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Thanks mom and dad for sending me money to pay for school on time. (papa asked me to remove my name in the receipt to protect me) next payment is august.

Congratulations to our New President Benigno Aquino III.

I am studying First Aid in Health in Module 2. I learn a few things about First Aid. What is First Aid? First Aid is the immediate care given and generally needed by anyone who is injured or suddenly ill. I also learned the General Directions of First Aid. General Directions in Giving First Aid: 1 Do not move the patient from the position in which he is found. 2 Keep crowds away but have capable persons around to help you. 3 Get someone to call a health worker or a doctor as you give first aid 4 Check is breathing 5 Check is Pulse 6 Stop any bleeding 7 Cover serious wounds or burns with a clean gauze, dressing or cloth. 8 Apply a splint if necessary

The latest issue of the Trinidad and Tobago arts zine Draconian Switch is out! It features stuff from Robert Young, 3 Canal, Richard Rawlins, Rodell Warner, Nigel Rojas, Jemima Charles and a review of Dwight Campbell's I Febreezed My Dog  by your trusty PLEASURE blogger Andre Bagoo. READ it here .

This is the most efficient weapon of the Israeli Army against the Palestinians: The Caterpillar D9 , customized IDF way in order to be able to operate alone in the West Bank or in Gaza and not fearing the stones threw at it. This customization is such a "success" that the American army bought a bunch of them back (Caterpillar is a Californian company) from the Israeli Army. Whether it destroys Palestinian infrastructures or homes (which it does best), pierces Gaza's tunnels anti-blockade that join Egypt, or simply prepare the foundation of new illegal settlements in the West Bank, the D9 is the weapon that fit the best the way the Israeli State oppress the Palestinian People on a daily basis. If you are interested in studying it more in details or including it in a narrative, you can download a detailed digital 3d file of the bulldozer (see the renderings below).

The Rolling House is a project created and "prototyped" by Madrid based office A ndrés Jaque Arquitectos . This piece of vertical urban fabric happens to be an assemblage of collective housing where people live for a certain amount of time with a bunch of roommates, thus creating micro-open-communities living together in a apartment. The following pictures are disturbing for the reason that they immediately make one recalls the sum of voyeur/exhibitionist reality shows displayed on every Western TV channels. However the difference is that there is no outside here. Nobody observes, each of the inhabitant is part of the "community". It reminds me what Patrick Bouchain and Exyzt had organized for the 2006 Venice Biennale in the French Pavilion: METAVILLA , a cheap and well designed place of life for a creative and reflective community within the architecture Biennale. Here is the text wrote by Andrés Jaque Arquitectos : More than 80 million people live sharing house

This beautiful Prairie House was created by a Bruce Goff 's (see previous post ) protege, Herb Greene in 1960. Built in a Oklahoma prairie, this architecture appears as a manifest for the American "provincial" architecture like Goff designed or more currently Bart Prince in New Mexico: a vernacular construction that seems to have been created by its own biotope.

My Mom and My Dad work in laboratories. My Mom or My Dad is doing Experiment in the Laboratory. I hope my Mom and Dad are ok. I Put this List Called Safety Rules In The Use of The Laboratory from Science Module 2 so my Mom and Dad will know these Rules and they can be Safe at work: Safety Rules in the Use Of The Laboratory : Eye and face Safety: 1. Always wear safety goggles 2. Always point a bottle or test tube away from you and others when it is being heated. Glassware Safety: 1. Never use broken glassware 2. When heating any glassware, be sure that its thoroughly dry. 3. In picking up hot glassware, always use heat-resistant gloves. 4. Always clean glassware thoroughly after using it. Sharp Instrument Safety: 1. Always handle any sharp instrument with extreme care. 2. Always cut materials away from you. 3. Avoid using double-edges razors 4. Inform your facilitator immediately if you are wounded. Electrical Safety: 1. Never touch electrical outlet or appliance when your hands are we

I hate Math. I opened my Math module and I tried to do the first thing about fractions and it was really really hard. I think I need a miracle before I can pass the Math test so I am doing this when I am ready. That's what I like about homestudy. There might be help coming. My 7-year old cousin is doing Singapore Math every Saturday and he is doing very good and now loves Math. Maybe this would help me too. I hope my Mom and Dad would let me go to the Singapore Math tutorials, too. Here is something about Sing Math I found in the Internet: Mom, Dad....please....I want my Singapore Math!!!

"When an architect’s design premeditatedly aims to cause material damage - as part of a largescale policy of organized aggression - a war crime may have been committed. " This article written by Eyal Weizman for Rem Koolhaas' Content is not so new anymore (2003) but unfortunately nothing has changed since then ... In this short essay entitled The Evil Architects Do , Weizman establishes that " architecture and planning intersects with the strategies of contemporary conflicts in ways that the semantics of international law are still ill-equiped to describe. " In fact, architecture has a fundamental role to play in the current warfare -which does not consist anymore in two symmetrical armies fighting in the middle of a field- and the international laws, that once again (see the previous articles ) have been made supposedly to be respected by every nations, seem to be not precised enough to really describe the current ways it is now used -as construction or destr

Pictures of My Origami (折り紙) Paper Crane One of my first origami i made.

