In college at 11, Mikaela Irene Fudolig is UP summa cum laude at 16

Mikaela Irene D. Fudolig, BS Physics with a GWA of 1.099, led the top honors. She also delivered the valedictory address on behalf of the graduating class.

Only 16 years old, Fudolig is the youngest student to be graduated by the University in the recent years and one of only two admitted to UPD without a high school diploma and without taking the UP College Admission Test.

She was only 11 years old and a sophomore at the Quezon City Science High School when she was granted permission to enroll at UPD as a non-degree student, having volunteered for a prototype Early College Placement Program the UPD College of Education was spearheading. After earning remarkable grades for an academic year, the Department of Education (DepEd) endorsed her admission to UPD, which was approved by the UP Board of Regents on May 30, 2003.

More about Mikaela on INQUIRER.net

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Daniel Tammet - Brain Man (Savant)

Part 1

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A genius explains

Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it. He speaks seven languages and is even devising his own language. Now scientists are asking whether his exceptional abilities are the key to unlock the secrets of autism.

Interview by Richard Johnson

Optimnem Blog: The Blog of Daniel Tammet

Frida Kahlo paintings & Lila Downs music

Frida Kahlo is a Mexican painter, born on July 6, 1907 and dead on July 13, 1954.

Frida claimed to be born on 1910, the year of the outbreak of the Mexican revolution, because she wanted her life began together with the modern Mexico.

This detail well introduces us to a singular personality, characterized since her childhood by a deep sense of independence and rebellion against social and moral ordinary habits, moved by passion and sensuality, proud of her "Mexicanidad" and cultural tradition set against the reigning Americanization: everything mixed with a peculiar sense of humour.

Her life was marked by physical suffering, started with the polio contracted at the age of five and worsen by her life-dominating event occurred in 1925. A bus accident caused severe injuries to her body owing to a pole that pierced her from the stomach to the pelvis. The medicine of her time tortured her body with surgical operations (32 throughout her life), corsets of different kinds and mechanical "stretching" systems.

Lots of her works were painted laying in the bed. Because of these physical conditions Frida was never able to have any children and this was a great sorrow for her.

She had a great love, Diego Rivera (she married twice with this man and dedicated to him a passionate diary) but also a lot of lovers, men and women, such as Leon Trotsky and André Breton's wife....




More Lila Downs music...

More music...Hefiorels Eclectic Music

Frida Kahlo

New mail...

Hi my dear densely question marked Hugo,


have you noticed how inspiring and influential our mail stream is? :)
I've used our last mail (your reaction on my blog and my answer to you) to link almost all postings.
Thank you for inspiring me :)
I am never taking anything too seriously...although sometimes it would be recommendable, so I am always open for learning about everything.

So, according to the quantity of "wonders" and question marks,when visiting the Cyberspace, you do feel a bit like Alice in the Wonderland, but see no fun at all...

Blog is the place when you can openly expose and share your interests, ideas, ask questions,get the answers and reactions, be artistic, write, compose, write your diary...Same as in the material world, but just using the different media.

By rejecting to understand the Cyber world, you can not deny it's existence.

Real persons are behind the computer screens, leaving the portions of their energy for other persons capable of understanding them. Aren't we exchanging our mails daily? I am very real person and you know it.
But, I have fun in the Real World as well as in the Cyber Space and also in Outer Space, on several Planets I am falling from occasionally, and I have fun in the number of Parallel Worlds I do exist simultaneously...all this reached just by following my hectic mind labyrinth, no magic mushrooms needed or the White Rabbit to be followed :)
You just have to accept the existence of the real world and cyberspace. Ask Sander about his opinion about blogging as a trend :)

I am going to give my humble tribute to Huizinga, and play Chicken Invaders!
Save the solar system from invading chickens! Just when you thought it was safe to eat chicken again, the chickens have returned with an organized invasion to take over the entire solar system! Journey to each planet and fight your way through to save the world (again)! Advance through waves of invading chickens, avoiding falling eggs and collecting power-ups to boost your spaceship's firepower.
I have to save the world (again)!

smiling kiss and breath taking embrace
Jade


ha cyber-touched jade,

quite some reactions...! again asking for many interesting questions/ questions marks, as always arising from confrontation with ' what seems to be nowadays normal life'..

yes, the mailstream is inspiring but for me also regularly confusing.

