User:Rodsan18



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Education

 * College: University of Santo Tomas Manila, Philippines
 * High School: Colegio de San Pascual Baylon Obando, Bulacan, Philippines
 * Elementary: Saint Pascual Institution Obando, Bulacan, Philippines

Languages

 * English | Tagalog | Chinese | Spanish

List of accepted/proposed article contributions and revisions as a Wikipedian, since 12 January 2006

 * Translated = ✅

Articles that appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did You Know? column

 * 1. Snakeskin gourami, created on 19 May 2007, DYK appearance: 25 May 2007
 * ...that the snakeskin gourami is one of Thailand's five most important aquacultured freshwater species?
 * 2. United Nations Interpretation Service, created on 31 May 2007, DYK appearance: 14 June 2007
 * ...that the 2005 movie The Interpreter by film director Sydney Pollack was based on real-life conference interpreters from the United Nations Interpretation Service?
 * 3. Kuh Ledesma, expanded from stub on 13 June 2007, DYK appearance: 17 June 2007
 * ...that Kuh Ledesma was the first Philippine singer to become a recipient of the Salem Music Awards in London in March 1989?
 * 4. F. Sionil Jose, expanded on 16 June 2007, DYK appearance: 21 June 2007
 * ...that Francisco F. Sionil José is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language, and has been translated into 22 other languages?
 * 5. Jeronima de la Asuncion, created on 18 June 2007, DYK appearance: 24 June 2007
 * ...that Jeronima de la Asuncion (pictured) was the foundress of the first Catholic monastery in Manila and the Far East?
 * 6. The Lady with a Fan, created on 25 June 2007, DYK appearance: 30 June 2007
 * ...that The Lady with a Fan (pictured) is the only Velázquez portrait in which the sitter has not yet been convincingly identified?
 * 7. Fernando Amorsolo, expanded 30 June to 1 July 2007, DYK appearance: 07 July 2007
 * ...that Fernando Amorsolo was the first Filipino to be distinguished as a National Artist of the Philippines in painting?
 * 8. Danny Barcelona, created on 04 July 2007, DYK appearance: 11 July 2007
 * ...that Danny Barcelona was a Filipino American self-taught drummer for Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars jazz band?
 * 9. Michael Dadap, created on 07 July, 2007, DYK appearance: 12 July 2007
 * ...that Michael Dadap, the popular Filipino guitarist, is married to the eldest sister of American cellist Yo-Yo Ma?
 * 10. Lorenzo M. Tañada, created on: 09 July 2007, DYK appearance: 14 July 2007
 * ...that Lorenzo M. Tañada was the longest-serving senator in Philippine history?
 * 11.Women in the Philippines, created on: 11 July 2007, DYK appearance: 16 July 2007
 * ...that the modern-day role of women in the Philippines is similar to their social status during pre-colonial times?
 * 12.Dwarf pygmy goby (pandaka pygmaea), created on: 14 July 2007, DYK appearance: 19 July 2007
 * ...that the dwarf pygmy goby (Pandaka pygmaea), a freshwater fish from the Philippines, is the smallest fish in the world?
 * 13.Rico J. Puno, created on: 17 July 2007, DYK appearance: 22 July 2007
 * ...that Rico J. Puno, a popular Filipino pop singer, launched his career by incorporating Tagalog lyrics into the American song The Way We Were, among others?
 * 14.For improving the hook for When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, DYK appearance: 25 July 2007
 * ...that after reading the Vietnam War memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Oliver Stone realized that his films Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July lacked a Vietnamese perspective, leading to his directing of Heaven & Earth?
 * 15.John Salminen, created on: 21 July 2007, DYK appearance: 25 July 2007
 * ...that John Salminen is an award-winning American watercolorist well-known for his realistic urban landscapes?
 * 16.Henryk Grynberg, created on: 28 July 2007, DYK appearance: 01 August 2007
 * <li>...that the writer and actor, Henryk Grynberg, is known as the "chronicler of the fate of the Polish Jews"?
 * 17.Ilustrado, created on: August 2, 2007, DYK appearance: August 7, 2007
 * <li>...that Filipino Ilustrados originally demanded that the Philippines become a province of Spain instead of independence?
 * 18.United Nations Art Collection, created on: August 3, 2007, DYK appearance: August 8, 2007
 * <li>...that the United Nations has a collection of artworks (USSR contribution pictured) which were donated by its member states?
 * 19.Dyesebel, expanded from stub on: August 8, 2007, DYK appearance: August 13, 2007
 * <li>...that Dyesebel (pictured), a popular mermaid character in Filipino comic books, cinema and television, was based on Philippine folklore?
 * 20.Pioneers of Photography in the Philippines, created on: 11 August 2007, DYK appearance: August 15, 2007
 * <li>...that photography in the Philippines was pioneered by a Spaniard named Sinibaldo de Mas in 1841?
 * 21.Rainbow sharks, created on: August 17, 2007 (in sandbox)/presented to mainspace on: August 19, 2007, DYK appearance: August 23, 2007
 * <li>...that Rainbow sharks are Cyprinids, making them relatives of goldfish, carp and minnows?
 * 22.Flying fox, created on: August 20, 2007 (in sandbox)/presented to mainspace on: August 21, 2007, DYK appearance: August 26, 2007
 * <li>...that the name Flying fox refers to bats as well as a freshwater algae-eating aquarium fish?
 * 23.Chinese high fin banded shark (Myxocyprinus asiaticus), created on: 21 August 2007, DYK appearance: August 26, 2007
 * <li>...that the Chinese high fin banded shark (Myxocyprinus asiaticus) has 20 other common names in the aquarium trade?

