Living in the City

The Creative Genius is Gone Michael Jackson is dead and I am so sad!!! No matter what they have said or will still say, Michael Jackson was clearly a musical genius . And now he has become a legend of his own time.

Want to learn how to spot liars? I am now hooked to this new Fox show called Lie to Me, starring Tim Roth. The show is based on studies made by Dr Paul Ekman on taxonomizing human  facial expressions. Known as the  Facial Action Coding System or FACS,  it is a standard  used to systematically categorize  the physical expression of emotions. Law enforcement people, psychologists and business institutions utilize  the system, to expose criminals, help patients struggles with their emotional or psychological conditions and help sales people deal better with customers or clients. It's funny but I think I have an innate ability to detect a lie from a truth.

When will I have my very own mensch? I wish every woman would have their own too. "In Yiddish (from which the word has migrated into American English ), mensch roughly means 'a good person'. A mensch is a particularly good person, like "a stand-up guy," a person with the qualities one would hope for in a dear friend or trusted colleague." A mensch is "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being 'a real mensch' is nothing less than character, rectitude, dignity, a sense of what is right, responsible, decorous". Jack Lemmon was called a mensch in a 1960 film called 'The Apartment', which starred Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray and directed by the great Billy Wilder. It is about a "love and ambition in the world of big business", and how people can get sucked into situations that spell losing character, suffer indignities and lead to irresponsible behavior. Understandably, the mo...

Thanks to a young man named Badong and his blog. I feel privileged to have been bestowed with the uber amazing award. Yes, I intend to pass on the same award to people I have met through the blogging world. But, I think most of them have received it. Just the same it won't be difficult to find additional five (as required) deserving bloggers. But, I will just have to get that done another day as home duties are beckoning. Again, Badong my appreciation for the kind gesture. Cheers!

When we moved to our dwelling  unit 8 months ago, our drainage system in the kitchen and laundry area weren't working. Filthy water came out of the drain every time the rain poured. Every time it rained  I prayed hard. I asked God not to get our kitchen  flooded. Imagine the dirty black and oily substances that came out of the sewer system when the drain overflows. Whew! My blood pressure boils every time. And so last December, 2 dwellers out of the 5 left. I was surprised. I didn't realize they too were having problems. I heard that one was having problems about their roof - water coming out of the ceiling. Har! And then the other unit owner defective kitchen sink. They had to wash their dishes in the bathroom. Eeww! Just the other day, our next door neighbor's living area got all wet when water overflowed from their laundry area.  Apparently, water supply plumbing got busted. Guess what. The pipes were sitting a few inches above the electricals. How dangerous ...

Something To Think About I am liberally reprinting an article from the New York Times. It talks about something which most human beings do everyday. A Highly Evolved Propensity for Deceit By NATALIE ANGIER Published: December 22, 2008 When considering the behavior of putative scam operators like Bernard “Ponzi scheme” Madoff or Rod “Potty Mouth” Blagojevich, feel free to express a sense of outrage, indignation, disgust, despair, amusement, schadenfreude. But surprise? Don’t make me laugh. Sure, Mr. Madoff may have bilked his clients of $50 billion, and Governor Blagojevich, of Illinois, stands accused of seeking personal gain through the illicit sale of public property — a United States Senate seat. Yet while the scale of their maneuvers may have been exceptional, their apparent willingness to lie, cheat, bluff and deceive most emphatically was not. Deceitful behavior has a long and storied history in the evolution of social life, and the more sophisticated the animal, it ...

I will try to learn CSS as fast as possible. I have downloaded a template for a business site that I am trying to build. No it is not from scratch because as I mentioned, already have a template. I need to fill it up with content and try to edit some of the elements. Am I trying to swallow more than I could chew? Yes, back then, I sold millions of dollars worth of large scale systems packages to some of our local banks not knowing the nitty gritty, so to speak. But should that give me a reason to believe I can really do this:-) Where am I going with this? Just that it should be worth a try. For the challenge. Wish me luck.