tanong

In Starbucks mall...

titit: ano'ng first name ng prof natin sa transpo?
sarj: si sir palacios?
jeland: oo nga, ano name nun?
mark: walter.
titit, sarj, jeland (in unison): walter?
mark: ewan, pero mukha siyang "walter."

Chilled White Wine

from Mystic Diversions

One of my favorite days of the week is Saturday morning when I usually cross over Edsa to flag a bus on the way home to our quaint town to spend the weekend. It takes me about 4 minutes to walk from my dormitory to the pedestrian overpass, sometimes more if there are a lot of pedestrians or beggars sleeping on the pavement. I usually carry with me a small bag of dirty laundry and whatever pasalubong I can bring home to my mom and sister - chocolate chip cookies, Japanese crackers, apricot scrub.. Then I brave sun, wind, stink, and smoke while I wait for a bus in a stop I designated for myself. Sometimes I stand there for a long time with nothing but my luggage, my wristwatch, and my umbrella to keep me company. Batches of passengers would come and go easily around me, while the candy vendor at the corner wataches me suspiciously, and maybe pitifully. Sometimes the bus will come into view, only to overtake another bus (bound for somehwere else) which has come to stop in front of me. Then I wait for another 20 minutes for the next bus headed my way. That's the grueling part. But inevitably, my bus comes to take me home. En route to North Edsa, I zone out to Mystic Diversion's Beneath Another Sky, or Gwen Stefani's Luxurious. My favorite part of the trip comes after 30 more minutes of Manila traffic, when the bus exits to the expressway. This is when the countryside flashes gaily as I sit comfortably in my seat beside the window, taking picture after picture of the lunchtime sky.

Maya Angelou

In April, Maya Angelou was interviewed by Oprah (on her show) for Dr. Angelou's 74th birthday. Oprah asked her what she thought of growing older. And, there on television, she said it was "exciting." Regarding body changes, she said there were many, occurring every day... like her breasts. They seem to be in a race to see which will reach her waist first, she said. The audience laughed so hard they cried. Dr. Angelou also said: "I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life." I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Philippine Intellectual Property

Confusing Case Law on Confusing Similarity:

Deciding the McDonald's v. Big Mak Controversy

Well has it been said that the most successful form of copying is to employ enough points of similarity to confuse the public with enough points of difference to confuse the courts.

- Justice Isagani Cruz, dissenting in Asia Brewery, Inc. v. CA

Introduction

Imitation is considered the highest form of flattery, but not so when it is committed against an enterprise who has first created goodwill, and carved a niche in the market through advertising investments, product development, and other intensive operations. An entity which has built a name over the years through hard work only to find out that another entity has copied its name or symbol stands to lose to this competitor who has taken undue advantage of the reputation associated with the trademark. The trademark therefore becomes a property right, the exclusive use of which ought to be, and is, legally recognized in accordance with the basic tenets of equity and fair play. Otherwise, the appropriation of the mark, along with the reputation the public associates with it, results to unjust enrichment[1] at the very least.
Consumer trust or patronage of a genuine good or service is born out of a fulfilled satisfaction from the product’s quality. If so satisfied, the consumer only has to look for the product’s distinguishing mark among the other competing articles in the market. An imitation confuses the public as to the origin of the goods or services and leads them to purchase the articles marked by the infringer under the impression that it is the real thing. If the imitation somehow fails to live up to the consuming public’s expectation, there is reason to believe that the patronage of the product will drop, to the damage and prejudice of the entity which produced the original. If the spurious mark passes the courts’ scrutiny for infringement, the imitation may be further scrutinized to see if it falls under the broader category of unfair competition. Legally, therefore, imitation is not flattery, but a crime.[2]

View more of this article at www.ateneolawjournal.com/articlemain.php?id=188

[1]. An Act to Ordain and Institute the Civil Code of the Philippines [Civil Code of the Philippines] Republic Act No. 386, (1950), art. 22. (The article provides that “[e]very person who through an act or performance by another, or any other means, acquires or comes into possession of something at the expense of the latter without just or legal ground, shall return the same to him.”).
[2]. See An Act Prescribing the Intellectual Property Code and Establishing the Intellectual Property Office, Providing For Its Powers and Functions, and For Other Purposes, [intellectual Property Code] Republic Act No. 8293, §155 (infringement), 168 (unfair competition), 169 (false designations of origin; false description or representation) and 170 (penalties for §155, 168, 169.1).

cloud

north expressway

In the Necropolis

It was a desperate attempt to save the dead from time. The living creating tombs to house those who have passed on - - futile intentions put to temporal tests. There are a dozen scents for me to choose from. Memories of sweet dew and late Saturday mornings. Of juniper calling forth school. Of tears shed at 3 a.m. out of nothing. A dozen memories for me to relive. A quarter of a day is no longer as slow as it used to be. The dawn is my time alone. Before the sun wakes up to recharge the world and get it going. I am woman. My scars are not of charred battle wounds but of sharpened emotional debates. My laundry kept swimming in soap for 3 days. Miracles are mistaken for magic. "If only there was a way to die and resurrect two days later," said Mark. But there was none, so we die in our minds over and over until the bodies tire and live out the mind's dream.