Picture of the Day suggestions

 * 1) UN Swords into Plowshares statue, suggested on: 14 August 2007


 * Think tank
 * Suggest?: Old Filipina picture, Ilustrado trio, Las Piñas Bamboo Organ, UN Interpreters (group photo), Malakas and Maganda, and the amulet...

Artworks

 * 1) The Lady with a Fan (Velázquez), 25 June 2007 ✅

Catholic-related subjects

 * 1) The Tablet (Diocese of Brooklyn), 13 May 2007
 * 2) The Tablet (disambiguation), 13 May 2007
 * 3) The Tablet, notation on two distinct The Tablet newspapers, 13 May 2007

China & Chinese-language related subjects

 * 1) Irene Saunders - English/Chinese Dictionary, 15 January 2006 ✅
 * 2) China Institute in America, 15 January 2006
 * 3) Xiao Tao Sheng （萧涛生）, 18 July 2007

Fishkeeping

 * 1) Goldfish addition of book references and linked to goldfish breeds, 12 May 2007
 * 2) Fish food additional information (expansion) and references, 12 to 16 May 2007*
 * 3) Hikari (Company), 16 May 2007
 * 4) Wardley (Fish food), 16 May 2007
 * 5) Koi linked to Butterfly koi, 12 May 2007
 * 6) Butterfly tail (goldfish) or Jikin, 12 May 2007
 * 7) Tosakin or Curly fantail (goldfish), rare goldfish varieties, 12 May 2007
 * 8) Tamasaba or Sabao, rare goldfish varieties, 13 May 2007
 * 9) Meteor goldfish, rare goldfish varieties, 13 May 2007
 * 10) Curled-gill goldfish, rare goldfish varieties, 13 May 2007
 * 11) Egg-fish goldfish, rare goldfish varieties, 13 May 2007 ✅
 * 12) Carp, additional reference, 13 May 2007
 * 13) Grass carp, additional reference and link, 13 May 2007
 * 14) Bath treatment (fishkeeping) and link to Bath (disambiguation), 14 May 2007*
 * 15) Tetra Company, rewrite and cleanup initiated, 16 May 2007*
 * 16) Ranchu, addition of Ranchu and Ranchu-like varieties, 16 May 2007; a rewrite, 26 May 2007
 * 17) Popeye (disambiguation), linked to Telescope eye goldfish type, 16 May 2007
 * 18) Moonlight gourami, 19 May 2007
 * 19) Snakeskin gourami, 19 May 2007, appeared on the DYK? Section of the Wikipedia Main Page on 25 May 2007*
 * 20) Farlowella (twig catfish) (leading to the creation of the Farlowella acus (twig catfish) article), 19 May 2007
 * 21) Freshwater aquarium, 19 May 2007*
 * 22) Striped Raphael catfish, 21 May 2007
 * 23) Photographing goldfish, a section in the Goldfish main article, 25 May 2007
 * 24) Oranda, a rewrite, 03 June 2007
 * 25) Ryukin, a rewrite, 04 June 2007
 * 26) New goldfish varieties and Revived goldfish varieties, sections in the Goldfish main article, 04 June 2007
 * 27) Pompom, veiltail and telescope eye, re-written, 04 June 2007
 * 28) Panda moor, a rewrite, 04 June 2007
 * 29) Chinese hillstream loach (Beaufortia kweichowensis), 04 June 2007
 * 30) Tire track eel (Mastacembelus armatus), 05 June 2007*
 * 31) Dwarf pygmy goby (pandaka pygmaea), 14 July 2007
 * 32) Rainbow shark (Epalzeorhynchos frenatum), started at sandbox: 17 August 2007/to mainstream: 18 August 2007
 * 33) Flying fox, created on August 20, 2007 (in sandbox)/presented to mainstream on August 21, 2007
 * 34) Chinese high fin banded shark (Myxocyprinus asiaticus), created on: 21 August 2007

