Pusit.com: Better Than Engrish.com

It is no mystery to us all that more people are jobless nowadays than ever before. People normally attribute this to the poor economy, the lack of jobs, and to the pathetically low wages coupled with the the insanely high taxes in the country.

However, people normally forget one thing: that an awful lot of job hunters don't seem to be "all that" themselves. Note I said the don't "seem" to be--they may be good in real life but they can't write a resume to save their lives.

The best place to find crazy resumes is www.pusit.com. The scary part is that the mistakes these resume writers commit tend to be recurring. Her're a couple of errors they can do without:

1) Resume writers who write their entire biographical data on their resume, even if the job does not give a damn whatever they may have on their bigraphical data. I've seen would-be data encoders put their height and weight and their resumes. Frankly, if you're not a model, I don't give a damn what your height and weight may be. I also don't care if you're single or married, who your parents are, what your personal motto is, and so on. I don't care. Tell me instead why I should get you. And while you're at it, give e your conact number as well. What's the point of telling me your vital statistics and family history when i don't knw how to reach you?

2) Second, please title your resumes appropriately. Saying "I'll take any job" is no way to sell one's self. It shows that the person in question has no vision for the future. Don't use titles such as: "whatever..." or "anything."

3) Here's one directed at writers who post resumes at pusit: don't bother. Instead, send your works to several magazines, join workshops, and befriend a couple of literature teachers and writers. If you got writer friends they will go through the trouble of bringing you into the writing world, that my friends is tyhe way to become a true writer. Oh, and try winning a Palanca while you're at it. A writer so desperate that he or she advertises his or her resume online will never be treated seriously. True writers get their works published, they don't beg and plead on the 'net.

To be fair to Pusit, they seem to be improving, though to be honest, there are still a lot of less-than-employable resumes out there. I won't point fingers at anyone because that would be mean, I only wish to make my point: when asking for a job, make it seem like you mean it.

Quote of the moment:

To find the truth, one must brave a sea of lies.

Quote of the hour:

Existence is futile. Life however isn't.

Am I Nearing Employment? Maybe...

1) Last Friday I had a job interview with Southridge School, the place from where I graduated high school. I was trying to get a job as an English teacher, and I will be getting my call on or before May 9. Wish me luck. I really hope I land this job, because my friends have been getting employed left and right and I am about to be left out. Nothing says: "get your fat lazy ass to work!" more than being the last unemployed person in your circle of friends. So, I've decided to go all out in fixing up my job application to SR and to do my best in DLSU's TCP (Teacher's Certificate Program). Bumming around has been getting very boring lately. And to all my friends who have recently found work, congratulations, and enjoy. God bless.

2) As Eda has so kindly pointed out, I DID blurt out once in a YM session that I would treat my pals out the moment I land a job. Uhmmm... Eda, would you be open to reconsidering that? I know I said I would, but money is tight, and I was probably just desperate to find an excuse to meet up with everyone. Y'see, I haven't had a toma night with the SWC in ages, and more so with the college crowd. Will you be amenable to holding off 'til the first paycheck comes?

3) Ate JF, sana binabasa niyo blog ko. Miss ya. I'm always praying for you.

4) Ever realize how crazy reality TV has gotten? Trading Spouses in particular comes to mind. It's a huge violation of marriage and family life. It really seems to me that the US fast degrading the same way the Roman Empire did. How sad. I have a hard enough time getting a blind date, yet here are these married couples throwing their married life away.

5) From Reader's Digest: "Compromise is the art of convincing both parties involved they got the bigger share."

6) My damn celfone is so lonely. No one ever calls or txts me. If I get less than 20 txt messages over the next week, I'm erasing my phone book.
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Eh, scratch that. Y'never know when someone you used to know will come in helpful in the future.

7) That's it.

Issues

Almost immediately after we get a new pope in Benedict XVI, our ever-so-stupid president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo rears her ugly head again. She has already released a statement of support for the new pope, a statement I'd rather she never released because she has absolutely no credibility and everything she does comes off as fake and self-serving. I hope she does not leech off Pope Benedict XVI as much as she did John Paul II. There's no real point doing so anyway, because the only signs she'll be seeing when she dies will have written in them "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" unless she changes her ways.