- I notice that the 'nature' of my lines sometimes is not clear (enough) ...is not easy to express the right nuances as in normal contact. for instance, I hardly can express the important differences between joking, teasing, playing, elaborating and meaning something... and therefore some (slight) misunderstanding is often influencing, resp. too many times/ too much of my expressions seem to be critical remarks..(point 1 in which cyberspace is and will never be real enough in contact).

- cyberspace is most certainly not a ' wonderland'...it offers no magic, no deeper questions, no surprises, no wondering...therefore it is more like a desert with some boring dusty villages (point 2 why cyberspace is never challenging enough in contact).

- blogs & personal websites are nothing else than ego-presentations that always and only offer the - mostly exaggerated-' nice' aspects of people and therefore it is not more than a dreary human-surface spectacle that has not much to do with the reality of the real persons ' hiding' behind it.

also in our mail that was the question at the beginning: only after ' real' contact you and I could become more real....(and even then point 1 still interfering regularly), so ' real persons behind the pc' does not say anything at all...

'some form' of contact is posible and that is nice - certainly between persons that are familiar with eachother- but for the rest... they can never be as real as in reality and that's (also?!) why they are behind the pc?!. that's clearly shown in the wildgrow fiction of second life for instance! + persons that ' openly expose' are mostly quite doubtfull beings in a doubtfull existence, showing that in a very shadowy way.. I can't see how that could enrich me in any way..

I do know all functions of the web, but also youngsters (like sander & friends) had own websites and blogs etc. but hooked off from the ' weirdoe overflow' as they call it' + the number of such ego-sites is becoming that big that nobody is reacting anymore?....nowadays only using friends-chat and - like me- finding reliable data or download/buy something. (point 3 why cyberspace is never real enough for finding the real-good contacts or get engaged in the much more important real suble-covert sides of real persons).

so, all together: I do not ' reject' the web at all! but do not see any ' fun' in it that is reaching or enriching me - the same with about 90% of daily dutch/amsterdam world 'functions' around me, so only use it for simple and relevant uses and ignore the rest as good as possible.....

and...you still have not made clear what & where the ' fun' is...sorry, but for instance that chicken game (the chicken-form is delusively nice, but the core is allways about fighting priming and always with that hell-horrible music!) is giving me shivers in my neckhairs...no fun at all for me.

another angle: so, the scepticism about cyberspace just corresponds with my scepticism about western society/massculture... that's why I do not feel completely at ease here...too much of such horrors in daily life which is regarded as ' normal'... basicly mirrored in the realisation that I often/ for bigger part feel more at home in odessa than in amsterdam...?! (although the western horror is also entering/ distorting life overthere of course)..

not knowing what is meant with ' fun'..? ha....resp. never been tricked in wanting a ' fun' life..??...that surface? of life has not much/ nothing to offer me..?

but then what about that I really do enjoy life and (small) elements of the world in which I live...

while trying to stay away from capitalistic-massculture addiction/ exploitation...? ha, always the rebell with a cause for ever.

this time a quickly-typed though real meant reaction as it is an interesting subject, with -when explicit formulated with then slight ironic smile.

the garden is waiting for a cut again and I have to start thinking how to react to milica and have to remember sander's birthday tomorrow and give a mail info to rita in moldavia....

relaxed but now pressured embrace and rebellious kiss, hugo

Hugo's reaction to JADRANKA'S CHIMERA :)

On 5/13/07, Hugo (e-mail known to me) wrote:

hi blogging jade,

1st reaction: not knowing what to do with yourself..... what a shame/ pity/ waste, etc. to find yourself in that position?! what do you miss/ need...!?

2nd: why that tibet animal?? is sponsoring or so??

