "mulawin"; a hawk-man of some sort), and now Marimar is going to become a mermaid or something. Yea, those things are fairy tales, I suppose. I guess that kind of thing sells to the masses, since they really saturate prime time with it.

It gives us hope, I guess, fairy tales. Hope that there will be a hero in our lives, or that our ordinary and mundane lives can somehow save the world or something. But it's not really as pathetic as it sounds. All of us have fairy tales in our heads. They might be a bit modern though. Like animals texting or goblins popping vicodin or a rock vocalist peter pan. I'm sure most of us watch Heroes. Fairy tales evolve with society and helps keep the future such an interesting place.

Oh, and I read in a friend's blog that Nick Joaquin didn't finish high school and he's like a National Artist or something. I'm not sure if this has already been discussed in class. But hey, that's Filipino Literature so there, I just wanted to share.

may you all have fun and enough rest during this holy week break thing.

LITFILI ?: Prelude to the Literature of the Future

Humanity is continuously becoming. It is yet to evolve towards its true pure form. And we can see in our literature how we have changed from how we were in the past and how we are now in the present. Literature is a reflection of our experiences.



Some canon literary works, specially some of those we have read in our class, show so much oppression. It viewed women as weak and promoted a more conservative society. While our contemporary writers show how much we value liberty and equality nowadays. The evolution towards liberal thinking was not a choice for humanity -- it was inevitable. We have finally had enough of the past's discriminatory policies and conservative values. And so contemporary writers are no longer afraid of going against customs or traditions. Fuck the past. We have proved it to be wrong. But as I have said humanity is continuously becoming and there is still a lot of things to change concerning our current policies and values.

"And when men become free then mankind will be free.
May you be free of The Curse of Greyface.
May the Goddess put twinkles in your eyes.
May you have the knowledge of a sage,
and the wisdom of a child.
Hail Eris."

In the future, they would probably laugh or get bored when they read our literature now. They would think some of our policies and values are stupid and ignorant just as how we think that the subjugation of women and conservatism of the past was wrong.

SOMEWHAT IRRELEVANT REMINDER: They put Galileo behind bars.

So I guess all I really want to say is that Contemporary writers are more liberal. so we should be more liberal as contemporary people. Ok, ngayon kain ka na. Or matulog. ikaw bahala.

LITFILI 2: Initial Conditions

Everything is revealed to us; with no assurance or guarantee. All knowledge is a collection of retrieved information from the external world. Where then do we get our certainty if knowledge is replaced almost everyday? Why do we have so much faith in everything?

We all have faith in something. Some have faith that the sun will rise in the morning and some believe that Penicillin is a treatment of bacterial infections. The same way people used to believe that the world is flat or that the earth is in the center of the Universe.



Technological Determinism. Perhaps it's just my interpretation, but I felt that Arcellana's The Mats was some sort of satire or black comedy that portrayed contemporary society's subservience to consumerism and attachment to unnecessary material goods. It showed that humanity is subjected to trends in technology; something that determines all socio-political situations and dictates social norms. Science and Technology is the guiding force in all social change. How certain are we with what we really know?

There is this part in the story where they suddenly grieved because of three extra mats. For me, this symbolized society's grief over its slavery to uncertain knowledge. It symbolized that they no longer want to be ignorant but have no capability to set themselves free. We are all just like Mr. Angeles and his family: busying ourselves with a fraction and ignoring the greater whole.

Arcellana shows how we are so attached and how we busy ourselves with such petty things. In his second story, Divide by Two, it showed directly how attachment is the cause of all suffering. Familiarity breeds contempt. It is natural for neighbors to breed contempt amongst one another. Humans are generally more social than rational. Human drama is inevitable. There is always something negative we see in other people.

So our lesson for today is: read more and sleep well. We are all just slaves to the initial conditions. Slaves to our very own kind of Mats. So always remember to take a deep breath at all times and don't forget to feed the fish.

peace.

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LITFILI 1: Filipino Culture

I saw a cigarette vendor walking down the road. "This Filipino is a hardworking man," I said to myself, "walking under the sun all day just to earn cents per cigarette that he sells..." It was like using a plunger in the ocean -- futile and idealistic. "Filipinos must be really hardworking," I thought.

After that I saw this guy in church and I thought, "this Filipino is a religious man, kneeling down inside the church introduced to him by a nation who enslaved his people for more than 300 years. He must be really faithful, truly a believer."

What is our true identity? Who are we as a collective?



It's a lot like seeing a white ball while wearing red sunglasses. The ball is seemingly red. If you look around, everything is suddenly a shade of red. And so what is our true color? How could we ever see? Our identity is being dictated to us by different means of influence. We see ourselves as red only because we are no longer conscious of the red glasses we are wearing.