Anyway, on to other topics. I once had a talk with my friend Migs L. about how anime and videogame character designs have gotten so crazy lately. Female character designs in particular have become so unrealistically thin it's not funny. Migs and I used the term "sticks" to describe the waif-thin designs we've been seeing lately. Just look at any anime by CLAMP (Chobits, CLAMP School, Card Captor Sakura, and X) and you'll se what I mean. Chii is a stick. So is Sakura. Also, if you watch Vision of Escaflowne you'll see even more stick designs. Hitomi is a stick, and she looks more like a young boy than a young girl. Heck, Allen looks more womanly than her. I just don't get this trend at all.

The same goes with videogame designs, not just with the new characters but also with old characters that have been rehashed over time. This is most evident when comparing the artwork for long-established characters, in this case I would like to use characters from SNK's fighting games since they appeared in new games for practically ten years straight since 1994. Some character designs have changed extremely drastically, in most cases from chubby to anorexic in just ten years. First, look at the designs for Athena Asamiya, available via this link. As you can see she had a much rounder, chubbier face in 1994, but by 2001 she looks like she hasn't been eating. Another dramatic change can be seen in the designs for Mai Shiranui. Her face has gotten thinner over time, while her chest has been getting larger, so much so that I'm surprised her spine can even hold her upper-torso upright. Lastly we got the designs for Yuri Sakazaki, who also looks like she quit eating after 1998 and decided to lose half her body weight by 2003.

Frankly, I don't understand the trend. Fighting games are, for me, all about which character can put up a good fight, not who has the most sex appeal. I can use all the three previously stated characters fairly well and I don't give a damn who has the largest bust and the thinnest waistline, it's all about who can consistently deliver knockouts in the least possible time. Yet game companies have forgotten this, not just SNK. The biggest violator will have to be Tecmo with its Dead or Alive fighting game series, where the series' creator Tomonobu Itagaki goes so far as to call his fighting prostitutes his "daughters" and to trash Tekken as "shit" when Tekken is the infinitely better game, only it doesn't have extreme breast physics. and don't get me started on Rumble Roses, the wrestling game I refuse to play since all it has going for it is ecchi appeal.

You know what, speaking of wrestling, even women wrestlers have been more about sex than wrestling lately. In the past, women wrestlers were butch. They were not the kinds of people who'd pose on Playboy, they were the types who'd fit in a body-building magazine instead. Just look at this photo of the mother of women's pro wrestling, Mildred Burke. Heck, she's more butch than most the men I know. Better yet, look at this Japanese women's pro-wrestler, who looks like she would rather a man than sleep with him. Compare these wrestlers to the anorexic ones we have today and it's easy to see why women's wrestling has gone to hell. The WWE is hiring models and not wrestlers, and as a result their ratings are down.

People nowadays want more sex than anything else and it's sad, because by being this way they are narrowing ther horizons by equating and associating everyhting wth the carnal desires of human existence. I hope this is juts a phase in our history, since it is a trend I don't want to see developed.

Thinking....

1) Why was the Church is such an uporar over Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" yet relatively calm over "Angels and Demons?" My guess is that it's because the latter book did not antagonize Opus Dei, and that it did not expound into the "Jesus was married" theory. Any thoughts on this?

2) First Richard Gomez, now the Church. If the BIR (and the Arroyo government) has proved anything, it will resort to the cheapest, most sensational tactics to make an impact. First the Arroyo government tries to befriend the Church and attribute its rise to power to divine intervention. Now Arroyo's BIR is stabbing the Church in the back and trying to tax it. Smart. Way to go, morons. Why not go after Lucio Tan first, the de facto king of tax evaders? Why are you so hot on taxing a whole institution yet slow to tax a single man? Where are your balls? (Sorry for the sexism ladies, but the BIR head is a man after all).

3) The Conclave starts tomorrow. I'll be waiting for the white smoke.

4) I just got a chance to send some e-mails to Pusong Pinoy, the guy whose writing I critiqued in my last post, and he replied, not once, but twice. It turns out that he's a very nice guy. He was kind enough to listen and take the criticism constructively, even if we did not always see eye-to-eye, but then again, diversity is the spice of life. Kudos to you, for being a fine listener. I look forward to your next piece.

5) I am tempted to write a review for Ah! My Goddess! the TV series. For those who don't know, the powers that be at AIC (Anime International Company) decided to remake this anime classic into a full-length TV series as opposed to the short miniseries treatment it got originally. As a result, story and character development both got VASTLY expanded. And the finshed product is nw much funnier than the original. I can't wait for some local company to pick up the license from Media Blasters and release the DVDs here, the same way that the original OAVs got released were. However, as a gneral rule, I don't review re-hashes, so I probably won't review this. Oh well, it depends on whether it'll get better with time. The whole thing up to episode 8 seems to be pure gold, but people keep telling me it gets much worse over time. I'll see.

