20240130 Buko (Young Coconut) Pie

Dessert People

In a way, in the Philippines, people already speak Spanish and English, as these languages, or really their words, are integrated or imbedded in native languages, not just Tagalog.  Spanish is chocolate or coffee, whilst English is a fizzy pink lemonade soda. The Philippine society is mostly an amalgam of Malay, Chinese, and Spanish elements, with unmentioned various more minor ones.  There is Philippine Creole Spanish, Chabacano or Chavacano, spoken scatteringly in the magical archipelago.  The feature of the Philippines is more like the Caribbean, the crossroads of different peoples.  I can categorize the people of the Philippines in several desserts:  Many are like “ube halaya” or the dark mash of sweet purple yam.  Some are more like “halo-halo” or ice dessert with leche flan, ube yam, kaong, nata de coco, young coconut strips, agar-agar jelly, sago, beans, fruits like jackfruit, et cetera.  Some are more like “maíz con hielo” or ice dessert with corn kernels, sugar, and milk.  A striking difference of Filipinos from Mainland Asia is their love of the creative purple colour, maybe because of the ube yam delicacy.  In Okinawa in Japan, people call it “beniimo.”  They use it also in Okinawan desserts and other cooking.

20240130 Mia Sonĝo pri Antikva Tigra Urbo (Bing AI)

Religious Space

The idea of travelling through the universe astrally has intrigued me, as well as others, for some time. The Cluster series of novels by Piers Anthony and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon are examples of astral travelling. Do Tibetan monks travel astrally? At least for a decade or more, I have been pondering about the fragility of the human body for deep space travel. Would transhumanism at least be necessary, the technological augmentation of the human body and mind? Or, would wholly mechanical entities with artificial general intelligence, or even uploaded human minds, do the job?

Religion in future outer space is a subject of some sci-fi. The Dune franchise is a great example. Frank Herbert created the thousands-of-years-from-now Dune series, focusing on an Arab-like culture and language group of the Fremen on the desert planet Arrakis in a galactic imperium in which the language Galach is spoken, a derivative of ancient English and Slavic languages. I have read another book, The Jesus Incident, by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, about a spaceship that is like a god to its human crew, looking to colonize another planet.

Azteca at Pinlandes

Maganda rin ang Klasikong Nahuatl o Azteca ng Mehiko. Maganda ang tunog. May “omnipredikatibidad” ang mga salita. Sumiklab ang imahinasyon ko noong pinag-aaralan ko itong wika. Parang may mahika.

Maganda rin ang Pinlandes ng Pinlandiya. Ang mga salita sa akin ay may alusyon sa Hapones. Panatiko ako sa mga sulat na pantasya ni Tove Jansson, isang manunulat na Suwekang Pinlandesa tungkol sa mga Moomintroll.