Life Hacks for Polymaths

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Welcome polymaths !

Ever get the feeling that you seem to don't know what to do with your life because there are just so many things that you want to do ? I know, I've been there, so welcome to the club.

My name is Zigfred Diaz and I am a polymath. After more than 6 years of bloging about almost anything under the sun and having sort of a "blogging identity crisis." I've finally embraced who I am and decided to turn my main blog into some sort of guide for people with so much interest. Feel free to poke around.

President Benigno “NoyNoy” Aquino III State of the Nation Adress 2011 English translation

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Below is President Benigno "NoyNoy" Aquino III State of the Nation Address (SONA) 2011. For the Filipino translation of the 2011 SONA click here. Good thing all our t.v and  radio stations have a honda generator, otherwise we would not be able to hear the SONA if there was a black out. :-) Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile; Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr.; Vice President Jejomar Binay; former Presidents Fidel Valdez Ramos and Joseph Ejercito Estrada; Chief Justice Renato Corona and the honorable Justices of the Supreme Court; honorable members of the diplomatic corps; members of the House of Representatives and the Senate; Local Government Officials; members of our Cabinet; members of the Armed Forces and the Philippine National Police; to my fellow servants of the Filipino people; And to my beloved countrymen, my Bosses: I stood before you during my inauguration and promised: we would do away with the use of the wang-wang. This one gesture has become the symbol of change, not … [Read more...]

President Benigno “NoyNoy” Aquino III State of the Nation Adress 2011 originally delievered in Filipino

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To all of you who are looking for  President Benigno "NoyNoy" Aquino III's 2011 State of the Nation address here it is. (Note this is the FILIPINO TRANSLATION (Speech originally delivered in Filipino) Click here  for the SONA 2011 English translation) Don't go anywhere else you might end up looking at restaurant supplies. :-) State of the Nation Address of His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III President of the Philippines To the Congress of the Philippines [Delivered at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasan Pambansa Complex, Quezon City on July 25, 2011] Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile; Speaker Feliciano Belmonte; Bise Presidente Jejomar Binay; mga dating Pangulong Fidel Valdez Ramos at Joseph Ejercito Estrada; Chief Justice Renato Corona at ang ating mga kagalang-galang na mahistrado ng Korte Suprema; mga kagalang-galang na kasapi ng diplomatic corps; mga butihing miyembro ng Kamara de Representante at ng Senado; mga Local Government officials; mga … [Read more...]

The not so well known Nikola Tesla and the story of the remote control

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Every kid knows Thomas Alva Edison who is being always set out as an example on hard work and persistence but sadly they don’t know the guy who is behind the toy that every kid wants. Months ago, I watched a documentary on Nikola Tesla. I’ve heard about the man but I’ve never really realized the importance of his discoveries and inventions until I watched that documentary featured by History Channel (Which is by the way my favorite channel) Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 – 7 January 1943 )was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer and was one of the greatest mind in engineering, but he didn’t get the recognition he deserved. Tesla’s inventions contributed to the birth of commercial electricity. Without Tesla we would still be stuck with Edison’s DC (Direct Current) and we would have a limited ability to transmit electricity over great distances. Tesla pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries and inventions were of groundbreaking … [Read more...]

2010 Bar exam results finally out . . .

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. . . On Thursday that is. (March 17, 2011). Nope this is not a rumour. News reports state that the Supreme Court through Public Information Office acting chief Atty. Ma. Victoria Gleoresty Guerrahas announced to the media that Chief Justice Renato Corona has called for a special en banc session on Thursday to decode and release the 2010 Bar exam results. There were  4,847 examinees in the 2010 Bar exams, and almost half are repeaters. About 52 % are new examinees (2,521 were new examinees). The 2010 bar exams is definitely one for the history books as it is the last bar exams that features the examination format that has been used since the beginning of the bar exams in the Philippines.  Radical changes will be made in the 2011 Bar exams. You might want to read more about this in  "Major Changes in the Bar Examination: Impact on bar exam review and coaching."  The 2010 bar exams is also when the tragic grenade throwing incident happened where about 50 law students were injured. … [Read more...]