SEVEN = 7 : Seven Deadly Sins

 WAR IN VIETNAM > The most controversial and the bloodiest war ever! 

Based from all the war movies I watched on our TV, the Vietnam war story is the bloodiest, gory and unforgettable. Que horror!

I had seen PLATOON, 

THE KILLING FIELDS

RESCUE DAWN

WE WERE SOLDIERS

HAMBURGER HILL

 GOOD MORNING VIETNAM

 APOCALYPSE NOW

BRIDGE ON RIVER KWAI

TO END ALL WARS

 FULL METAL JACKET, and recently 1968: TUNNEL RATS. 

In those two movies above there are survivors but in TUNNEL RATS nobody survives. This movie is brutally, wickedly produced. OMG! What kind of tunnel is that?

It all started with troops of American soldiers arrival in Vietnam to help with insurgency to help Vietnamese defeat Vietcongs (North Vietnamese - Communists). However, when the troops of soldiers camped inside the deepest of the forest unknowingly that underground is a mysterious tunnel where the Vietcongs live and hide. The soldiers found a hole and curiosity aside, one soldier volunteered to get in and find out for himself what's in there. He crawled in to the dark tunnel with a flashlight and a gun in his hand but the Vietcong had shot him. He died. The troops got mad and panic, two soldiers volunteered to get in and crawled to the dark tunnel carefully and almost got blown by grenade but was able to see the line that connects to the pin of the grenade. Good thinking for his good vision. They (2 soldiers) crawled to the end of the tunnel while there's another level down below that tunnel, the Vietcongs having a meeting. At the end of that tunnel another hole, up the ground, an opening and the soldier had his head up and out of the hole and too late to even say a word, a sharp bamboo spear already got her neck bluntly struck to his neck and the dead soldier got stuck in that opening. Then the female Vietcong cold blooded killer showed no remorse, dropped the grenade down the hole and the second soldier left behind in the tunnel was buried with the soil. More killings followed when the Vietcongs raid the American soldiers camp and deaths followed until a depressed, injured, hopeless American soldier ordered for air strike. Air strike arrived with a vengeance! Everybody got blown away. THE END.

Why Vietcongs too harsh and too barbaric? Vietcongs thought the Americans are invaders and they had witnessed some of them raping the Vietnamese women and they hanged one of their fellow Viets from a tree. That's what it is in the story. 

Conflict with the language. Who are Vietnamese & Vietcongs? They looked a-likes. There's no difference unless if the Vietcongs wear some kind of uniform. The problem with them is: turned out the majority of the Vietnamese liked Communism. They are in favor of the Communist Party movement. That it was a mistake for allied forces to be in there actually. Lives lost! So many Americans died and injured in that war. They should have known. WAR is something the country's leaders should think not twice but many times over as in 7x7x7x7x7x7x7

THE WAR IN VIETNAM was a very controversial war and intriguing that it opened so much political debate and had been in Psychology Textbook for many generations to study: Chapter 18: Social Influence (Just Following Orders in Vietnam) page 576-577 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY by Atkinson, Atkinson & Hilgard.

Controversial Good Doctor Series & HOUSE

 Nobody likes a smart ass!

OK. That's true. But not too many people like stupid people especially those who are working for the Government or Health Care.

If you know what I mean. Just happened to watch the latest episode of THE GOOD DOCTOR. As usual that episode of  Charlie's curiosity led to Dr. Murphy informing her she should be a pathologist instead of being a surgeon. True! If you can see or feel anything microscopic without the need for microscope then so be it. I think hospitals and laboratories need humans with bionic eyes and bionic vision. It's the same thing with Nuclear Physics and Radiology, X Ray technicians should have better eyesight, the best vision that they could ever have. SEEING IS BELIEVING. It's their own findings that could determine the diagnosis of every ailments. Doctors and surgeons relied so much as in 100% from laboratory technicians, X-Ray tech radiologist and MRI scanner technician within their ability to SEE what is abnormal in those tissues, organs, and body fluids. Through their testing, through the help of their equipment we can find out or discover the diagnosis. Only if the test is accurate. Only if the equipment are state of the art, modern and not obsolete. Reason to believe... proof.

