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FilAms referring to the Philippines as the acronym PI while they are calling homelanders for the use of Filipinx and Pinxy is peak irony. That is without adding these two facts: the letter F is a loaned letter in Tagalog from the oppressors (and its corresponding phoneme too) and that the demonym is an appellation to Felipe II of Spain. And for someone like me who reads and writes in Baybayin since age 15, to write a Baybayin X seems like a dark humor scene in a Taika Waititi comedy. (Yes, I do Baybayin shiz for fun, but not as serious as Kristian Kabuay and NordenX.)

I first encountered PI among FilAms during Christmas vacation 2002 in LA; and Pilipinx when I joined the theatrical production of a FilAm musical at CalState East Bay in 2016. I understand that it is their culture and I respect it, and I assimilate. I easily assimilate with what I call my Nickelodeon voice, which I have acquired from when jailbroken cable services became a thing in Mega Manila and through my theatre background. But when in Rome, we live the Roman way, so as the Santa Mesa-born foreigner, I have to hide that dark laughter every single time someone uses PI.

But of course, 2020 had to make us see PI-using FilAms pressuring homelander to use Filipinx, citing political correctness and gender neutrality (while white American Pemberton, the killer of Filipino transwoman Jennifer Laude, was given an absolute pardon by Duterte).

So, let us start my TEDtalk.

P.I. is a colloquial acronym for Putanginamo (the equivalent of Fuck You) used by conservative Filipinos who probably are only retelling a story.

Tsismosa 1: “Minura ni Aling Biring si Ka Boying.” (Aling Biring cursed Ka Boying)

Tsismosa 2: “Oh? Ano ika?” (Really? What did she say?)

Tsismosa 1: “Malutong at umaatikabong PI.” (A hard and surging PI.)

Then I imagine PI as the curse when FilAms say some sentences:

“Are you flying back to Putangina?”

“I miss Putangina. We went to Boracay.”

“Duterte is President of Putangina.”

But it’s fine with me. I understand they mean well and I know that Americans, as first world as they are, have poor grasp of history. It’s a little sad though that FilAms have not always been reminded of this special footnote in the history of the United States:

P.I. stands for Philippine Islands. That’s the colonial name of the Philippines as a commonwealth republic under the United States, which the republic stopped using when the 1935 Constitution was enacted in 1946. Yes, in case people are forgetting, the Philippines has long been a state with full sovereignty recognized by the United Nations (of which we are a founding member of and wherein Carlos Romulo served as President) and recognized by Shaider Pulis Pangkalawakan.

Also, RP is used to refer to the Republic of the Philippines before the use of the standard two-letter country code PH.

I’m not saying FilAms should stop using PI to refer to the Philippines but I’m saying that the roots of that practice is from American oppression that homelanders have already cancelledttt.

Our oldest bank in the Philippines is BPI. It stands for Bank of the Philippine Islands, originally named El Banco Español Filipino de Isabel II because it was founded during Queen Isabella II’s reign. It was a public bank by then; perhaps comparable to the Federal Reserve. Upon its privatization during the American occupation, the bank started using BPI for the sake of branding because it was the Americans who christened us with P.I. (I have a theory that Manila was a character in Money Heist because the Royal Mint of Spain used to have a branch in the Philippines and operated very closely with BPI. And my other supernatural theory is that our translation of peso which is ‘piso’ affects our economy. ‘Piso’ means ‘floor’ or ‘flat’ in Spanish.)

Now, going back. To me, P.I. is more appropriate an acronym for the ethnic group of Pacific Islanders. I don't think I need to explain further why. These would be the natives of Hawai’i, Guam, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and other islands in the Oceania continent, and maybe even New Zealand. If a curious FilAm raises a question of whether Filipinos are Pacific Islanders or Asians or Hispanics, the answer is long but easy to understand.

The Filipinos live in a group of islands within the Pacific Plate. The Philippines is an Asian country, following conventions of geopolitical continental borders from the other. We are Hispanics by virtue of being under Spain for three fucking centuries. And Teresita Marquez is Reina Hispanoamericana because why not? (We could’ve been a part of America still if not for the efforts of Quezon.) So, the quick answer is that the Filipino is all of it.

