Summer Music Programs for your children

Time really fly so fast, another school year is almost over and it’ll be summer again and I can already feel the pain in my pocket paying for the summer programs of my kids. I cannot just leave them idle during these days; spending time playing on computer is I think more painful than shelling out my savings for their music lessons.

Truth is, my eldest son is not really inclined into music, although we own a midi keyboard it’s his father that’s very good at it, being a church keyboardist for a long time, so I was thinking even just knowing how to play the basic notes that would be alright with me, but my son opted to learn strings instead, so I bought a guitar last year, sadly, it was so hard for us to squeeze-in guitar lesson schedules during classes time, so we’re pushing it this summer, I’ve had an initial talk with Jhine Music Studio already and hoping we can get a favorable schedule.

He is showing interest with strings so I’ll leave it at that, I really hope my efforts and resources would not get into waste – a mom’s prayer.

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Drillers reach long-buried Antarctic lake

I was at CNN today and this news headline just caught me – Russia says drillers reach long-buried Antarctic lake. It was said that these Russian scientists and many other collaborators has been diggin’ the ice for years to reach this Antarctic lake said to be buried on kilometer-thick ice slates for 15 to 30 millions years.

Among the scientific community this is an achievement, in their words ‘it’s an equivalent to getting to the moon’, this achievement will pave the way to many discoveries about how life was lived 20 or 30 million years ago, this may lead to the discoveries of many other primordial species that would explain more the origin of life in this planet.

One of the stunning places on Earth - Moubray Bay and Mount Herschel, Eastern Antarctica image from wikipedia.org

So granting they’ve made and we’ve known so much about our past and we’ve got to understand how and what we are today – what now? How and what we’re going to do about this that would save us from apocalypse?

I’m not really prejudice about this thing, because if humans we’re just contented with the bone knife and the stone ax probably by now we’re still savage people going around hunting for meat, I could not imagine my self without washing machine, computer, french fries, cheeseburgers and Coca-Cola, I mean without these expeditions, experiments, discoveries, etc. and all that – human civilization could have stayed just like that.

Both poles are two of the major indicators of the status of our planet, a lot of researches would point to the data collected from these regions about the standing of human civilization today, it is really my prayer that in the future Planet Earth will still remain habitable for human species and that will remain as the most beautiful planet in the entire universe far from the sci-fi I’m thinking of right now and that it wouldn’t turn red just like Mars or produce it’s own color of inhabitability.

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The changing value of coin

I was cleaning my drawer this morning when I found this silver 1985 12-sided, 2-piso coin, as of to date this is already out of circulation, in fact, when you use this to buy candies at a nearby variety store ‘manang’ [a Filipino term referring to older woman] will not accept this anymore.

The front side bears an engraved mug of a Philippine Hero, Andres Bonifacio; the flipside bears the amount value of the coin and an engraved picture of a coconut tree with its scientific name, cocos nucifera.

Back in the mid 80s this coin can take you places already, can bribe kids with a handful of candies, it actually helped me with my Science quizzes back then, it reminded me often of the coconut tree’s scientific name being the faithful coin in my pocket – I just realized  how stingy my mom was before, how did I ever survive with only 2 pesos in my pocket?

Today it has lost its buying power but it has gained a new kind of power and Numismatists [Pronounced new-miss-ma-tist] knew every inch about it. I wouldn’t be surprised that one of these days, this  lowly coin will  find  a   rightful  place  next  to  your  valued  uncirculated 1927 silver dollar coin or your valued 1800′s Victorian coin, it’s actually not far from impossibility.

Anthropologically speaking, it’s really interesting to know how we humans have designed such cultural infrastructure – how we have arranged it, in such a way that a worthless artifact in terms of its actual function can essentially be worth a wealth of information that represents how human society have evolved and have managed to changed meanings of things over time.

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