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I am not Filipino but I have enough connection now to have more than a passing interest. By reading "In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines," I feel somewhat more informed on the topic than even well-educated Americans and Filipinos I run into. I would be curious to know of similar or better books to read on the topic.

The wikipedia page for Bonifacio goes into some detail as well.

There are two ways to read history -- one focuses on the personalities, the "great men" if you will -- while the other is more of a study of culture, resources and demographics. Both aspects are important. To make history approachable for normal people, you have to kind of shine the light on individuals. However, I think the great movements and outcomes are generally determined by less personal forces. Who one chooses to illuminate and elevate often reveals more about an author or speaker than it does about history.

If I remember correctly, Bonifacio went to Hong Kong to buy guns from and enlist support of the Americans but they had already set sail without him. If that story is correct, it seems to me that his political ground game was not so tight. Like he may not have been in the same league as other figures he was dealing with on a pure power-politics level. But he also seems like a more admirable guy than Aguinaldo.

Where it seems the Philippine independence movement fell short is that Aguinaldo was basically fighting on behalf of the elite to preserve the status quo just without the Spanish. His idea of Philippine nationhood was not terribly expansive or inclusive and he didn't really have the regular people behind him in a committed way.

When it sounded like the independence was going to offer them a good deal, the elite of the Philippines were cautiously for it. (But almost certainly keeping their options open just in case.) Later, as dealing with the Americans promised greater riches and became less threatening, the enthusiasm for independence among them subsided. Aguinaldo also lost support of regions through the trial and execution of Bonifacio.

The main concern for Philippine elite was protection of their land titles. The prospect of trade deals leading to export contracts with the US -- then rapidly becoming one of the hottest markets -- was also a major draw. What could independence offer that would be better than that for them? For the regular Juans also, Americans offered education and other benefits.

I wonder what would Aguinaldo's Philippines have looked like had he succeeded. But then again I also wonder what America would have looked like had it remained part of the British empire -- a similarly improbable outcome.

I could recommend this book Delusions of a Dictator: The Mind of Marcos As Revealed in His Secret Diaries by William C. Rempel

It shows insight to Marcos' mindset before he declared Martial Law. I read it as a supplementary book at our History subject at the UP Main Lib Filipiniana Section.

http://www.amazon.com/Delusions-Dictator-Marcos-Revealed-Diaries/dp/0316740152

Another book, or rather a collection of essays is Nick Joaquin's A Question of Heroes: Essays in Criticism on Ten Key Figures of Philippine History It shows another side on the story of our heroes and a take that is unconventional and far from what we perceived them during our Elementary and High School education

Don't worry about the N# levels, they really don't indicate your skill at all. Many people have studied for those tests specifically and had no skill in Japanese other than those tests, and still managed to pass N5. It doesn't test you for anything other than reading.

For learning hiragana and katakana, you can do that over the weekend and the kanji you can learn in two or three months. Personally I'm doing 50 a day. You should look in to a tool called Anki, and some books. Specifically, Teach Yourself Complete Japanese, Colloquial Japanese and GENKI I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese. Send me a PM and I'll see what I can do for sending you some E-book versions of those books.

For Kanji, check out Heisig's Remembering the Kanji. There's a shared deck for it on Anki. I changed the particular deck available on Anki so the kanji is on the front, and the meaning and the story are on the back. It doesn't teach you the meanings of the kanji, which I believe is a good thing; you should learn the readings of the kanji from the context in certain words. I'm currently learning 50 new kanji a day with Anki + doing my reviews.

I actually emailed the son of the professor who first translated the Hinilawod into English (Dr F Landa Jocano). He said his father's estate was in the process of doing a second translation edition with side-by-side English and Kinaray-a which I assume will be like the copy of Beowulf I read in Junior English class. If that happens, I'll be ecstatic.

Figures; I'd definitely classify it as such.

You might like the new book by Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide An Empire, which notes that right after WW2 ended, the US directly colonised or occupied enough foreign lands that at one point the population in the occupied/colonial territories exceeded those in the US mainland. Just like classic colonial empires!

On another note, just why was the US content to enforce double standards toward land reform in its Asian sphere of influence? Why enforce/push land reform in Japan or SK to the detriment of existing elites…but over here, why collaborate with our own existing elites at the cost of genuine land reform?

