Trigun Stampede OP (Kvi Baba) Tombi Lyrics

My tears scattered like bits of paper

Scared of the unknowable tomorrow

I lived the same day over and over, back and forth

But a new morning never came.

All the reasons to calm down

Are just some moments until the crash.

I'm no longer the one that everyone knows.

Took off the fragile armor--

I don't want to lose any more love. 

I don't want to lose any more love. 

There's still no line between today and tomorrow.

My waking nightmare doesn't end.

And yet I won't lose hope.

And yet there's no night that doesn't end.

Not here, not here.

 Tankuro Soybean - Organic

Make your own tofu or soymilk with this wonderful edamame variant! Seeds are harvested only on Sept 1, 2022. Fresh and high germination rate. 4 seeds per pack.

Be sure to enrich your soil with organic matter. Full sunlight. (90 days) Open-pollinated. In Japan, black-seeded edamame varieties are deemed to have a richer and sweeter flavor than green or tan-seeded kinds. Tankuro was the winner for productivity and pleasing flavor in our 2010 trial to find the best black-seeded variety. Pick promptly when the immature seeds are bulging yet the pods are still dark green before the plants begin to yellow. Those pods that you miss will dry down, maturing beautiful black pearls that can provide your next year’s planting stock.

Get it from Ellestine Shopee Store.

Top Insurance Company in the Philippines 2016

Since many billboards and news bytes are misleading, I decided to upload the official data from the insuranc commission for 2016. Premium income is not the benchmark if company stability. It judt speaks of revenues. Better if we look at Net Income (revenue minus operating cost) and Net Worth (assets minus liabilities).

Check it out.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vt6wmsa11yi1lhr/Insurance%20Commission%20top%20company%20data.png?dl=0

Sore Throat and Tonsillitis Natural Remedy

Tonsillitis and singaw (canker sores) are plain annoying. I tried tawas but it is painful for 30 seconds so I tried looking for a milder alternative and found this!

http://humanheartnature.com/buy/index.php/oral-care/apicuria-natural-throat-soother.html

Truly a holy grail for anything inflamed in my mouth. :) Not afraid of another bout of singaw anymore. Hurrah!

One scary advice: "Invest Long-term"

"Long-term investing" - is an advice pitched by some financial consultants, mutual fund solicitors, and those who are basically unaware that profits are like fruits--they have to be picked when they're ripe.

So, is long-term investing profitable? Generally, no. I might have shattered your investment notion so I must have to spell out the nuance: Investing as a behavior should be long-term, but your invested money should not be. If your financial consultant makes the "long-term investment" approach, then he or she is either lazy or uninformed about how the market moves. The market is a cycle. As such, it demands attention for profit-taking.

What to do then?
A) Talk with your (expert) financial adviser and instruct him or her to withdraw the profits before a market correction.
B) Instruct your (expert) financial adviser to regularly add up to your investments only when the Index or share prices are down.
C) Learn A and B for yourself.
D) Avail the services of a private fund manager.

Walang forever. There is a time for everything.

Below are screencaps that drive the point:

Ayala Corp 12-month cycle
PLDT 5-year cycle

On Human Rights

Thought bubble.

Human rights takes the backseat when it meets self interest in the eye (say, national self preservation of absorbing countries). Consider the Rohingyans, Syrians, and other refugees. Human rights were not fully and only relatively upheld although measures to alleviate the suffering groups were taken (citizen vs non-citizen).

Aren't we all absolutely humans as declared by default when 'human' rights is laid out and invoked?

Is the concept of human rights then less absolute than what we think it is? If it is so inalienable, why do we see it alienated from its bearers so often--so often when it is pitted against other values, interests, and urgencies?

With these questions, I find it difficult to talk about human rights in absolute terms without sounding hypocritical.

Law, Fairness and Duterte

Morning thought bubbles
*your thoughts are solicited*

Should the law apply equally to all even to this criminal? The UN agrees with death penalty only for egregious crime against mankind (Hitler would be a candidate).
But what is egregious?

My initial thought is that law abiding citizens must benefit first from the law; drug addicts have forfeited their principal privilege.
But what is law abiding?

I think law and fairness are two different things.
Law focuses on institutional limits and freedoms.
Fairness on an actor's decision.
The former (law) feels safer; it is less in danger of being abused. The latter (fairness), can easily slip to tyranny amd arbitrariness.

However, it is fairness, NOT law, that we seek so deeply.

Humans approximate fairness in form of law, and it fails miserably.  Leaders try to be fair, and find themselves turning into tyrants.

Where does this paradox leave us?

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