Yes, the Filipinos have an affinity with the Pacific through nature and geography. Think of the earthquakes, volcanoes, flora and fauna, and the coconuts. And they even look like us. The earlier inhabitants of the archipelago were Pacific Islanders who were introduced to Hinduism and Buddhism as being closer to the cradles of civilization India and China. Then, the Islamic faith has grown along with the rise of the kingdoms and polities in Southeast Asia. The Spaniards arrived in the archipelago, to an already civilized Islamic polity - too civilized that they understood how diplomacy is necessary in war. We knew that it resulted to the defeat and death of Magellan who was fighting for Rajah ‘Don Carlos’ Humabon. Then came the 333 years of being under Spain AND (sic) the Catholic Church which made us more Hispanic. Our Austronesian/Malayo-Polynesian languages (Tagalog, Bisaya, Kapampangan, Ilocano, Bikol, Waray, Cuyonon, etc.) have kept our Asian identity intact - unlike Latin American countries where the official language of each is one of the Romance languages; thus "Latin".

(It is only towards the end of that 333-year Spanish rule that the 'Filipino' emerged to be something the oppressed could claim, and for that we thank the poet in Jose Rizal. I see a parallel in how Christians claimed the cross, the former symbol of criminals in Jewish tradition, to become the symbol of God’s love and salvation through Jesus. Wow. That’s so UST of me. Lol.)

You add into the mix that our diaspora is so large and identifiable, the data gatherers decided to mark the tables with “Filipino” - too Asian to be Hispanic and Pacific, too Pacific to be Hispanic and Asian, and too Hispanic to be Asian and Pacific.

What many FilAms do not realize everyday is that unlike the words Blacks, Latinx, Asians, or Pacific Islanders, or Hispanics, the word Filipino is not just a word denoting an ethnic group. At its highest technical form, the word Filipino is a word for the citizenship of a sovereign nation, enshrined in the constitution of a free people whose history hinges on the first constitutional republic in Asia.

By state, we mean a sovereign nation and not a federal state. (Well, even with Chinese intervention, at the very least we try.)

By state, we mean we are a people with a national territory, a government, and a legal system inspired by the traditions of our ancestors and oppressors. It may be ugly, but it is ours, and we have the power to change it.

This one may be as confusing as Greek-Grecian-Greco-Hellenic-Hellene, but let’s examine the word 'Filipino' further when placed side by side with related words.

*Pilipinas is the country; official name: Republika ng Pilipinas. It is translated into English as “Philippines”; official name: Republic of the Philippines. Spanish translates it into “Filipinas”, the Germans “Philippinen”, the French “Les Philippines”, the Italians “Filippine”.

*Pilipino refers to the people. It is translated into English as Filipino. The plural forms are ‘mga Pilipino’ and ‘Filipinos’.

*Philippine is an English adjective relating to the Philippines, commonly used for official functions. It may be used as an alternative to the other western adjective ‘Filipino’ but the interchangeability is very, very nuanced. Filipino people not Philippine people. Filipino government and Philippine government. Philippine Embassy, Filipino embassy, not Filipino Embassy. Tricky, eh?

*Filipino also refers to the official language of the state (which is basically Tagalog).

*Filipiniana refers to Philippine-related books and non-book materials (cultural items, games, fashion, etc.) which could be produced by Filipinos or non-Filipinos, inside or outside the Philippines.

*Pinoy is a colloquial gender-neutral demonym; comparable to how New Zealanders use the word Kiwi.

The demonym Filipino has evolved from that of referring only to Spaniards in the Philippines into becoming the term for the native people who choose to embrace the identity of a national.

It started from when Jose Rizal wrote his poem “A la juventud filipina” and he emerged as an inspiration to the Philippine Revolution through Andres Bonifacio’s leadership. (But take note of ‘filipina’ because ‘juventud’ is a feminine word in Spanish.)

Today, no less than the 1987 Philippine Constitution, which was neither written by Hamilton nor a group of straight white men but by people of different faiths, genders, disabilities, and skin colors, in its first five words in both Filipino and English versions read: "Kami, ang nakapangyayaring sambayanang Pilipino", translated as "We, the sovereign Filipino people” validates the legitimacy of the word as gender-neutral, alive, aware and awake with our history of struggles.

Article 14 Section 7 of the current Constitution says Filipino is the national language. And while I agree that it is not really a real language but an alias for Tagalog, it is a conscientious codification of a social norm during the time of Manuel Quezon as he is aiming for the world to recognize the unified Filipinos as a sovereign people. People. Not men. Not heterosexual men. People.

It is a non-issue for the homeland Filipino that the word Filipino refers to the people and the language. But FilAms are concerned of political correctness due to an understandable cultural insecurity also felt by other non-whites in the US. And there is added confusion when FilAms pattern the word Filipino after the patriarchal Spanish language, without learning that the core of the grammars of Philippine languages are gender-neutral. The Tagalog pronoun "siya" has no gender. "Aba Ginoong Maria" is proof that the Tagalog word 'ginoo' originally has no gender. Our language is so high-context that we have a fundamental preposition: “sa”.