People of the Philippines



 * 1) Leo James English, 21 January 2006 ✅
 * 2) Larry Alcala, 21 January 2006
 * 3) Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, 17 January 2006 (expansion)
 * 4) Jesus Manuel Santiago, 15 January 2006
 * 5) Rolando Tinio, 15 January 2006
 * 6) Sophia Romero, 15 January 2006*
 * 7) Zoilito Galang, 15 January 2006*
 * 8) Marvin Reyes (proposed), 15 January 2006
 * 9) Fernando Ma. Guerrero, 15 January 2006* ✅
 * 10) Mike de Leon, 15 January 2006*
 * 11) Cirio H. Santiago, 15 January 2006*
 * 12) Stevan Javellana, 15 January 2006*
 * 13) Paz Marquez-Benitez, 15 January 2006
 * 14) Azucena Grajo Uranza, 15 January 2006*
 * 15) Angela Manalang-Gloria, 15 January 2006
 * 16) Rolando Carbonell (proposed), 15 January 2006
 * 17) Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes, 15 January 2006*
 * 18) Ninotchka Rosca, 14 January 2006; additional reference (New York Times) added, 13 May 2007
 * 19) Ishmael Bernal, 14 January 2006
 * 20) Lualhati Bautista, 12 January 2006
 * 21) Edgardo M. Reyes, 12 January 2006*
 * 22) The Thomasites, 24 January 2006
 * 23) Philinda Rand, 24 January 2006
 * 24) Maria Rosa Luna Henson, copy-edited, 10 June 2007
 * 25) Kuh Ledesma, expanded from stub status, 13 June 2007 ✅
 * 26) Panchito Alba, 15 June 2007
 * 27) F. Sionil José‎, expanded, 16 June 2007
 * 28) Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, copy-edit, 17 June 2007
 * 29) Jeronima de la Asuncion, 18 June 2007 ✅
 * 30) Martha de San Bernardo, 23 June 2007 ✅
 * 31) Fernando Amorsolo, expanded, 30 June-01 July 2007
 * 32) Libertito Pelayo, 04 July 2007
 * 33) Danny Barcelona, 04 July 2007
 * 34) Michael Dadap, 07 July 2007
 * 35) Vicente Manansala, copy-edit, 07 July 2007
 * 36) José T. Joya, expanded, 07 July 2007
 * 37) Hernando R. Ocampo, 07 July 2007
 * 38) Cesar Legaspi, 07 July 2007
 * 39) Arturo R. Luz, 07 July 2007
 * 40) Lorenzo M. Tañada, 09 July 2007
 * 41) San Lorenzo Ruiz, expanded on 10 June 2007; Chapel of San Lorenzo Ruiz linked to Pontificio Collegio Filippino and vice versa, 10 June 2007
 * 42) Rico J. Puno, 17 July 2007
 * 43) Role of women in the Philippines, 11 July 2007 (renamed as Women in the Philippines on 14 July 2007)
 * 44) Ilustrado, 01 August 2007 ✅
 * 45) Pioneers of Photography in the Philippines, 11 August 2007
 * 46) Sinibaldo de Mas, 12 August 2007 ✅