Well, let's cap it at that.

Terminal Stupidity, and Tough Love

Terminal Stupidity

If there's one government institution I love to bash, it would have to be the presidency. The genius who cheated her @$$ into office just never seems to get anything right.

Recently, she committed the worst act of slander and blasphemy anyone ever could commit: she said that the EDSA People Power II revolution was blessed by the late Pope. She is obviously trying to equate her rise to power with divine intervention. My problem with this is not so much that the insulted the memory of the late pope, but that she effectively blasphemed against God for getting the Divine Intervention angle mixed up into local politics, which is never divine. When one implies that one's rise to power was God-given, one uses God's name, not just the Pope's in vain. I know that I could not really expect anything intelligent to come from her lips, but this just crossed the line. She's not going to Heaven anyway, so what is she trying to do associating herself with the holy?

Tough Love

ProLife.Org.ph

The reason I'm bashing this is that the site featured a very poorly written article on Pro Life issues and the reproductive health bill. It hurts me to read this not because I'm pro-choice, but because I am Pro Life myself and seeing such a poorly written piece on my stand on reproductive health is insulting. Its author, someone calling himself Pusong Pinoy, is someone I would love to get his technique right, because I really believe in the Pro Life cause, yet the article he made was shaky. In his article entitled "HB 4016 - Divorce Bill filed by Feminist Liza Masa" the author effectively made a couple of critical errors in writing that would not survive scrutiny from the critical mind. I bash the article not because I hate the stand it took, but because the way it was written it does not help the cause. Think of this critique as tough love. I also hate not Pusong Pinoy, only his writing, and as a friendly piece of advice, I would like him to improve his writing because he seems to have potential.

Let me quote the Article, word for word, then "bash" it constructively. I am harsh, but believe me, it’s for the betterment of the cause:

Title: "HB 4016 - Divorce Bill filed by Feminist Liza Masa"

Comment: The title reeks of the fallacy of hasty generalization. It immediately equates feminism with the pro-choice cause, which is not true. Feminism aims to raise the status of women, not to control the population. Not all feminist are pro-contraception. If Pusong Pinoy knows his Pinoy literature, he may have come across Elynia Ruth Mabanglo's Regla sa Buwan ng Hunyo, a feminist poem with a pro-life agendum. Maybe Pusong Pinoy hasn't read this. If the Church and its people are to gain any credibility in this world, they better learn what actually happens in the world, and not make hasty generalizations like this.

Quotes:
" Will Divorce help in the success of FUTURE MARRIAGES? Big FAT NO.
Will Divorce encourage more FUTURE MARRIAGES? Big FAT NO.
Will Divorce benefit the lives of FUTURE CHILDREN in FUTURE MARRIAGES? Big FAT NO.
Will Divorce help in Family Formation and Family Stability? Big FAT NO. "

Comment: Again, hasty generalization. I'm not saying he is wrong, but statistical proof would have really helped his cause, and these stats are available.

" Then what is this Divorce bill for?
- This is to pander to the SELFISH wants of people who are into failed marriages.
- This is to give rise to a NEW INDUSTRY.. the DIVORCE INDUSTRY.
- This is to give rise to a NEW INDUSTRY... the Family Court Industry.
- This is to give even MORE POWER to the FEMINISTS... agents of family destruction."

Comment: Hasty Generalization. No statistical proof. Calling feminists agents of FAMILY DESTRUCTION really pissed me off though, because the kindest people I've ever met were all feminists. Religious zealots who speak like this turn people off from religion because of their inadequacy in stating their doctrine. I'm not saying that Pusong Pinoy is an idiot, but his writing is poor, and he is detracting from the Pro Life cause by producing statements like this. Fallacies won't attract people towards the cause. Sorry for the harsh words, but I am doing this out of love for the cause.

Anyway, the rest of the article is one long argumentative paper without real-life basis, hasty generalizations and nothing more. Read it yourself and cry like I did.

To his credit, Pusong Pinoy (or it seems like him at east) wrote another article where he finally provided statistics. But his writing is still very juvenile. I will "bash" that other article next.

Article:
"Debunking those Dogmatic Depopulation and Contraception Worshippers"

Quotes:
" As we have already proven in a previous feature: HB3773 is a TOTALITARIAN / DRACONIAN IMPOSITION of CONTRACEPTIVE IDEOLOGY on the Filipino People. "

Comment: The previous article proved nothing. It only showed what an awful piece of writing it was. Please improve on the style. I believe in the stand, but not in how it was put.

