Can you: pɐǝɹ ɥsılƃuǝ ǝpısdn uʍop ¿

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(: ǝɟıl ɟo ǝɹos ƃuılǝǝɟ ʇsnɾ ɹo pǝɹoq ɯ ı ɟı ʎluo ʇnq˙ǝɯ oʇ pǝlɐǝddɐ sʎɐʍlɐ ǝʌɐɥ uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuıpɐǝɹ ʇɐɥʇ pǝpuɐɥ ʇɟǝl ɯ,ı zoɔ ʎlqɐqoɹd s,ʇı

˙lol ˙uǝʌǝlǝ sɐʍ ı ǝɯıʇ ʎq ʇı pǝɥsıuıɟ ı ʇnq uǝʇ sɐʍ ı uǝɥʍ [ossɐƃɹɐs s,ʎǝlɹoɔ uıʍpǝ] lǝʌou ʇsɹıɟ ʎɯ ƃuıpɐǝɹ pǝʇɹɐʇs ǝʌı˙ǝƃɐd  ʞɔɐqɹǝdɐd ɥʇuǝʇ ǝɥʇ uo dn ǝʌɐƃ ı ʎɹoʇs ǝɥʇ ɟo ʇuǝɯoɯ ʇxǝu ǝɥʇ oʇ ʇǝƃ oʇ ʇuǝıʇɐdɯı os ʇsnɾ sɐʍ ı ʇnq˙ʇı ʇɐ oƃ pɹıɥʇ ʎɯ uo ʎlɹɐlnɔıʇɹɐd os ǝuop ƃuıʌɐɥ pǝɹǝqɯǝɯǝɹ ı˙ʇuıod ǝɯos ʇɐ uʍop ǝpısdn [ʎɐuǝʇɹnoɔ :: ǝuo ɟo ɹǝʍod ǝɥʇ] ʞooq ǝʇıɹnoʌɐɟ ʎɯ pɐǝɹ ǝʌı ɥɐǝʎ ʇnq

˙ɐɥɐɥ ˙ʇɔɐɟ looɔ ʇs-ǝʌɐɟ ʎɯ sɐ ʇɐɥʇ ʇɐǝq ʇ,uɐɔ ǝlddıu pɹıɥʇ s,uǝllɐ ʎlıl ‘ɥɐu ǝdou ǝdou ǝdou puɐ ¡ɟlǝsʇı ǝlddıu ǝɥʇ ɯoɹɟ ʇsnɾ ʇou puɐ ɐloǝɹɐ s,ʇsɐǝɹq ǝɥʇ ɯoɹɟ ʇno ʇɹnds uɐɔ ʞlıɯ ʇɐɥʇ :ɹǝʌǝ ʇɔɐɟ ʇsǝlooɔ ǝɥʇ sɐ ʇǝʎ uǝʇɐǝq ʇusɐɥ ǝƃǝlloɔ ƃuıɹnp pɐǝɹ slǝʌou ɯoɹɟ sʇɔɐɟ ʇsǝlooɔ ǝɥʇ uǝʌǝ ʇɐɥʇ ƃuıɥʇ ǝuo uʍouʞ ʎpɐǝɹlɐ ǝʌ,ı ’99, uı looɥɔs ǝpɐɹƃ ɯoɹɟ pǝʇɐnpɐɹƃ ı ǝɯıʇ ǝɥʇ ʎq ‘ɥʇıɯs ɹnqlıʍ oʇ sʞuɐɥʇ

˙lǝʌɐu s,ɯɐpɐ : oʇ uo sɹǝʇdɐɥɔ oʍʇ ʍou ɯ,,ı ʞooq ǝɥʇ uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuıpɐǝɹ ʎɹʇ oʇ ƃuıoƃ ɯ,ı ʇnq uʍop ǝpısdn sʞooq ǝʌɐɟ ɹǝɥʇo ʎɯ pɐǝɹ oʇ pǝıɹʇ ı ɟı ɹǝqɯǝɯǝɹ ʇuɐɔ ı