Ask Marie Curie how to properly use ultrasound machines and MRI scanner. You know how magnets attract? Can you scan magnets from a group of sand? Scanning those magnetic objects in one corner of space? You don't want your "magnets" inside your body taken out from you or you will lose your magnetism and you'll lose gravity. You will have to carry with you a lodestone , magnet or metals (steel or iron) in your legs and hips. If you lose your magnets on your hands you wont be able to use touchtone machines such as cellphones and other automated gadgets. You as a human being has "gravity" that can make you stand on the Earth's surface firmly or else you'll float like a balloon in space.

HOUSE MEDICAL SERIES. In that popular medical series on TV, Diagnostic Team led by the brilliant doctor/surgeon Dr. Gregory House (portrayed by talented Hugh Laurie) had to do the works of medical technologists & pathologists they almost worked on 24/hour basis to find what ails their patients. They don't rely on the works of X-Ray technician or MRI scanner radiologist, they do it handling those equipment and use modern technology seeing with their own eyes and vision. They don't allow other doctors in their team and nurses are not even allow in their "testing to know and find the cure and treatment."They became investigators.  If they have to dig graves they will do it. They even have to do the autopsy. HOUSE is similar to SEAL TEAM in their own extraordinary way. You wished in real life doctors have all the general knowledge about medicines. Specialty or specialization takes more than maybe another 4 years. * 8 years to be exact.

 

In reality, doctors are not allowed to do such thing because laboratory is separated from hospitals and the testing of such fluids: blood, urine, or stools take hours maybe days depend on location and how many patients in that hospital. Can they mix up one patient with another patient's test result? 

There are baby mixed up in the past. Like switched at birth. If that happens, there's a possibility that something out of the ordinary can happen. Yeah like in a horror movie.

Harmony & Finestkind

 Let's have movies once again. 

FINESTKIND.

 Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Jenna Ortega, Toby Wallace, Ben Foster, etc.

Charlie (Toby Wallace) & Tom (Ben Foster) are brothers with the same mother, different fathers. Charlie asked his brother Tom if he could work for him for the boat Harmony and go fishing. Tom was reluctant and told his brother to just finish his education first. For whatever reason Tom allowed his younger brother to go sail with him along the coast but unfortunately the boat caught on fire and capsized. It's ok, the captain and the crews survived. While celebrating being alive from such devastating event, Charlie's father arrived and was pissed of and yelled that Charlie was wasting time when he could study Law in Boston University. Everyone in that bar was surprised, including Mabel. By the way Mabel instantly charmed by Charlie and they started a relationship.

Tom confronted his boss that the reason for the boat's accident and capsized its because the owner didn't bother to fix that boat. Tom was fired from work, got depressed and in seclusion until Tom's dad Ray Eldridge (Tommy Lee Jones) came to approach him and told him that he could use his boat the Finestkind. At first, Tom doesn't like to work for his dad until the old man insist, begging with please. and the next day, Tom & the crews set sail to the coast. While Charlie was too late to be with them, Mabel had to drive her car in an over- speeding maneuver  to the dockyard wanting Charlie to catch up to the Finestkind.

Next scenes: It was a bountiful harvest of scallops! OMG! I like scallops!! There are thousands upon thousands of scallops. Hmm, that's how they gather scallops? Scallops are expensive.

The guys cleaned the scallops from its shiny shells and take the "pulp" they looked like white pulps or cocoon inside the scallop shells. They cleaned them thoroughly and then store them in white bags and kept in the cold storage with tons of shaved ice. They already had enough of scallops and yet Tom decided to cross line through the delight of his crews. Their boat Finestkind had crossed the Canadian coastline and they started harvesting more scallops. They were so happy, overjoyed and then when they checked the boat's radar... they started getting nervous, what more when their harvester machine got entangled from the bottom of the sea. They all panic and Tom had no other option but got his torchlight or welding torch and started firing the rope, more like cable (steel rope) attached to the scallop harvester trap until it has fallen to the ocean. 