It is difficult to be a person of color in the United States especially in these times of the white supremacy’s galling resurgence. Well, it’s not like they have been gone, but this time, with Trump, especially, it’s like the movement took steroids and was given an advertising budget. But for FilAms to force Filipinx into the Philippines, among homeland Filipinos, is a rather uneducated move, insensitive of the legacies of our national heroes and magnificent leaders.

The FilAm culture and the Filipino homeland culture are super different, nuanced. It’s a different dynamic for a Latinx who speak Spanish or Portuguese or whatever their native language is - it reminds entitled white English-speaking America of their place in the continent. It should remind a racist white man whose roots hail from Denmark that his house in Los Angeles stands on what used to be the Mexican Empire.

Let’s use a specific cultural experience by a Black person for example: the black person not only has Smith or Johnson for their last name, but there is no single easy way for them to retrieve their family tree denoting which African country they were from, unless the Slave Trade has data as meticulous as the SALN forms. Let’s use a specific cultural experience by a Mexican-American with Native American heritage: the person is discriminated by a white US Border Patrol officer in the border of Texas. Texas used to be part of Mexico. Filipinos have a traceable lineage and a homeland.

Filipinos and FilAms may be enjoying the same food recipes, dancing the same cultural dance for purposes of presentations every once in a while, but the living conditions, the geography, the languages, social experiences, the human conditions are different, making the psychology, the politics, the social implications more disparate than Latinxs like Mexicans and Mexican Americans.

I don’t know if it is too much advertising from state instruments or from whatever but FilAms don’t realize how insensitive they have become in trying to shove a cultural tone down the throats of the citizens of the republic or of those who have closer affinity to it. And some Filipino homelanders who are very used to accommodating new global social trends without much sifting fall into the trap of misplaced passions.

To each his own, I guess. But FilAms should read Jose Rizal’s two novels, Carlos Romulo’s “I am a Filipino”, materials by Miriam Defensor Santiago (not just the humor books), speeches of Claro Recto, books by historians Gregorio Zaide, Teodoro Agoncillo, Renato Constantino, Nick Joaquin, Regalado Trota Jose, Fidel Villaroel, Zeus Salazar, Xiao Chua, and Ambeth Ocampo, and really immerse themselves in the struggle of the Filipino for an unidentifiable identity which the FilAms confuse for the FilAm culture. That’s a little weird because unlike Blacks and the Latinx movement, the Philippines is a real sovereign state which FilAms could hinge their history from.

I have to be honest. The homelanders don’t really care much about FilAm civil rights heroes Philip Vera Cruz and Larry Itliong, or even Alice Peña Bulos, because it was a different fight. But the media can play a role sharing it, shaping consensus and inadvertently setting standards. (But it’s slightly different for Peña Bulos, as people are realizing she was already a somebody in the Philippines before becoming a who’s who in the US, which is somehow similar to the case of Lea Salonga who was not only from the illustrious Salonga clan, but was also already a child star.) How much do Filipino millennials know about Marcoses, Aquinos? Maybe too serious? Lol. Then, let’s try using my favorite examples as a couch potato of newer cultural materials accessible to FilAms - cultural materials on television and internet.

FilAms who only watched TFC wondered who Regine Velasquez was when ABSCBN welcomed her like a beauty queen. Those with the GMA Pinoy TV have a little idea. But they did not initially get why the most successful Filipino artist in the US, Lea Salonga, does not get that level of adulation at home that Velasquez enjoys. Was it just Regine’s voice? No. Well, kinda, maybe, because there is no question that she is a damn good singer with God knows how many octaves, but it is the culture she represents as a probinsyana who made it that far and chose to go back home and stay - and that’s already a cultural nuance Filipinos understand and resonate with, without having to verbalize because the Philippines is a high-context culture in general, versus the US which is low-context culture in general. I mean, how many Filipinos know the difference of West End and Broadway, and a Tony and an Olivier? What does a Famas or a Palanca mean to a FilAm, to a Filipino scholar, and to an ordinary Filipino? Parallel those ideas with "Bulacan", "Asia", "Birit", "Songbird".