˙ssǝnƃ ı ʇı ɥʇıʍ ʇuǝıʇɐdɯı ooʇ ʇoƃ ʇsnɾ ı ʇnq ʇı ɹǝʇsɐɯ oʇ pǝıɹʇ ı ˙looɥɔs ɥƃıɥ ɯoɹɟ sǝʇɐɯssɐlɔ pǝpuɐɥ-ʇɥƃıɹ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ pǝɹɐdɯoɔ os ǝʇıɹʍ oʇ ǝɯ ɹoɟ ʎsɐǝ ʎlɹıɐɟ ssɐʍ ʇı ‘sʎɐʍʎuɐ ˙ɥƃnoɥʇ ɹǝʇsıuıs ʇ,usɐʍ ʇsnɾ ǝɥ ˙ǝʞıl-ɹoɹɹıɯ ƃuıʇɹıʍ oʇuı ǝʇınb oslɐ sı ǝɹɐǝdsǝʞɐɥs ɯɐıllıʍ pɹɐǝɥ ı ˙ʍʇq ‘lɐɹʇxǝpıqɯɐ sɐʍ ǝɥ  ˙ǝʞıl-ɹoɹɹıɯ ƃuıʇıɹʍ ʇɐ oƃ s,ıɔuıʌ ɐp opɹɐuoǝl sɐʍ uǝɥʇ ʞɔɐq pǝıɔuɐɟ ʎllɐǝɹ ı ʇɔɐɟ looɔ ɹǝɥʇouɐ

˙ǝʞıl-ɹoɹɹıɯ uı ǝɹnʇɐuƃıs ʎɯ uıɐƃɐ ǝɔuo ɹǝʇsɐɯ oʇ ʎɹʇ puɐ˙ɹǝʌoɔ oʇ ɹǝʌoɔ ɯoɹɟ uʍop ǝpısdn ʞooq ɐ ƃuıpɐǝɹ ɟo ɥsıʍ ʎɯ ɟlǝsʎɯ ʇuɐɹƃ ʎllɐnʇɔɐ ʇɥƃıɯ ı ‘ɹǝpuıɯǝɹ ǝıʇǝǝʍʇ s,ɹǝʎɐɯ uɥoɾ sıɥʇ oʇ sʞuɐɥʇ ʇnq

it’s probably coz i’m left handed that reading upside down have always appealed to me.but only if i m bored or just feeling sore of life 🙂

but yeah ive read my favourite book [The Power of One :: Courtenay] upside down at some point.i remembered having done so particularly on my third go at it.but i was just so impatient to get to the next moment of the story I gave up on the tenth paperback  page.ive started reading my first novel [Edwin Corley’s Sargasso] when i was ten, btw. but i finished it by time i was eleven. lol.

thanks to Wilbur Smith, by the time i graduated from grade school in ’99, i’ve already known one thing that even the coolest facts from novels read during college hasnt beaten yet as the coolest fact ever: that milk can spurt out from the breast’s areola and not just from the nipple itself! and nope nope nope nah, Lily Allen’s third nipple can’t beat that as my fave-st cool fact. haha.

i cant remember if i tried to read my other fave books upside down but I’m going to try reading upside down the book I”m now two chapters on to: Adam’s Navel.

another cool fact i really fancied back then was Leonardo da Vinci’s go at writing mirror-like.  he was ambidextral, btw. i heard William Shakespeare is also quite into wirting mirror-like. he just wasn’t sinister though. anyways, it was fairly easy for me to write so compared with my right-handed classmates from high school. I tried to master it but I just got too impatient with it i guess.

but thanks to this John Mayer’s tweetie reminder, I might actually grant myself my wish of reading a book upside down from cover to cover.and try to master once again my signature in mirror-like.

The Maya Bird: a Sparrow or a Finch?

i lol-ed at a friend’s recent notice posted over at Fb’s on how she’d love to get hold of a lovebird sitter ala baby sitter fashion–coz hers just hatched some new ones or something but she’s just to preoccupied at the moment. Fb is our pet name for Facebook in this side of the world.

her post, however, reminded of the little maya birds.. of how the little brown feathery cutestuff tweet me to carefree-ness whenever i hear them around the still green spots (thank God!) around metropolitan MNL.. of how they never miss out on uplifting my spirits–probably ever since the beginnning of my mortality in this world. lol.

but one more thing that came along with being reminded of them:
What is the English term of the Filipino term ‘Maya‘?

“just google it!” that’s probably what every modern rational man would suggest.of which I did.of which i always do anyways. but i have to add the term bird to it or else I’d get flooded with the great Mayan civilization. lol.

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but an fyi heads-up: the ‘Maya’ used to be the Philippines’ National Bird.

The Philippines is a young Republic just off mainland Asia.  And them little maya are tweeting all about in its 7,000 islands.

I grew up knowing that my country’s national bird looks like those above–naturally, along with the entire Philippine youth.