I get why they'd want to sideline elites in Japan since obviously they caused the war, but I guess I'm wondering why exactly would they, in a reversal of their East Asian "colonial policy", prefer to keep playing with the same old boys over here—many of whom obviously were treacherous enough (from the US' point of view) to side with Japan if it suited them?

(Not to excuse them from collaborating with the US, of course.)

Amazon. The xkcd banner also says it's available via Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound, and Hudson (I'm not familiar with the last two).

> I just watched The Red Pill and honestly

Interesting. Will try to watch it.

Also stumbled on this book on the link you gave: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Year-Disguised/dp/0143038702

Its about a woman who disguised herself as a man and was surprised on when she found out that men also have problems. Will queue this up on my reading list.

This can help: https://www.amazon.com/Prentice-Hall-Grammar-Composition-Forlini/dp/0137118708

Visit them both, look for pros and cons on the schools, courses and life after school.
From experience, most (if not all) 2d animation studios in Metro Manila are quota based work, meaning you get paid for the amount of scenes or frames you do. 3D gets paid hourly, afaik. Either way, be prepared for long work hours.
I bet the Multimedia course has animation subjects on it.
If ever you want to study animation on the side, look for these two books.
https://www.amazon.com/Animators-Survival-Kit-Richard-Williams/dp/0571202284
https://www.amazon.com/Vilppu-Drawing-Manual-Glenn/dp/1892053039
Mahal, alam ko, pero may paraan naman. I have it on my hard drive (wink, wink).

I think matagal nang merong "no outside food" na policy ang ilang sinehan as far as I can remember...I mean, maski nung uso pa yung mga standalone na sinehan (at noong apat pa lang ang malalaking SM malls sa Metro Manila). Nung mga late 1980s, madalas akong nakakakita ng mga sekyu na naninita ng mga pumapasok sa sinehan na may dala-dalang take out food (at lalo na ng mga bote ng softdrinks). Only difference siguro in this particular image is that SM Cinemas decided to reinforce the warning because, hey, they also need to make a business with their own cinema food (and tbh they're not really the only movie theater operators who are doing this).

Ika nga ng mga film scholars na sina David Bordwell at Kristin Thompson sa kanilang textbook na Film Art: An Introduction:

>Once the exhibitor has contracted to screen the film, the distributor can demand stiff terms. The theater keeps a surprisingly small percentage of total box office receipts (known as the gross or grosses). One standard arrangement guarantees the distributor a minimum of 90 percent of the first week’s gross, dropping gradually to 30 percent after several weeks. These terms aren’t favorable to the exhibitor. A failure that closes quickly will yield almost nothing to the theater, and even a successful film will make most of its money in the first two or three weeks of release, when the exhibitor gets less of the revenue. Averaged out, a long-running success will yield no more than 50 percent of the gross to the theater. To make up for this drawback, the distributor allows the exhibitor to deduct from the gross the expenses of running the theater (a negotiated figure called the house nut). In addition, the exhibitor gets all the cash from the concession stand, which may deliver up to 70 percent of the theater’s profits. Without high-priced snacks, movie houses couldn’t survive.
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>“Selling food is my job. I just happen to work in a theater.” — Theater manager in upstate New York

(Incidentally, this passage also helps explain why cineplexes would love to fill all their theaters with just the latest Marvel Comics film. And also, kung bakit ang bilis-bilig ma-pull out ng mga indie films sa mga sinehan.)

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Mastering the art

The same news paper who essentially denies climate change.

For more details, read this book.

Hail Santa!

Read up to know why they will sabotage your economy if you do not comply to all the big power's wishes.


https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081


John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars," Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations. Think John Le Carré, except it's a true story.


What John's book says is, there was a conspiracy to put all these countries on the hook, and that happened.

:P

Sorry, ang malilibre ko sayo ay eto. I could not care less if it costs more than twice that of a Mortal Instruments or Kirsten White or Maggie Stiefvater or Roshani Chokshi book, eto lang kaya kong bilhin. :D

Have you read Hernando de Soto? It has a few chapters on the history of squatting in the United States, and if you believe him, it was totally illegal and also totally tolerated because of political considerations.

I disagree.

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420533271&sr=8-1&keywords=UX

30USD

http://www.bookdepository.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Steve-Krug/9780321965516

32USD

Read a book a long time ago about spec op agents capturing the last guy in the squad, killing him and putting bite marks on the neck

http://www.amazon.com/CIA-CULT-INTELLIGENCE-Victor-Marchetti/dp/0394482395