Origami ( , from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper") is the traditional Japanese Folk of paper folding , which started in the 17th century AD and was popularized in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form. The goal of this art is to transform a flat sheet of material into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques, and as such the use of cuts or glue are not considered to be origami. The number of basic origami folds is small, but they can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate designs. The most well known origami model is probably the Japanese Paper Crane In general, these designs begin with a square sheet of paper whose sides may be different colors or prints. Contrary to popular belief, traditional Japanese origami, which has been practiced since the Edo era (1603–1867), has often been less strict about these conventions, sometimes cutting the paper or using nonsquare shapes to start. Take

Colegio de San Juan de Letran , San Juan de Letran or simply Letran is a private Roman Catholic institution of learning located in Intramuros, Manila, in the Philippines. The college was founded in 1620. It is owned and administered by priests of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) of the Philippine Dominican Province. The school holds the distinction of having produced Philippine presidents, revolutionary heroes, poets, legislators, members of the clergy, jurists, and is the only Philippine school that has produced several Catholic Saints that actually lived and studied inside its campus. The campus contains two statues, representing the two foremost alumni in the fields of secular and religious service: former Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon and Vietnamese Saint Vicente Liem de la Paz . Also, Colegio de San Juan de Letran has the distinction of being the oldest college in the Philippines and the oldest secondary institution in Asia. Taken from Wikipedia

Welcome to my blog! I study at Letran's HSP (Home Study Program). I take the test twice a week and study at home for the rest of the week. My Favorite Modules are: Science, TLE (Technology and Livelihood Education) and Health The hardest Modules are History and Math. My first test I took was Science Module 1. In Science Module 1 It was so difficult to memorize the science branches. I read module 1 and I memorized the branches and took the test. I wrote all the branches of sciences. After that I studied for History Module 1 and had to take it a second time because I think I failed it the first time. History Module 1 was so difficult until I found this Video in YouTube. This Video tells us Why do we need to Study History... Follow my blog everyday and you will get to know me better and about Letran's HSP.

I just watched the movie 2012 and I have to say that this film left me puzzled. I don't really want to write to much about the fact that it is one of the rare movie in which the world actually ends (it is more frequent that it is saved at the very last second !) and that the moral of it is absolutely outrageous (rich Westerners celebrating their belonging to the saved elite triggering a genocide by omission...). What makes me perplexed is the visual fascination that we can have for destruction. In 2001 we were drugged of images of the World Trade Center collapsing without being ever sated watching over and over the same videos of the planes crashing into the towers. What is this appetite for destruction that 2012 develops excessively? Is that a simple fascination for an unusual spectacle or is it more subtle and deeper than that? Wouldn't that be a self-destruction pulse, some self-censored revolutionary pyromaniac envies that pops-out more or less conscientiously? In order to

Recently Core.form.ula published a small article about the famous former Ministry of Transportation in Tbilisi (Georgia). Designed in the 70's this building is a good example of the sequel of Soviet Administration Constructivism.

Numen is a Vienna based office that created four different installations exclusively with tape. They appropriate a site, find some attachment nodes and create a penetrable cocoon for their visitors. Those Tape Installations have been produced for two different sites in Vienna, one in Belgrade, and recently one for Berlin's former airport Tempelhof.

[...] " The surgeon hesitated before opening the door. "Look," he began to explain sympathetically, "you can't get out of time, can you? Subjectively it's a plastic dimension, but whatever you do to yourself you'll never be able to stop that clock"- he pointed to the one on the desk-"or make it run backward. In exactly the same way you can't get out of the City." "The analogy doesn't hold," M. said. He gestured at the walls around them and the lights in the streets outside. "All this was built by us. The question nobody can answer is: what was here before we built it?" "It's always been here," the surgeon said. "Not these particular bricks and girders, but others before them. You accept that time has no beginning and no end. The City is as old as time and continuous with it." "The first bricks were laid by someone," M. insisted. "There was the Foundation." "A myth

It looks like a satire but it is apparently not. Fabian Brunsing, a student participating to an interface/design competition proposed this private bench that needs 0.5 euros (70 cents) in order to have its spikes lifted down and thus to host bodies. This very straight forward design is the logical sequel of what is already being created today, sly designs of non appropriation of the public space (see previous post about Survival Group ). It also makes me think of Philip K. Dick's Ubik that dramatizes an absolute privatized pay-fee environment (house doors, fridges, TV etc.)... Thanks Ethel PAY & SIT: the private bench (HD) from Fabian Brunsing on Vimeo .

Richard Galpin is an English artist that creates his work by peeling existing photographs using exclusively a scalpel and thus producing new visual landscapes.