3rd: why is the labyrinth so central?? where are you?? where is 'you' ?

so far no 8 visiting your blog....

anyway: I will never understand the need/necessity to put oneself so in the cyberspace... what is the extra it (hopefully) provides?

walking plants: I would feel some relief and emptiness... and then the neighbours would complain and bring them back.

cutting: civilisation has not only at the basis some need for cutting, but also needs regularly repetition as human wants are growing too wildly...??

reading priorities: no question at all/ ever: reading and drinking coffee are the utmost necessities in life.... even above a woman? (oei) and garden etc is just a fancy extra

(western luxury hobby) and never necessity;

as long as I can take a walk outdoors, go on holiday and enjoy some green/flowering scenery and otherways I have the city parks etc.. sorry for this blasphemy.

enjoying the embrace...with smiling return, hugo

my reply:

Ha, my dear too serious Hugo,

aren't you taking all the things a bit too seriously? :)
Try to enter in Homo Ludens role more frequently...it's fun;)
The Homo Ludens Andiniensis is already existing in you...:)...and it's fun :)
My blogging is also fun :)
I am constant Homo Ludens (as well as a gardener) :)

I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
is a famous song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David...and has a long history (1962), first recorded by R&B singer Tommy Hunt...and later on by Dusty Springfield (1964), Dionne Warwick (1966), Elvis Costello and The Attractions (1978), Demis Roussos (1978), The Photos, featuring Wendy Wu (1980) Linda Ronstadt (1994) and and Steve Tyrell (2003)
A 2002 release of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles... Also in 2002, the soundtrack to My Best Friend's Wedding included a version by Nicky Holland. In the film, Cameron Diaz sings the song in a karaoke scene. In 2003, it was released as a single by The White Stripes The video for the White Stripes version is a black and white video featuring Kate Moss pole dancing erotically and was directed by Sofia Coppola.
In 2006, the song was performed and included in the soundtrack for Shout! The Mod Musical.

Tibetan animal...
appeared accidentally in my "mind labyrinth" in the connection with the beautiful shawl I have found on the ground a few rainy days ago...The shawl is definitely not shahtoosh (directly related with the "Tibetan animal" named chiru ( Pantholops hodgsonii), an extremely endangered animal.
I included them in my blog because I want more people to know the truth about Tibetan Antelope, and I will eventually succeed if I have the traffic (can happen sometimes with the new blogs on the Internet, depending on a lot of things...but it is "all Greek to you"). The campaign for the protection of the chiru is not sponsoring my blog.
Hopefully, I can earn some money through the Google Ads (if the people visiting my blog click on the Google ads placed on my blog, I get paid small amount of money)

Labyrinth
accidentally it popped up in my mind, because it reminded me of surfing on the Internet: you can get lost easily or you can find your way if you know how and where to go...and having a nice graphic sign and also being connected with a garden maze, for me, the constant gardener, it was very attractive :)
Being in the Cyberspace for me is fun :), and also creating my habitat there is fun too :)
And...there are some blogs making some serious money:

Dave and Thomas Present: Daily Time Killers and Links!
Personal Development for Smart People

walking plants...
why would the neighbours complain about your run-away plants? They will adopt them, care about them, love them, talk to them and water them regularly and the plants will be content and grateful and would resolutely reject to come back to you :)..and you will drink your priority coffee and read your priority newspapers in your empty, deserted garden! Ha!

cutting...
as a social psychologist, you are sort of the social gardener! Your task is to cut dry social branches and get rid of the social weed and support positive flowering trands...regularly. The same pattern you have to apply to your own garden :) and experience Epicurean Gardening Bliss.

"And the most exquisite delights of sense are pursued, in the contrivance and plantation of gardens; which, with fruits, flowers, shades, fountains, and the music of birds that frequent such happy places, seem to furnish all the pleasures of the several senses, and with the greatest, or at least the most natural perfections" by Sir William Temple (Upon the Gardens of Epicurus)

I am loosing myself in the labyrinth of my hectic female mind!!! Have to come back to the reality and go outside and try to find and persuade Spot (rode Persianische langharage kater) to come back home...he is desperately in love and was out all night long for the first time in his cat's life.

"The first cut is the deepest" :) (Cat Stevens) but also Rod Stewart or Sheryl Crow.

Epicurean embrace&kiss
Jade