Philippine-related topics

 * 1) Krystal Cafe and Bayan Cafe (proposed), 15 January 2006
 * 2) Obando Fertility Rites, 21 January 2006
 * 3) Batibot or Sesame!, 22 January 2006 (expansion)
 * 4) Voltes V, 22-23 January 2006 (revision)
 * 5) Filipino Reporter (newspaper), weekly Filipino newspaper in New York City, 14 May 2007
 * 6) Tinikling (Bamboo Dance), useful references added, 14 May 2007
 * 7) Philippine Center and Philippine Center (New York City) linked to Little Manila, 15 May 2007
 * 8) Star Rangers linked to Himitsu Sentai Goranger (as User:"157.750.192.237"), 15 May 2007
 * 9) Universal Robina Corporation, rewrite and cleanup, 16 May 2007
 * 10) Philippine Center (created from redirect), New York, 09 June 2007
 * 11) Chapel of San Lorenzo Ruiz, expanded and linked to San Lorenzo Ruiz, 09 June 2007
 * 12) A Dangerous Life, a 1988 film, 13 June 2007
 * 13) Legacy, a 1998 film, 14 June 2007
 * 14) Goodbye America, a 1997 film, 14 June 2007 ✅
 * 15) Tagalog Wikipedia, recreated, 23 June 2007
 * 16) Dyesebel, expanded from stub on: 8 August, 2007

Plant-related subjects

 * 1) Bonsai, references added; Brooklyn Botanic Garden's bonsai collection cited' Asia and Philippines links added, 14 May 2007
 * 2) Teleflora, rewrite and clean-up, 16 May 2007

Poland-related subjects

 * 1) Henryk Grynberg, 28 July 2007 ✅
 * 2) Children of Zion, 28 July 2007 ✅

U.S.-related

 * 1) Gerald Green, expanded, 16 June 2007
 * 2) Og Mandino, a re-write and clean-up, 13 June 2007
 * 3) The Children's Orchestra Society, 08 July 2007
 * 4) John Salminen, 20 July 2007

On assignment

 * Who knows?
 * Working randomly...

Quick access and portals

 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
 * Purge
 * WP:AN
 * Web colors
 * Featured pictures
 * Picture peer review
 * Welcome
 * Moving images to the Commons
 * WP:TAMBAY
 * http://www.pinoycentric.com/
 * http://www.flickr.com/groups/pinoycentric/
 * http://www.fotothing.com/
 * Wikimedia Philippines
 * WP:CITET
 * WP:AQF
 * Recent changes
 * Template talk:Did you know
 * WP:BIO
 * Philippines in US movies/television
 * Help:Table
 * WP:COPYREQ
 * Image copyright tags
 * Non-free content
 * Fair use rationale guideline
 * Images
 * http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons. Eligible: Images with Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike ([[Image:Cc-by new white.svg|22px]] [[Image:Cc-sa white.svg|22px]]).
 * Images and media for deletion
 * Featured picture candidates/Nomination procedure
 * Template:Did you know/Next update
 * Fair use rationale examples
 * Image copyright tags/Comprehensive
 * Special:Unusedimages
 * 10 things you did not know about images on Wikipedia
 * Category:Image copyright tags
 * Image copyright tags/Displayed and ranked
 * http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
 * Most wanted articles
 * Portal
 * Requesting copyright permission
 * WikiPilipinas
 * Filipiniana

Original templates

 * – Bottom navigational box for Philippine mythology articles - created on: August 12, 2007
 * – Right-side navigational box for Philippine mythology articles - created on: August 13, 2007
 * Infobox for Philippine mythology characters - created on: August 13, 2007 / Fixed by: User:Kaiba / Implemented on: August 25, 2007
 * - created on: August 26, 2007