You think Coach Apl.de.Ap is that big in the Philippines? He was there for the global branding of the franchise because he is an American figure but really, Francis Magalona (+) and Gloc9 hold more influence. And speaking of influence, do FilAms know Macoy Dubs, Lloyd Cadena (+) and the cultures they represent? Do FilAms know Aling Marie and how a sari-sari store operates within a community? Do FilAms see the symbolic functions of a makeshift basketball (half)courts where fights happen regularly? How much premium do FilAms put on queer icons Boy Abunda, Vice Ganda? Do FilAms realize that Kris Aquino's role in Crazy Rich Asians was not just to have a Filipino in the cast (given that Nico Santos is already there) but was also Kris Aquino's version of a PR stunt to showcase that Filipinos are of equal footing with Asian counterparts if only in the game of 'pabonggahan'? Will the FilAms get it if someone says ‘kamukha ni Arn-arn’? Do FilAms see the humor in a Jaclyn Jose impersonation? Do FilAms even give premiums to the gems Ricky Lee, Peque Gallaga, Joel Lamangan, Joyce Bernal, Cathy Garcia Molina, and Jose Javier Reyes wrote and directed? (And these are not even National Artists.) How about AlDub or the experience of cringing to edgy and sometimes downright disgusting remarks of Joey De Leon while also admiring his creative genius? Do FilAms understand the process of how Vic Sotto became ‘Bossing’ and how Michael V could transform into Armi Millare? Do FilAms get that Sexbomb doesn’t remind people of Tom Jones but of Rochelle? Do FilAms get that dark humor when Jay Sonza’s name is placed beside Mel Tiangco’s? What do FilAms associate with the names ‘Tulfo’, ‘Isko’, ‘Erap’, ‘Charo’, ‘Matet’, ‘Janice’, ‘Miriam’, ‘Aga’, ‘Imelda’ and ‘Papin’? Do FilAms get that majority of Filipinos cannot jive into Rex Navarette’s and Jo Koy’s humor but find the comic antics of JoWaPao, Eugene Domingo, Mr Fu, Ryan Rems, and Donna Cariaga very easy to click with? Do FilAms know Jimmy Alapag, Jayjay Helterbrand, Josh Urbiztondo? Oh wait, these guys are FilAms. Lol. Both cultures find bridge in NBA, but have these FilAms been to a UAAP, NCAA, or a PBA basketball game where the longstanding rival groups face each other? Do FilAms know the legacy of Ely Buendia and the Eraserheads? Do FilAms know about Brenan Espartinez wearing this green costume on Sineskwela? Do FilAms know how Kiko Matsing, Ate Sienna, Kuya Bodjie helped shape a generation of a neoliberal workforce?

That list goes on and on, when it comes to this type of Filipiniana materials on pop culture, and I am sure as Shirley Puruntong that while the homeland Filipino culture is not as widespread, it has depth in its humble and high-context character.

Now, look at the practical traffic experiences of the homelanders. People riding the jeepneys, the tricycles, the MRT/LRT, the buses, and the kolorum - the daily Via Crucis of Mega Manila only Filipinos understand the gravity of, even without yet considering the germs passed as the payments pass through five million other passengers before reaching the front. Add the probinsyas, people from periphery islands who cross the sea to get good internet connections or do a checkup in the closest first-class town or component city. Do FilAms realize that the largest indoor arena in the world is built and owned by Iglesia ni Cristo, a homegrown Christian church with a headquarters that could equal the Disney castle?

Do FilAms know the experience as a tourist's experience or as an experience a homelander want to get away from or at least improved?

Do FilAms understand how much an SM, a Puregold, or a Jollibee, Greenwich, Chowking branch superbly change a town and its psychology and how it affects the Pamilihang Bayan? Do FilAms realize that while they find amusement over the use of tabo, the homelanders are not amused with something so routinary? Do FilAms realize how Filipinos shriek at the thought that regular US households do not wash their butts with soap and water after defecating?

Do FilAms understand the whole concept of "ayuda" or SAP Form in the context of pandemic and politics? The US has food banks, EDDs, and stubs - but the ayuda is nowhere near the first world entitlements Filipinos in the homeland could consider luxury. But, that in itself is part of the cultural nuance.

Do FilAms know that Oxford recognizes Philippine English as a diction of the English language? While we’ve slowly grown out of the fondness for pridyider and kolgeyt, do FilAms know how xerox is still used in the local parlance? Do FilAms know how excruciating it is to read Panitikan school books Ibong Adarna, Florante at Laura under the curriculum, and how light it is to read Bob Ong? Do FilAms realize that Jessica Zafra, with all her genius, is not the ordinary homelander’s cup-of-tea?

Do FilAms know that Filipinos do not sound as bad in English as stereotypes made them believe? Do FilAms really think that Philippines will be a call center capital if our accents sound like the idiolects of Rodrigo Duterte’s or Ninoy Aquino’s Philippine English accent? Do FilAms realize how Ninoy and Cory speak English with different accents? Lea Salonga's accent is a thespian's accent so she could do a long range like that of Meryl Streep if she wants to so she wouldn't be a good example. Pacquiao's accent shows the idiolect unique to his region in southern Philippines. But for purposes of showing an ethnolinguistic detail, I am using President Cory Aquino’s accent when she delivered her historic speech in the US Congress as a more current model of the Philippine English accent.