Quote:
"#1 It is FALSE for the DOH to claim that contraceptives IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE. The words "reproductive health" is FALSE PROPAGANDA. Pills, hormonal crap, injectables, abortion suction / menstrual regulation machines, IUDs, LIGATION, VASECTOMY, are RISKY. These CONTRACEPTIVES contribute to the DETRIMENT of people's HEALTH Many people get SICK, are INJURED, DIE, ENDURE life long side effects from these contraceptives. "

Comment: Reproductive health itself is not the problem, and not totaly false propaganda. Natural Family Planning actually falls under reproductive health, and Pro Lifers know that natural methods are ok. Pusong Pinoy judged the whole concept of reproductiver health by some of its parts alone, which is not good. The artificial means are troublesome, but not the natural means.

The Church itself is not anti-population control, as the local Pro Life website claims. I would suggest that Pusong Pinoy read up on Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Populorum Progressio. It allows population management, though not artificial means. Let me quote the article myself:

Taken from Pope Paul VI's "Populorum Progressio," March 26, 1967

Population Growth

37. There is no denying that the accelerated rate of population growth brings many added difficulties to the problems of development where the size of the population grows more rapidly than the quantity of available resources to such a degree that things seem to have reached an impasse. In such circumstances people are inclined to apply drastic remedies to reduce the birth rate.

There is no doubt that public authorities can intervene in this matter, within the bounds of their competence. They can instruct citizens on this subject and adopt appropriate measures, so long as these are in conformity with the dictates of the moral law and the rightful freedom of married couples is preserved completely intact. When the inalienable right of marriage and of procreation is taken away, so is human dignity.

Finally, it is for parents to take a thorough look at the matter and decide upon the number of their children. This is an obligation they take upon themselves, before their children already born, and before the community to which they belong—following the dictates of their own consciences informed by God's law authentically interpreted, and bolstered by their trust in Him. (39)

Quote:
"#2 The Philippines is NOT overpopulated at 84M. Japan reached 84M in 1951 and now has a whopping 127M people. Today in 2005, there are almost 43 million MORE JAPANESE than there are Filipinos! On the issue of density, Singapore is more densely populated than the Philippines, yet they PAY their women to make more babies."

Japan is an export economy, Singaporeans are unbelievably disciplined and hardworking. Japan and Singapore provide enough opportunities for their countrymen and women to progress, and thus could afford to have huge populations. That is not the case with us. We import everything we need, and we lose money each year instead of making it. False analogy. Again, the Church is not against population control, so don’t bash it. Bash artificial means instead.

Quote:
"#3 It is NOT TRUE that Filipinos breed uncontrollably. Filipina Total Fertility Rate in 2005 is ~3 children (~2 in Metro Manila ). This used to be 7 in 1960, 6 in 1970, 5.5 in 1980, 4.4 in 1990 and 3.1 in 2000. See the graph below. "

Comment: This is the only solid statement in the whole article. Why? Because it had proof to go with it, for a change.

Quote:

"#4 It is NOT TRUE that Filipinos are stupid and un-informed about contraception. Look at the Fertility trend from 1960 to 2005, that is not just contraceptive awareness, that is Contraceptive Mentality and Population control for 45 years being implemented on the Filipino People. 45 Years of Contraception Brainwashing has not brought happiness nor riches to the Filipinos. Implementing EVEN MORE contraception is FALSE IDEOLOGY; more CONTRACEPTION is INSANITY. "

Comment: The statement has potential, but with insufficient proof behind it in the way of solid facts and figures, I can't call the statement solid.

The articles had potential. Improvements are needed though, big ones.

Totally useless facts you probably would not benefit from (but will read anyway)

Basketball

1) Wilt Chamberlain spent more time in the basketball court than any other player. He was also the only player to score 100 points in a single game. Even more surprising is the fact that he never, ever fouled out in his whole career.

2) In its long, illustrious history of college basketball, DLSU has only retired two jersey numbers, ever.

3) Slam Dunks were once forbidden from college bvasketball in the US during Lew Alcindor's (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's) time, because he became so good at dunks no one can block him. The other teams said he was overpowered, so the dunk became outlawed.

Lefties

Here are some people, fictitious and otherwise, who are left-handed:

1) Charlie Chaplin
2) Kermit the frog

Other Trivia:

1) George Orwell may have hated Stalin and Lenin but he was a Socialist through and through. He just hated Lenin's model.