You think they got away?

If you want to know what unfortunate events happened to them, you should watch it for yourself.

Tommy Lee Jones had become Clint Eastwood! 

Am I kidding? Find it out for yourself. Ha ha ha!

Level 4 & Level 5 ENGLISH PROFICIENCY

 LEVEL 5 ENGLISH PROFICIENCY required in applying for migration to Canada. Wow! Really? What is Level 5? 

I don't know what level of English proficiency I had but I have a degree in Economics. In Philippines the medium of communication is in English since Kindergarten to College. Filipinos are bilingual, can speak  Tagalog & English and some of us can understand and speak other dialects. 

The medium of instructions in all public and private schools are in English and we only speak Tagalog or Pilipino language when talking to our friends, classmates or schoolmates or at home or in class room Pilipino language subject. At work so many of us speak English simply because it's the norm or but because we talk about medical products. I worked in Pharmaceutical company before where almost everyone speak or communicate in English and all written reports must be in English. I like to impress our Pharma director with my written report. lol. WELL THAT WAS LONG TIME AGO.

Level 4 in University is about technical writing. Skills. You must have high quality of skills when it comes to using the best vocabulary ever. Lexicography. You must have knowledge of thesaurus not just Webster's vocabulary words. You should be very creative in the most intelligent way with a great sense of purpose. Being professional in technical way. What is this for what purpose is technical writing? Well if you want to be an engineer, economist, thesis writer/creator, scientist, researcher, writers, doctors, pharmacist, medical representative, health care workers, businessmen... you must be proficient at Level 4.

LEVEL 4  is somewhat a mathematical equation in calculus. So Level 5 is quite easier if you are talkative.

How great are you or how fluent are Canadians with the English language?

Canadians also have accent event though they speak the language because simply so many of Canadians were immigrants from other countries; Europe, Asians, Latin-American, etc. 

There are some Canadians who are still unable to speak English. What's the trouble? I don't know for sure. Maybe they don't like speaking or talking. Maybe they could write in English. I  hope so. I once met a beautiful Japanese girl who seldom talk but when she showed me her written essay, she's really that good in writing.

Level 5 could be proficiency with communication as you will need this in trading. How you talk with people. You as the "speaker"  must be a good communicator in the English language. If you want to be the leader, the manager of a certain business, you must be fluent in English level 5.  How you sell yourself and promote yourself and your business. You want to be trade union leader, lawyer, a politician, news reporters ... for the media? That could be it. Be talkative! lol

What is Level 6? Hmmm... your English vocabulary must be demonic. Profanity at its highest level, mostly F WORDS. lol j/k

What Is Limited & Unlimited Resources?

 Every province in Canada has its own financial burden and financial budget. Hmm...true or false?

Now that Quebec province is asking for its own immigration policy. Why is it? It has something to do with financial budget of course. A budget that is only accounted for limited population of people within its jurisdiction. Additional numbers of people could mean bigger budget that they don't have. Just like Newfoundland & Nova Scotia they too have limited financial budget. Every province in Canada has limited amount and supply of resources. 

British Columbia, are you not complaining of financial budget? How much is too much? Nothing is too much.  Quanta y quanto?

Hmm, the genius Albert Einstein questioned so many scientists about "quanta y quanto?"

OMG! Yup elimination of excess! What you don't have? Why add up when you cannot afford?

You are not God to take care of the whole Earth. Canadians you are not God to take care of the whole world's population. PM Trudeau you are not God to worry about every humans out of Canada. That is not your problem and not your duty or responsibility. Are you being pressured? Who are pressuring you to be responsible for other country's mistakes? Take care of your own people in Canada. CANADA IS YOUR COUNTRY! 

A rocket once again fired up in space and unfortunately the rocket went missing. Is there a fallout? Is the cloud bigger than the sky? How'd you wake up this morning?