Filipinos have a vast variety of beliefs, values, and customs. A person from Manila would generally have a different set of values and beliefs as compared to a person from, let's say, Cebu or Davao or Palawan or whatever. Just like in one of the texts we read, the father of Leon and Baldo were testing Maria. Maria is a Filipino too just like Leon and Baldo, only the difference is a few hundred miles of location. This shows how different we are from each other.

As a collective, are there really values or beliefs that could unify our diverse people who are islands apart? Hospitable? Hardworking? Religious?

In my opinion, there is no inherent collective identity. The way we are all grouped is not a matter of values or beliefs. How we have come to be is entirely political. All I am saying is that there is no absolute Filipino. To say that there is one is like saying that Tagalog is the official language. It's discriminatory. It's different in Mindanao, it's different in Ilocos, it's different in Manila, etc. We are all different. And ideally, according to some sections of our Bill of Rights, this is what makes us Filipinos -- our right to be different.

Social Engineering

I kept so much opinion to myself when we were discussing about traditional learning. I was afraid that I might be too assertive and become fallacious or appear to be appealing to some form of anger. But there's so much more inside me...

We have spent around 6 to 8 hours a day for around 200 days a year in that cell-type room, wherein half of that life had already been spent asleep. As of now, that's more than 3/4 of our lives away from our family and friends, stuck in a cell, forced to absorb information which is most of the time irrelevant to our lives.

How can we consider the student factor when the child we're trying to blame is innocent. He was born into this world with natural curiosity and a faculty of wonder, almost all of the time accepting what is revealed to him in his environment: religion, culture, morality. Everything is a matter of orientation. At such a young age he was already made familiar to the cell-type environment. It was the bad text books, horrible teachers, unjust and intolerant punishments, standardized tests that encourage memorization and not learning, unnecessary censorship, disregard for individuality, non-liberalism and anti-libertarian doctrines, it was these things that destroyed his real love for learning.

Just a few days ago, we had this field trip with Lakbay Kalikasan for Ms. Sche's class. It was astonishing and I learned so much, more than I could have in a lecture in a cell with some boring history teacher. I am so thankful that Ms. Sche organized something like that and I believe and demand that all professors should be more like her. A percentage of the big tuition we pay each term should be for travel and outbound education. How I wish...

Anyways, above is a video by John Taylor Gatto. He has amazing replacement models to our current traditional education system. Although I do not entirely believe in all of his beliefs, I would have to say that he greatly influenced the way I think. I read this article about him before that changed my life. haha.. I think I lent it to a friend. I'll try to look for it then maybe make you guys read it if you want.

peace.

Will it blend?

Circuit Bending

Remember those old speak and spell typewriter toys you used to have? or maybe your old-school gameboy or basically any old toy you used to play with that created a sound? Gather them quick! For in this post, I shall introduce you to the innovative world of Circuit Bending!



Basically, the art of Circuit Bending supposes that you can tweak almost any electronic audio device and transform it into an alternative music synthesizer or instrument. There are a lot of instructional videos out there on the net on exactly how to do this and it's quite simple all you need is the right tools. These experimental devices are then, most of the time, connected to a computer and effects are added using a sequencing software such as Cubase SX or Ableton Live.

There are also extreme instances where circuit benders choose to transform the most unexpected of things into midi-controllers or synthesizers such as driver's license or even irons!



This innovation and evolution of technology emerged from an underground do-it-yourself society that's not affiliated with any of those big corporations or academies. These creative people deserve recognition. This is a manifestation of actual applied knowledge in the field of engineering without the corruption brought about by capitalistic monopoly. In order to breakfree, we must break our dependence and learn to Do It Ourselves!

Reminds me of how the Swat Kats used to turn stuff in the junkyard into weapons and means of transportations. Hmm, well I leave you with this video of children being taught how to circuit bend at such a young age as part of their after school enrichment program. This is the kind of stuff we should have learned in school when we were young. This is the kind of stuff we should be teaching the next generations. Independence and Liberty! The natural desire for experimentation!



Sources:
http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/circuit-bending/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending

brainchild earth

I dwell among them. I breathe, I eat, I walk. I, too, am flesh and bones. And I try as hard as I can to be just like them. But I am a mortal in a different sense. The complexity of my being is often misunderstood. I feel that I can no longer adapt to their given conditions. The time constraint prevents me from learning more from their culture and as time passes by, my true colors slowly show. There are just too many secrets that cannot be told. And I feel that I do not belong here. I am an outsider.

"What... are you?" she curiously asked as she sat beside me. Her tone was as if she did not fear me at all.