Do FilAms bother themselves with the monsoons, the humidity, and the viscosity of sweat the same way they get bothered with snowstorms, and heat waves measured in Fahrenheit?

Do FilAms know that not only heterosexual men are accepted in the Katipunan? Do FilAms even know what the Katipunan is? Do FilAms realize that the Philippines had two female presidents and a transwoman lawmaker? Do FilAms take “mamatay nang dahil sa’yo” the same way Filipinos do? Do FilAms know the ground and the grassroots? Do FilAms know the Filipino culture of the homeland?

These are cultural nuances FilAms will never understand without exposure of Philippine society reflected from barrio to lalawigan, from Tondo to Forbes Park. It goes the same way with Filipinos not understanding the cultural weight of Robert Lopez and the EGOT, or Seafood City, or Lucky Chances Casino, or what Jollibee symbolizes in New York, unless they are exposed.

The thing though is that while it is harder for FilAms to immerse to the homeland culture, it is easier for homeland culture to immerse into the FilAm’s because America’s excess extends to the propagation of its own subcultures, of which the FilAm’s is one.

We’re the same yet we’re different. But it should not be an issue if we are serious with embracing diversity. There should not be an issue with difference when we could find a common ground in a sense of history and shared destiny. But it is the burden of the Filipinos with and in power to understand the situation of those who have not.

Nuances. Nuances. Nuances.

And while I believe that changing a vowel into X to promote gender-neutrality has a noble intention, there is no need to fix things that are not broken. Do not be like politicians whose acts of service is to destroy streets and roads and then call for its renovation instead of fixing broken bridges or creating roads where there are none.

The word ‘Filipino’ is not broken. Since Rizal’s use of the term to refer to his Malayan folks, the formal process of repair started. And it is not merely codified, but validated by our prevailing Constitution, which I don’t think a FilAm would care to read, and I cannot blame them. What's in it for a regular FilAm? They wouldn’t read the US Constitution and the Federalist Papers; what more the 1987 Saligang Batas?

The bottomline of my thoughts on this particular X issue is that FilAms cannot impose a standard for Filipinos without going through a deeper, well-thought-out, more arduous process, most especially when the card of gender neutrality and political correctness are raised with no prior and deeper understanding of what it is to be a commoner in the homeland, of what it is to be an ordinary citizen in a barangay, from Bayan ng Itbayat, Lalawigan ng Batanes to Bayan ng Sitangkai, Lalawigan ng Sulu. It is very dangerous because FilAms yield more influence and power through their better access to resources, and yet these do not equate to cultural awareness.

Before Rizal’s political philosophy of Filipino, the ‘Filipino’ refers to a full-blooded Spaniard born in the Philippines, and since Spain follows jus sanguinis principle of citizenship, back then, ‘Filipino’ is as Spaniard as a ‘Madrileño’ (people in Madrid). The case in point is Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero - the Filipino Prime Minister of Spain.

But the word ‘Filipino’ was claimed by Rizal and the ilustrados to refer to whom the Spaniards call ‘indio’. The term was then applied retroactively to those who helped in the struggle. It was only later that Lapu-Lapu, Francisco Dagohoy, Gabriela and Diego Silang, Sultan Kudarat, Lorenzo Ruiz, and GOMBURZA were called Filipinos.

The word 'Filipino' was long fixed by the tears and sweat of martyrs through years of bloody history in the hands of traitors within and oppressors not just of the white race. The word Filipino is now used by men, women, and those who do not choose to be referred to as such who still bears a passport or any state document from the Republic of the Philippines. Whether a homelader is a Kapuso, Kapamilya, Kapatid, DDS, Dilawan, Noranian, Vilmanian, Sharonian, Team Magnolia, Barangay Ginebra, Catholic, Muslim, Aglipayan, Iglesia, Victory, Mormon, IP, OP, SJ, RVM, SVD, OSB, OSA, LGBTQQIP2SAA, etc., the word 'Filipino' is a constant variable in the formula of national consciousness.

Merriam-Webster defines Filipina as a Filipino girl or woman. Still a Filipino. Remember, dictionaries do not dictate rules. Dictionaries provide us with the meaning. To me, the word Filipina solidified as a subtle emphasis to the Philippines as a matriarchal country faking a macho look. But that’s not saying the word Filipino in the language is macho with six-pack.