.However, according to a number of sources, most notably Wikipilipinas, that the National Bird is not that Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) shown above but rather a finch called the Black-headed Munia (also known as the Chestnut Munia or Lonchura atricapilla or what used to be Lonchura malacca).

The public must’ve been confused into thinking that the ‘national bird Maya’ and the brown ‘Tree Sparrow Maya’ is one and the same.  What we all missed out was the very important fact: the other half of the compound! lol.the Black-headed Munia, REAL ‘national bird Maya’, is properly termed as maya pula in Filipino.but since Filipinos have this knack at word puns and cropping names, they werent able to notice that their little Sherlock Holmes pieced the wrong two and two together. haha. cute, yes? haha.

while i was on my Maya row, i found something quite interesting: that the Maya might actually not be a sparrow nor a finch after all! :p

this link says that on some aviary stamp collection website, a 1994 Phlippine stamp showed a Philippine Trogon with a subheading “National Bird (Maya)”.  it got me all pumped up to be on to something cool, only to be dismayed after i went e-bird watching 24 hours after (read as having literally gone through the number of stamps on the said website–good thing there’s not much of them there though.lol)

so ok, the ‘National Bird Maya’ is clearly a finch (or the former national bird since the Philippine Eagle now holds the title).but it wouldve been fun if that stamp really pictured a trogon but still had the maya text in it–how much would it’ve fared in the aviary superworld, i wonder.

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Does the Philippines have the Most in Endemic Birds?

beats me. but it most likely has one of the greatest number of endemic birds since Colombia [having the most number of bird species at 1,870] only have approximately 70 endemic ones.

The Philippine Islands of the Pacific exclusively house 2% of the total bird population in the world; 30% of the Islands’ approximate total 600 bird  species.  194 endemic feathered animals happily tweet away knowing that they are ‘Made in the Philippines‘. * Get to know a few of them:

Live! singing Philippine Trogon over here. and here. :p

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P.S. *cheers, love.*

Virtual Reality

that i got lots of e-accounts despite my reserve drama act is killing me.im quite the temperamental superdiva i suppose.but whatever.

just yesterday, i took to re-engineering my virtual reality and was quite surprised how ive gotten a hi5 and a Netlog account.  note to self: never accept new network sites anymore!and stick to recycled passwords please!

ive always wanted to keep public information of myself to a minimum coz of this crazy dream of becoming a spy when i was a kid.didnt you have one, too?probably even two! anyways, i had that and so i kept myself from the internet for a very long time.

but one day something pierced me. “Ouch!” cried my heart.

i tried to look for whoever brushed me with what seemed to be a pogo stick when from out of nowhere bam!.sh*t it bit me. the f*ckin love bug shit bit me! and before i can grab it, the idiot bug scurried away to safety.i dont know why it ran.i just wanted to ask why it bit me that’s all.but i never saw it again ever since.

that being the briefest history of my lovelife (and my internet story which you’ll learn in a bit), i can say ive overmedicated myself into becoming a constant facebook logger.and por dios por santo but the terrestrial stars im following are such twats ive even made two tweeter accounts–my go at micromanagement. lol.

it was friendster that got me first though.it was the most popular social networking site on our side of the planet so, naturally, the symptom of my love virus would definitely have one. so thus.

on the course of almost half a decade, i’ve made dozens of yahoo acoounts and halved down its number, hotmail ones.  i had also a couple more when gmail was still by invites. bebo for my aussie relations.. an inactive local academic networking site.. 3 myspaces that i already forgot the passwords of.. an imeem and a playlist for music urls.. a flickr and a photobucket for photo keeping and urls.. a number of youtubes that i always forget passwords and emails of.. and i remember i had a number of slides (im reminded coz the aka secretlove is all over those apps. :p ) and quite a handful more of inactive forgotten accounts floating ’round the web.

as for blog sites, i was never part of the livejournal blogging generation–which happened to be the first wave of that kind to hit our shores but was only popular with the Y2K urban youth.  (during this time, i was probably somewhere eating my life away with Roswell and local tv dramas in some minuscule suburban town. :p)  [Multiply] the second wave i became a part of, sans the eagerness.i was forced to have it to nick photos from friends and im forced to keep to be able to nick more photos from friends.anyways, i was fine with my friendster blog.coz i happen to be nosy enough about css stuff and links and more web-kinky stuff that kept me petted throughout the blogging revolution.

but ive decided to venture out from my fs blog. to keep myself from writing silly proses and idiotic stuff. thus, this. (which is quite ironic if you ask me! that im having this topic as my first post. grr. haha!)