Living in the City

Am I real? What if I was just a character In a computer game Of some child genius from the distant future? Give me an idea of my program I will try to decode it. What is my role in this game? Who are the rest of the characters? It was a mistake To assume I was the lead character Can you please debug I am kinda getting out of sync. The synapses are beginning to numb What do I have in between my glial cells I wish I were Sophia Or maybe Elon? It is good to have noble intentions And have altruistic plans But my programmer needs to do a fast forward. Help me out please?  

 Sketches I did way before Covid. Using them to update my blogs.

 Recalling what happened.. The Covid pandemic struck. And  yes we have since moved to a much  smaller place in another city. My Mom died in 2019. It is something I refuse to remember.  I am trying to  feel but could not.  My granddaughter surprisingly commented that our new place is "liit" or small. I guess she was just being honest. I remember her telling me in a begging like manner to not leave our old place in a subdivision. I can't blame her cause at that instance,  I realize she probably thought  there's no way she can bike in this tiny, new place. Yay! But  the many challenges we have to take on and squarely face started when we got this place. For the life of me, I can't even begin to enumerate them.  Somehow,  another hurdle over. And I am still here.

Regardless of what his detractors say about him, President Duterte remains someone I truly admire. No,  he does not know me or know anyone I know,  but deep in my heart and whatever's  left of my aging brain,  I believe he truly  cares about  the ordinary Filipino.  

 There should be. Otherwise, what can we look forward to? According to experts, we need to vaccinate70 percent of the world's population to achieve herd immunity.  As of March 16, 2021, 90M people had been fully vaccinated with 390M doses administered. Slow roll out according to experts. And does vaccination ensure we can all go back to our normal lives? Maybe yes, maybe not. Because vaccines do not guarantee  we are safe. Some scientists declare that vaccines might not even prevent transmission. Further, that immunity might not last forever. Good luck then to us humans.

This blog note I posted in my LEARNING blog which I never got to continue developing as I was occupied with developing several other content I was trying to do at that time - 2013.  So timely because today all students are online. And I was on it way, way back. I was almost retired at that time but because I wanted to continue learning I found  out that I could continue learning through MOOCS.    So what are MOOCs? MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses are free online courses asynchronously accessible through the Web. These  courses are offered by educational institutions like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and other big league schools in the United States. MOOCs do not give university degrees but taking these courses could supplement college studies or refresh everything you have learned upon retirement or whenever there is an opportunity.  At the time, MOOCs were provided FREE. Full audit and can participate in the exams. They also gave out  Statements of Accomplishments to those who just au