Las Chicas del Cable

Continuing Spanish lessons on Netflix tells about the lives of telephone operators in Madrid during the 1920s. The onset of computerized lines threatens to make them redundant. Watching out its development.

Lesson Learned

The first black person in Greenland had this story: bitten by a snake while up a coconut tree in his native land, he heard that Greenland had the lowest temperature not tolerated by snakes. (BBB World News)

Royal Rants

Meghan and Harry's pining for privacy was compared to Diana's. The latter bared her soul and insecurities as a result of personal history. Her younger son and his wife sounded like whining brats despite all the privileges and entitlement.

Applying the Law

Helen Johnson of Alabama was caught for stealing 5 eggs at the supermarket. Telling the police officer that she intended those for her hungry children, he took her back to buy groceries. "Someimes, you must apply the humanity."

Fred Rogers

Chanced upon an excellent film on Netflix, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, about this kindly man on and off the television screen. He was a vegetarian, saying he did not eat anything that had mothers.

Hara Masahiro

At the Denso factory in Japan, he found the barcode being used then as having limited capacity for data. From his board games came the inspiration for the QR code with up to 200 data. 

And in his magnanimity, kept its patents open for future inventions improving on it.

Nancy Pelosi

She is the model for senior women- transforming from running a house to Speaker of the House and tangling with the President at the White House.(CNN)

Staffed Up

Isabelle Diaz gives her household staff feedback forms to fill in regularly on how to improve her relationship with them. Meghan Markle has been called behind her back Me-gain and Duchess Difficult.

Readiness

In the USA, they are presently scrambling for mailed votes to be counted in November.

In PH, Deped had to be put in the spot of its unpreparedness for online lessons to postpone the opening of classes from August to October.

What Do They Want Exactly

A movement seeking to establish a revolutionary government to be headed by the current president aims to effect charter change. Lawyers are trying to understand it- like going against oneself to change itself or a dog chasing its tail.

Do their Biden

Republicans are crossing more than aisles in voting on laws in Congress. They are supporting the Democratic presidential candidate!

UNIQLO

On NHK, this international brand revealed that it is a typo of its original name Unique Clothing or Uniclo. Always felt like editing that name!

All The Light We Cannot See

Started on this novel by Anthony Doerr about a French teen who became blind. Her only other family member was her father, a locksmith at the National Museum of Natural History.  He empowered her to walk from their dining room to the bathroom by means of a rope guide, aside from her cane.  He also made a scale model of their community that she studied so well such that after several hits and misses, she was able to go home from the Museum, with her father a step behind.

Urgent Question

 NAT GEO asks "Planet or Plastic?"

Hello Dolly

HITS Movies featured her last night, Dolly Levi, the New York matchmaker who proved herself hardest to pair with bigtime Yonkers shop owner Horace Vandergelder.  In one of her pitches, she sang, "snuggle up to your cash register."

I'll See You In October

Finally Deped had seen the light on its unpreparedness for the opening of online classes especially for the public schools originally set for 24 August. The busy Vice President had to write an earnest appeal to Secretary Briones, after troubled teachers approached her with their concerns.

Job

When he struggled with all his sufferings, he asked to see the One who sent them. And God humored him. He recounts the wonder of creation. "Here is where your proud waves halt."

Aim

A concerned citizen of the world has warned about the danger of taking the temperature by directing the UV light of a thermal thermometer on another's forehead and the pineal gland behind it.

My ex- wife still misses me

 But her aim is improving every day, goes the joke.

Help from Heaven

Our Daily Bread today reflects on the ever- present help of God if we just ask.

Mediators partake of this mission in their own little way.

Update

Happiness is the new rich.

Inner peace is the new success.

Health is the new wealth.

Kindness is the new cool.

Lamentation

 Today's Our Daily Bread says, "when we lament what is not right, we call ourselves and others to be active in seeking change."

Mediation has 7 letters in common with it.

Fr. John Powell

 He narrated this anecdote about a young boy who wrote a note to his grouchy teacher, "If you're feeling happy today, please inform your face."

Sherlock

In HITS new feature, he told Watson the owner of the hat was intelligent. Asked how he arrived at that conclusion, Holmes put on the quite large headgear. 

Wired to be Generous

Some experts believe that humans are. (Our Daily Bread) That might explain why a young boy protected his sister from a rampaging dog and got seriously wounded in the process.

Resilience

COVID 19 will go down in history as a test of the will to survive.  Reading about a community organization of informal workers PATAMABA inspires awe and respect for this vulnerable group. They chose to organize talipapa mini-markets within the barangay during the lockdown;

1) when markets were closed;

2) there was no public transport;

3) they had to eat and earn at the same time.

Green Book

In the time of Black Life Matters, there was a film about a black pianist who had a white driver who brought him on his cross- country music tour.

Shintoism

The Japanese religion is said to be lenient, focusing less on rigid rules which may have resulted in a more self-disciplined nation.

Lost Cities

NATGEO featured Columbia where Spaniards brought typhoid disease and left with gold.

When Calls the Heart

A meaningful quote from this Netflix feature: "When you don't say anything, that is when you have a lot to say."

John Lewis

In his eulogy, George W. Bush narrated that Lewis had been practicing civil disobedience even in his youth. As a boy in Alabama, he took care of the family's chickens and would not partake of them on their dinner table.