The word Filipino is not resting its official status on the letter O but in its quiddity as a word and as an idea of a sovereign nation. The words Pilipino, Filipino, and Pinoy are not broken. What is broken is the notion that a Filipino subculture dictates the standard for political correctness without reaching the depth of our own history.

If the Filipinx-Pinxy-Pilipinx movement truly suits the Filipino-American struggle, my heart goes out for it. But my republic, the Philippines, home of the Filipino people, cradle of noble heroes, has no need for it (not just yet, maybe) - not because we don't want change, but because it will turn an already resolved theme utterly problematic. The Filipinos have no need for it, not because we cannot afford to consider political correctness when people are hungry, abused, and robbed off taxes. We could afford to legalize a formal way of Filipino greeting for purposes of national identity. But as far as the Filipinx, it should not be the homeland’s priority.

We may be poor, but we have culture.

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In California 16+ were eligible for the vaccine on April 15. However, many of these vaccine sites has such huge amounts of vaccines and not enough people that at the end of the day they were allowing anyone who wanted one to come by and get one before they closed. This happened in Dodgers Stadium a lot and there was even an instance where CalState Los Angeles put out a message saying first come first serve and took the message down a few hours later because of so many that showed up. I definitely started seeing more than a handful of influencers getting vaccinated before April 15 though and many people upset because people believed they werent all hunting for a vaccine like the rest of us were.

SNC have been traveling a lot even before the vaccine for seniors date was confirmed so who knows if they did or if they got tested at least. I'd imagine so because most countries have quarantines in place for foreigners.

Wow, that's interesting that they were asking people to come and get it. Everytime I hear of LA's vaccine process on the news, it's with footage of car lines out to the highways and stuff.

Yea, I feel like the reason some influencers aren't announcing getting the vaccine is because they think (know) they'll get backlash for getting it; especially if they get it early on in the process. Like I said in my last ask, I personally don't care who gets it and when, as long as people are getting it, but...whatever.

I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't get it either before or after the Alaska trip (or after coming home from Vegas). Both times they were home for a while before going back out again, so they had time to get it. But that's just speculation on my part.

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Eagle Con 2018 Panel

Hey all! 

I'm happy to announce that I will be presenting about this project on a panel at this year's Eagle Con!

Eagle Con is Calstate LA's annual comics convention and it centers around diversity in comics and other forms of media!

Join me for the panel on Thursday, March 8 from 12:30-1:30! 

More info on the con, my panel's location, and the panel schedule (there are so many other cool and important panels!!) can be found here: http://www.calstatela.edu/events/eagle-con-schedule

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I thought I had completed 60 units to apply for cal states, so I applied for Fall 2018. However, I checked my transcripts again after they requested them and it turns out I only need 4 more units to reach 60. My plan is to re-apply again for the next Spring semester but I have not notified any campuses of the error or my desire to re-apply again later. Should I tell them about this or just re-apply next time? CalState LA withdrew my application last week.

No need to tell them -- they will look at your record and make their admissions decisions accordingly. Best of luck applying in the fall!

(Note: you don’t have to be a full-time student both semesters for the upcoming year if you’ve completed all your requirements and don’t want to take more classes. But staying in school can keep you in a groove that makes the transition to the four-year smoother.)

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A very warm congratulations to our student Ruppenjot Singh for getting acceptance from California State University, Los Angeles for its Pre-Business Administration - Management program.

Ruppenjot is an alumnus of Suraj School, Gurgaon. He has received a Certificate of Distinction at the Australian National Chemistry Quiz and has also won a bronze standard certificate for river rafting under The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award for young people.

Cal State LA is the premier comprehensive public university in the heart of Los Angeles and is dedicated to engagement, service, and the public good. It is ranked number one in the United States for the upward mobility of its students.

All the best to Ruppenjot..!!

#PPROEED #Celebrations #CollegeGuidance #Collegeacceptance #CalState

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J’ai passé un super bon moment à Universal Studio, j’étais comme dans un rêve dans le parc à thème Harry Potter :) C’était juste parfait et vu que j’ai pris le Californian Pass je vais pouvoir y retourner! J’y suis allé avec une amie de mon université française qui est en échange à CalState San Bernardino donc environs 1h30 de LA! ça fait un bien fou de voir des visages familier :D

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MYERS-BRIGGS: ISTP - The Virtuoso MORAL ALIGNMENT: Lawful Neutral ENNEAGRAM:  Unhealthy Type 1 - The Dutiful Worker (X) TEMPERAMENT: 60% Melancholic, 40% Sanguine POSITIVE TRAITS: Thorough, Giving, Genteel, Appreciative NEGATIVE TRAITS: Rigid, Single-Minded, Compulsive, Passive

