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There’s a Tagalog term that captures this testosterone-driven machismo: nakakalalake. The term is uttered in anger by a man who feels an intrusion into his territory, or disrespect (a look, certain actions) for his girlfriend or wife. It’s hard to predict what might be interpreted as provocation. Taking out a camera to video someone’s wife or girlfriend, especially if you’re a known journalist, as in the case of Mon Tulfo, might also be seen as kabastusan (disrespect).
The response from a Filipino macho male is to confront the offender: “Nakakalalake ka na!” (“You’re violating my pagkalalake [masculinity], and you’re going to pay for this”)
Non-Tagalog speakers know how treacherous Tagalog can be with its prefixes. Nakakalalake is completely different from nanlalalake, the latter referring to searching for or having male sexual partners. Note that both nakakalalake and nanlalalake have negative meanings: A gay man who is nanlalalake, picking up men, could be perceived too as nakakalalake and get mauled. And to use nanlalalake to describe a woman is to say she is an adulterer, promiscuous, or both.
- Prof. Michael L. Tan, “‘Pasensya,’ ‘lalake’” (via rethinkcapitalism)
(Source: opinion.inquirer.net)
Musical roads are also known to exist in: Denmark, South Korea, and the United States of America.
You fools! Don’t you realize what it means if the Chinese remain? Don’t you remember your history? The last time the Chinese came, they stayed a thousand years. The French are foreigners. They are weak. Colonialism is dying. The white man is finished in Asia. But if the Chinese stay now, they will never go. As for me, I prefer to sniff French shit for five years than to eat Chinese shit for the rest of my life.
- Hồ Chí Minh, President of North Viet Nam (via stevenrbailey)
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters over darker people in the world. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.” - 1967
(Source: commondreams)
Red crab migration
The red crab is by far the most obvious of the 14 species of land crabs on Christmas Island. Every year over 150 million red crabs move from inland shelters to the shore for their annual breeding season. This occurs at the beginning of the wet season (usually October/November).
The main migration can last up to 18 days. Masses of crabs gather into broad columns as they move toward the coast, climbing down high inland cliff faces, and over or around all obstacles in their way, following routes used year after year for both downward and return migrations.
Movement peaks in the early morning and late afternoons when it is cooler and there is more shade. Because if caught in open areas, in unshaded heat, the crabs soon lose body water and die.
Christmas Island is a small Australian-owned territory located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 300 miles south of Jakarta, Indonesia. A small population of 1600 residents live on the area of 50 square miles.
Aerogel, also know as frozen smoke, is the world’s lowest density solid, clocking in at 96% air. If you hold a small piece in your hand, it’s practically impossible to either see or feel, but if you poke it, it’s like styrofoam. It supports up to 4,000 times its own weight and can withstand a direct blast from two pounds of dynamite. It’s also the best insulator in existence.
NERDGASM
(Source: kcjo)
Pretty much the least vegetarian alcohol I’ve ever drank.
Habushu, from Okinawa. Whiskey with a snake in the bottle. It comes from the influence of Chinese medicine on east Asia and especially on the Ryukyu islands.
Her Majesty’s Melbourne Visit in 1954. Sigh.. look at how Flinders Street was all decked out for the occasion, its all gone these days.
Brazilian Artist Nele Azevado carved 1,000 figures out of ice on the steps of Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt Square. It was made to raise awareness about the rising sea-levels due to to melting ice.
(Source: magnolius)
Holland’s tulip fields from above. Like the world’s most beautiful bar graphs.
Via the so-good-it-should-be-illegal blog Aesthetics of Joy.
[The] average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and [we] have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours — one-third of our lives on earth — spinning fantasies.
- The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories. (via alwayswiththedaydreams)
The giant golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus), also known as the golden-capped fruit bat, is a rare megabat and one of the largest bats in the world. The species is endangered and is currently facing the possibility of extinction because of poaching and forest destruction. It is endemic to forests in the Philippines.
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