Fine print

Oh when you draf

t those

articles that should
(would)haveto

express the true intention
of the parties
whom you you purport to be an extension of..

?

Pamamaalam sa Pagkadalaga

Ganito pala ang mag-isa:
Pinagtatagpo ang susi at kandado upang papasukin ang pagod na sarili
sa inuupahang silid na tila mas pagod pa sa namamahay sa kanya:
pinamumugaran ang hangin ng mayuming alikabok, sang-sang ng dapit-hapon,
kabuluhan ng pasko at paalala ng mga dapat labhan at lutuin.
Kinukumutan ang sahig ng mga kasangkapan at nagkalat na babasahin.

Tiis-tiis ang biglang sumakit na ulo,
Kusang liligid ang mga kamay upang iligpit ang masukal na paligid,
Walisin ang maruming sahig, ibabad ang gabunok na labada,
Isaayos ang sarili, ang oras, ang pera.
Tatawag ang inay pagkahapunan, mangungumusta.
Magpapaalala ang kalendaryo ng mga sasahurin at babayaran, mag-a-atrenta na.
Ipupuslit ng alaala ang pangangailangang manghalina.

Pati ang katawan gamay na rin:
kung paanong maligo ng para sa iba,
kung paanong maligo para lamang makaginhawa.
Batid na kung daratnan ng trangkaso, sipon, o ubo,
kung paanong resetahan ang rayuma o lagnat,
kung paanong labanan ang panginginin na dulot ng pagod o ginaw.

Batak na ang mga inuugat na kamay at paa,
sanay na ang pandinig, pang-amoy at panlasa,
tumalas na ang pang-unawa
sa kabila ng panlalabo ng mga mata.
Handa na ring mamuhay ng may kasama pang isa.

unfinished

I am capable of multiple shadows,

of skin, contiguous, like


an

archipelagic territory

, ,
,
.

Rockwell on a Full Moon

Christmas Cheers

I discovered the wonders of www.offthemark.com while I was waiting for 'tomorrow' to come. Can you believe that? I was laughing my ass off on a Friday night waiting for Saturday to come!

Wacky Pinoy Phrases for Laughs

"Well well well. Look do we have here!"
"Let's give them a big hand of applause."
"The more the manyer."
"It's a no-win-win situation."
"Burn the bridge when you get there."
"Anulled and void."
"Mute and academic."
"C'mon let's join us!"
"If worse comes to shove."
"Are you joking my leg?"
"It's not my problem anymore, it's your problem anymore."
"What are friends are for?"
"You can never can tell."
"Been there, been that."
"Forget it about it."
"Give him the benefit of the daw."
"It's a blessing in the sky."
"Right there and right then."
"Where'd you came from?"
"Take things first at a time."
"You're barking at the wrong dog."
"You want to have your cake and bake it too."
"First and for all."
"Now and there."
"I'm only human nature."
"The sky's the langit."
"That's what I'm talking about it."
"One of these days is not like the other."
"So far, so good, so far."
"Time is of the elements."
"In the wink of an eye."
"The feeling is actual."
"For all intense and purposes."
"I ran into some errands."
"Hi. I'm , what's yours?"
"What is the world is coming to?"
"What is the next that is?"
"Get the most of both worlds."
"Bahala na sila sa mga batman nila."
"Whatever you say so."
"Base-to-base casis."
"My answers have been prayered."
"Please me alone!"
"It's as brand as new."
"So... what's a beautiful girl like you?...."
"I can't take it anymore of this!"
"Are you sure ka na ba?"
"Can't you just cut me some slacks?"

ETO PA....
1. I couldn't care a damn!
2. What's your next class before this? (ANO DAW???!!!)
3. Nothing in this world is perfect except the word "change"
4. Can you repeat that for the second time around once more from the top?(ulitin natin hanggang mamatay tayo!)
5. My dad brought home a lot of hand-me-downs! (Translation:Daming pasalubong ng tatay ko.)6. Standard and Chartered Bank
7. I'm very iterated!!!
8. I'm sorry, my boss just passed away. (translation: kakadaan lang ng boss nya.)
9. Hello, my boss is out of town. Would you like to wait?
10. What happened after the erection of Mayon Volcano?
11. Don't touch me not!
12. Hello?... For a while, please hang yourself...
13. Its spilled milk under the bridge.
14. Don't change anything! Keep it at ease.
15. Hello McDo? Mag-i-inquire lang ako kung magkano ang kidney meal? (yung pang-batang pagkain)
16. You!!! You're not a boy anymore! You're a man anymore! (hmmm...sounds familiar)
17. Out of fit ako these days eh... (translation: di sya nakakapag-exercise)
18. Come, lets join us!
19. Bring down the house down!
20. I'm the world champion of the World!!!
21. Beneath the Belt!
22. Rule of Hand... (thumb yata ibig sabihin...)
23. Can you repeat it once again?
24. Mukhang haggard-looking.
25. Do you have more brighter?
26. "Please me alone!"
27. "It's as brand as new."
28. "So... what's a beautiful girl like you?...."
29. "I can't take it anymore of this!"
30. "Are you sure ka na ba?"