a world only with vowels

what if one day the world wakes up hearing, speaking, writing, texting, blogging, listening only in vowels? a Canadian poet tried just doing that and here is the url link where you can read about him and his attempt of just writing with one vowel at a time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7697000/7697762.stm

happy voweling

42

When I woke up this morning October 29 my bedroom was still dark, forgetting that last night when I went to bed I rolled down all the blinds shut since last night's temperature dropped and for someone used to the more balmy climes of a tropical country like the Philippines a one degree drop in the level of a mercurial thermometer is easily felt. So while I was hoping that the day would turn up for the better in terms of the temperature it seem that I will be relegated to a birthday celebration away from my family, alone and feeling colder. Anyway to be 42 today and as the popular saying goes it is always good to look at the brighter side of life and count one's blessings. So I would like to enumerate 42 blessings today as I celebrate my 42nd birth anniversary:
1. I was born - this enough I think is one very good blessing to be thankful
2. A mother and
3. A father
4-8 2 brothers and 3 sisters
9. finished my university studies
10. got a poem published
11. John
12. Den
13. Yong
14. Francis
15. Victor
16. Cynthia
17. Marilette
18. Agnes
19. Cecil
20. some more friends who are wonderful people
21. Edo
22. a loving partner
23. my own house (though badly needing repair)
24. good health (up to now at least)
25. a laptop (a Toshiba)
26. a license to drive (though still temporary)
27. a blog (yes, at least I can always keep a record of my thoughts when I feel the need)
28. have seen the Mont Blanc
29. rode the famous bullet train of Japan
30. visited the Kyoto Imperial Palace garden
31. fed the wild deers of the Nara Imperial Palace garden
32. attended a Japanese tea ceremony
33. experienced an open-air onzen
34. seen the milky way and
35. the magellanic clouds
36. at the rural part of Victoria in Australia
37. held a hand of a dying person (death is a certainty, life is a mystery)
38. experienced snow
39. listen to my first opera
40. visited the UN headquarter in Geneva
41. got partnered
42. updated this blog

Malaria

While it is true that the Philippines still is not malaria-free, I can consider my family and those belonging to at least my parents and my generations living in Legazpi City to be lucky enough to be spared the tragedy which still extract a high toll in terms of death and lost of productivity in most of the Third world particularly in Africa. Having been partnered with someone whose professional life is devoted to fighting this disease, it still for me a big question why having eliminated the disease in mostly western countries, yet WHO and people working against malaria cannot find a way to help eliminate the disease in Africa. Today Allan sent me this url link of a BBC program discussing one promising development about the fight against malaria in Africa, at http://bbcworldnews.survival.tv/documentaries/malaria.php

The Swiss post

If asked which aspect of Swiss life I will miss if the time comes for me to go back for good in the Philippines, then I will surely miss these three: the public transport system, the swiss postal service and cheese of course.
Well there are a lot of things you will truly appreciate of in Switzerland, for example they see to it that in every neighborhood there should be a park and green space for the people to enjoy nature, the garbage collection is done regularly, and there is no brownout. But again I will be missing the ever dependable public transport - which mind you include not only bus and tram but also boats because they also use the waterways of Geneva Lake for transport purposes.