Eh? Eh, eh, umbrella...eh umbrella... )))

Yeah, Canada is becoming an Umbrella Corporation.

You've got to be very careful now.

Dementia or Alzheimers?

 I didn't know that the talented actor Nicholas Cage had more than hundred movies wherein he was the lead actor. At least... when his colleagues had become supporting actors and or became director or producer of their own movies. 

Let's have a review of DYING OF THE LIGHT. 

Actor Nicholas Cage as CIA operative agent Evan Lake was welcomed at the CIA HQ for a memorable speech trying to hide his neurological ailment. 22 years ago he was tortured by a gang /terrorist leader Banir and left almost dying but Evan Lake survived. Evan continued to work for the CIA until the CIA officer advised him to quit, resign or "played dead" because of his ailment. However, Evan cannot take the whole process gently and got mad and he was taken by security by force out of the premises. 

Milton Schultz a budding young CIA on clerical services at the CIA HQ had information about Muhammad Banir that he was not dead and still at large informed this to Evan Lake. Their search had them journeyed to Romania to find out for themselves how Banir had contact with the Romanian doctor. Banir at least is purchasing the meds not stealing them.

Although Evan had bouts with his "dementia" once in a while, Milton his back-up buddy continued to serve him all through the search and act as his rescue. 

Evan Lake, found Banir who was almost paralyzed, helpless and without the medicine for his ailment he will die instantly and Evan Lake who was there to kill him changed his mind and just let it go. Pity and empathy, the value he set his mind to just let it go. However, when Evan Lake & Milton were at the poolside of the hotel, suddenly they were targeted and Milton and other innocent victims were shot down. Evan Lake fired back and shot the killers who were Banir's guards and followers. Evan wants vengeance and returned to Banir's house. And that's how it happened taking the life of that somebody who only wants to know if Evan Lake is Evan not somebody else. Maybe Evan Lake's the perfect match for Banir's.

LA BREA, THE WALKING DEAD: The Ones Who Live, etc.

 LA BREA the massive sinkhole that opened up in California has finally ended and it was happy ending. I don't know why it's already finished. It's nice to have a pre-historic television series just like that, an adventure fantasy, with little thrill to tickle your funny bones. 

It's ok, THE WALKING DEAD has returned with its sequel THE ONES WHO LIVE at AMC 6pm every Sunday.   First episode was the revelation of how Rick Grimes was rescued by Jadis after the explosion at the bridge and was taken by helicopter to the CRM Headquarters. How Rick Grimes tried so hard to escape to see his family even cut his hand but without success not able to escape and stayed at CRM until he was promoted and became one of the high ranking official and co-pilot flying the helicopter? Wow! 

Then second episode of THE ONES WHO LIVE, Michonne had battled with so many zombies, the hardship she encountered during the long journey to find her husband Rick Grimes, met new friends but succumbed to death from the toxic fumes sprayed at them by soldiers of the CRM. Michonne survived and her new friend but when another helicopter came the midget shoot them with rocket arrow and had damaged the helicopter and instantly killed Rick's co-pilot and the helicopter crashed. Michonne, one by one had to kill the CRM soldiers until she got hold of Rick's and saw that it was her husband behind the mask. 

Third episode of THE ONES WHO LIVE. Rick Grimes and Michonne had to lie and keep a secret to stay inside the CRM and survive. However, secret no more when Jadis came into the picture. Jadis always repeated her words to remind that she saved Rick and if he ever escaped from CRM she will kill everybody in his family. Rick asked Michonne to escape but he will stay inside CRM. One highly ambitious newly promoted  female officer knew that Michonne is a grave threat that she keeps watch on her. She asked Rick to take Michonne in another camp but Michonne got another dangerous plan. TO BE CONTINUED.

OTHER TV SERIES & SHOWS WORTH WATCHING: 

BIG BROTHER CANADA

SURVIVOR

AMERICAN IDOL 

TV SERIES I'm still hoping they return for this season such as: MIDWICH CUCKOOS, and IRREVERENT. Why? Because of its extraordinary stories that entertain and shocked senses.