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.

Jun Lozada

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Jun Lozada – Hero or Hypocrite? In my Business and economic forecast for 2008, I initially predicted that there will be no huge political mudslinging that will have an impact in the economy. I was wrong. The Philippines is at it again! Calls for the President to step down have once again gained momentum on charges of alleged corruption as a result of the ZTE-NBN broadband deal. However in my opinion I don’t think this will succeed for several reasons. I will tackle that in another post. Since the start of the ZTE-NBN broadband deal controversy the name “Jun Lozada” has become so popular. In fact most webmasters and bloggers, would probably start exploiting the key word “Jun Lozada” right now considering that it is a high-trend, low-dense keyword. For those of you who do not know what a “high-trend but low-dense keyword,” by high trend we mean that a search for a certain keyword has been searched by a lot of people. You can know this if you go to google.com/trends. Type the … [Read more...]

Blog review: A one of a kind blog – MUSIC PICKS

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Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche I may not agree with Nietzche’s atheistic philosophies but I definitely agree that life without music is a mistake. Life without music is definitely a mistake because music is the only language that every human being knows how to speak. It is often called as the “Universal language.” Words may be powerful as it may stir up the emotions of its readers, but it is only music that touches the human soul. The wonders of music still cannot be fully scientifically explained. How can arrangements of sounds have such an impact in our innermost being? It is still a wonder that certain arrangement of sounds will somehow dictate our feelings. This certainly is still a mystery that confounds all of us. Eric Anderson aptly says this about music, "It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the … [Read more...]

OBSERVATION ON THE 1980 PHILIPPINE BAR EXAMINATIONS – Full report

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The following are excerpts from the actual reports of the 1980 Bar Examiners submitted to, and released to the law schools by, Madam Justice Ameurfina Melencio-Hererra, Chairperson of the 1980 Committee on Bar Examinations. I have already made a summary of this report and has posted it in this blog in the post entitled “How to pass the Philippine bar exams.” However I believe that law students and law professors will gain more by reading the full report. Although this report was made more than 27 years ago, the lessons that can be gleaned are timeless and can still very much apply to those who will be taking the Philippine bar exams. This report is also useful for law professors and law schools as this will help us re-evaluate our teaching methods in order to effectively help our students hurdle the hardest exam in the Philippines, the bar exams. The report starts out with these interesting observations: 1. With a relatively few notable exceptions, I observed a deficiency in the … [Read more...]

How to invest in the Philippine Stock market – Part 4c

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Stock Market Conventions and Terms This is the third installment of Part 4 on how to invest in the Philippine stock market. In the first 2 parts of this series we discussed what a stock is and how to search for stock information. Now we will discuss the first half of the stock information sheet in detail. If you wish to view the previous posts click on Financial Management and investments in the categories section and you can find the stock market series there. 3.) Understanding the stock information sheet The Stock information sheet in the Philippine Stock Exchange has two columns. We will discuss the first column first. 1.) ISIN - The first thing that you see is “ISIN.” This is the stock’s International Securities Identifying Number. This number is unique for all kinds of securities worldwide. (A security is an instrument representing a financial value, such as common stocks, bonds, debt securities, bank notes etc. ) We don’t want to go into how they assign the … [Read more...]

Super memory

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They say that the human brain is the most powerful and most complex piece of machinery there is to exist. So powerful and complex it is that that computing power of a single human brain is more powerful than all of the world’s computers combined. I remember watching the STAR TREK: Voyager series. When the Starship Voyager was introduced it is said that it the fastest among the fleet because the way it transmits information is through the use of “Bio-neural circuitry.” This is without a doubt a reference as to how fast the brain processes information. Unfortunately scientists tell us that the average human being only utilizes about 10 % of the brain. However recently, scientists are baffled by a man who is said to have utilized his brain function, way above the average 10 %, a man who is said to have “Super memory” a man who remembers all the details of his life. His name is Brad Williams from Wisconsin, U.S.A. Brad Williams recalls almost any news event and anything that he … [Read more...]