The progress she is making in slowly unraveling the mysteries behind my existence is making me feel very uncomfortable. And, unexpectedly, the fact that she could see me bothered me. She could finally see me. But it felt as if it was the wrong time and place. And I did not know how to react. I did not want to scare her away, and for the first time in my life, I realized that I did not want her to see me at all.

"There is no given name for my kind," I calmly replied, "and even I do not know why I am here, or why you... can see me."

She looked at me with a confused look on her face then said, "What are you talking about?"

I would not know, not in a million years, how I could ever make her understand. And I figured I must not stay in contact for too long. All of this might create some sort of ripple in my immediate surroundings and forever affect the future's state of affairs.

And so I walk towards the elevator leaving her with my final words,

"I am a visitor here; I am not permanent."

network neutrality

Save the Internet | Rock the Vote

weird how i was just writing about the internet a few days ago.. then just a while ago a friend shared this video to me. we need to stop the big corporations from taking away the internet from us. we must fight this monopoly of technology!

Credit:
The link was shared to me by Feanne. Feel free to check out her site and art works.

lunch

In order to have your own channel in TV you'd have to consult so many organizations and you need approval from the congress. The same goes for radio, I think. But in the internet, you could have your own radio show, post your own TV show, publish your work, share music, share information, all in real-time. Even though most domains are for sale, there are so many free sites that allow one to publish multi-media work for the whole world to see.



I love the internet. It has allowed me to watch so many movies and TV shows, download gigabytes of music, and publish my thoughts and written work. Maybe one-day the whole world would be wi-fi just as the radio is today, free for everyone who chooses to listen.

Just a thought I had while I was listening to the radio station 108.0(formerly 107.1). They transmit different forms of electronic music without the common interruption from advertisements or boring DJs. I could already imagine most pessimistic purists tainting its existence with accusations of hypocrisy. I don't really care. I think it plays great music and it entertains me.

Maybe one day it would also end up having ads. There is no such thing as a free lunch yo! Even the airwaves have become subject to property distribution, taking it away from its true owners -- the people!

Even with the internet, I guess. Internet Service Providers must be hoarding lots of profit. Maybe one day the internet would be free for all and all this technological monopoly would be stopped. Maybe in the future, wi-fi would be world wide and available for all.

foresight

Most of my subjects are now allowing on-line publishing mediums as a means for the student's submission of requirements. We were asked to create this blog for compmed and just today for engtri we were asked to join people@dlsc, an on-line publishing system designed specifically for, as the name states, People of De La Salle Canlubang. It's about time. The technology is finally being utilized.

I just finished watching Prison Break season 1 and noticed a lot about the technology being used in the series in their conveyed present setting. They can track people through cellphone calls and bug conversations. Could people in real life really do this? And if they can, how advanced is this technology in our present time? I fear how we are so unaware and uninformed about these things. We have seen in the media that our government and other power hungry groups are capable of such acts of invasion of privacy. It has been mentioned in various cases showed in the news. But then again, how can we trust the news? How do we prevent the high rollers and big time politicians from pulling their strings and connections in order to manipulate what is shown in mainstream media?


Yes, wire tapping is against the law, but how do we know that we are safe? How will this technology affect the privacy and liberty of the world's population? And how will the people's lives adjust in contrast to these setbacks? Indeed, technology is making the world a smaller place and our progress as a whole has been remarkable, but until when will we allow ignorance to rule over us? I don't even fully know how tracking devices and bugging systems work or what they look like and up to what extent their capabilities are. We have been stuck in our daily routines and have conditioned ourselves not to question these things.

A few weeks ago, there was this series of power failures that occurred around the alabang area. I saw a few Meralco trucks working around different locations. I have no idea how those wires work. Some are for cable, telephone, internet, and electricity. A man pretending to be in uniform could easily manipulate those wires and install their devices without the citizens caring or reacting. We have taught ourselves to ignore. Maybe in the future, our government could have anti-conspiracy departments or agencies that will help protect our people from such misleading and deceptive acts. The crimes and violations of rights related to computer mediated communication are easy to conduct and hard to catch. Specially in a third-world country where most of our people are not informed and are not educated about the said topics.

In the future, do you think such advanced tracking systems and wire tapping devices would be available for all? In our past lesson in compmed, we learned that computers used to be only for a few elite groups such as the army. Today, it's already becoming a necessity for academic requirements. It could be possible that the tracking systems would one day be available for all. Family members would be able to locate one another and there would be less missing persons and children. Criminals could be tracked and endangered species could be watched over. The opportunities and benefits are seemingly limitless.

But then again... are we really ready for the future?