BACKGROUND

BIRTHPLACE: Keene Valley, New York HOMETOWN: Lake Placid, New York CURRENT RESIDENCE: Portland, Oregon FINANCIAL STATUS: Working Middle Class EDUCATION LEVEL: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Arts in Music (CalState-LA) FATHER: Richard Francis, 69, Sculpture and Painter MOTHER: Irika Munnings, 70, Retired Civil Engineer SIBLINGS: Older sister (Vina), Older brother (Gilbert) EXTENDED FAMILY: tba

HISTORY

The Mars-Timothy household: fantastic, eccentric family full of artists, poets, writers, academics – very ethereal yet earthy people. They fill their homes with love, support, and good literature in a small town by the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Patrick is welcomed with kisses and open arms and a beatnik beanie made of a hundred-year-old thread, as he cries for the first time..

His sister is his father’s favorite for they are both artists, his brother’s his mother’s for they both don’t like noise; and so he fast becomes his uncle’s – the most rational and tethered person in the family. A mirror, a translation, an easy choice.

He picked up his first instrument at the age of 6, and it’s a brand new guitar too big for his little fingers. His uncle tells him that it’s not appropriate to give a growing child age-appropriate toys because then the child would grow out of it. Patrick doesn’t let it go until 9 years later when the neck breaks.

In high school, he increasingly excels in mathematics, and attends contests for it. He sets his eyes on being an engineer, like his mother ( but unlike his mother still, who, despite having 2 doctorate degrees on mechanical engineer, opts to dedicate her life to agriculture and herbalism instead ).

In and for his endeavours, he could so stands to easily be the odd man out -- a numeric in a portrait of paint and prose. The Japanese have a proverb and advise that ‘the nail that sticks out shall be hammered hammered down.’ In and for their endeavours, his family locates and allocates him space for his own growth. They hang his New York State Mathematics League award certificate right next to his sister’s acclaimed abstract painting of a horse. In a family of great eccentricity, he is the eccentric. The hammer never strikes, they are all nails sticking out.

Although he learns how to read sheet music at grade school, and has picked up the guitar very early on, Patrick’s formal introduction to technical music started when he sits in his ex’s music class during college. At the time, he’s finishing his sophomore year as a civil engineering major at Northeastern University; whilst his now-ex attends Boston Conservatory and majors in orchestral composition. Instead of dates and nights out, they both practice and play music in her cramped apartment.

Landing a position at a family friend’s engineering firm is not tough – what is, however, is trying to enroll in respectable conservatories with very minimal formal musical training. At that point, Patrick attends small music schools to study string and percussion  instruments to build up his application, and sets his goal in achieving a music degree. It will take 2 more years, at 26, before he is accepted to a decent music school at the California State University - LA.

Characteristically, Patrick’s parents insists on financing his musical education despite him being adamant that he will do it himself. His parents and uncle, now all retired, will often fly from New York to LA to see his recitals and performances ( retirement gives you such luxuries, his father once said ). 

For the first three years as a music student, Patrick’s focus never wavers. He does not necessarily excel as much as the more exposed and experienced students, but his personal growth is unparalleled. He gets a few calls from bands and small recording studious to play in, and he takes, takes, takes – thankful.

On his last semester, he’s moves out campus housing to live with a fellow student residing in the outskirts of LA. His friend introduces him to busking, and Patrick is immediately smitten with the place and the art. He has always known that music is about the people, but when he plays in public as he has been doing since, it is transcendental almost.

Now a graduate, he still resides in (Cities) as he applies for various conservatories and orchestras to play in. So far, his luck has yet to turn up, but at the same time, he is happy to keep playing as a busker. (City Verse)

PERSONALITY

Patrick is a very thorough person. He does not like loose ends, and makes sure that he sees through anything he does. He values commitments very highly, and as such, he often expects that others do the same. He also has a great sense of universal kindness, which he takes up from his father. He volunteers in soup kitchens when he can, and hands out food to those who need it when he can afford it. Coming from a huge family, sharing becomes second nature to him.

His unwavering dedication comes off as single-mindedness. When he sets his eyes on something, it is very hard for him to defer from it. As such, when he establishes a routine, he sees to it that he follows it as best he can, and doesn’t like surprises. This makes him seem rigid and stubborn, but he doesn’t see this as a fault – merely a testament of his dedication.

Patrick has a light sense of humour. Growing up, he has suffered through the teasing of his two older siblings, and now he practices the same with his friends. In addition, he knows a lot of people and treats amiably, he only considers a few of them as friends. He is very particular in telling others stories of his family, except the trivial ones; and does not come off as a loud person.