2) The AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) claims to be the offspring of the Katipunan. It ain't. It actualy came from the Macabebe Battalion, a battalion of treacherous Katipuneros who let the Americans launch a sneak attack on General Aguinaldo's camp in Pampanga, leading to the capture of Aguinaldo and the fall of the first Philippine Republic. The AFP cannot be descended from the Katipunan, simply because the Katipunan was vanquished and erased from existence forever. They came from these first Filipino soldiers who signed with America: traitors in short. Up this today, the AFP is a treacherous organization full of corruption and idiocy.

Mula kay Eda... just follow the instructions

INSTRUCTIONS:
Copy this whole list into your journal. Bold the things that are true about you. Whatever you don't bold are false.

01. When I was younger I made some bad decisions.
02. I don't watch much TV these days
03. I love psychodelic mushrooms.
04. I love sleeping.
05. I have loads of books.
06. I once slept in a bathroom
07. I love playing video games.
08. I adore marijuana
09. I watch porn movies
10. I watch them with my father.
11. I like sharks.
12. I love spiders.
13. I was born without hair and I still have no hair.
14. I like George Bush.
15. I am cool.
16. I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.
17. I have a jacuzzi and a Porsche.
18. I have a lot to learn.
19. I carry my knife everywhere.
20. I can be really really smart.
21. I've never broken someone's bones.
22. I have a secret.
23. I hate snow.
25. Punk rock rules.
26. I hate Bill Gates.
27. I love Chinese food.
28. I would hate to be famous.
29. I am so not a morning person.
30. I wear glasses.
31. I don't need glasses.
32. I have potential.
33. I'm pure Japanese.
34. My legs are two different sizes
35. I have a twin.
36. I wear a padded bra sometimes.
37. I can ramble on about absolutely nothing.
38. I'm left-handed.
39. I hate llamas, but I'm one of them.
40. I don't like horror movies.
41. I suck at climbing, but I love it anyway.
42. People hate me usually.
43. I love pop music.
44. I hardly ever go to bed before midnight.
45. I hate parking fines.
46. I know the national anthem of my country by heart.
47. I know more than three languages.
48. I can spend too much time on the computer.
49. I often want to throw out the computer in a window.
50. I live on a ground floor.
51. I don't like chocolate.
52. I'd like to be more original.
53. I've lied.
54. Cocks are my favorite birds.
55. I want to conquer the world.
56. I wonder what happens when I die.
57. I've read all books about Harry Potter.
58. I love my dog(s)!
59. I love to exercise.
60. I hate chemistry with a passion and math, too!
61. I love to write but I wish I could be as interesting as some people.
62. I love the nightlife.
63. I hate going to class.
64. I am afraid to die.
65. I hate dish washing with a passion.
66. My hair is long, brown, and incredibly curly.
67. My nails are nine inch long.
68. My favorite color is black.
69. I like to sleep on the floor.
70. I am hopeless at cooking.
71. I sucked my thumb when I was little.
72. I should be doing something else rather than doing this.
73. I am online a lot.
74. I hate government.
75. I don't have a boyfriend. --Girlfriend din.
76. I'm too nice for my own good.
77. I love to read, I read as much as I can.
78. I don't trust newspapers.
79. I like debating.
80. I live in a wagon.
81. I clean my room once a month.
82. I'm scared of american fast food.
83. I have a third eye.
84. I love Mozambique.
85. I don't trust any religion.
86. I used to play with barbies only because all the other girls were doing it. -- I hate barbies with a passion!
87. I wanted to be a super hero when I was little.
88. I like listening to wind chimes.
89. I'm very disorganized.
90. My hair is long and straight.
91. I earn a lot.
92. I don't like spicy food.
93. I keep a diary.
94. I can't do cartwheels.
95. I can be very lazy.
96. I'm sarcastic more often than not.
97. I think my hair can be annoying.
98. I could be sensitive.
99. I love being "ab-normal".
100. (None?)

Getting Drunk on Water

Last night, the guys and I decided to again have a night out. It was a typical night out, complete with snacks, tons of philosophical discussion, and anime viewing.

Only it would have been better if someone actually remembered to buy beer. As it was, no one bought beer because we simply either forgot, or did not have the cash to spend.

So, what did the SWC have to drink in the face of this crisis? We had the snacks, the anime, and the ambience, but nothing to drink. So we drank the closest fluid substance we had.

Water. That's rgiht, by nights end, we had downed four 1.5 liter bottles of plain water.

And it felt good. So to everyone, the next time you got an urge to drink, give yourself a shot of good 'ol H20. It's very refreshing.