General template guides

 * 1) (Hidden)
 * Non-free 2D art
 * PhilippinesGov with fair use
 * Wikipedia:Tambayan Philippines/notice
 * Category:Unassessed Philippines articles
 * sample: "db-reason|renamed and reuploaded at (new name of image) (CSD G6)"
 * sample2: "db-reason|renamed and uploaded to commons / uploaded to wikimedia commons"

References bank

 * http://fish.mongabay.com/species_index.htm
 * http://fish.mongabay.com/species_index.htm
 * http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/getnameViaColl.asp?contains=Beaufortia+leveretti&tbl=Species
 * http://bio.slu.edu/mayden/cypriniformes/balitoridae.html
 * Nemacheilus evezardi
 * References: (a)Bibliography, (b)Notes and references
 * http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_grynberg_henryk
 * http://www.nordenx.com/anakbathala/art.htm
 * http://www.nordenx.com/anakbathala/maps.htm
 * http://www.carlqangel.com/htmldocs/bathala.html
 * Zuma
 * http://www.komikero.com/museum/
 * http://www.seasite.niu.edu/TAGALOG/ibong_adarna.htm
 * http://www.angelfire.com/space2/pame_1975/panio/index.album?i=0
 * http://www.carlqangel.com/htmldocs/mga.html

Reminders

 * Adust background color: Manananggal image
 * Tagalog Wikipedia
 * Fultograph
 * Infobox for Philippine mythical characters
 * Printkey.exe
 * Kan-Laon
 * Better UN Bookshop and Gift Centre images!!!
 * Cao Yong (Freedom painting)
 * Human form (see Human figure)
 * Don Fabian de la Rosa
 * Pablo Amorsolo
 * 1945-1947?
 * Lamberto Hechanova (national artist/list of UST people)
 * Rosa Rosal
 * Silvia dela Torre
 * images from The Interpreter interviews
 * Rey Malonzo
 * Sarimanok
 * Lactobacillus casei Shirota
 * Ashtray
 * UST Hospital
 * Fatima Hospital
 * Add to UST: UST Nursing Journal
 * Achilles* and Agostino Carracci's engravings and drawings*

Links

 * Dragonbite's sanctuary at Wikimedia Commons
 * Dragonbite's catalogue at English Wikipedia

Showcase

 * Notes
 * My images will all soon be moved to Wikimedia Commons
 * Do not forget to indicate DYK appearances of images at Commons
 * ✅ = Uploaded to Wikipedia Commons.
 * My move-to-commons helper

Then read some poetry
Beyond Forgetting by Rolando A. Carbonell

For a moment I thought I could forget you.

''For a moment I thought I could still the restlessness in my heart. I thought the past could no longer haunt me-nor hurt me.''

How wrong I was!

''For the past, no matter how distant is as much a part of me as life itself. And you are part of that life. You are so much a part of me-of my dreams, my early hopes, my youth and my ambitions-that in all my tasks I can’t help remembering you. Many little delights and things remind me of you.''

''Yes, I came. And would my pride mock my real feelings? Would the love song, the sweet and lovely smile on your face, be lost among the deepening shadows?''

I have wanted to be alone.

''I thought I could make myself forget you in silence and in song. . .''

''And yet I remembered. For who could forget the memory of the once lovely, the once beautiful, the once happy world such as ours?''

''I came because the song that I kept through the years I waiting to be sung. I cannot sing it without you. The song when sung lone will lose the essence of its tune, because you and I had been one.''

I have wanted this misery to end, because it is part of my restlessness.

''Can’t you understand? Can’t you divine the depth and the tenderness of my feelings towards you? Yes, can’t you see how I suffer in this even darkness without you?''

''You went away because you mistook my silence for indifference. But silence, my dear, is the language of my heart. For how could I essay the intensity of my love when silence speaks a more eloquent tone? But, perhaps you didn’t understand...''

''Remember, I came, because the gnawing loneliness is there and will not be lost until the music is sung, until the poem is heard, until the silence is understood. . . until you come to me again.''

''For you alone can blend music and memory into one consuming ecstasy. You alone. . .''

Quotations

 * Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually loose, and all that we hate we will eventually face... - F. Sionil José, from Mass (a Filipino novel)
 * The answer will not come to you. You need to look for it. - from a Chinese fortune cookie (August 12, 2007)

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