FUN FACTS

Although the first instrument he learned to play is the guitar, when Patrick was a toddler, his mother would guide his chubby finger to play simple songs on their upright piano. To date, Patrick is the family’s fourth musician among the countless academics, poets, and artists.

Flying will never be an option if Patrick were to have a last say. During childhood, he had recurring dreams of being a fighter pilot in a war and it would always leave him crying. Vina, his older sister, had been no help as she would always tell him that he’s being haunted by the ghost of their ancestors who died in World War II.

Patrick is very fearful of ghosts and spirits, and highly respects cultures and traditions that are related to them.

He had a relatively successful career as a civil engineer during the two years that he was employed in the field. He was set for his third promotion before he enrolled into music school.

His beard grows too fast, too long for him to be patient and forgiving enough with his biology. He prefers to sport a clean-shaven look; at his most worst days, he’ll tolerate a scruff. His barber is appalled that, with how particular Patrick is of his grooming habits, Patrick still prefers a disposable razor. 

RELATIONSHIPS

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Event Participation Credit Artist Research 2--David Orr

About the Artist: 

David Orr is a visual artist based in California. His work has been shown extensively in the United States and internationally in shows juried by representatives from the de Young Museum, the International Center for Photography, the Lucie Awards, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The New York Times, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. His work is in public collections among such artists as Ansel Adams, John Baldessari, Jim Dine, David Hockney, The Brothers Quay, Edward Weston, and Joel-Peter Witkin.

His work has appeared in Art Daily, Buzzfeed, Communication Arts, Graphis, Hyperallergic, The Photo Review, Print, The Art Director’s Club, The Society of Publication Designers, Psychological Perspectives, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, VICE, and VICTOR: The Hasselblad Magazine. Independent film projects have aired on Channel 4 Britain and PBS. He speaks about his work regularly and has presented at CalState/LA, The Joseph Campbell Foundation, Death Salon, The Director’s Guild of America, Dublintellectual, The Mütter Museum, The New School, Parsons School of Design, The Philosophical Research Society (where he established the arts program, served as curator, and founded the Hansell Gallery), Reed College, and UCLA, among other venues. He is a member of The Long Now Foundation.

Born in Manhattan and raised on the East Coast, David currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

(From: http://www.david-orr.com/ )

Examples of Work:

http://www.david-orr.com/perfect_vessels/

Milan Joanovits, m, 30 (Catholic, robber + murderer; executed in Belgrade) 

Maria Falkensteiner, ƒ, 22 (Maidservant; died of Meningitis)

http://www.david-orr.com/libri/

LIBRI: Being and Nothingness

LIBRI: Beowulf

My Analysis:

David Orr is a photographer who focuses his works on the concept of perfection and symmetry. As illustrated by the works of his I have included above, one can easily see that these images have been digitally influenced yet still have a somewhat natural look to them. I initially discovered his works with Human Skulls, and when on his website, I happened across his works with books, something I have been trying to figure out how to execute in my own photographs. I think it is fascinating how he is able to make the edited images appear so natural, and how he is able to make death look so beautiful.

[juliehughesledererrn]

Julie Hughes Lederer, MSN, BSN, RN, is a Retired Registered Nurse and Professor of Nursing Currently Living in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Julie Hughes Lederer, MSN, BSN, RN, is a well-versed registered nurse currently retired and living in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. She has previously served as Nursing Professor at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, CA (1979-2009). Upon relocating to Hawaii, she joined the Hospice of Kona in Kailua-Kona, HI (2010-2011). She has an impressive professional journey that spanned forty-six years. Her areas of expertise covered pediatric nursing, medical-surgical nursing, and hospice nursing. Throughout her many years in practice, Julie has upheld a steadfast commitment to the ethical and professional standards of her work. Hence, she ensures an impeccable degree of patient satisfaction in all facets of her practice. For more information about Julie Hughes Lederer, MSN, BSN, RN, please visit https://todaysnurse.org/network/index.php?do=/4142321/info/.

Julie Hughes Lederer, MSN, BSN, RN, attended Rio Hondo College in Whittier, CA, and received her nursing degree in 1973. Her credentials include her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (1978) and her Master of Science degree in Nursing (1986) earned at Patricia A. Chin School of Nursing at CalState LA in Los Angeles, CA. She was a Certified Nurse Educator and remained at the forefront of her challenging field via memberships and affiliations with prestigious professional societies and associations. She feels that her success is attributable primarily to her curiosity, love of nursing, and going for her master’s degree in areas of her interest. Outside work, she dedicates to running her small vintage and antique business and traveling. For more information about Julie Hughes Lederer, MSN, BSN, RN, please visit https://todaysnurse.org/network/index.php?do=/4142321/info/.

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