Viktor

Let me introduce myself.  My name is Viktor Nonong Medrano.  I like astronomy and science fiction, as I like shows like Star Trek and Japanese anime.  I have read a lot of books in this genre.  I like constructed languages, and I make them myself.  I am an Esperantist and a Lojbanist.  I was born in the Philippines, lived in Japan for a while, and now live in Canada.

My interests span the years.  I have been learning about astronomy since I was a child.  My dream occupation has been to become an Astrobiologist or Exobiologist, studying life beyond this Earth.  My real occupation has been as a Software Writer, as I learned about different artificial languages to manipulate computers.  The body is hardware, and the mind is software.

I have varied favourite foods.  My favourite ice cream flavours are Tiger Tail, Japanese Black Sesame, Italian Spumoni, Mint, and Philippine Purple Yam.  Of fruits, I adore young coconut meat and the tropical rose apple, which is not an apple at all.  I like practically all seafood. I like Kaya jam and Bandung rose milk from Southeast Asia.  I like varied jelly food, like nata de coco, Jell-O, agar-agar, grass jelly, sago, tapioca, konnyaku, jellyfish, tōfu, Aloe vera, mung bean jelly, gummy cola bottles, almond jelly, lokum, water chestnut cake, sea cucumber, mushroom, longan, lychee, rambutan, etc.

I like many anime shows from Japan.  Some of my really creative favourites include Vampire Knight, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, No. 6, Mushi-Shi, Naruto Shippūden, Kemono no Sōja Erin, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, The Mystic Archives of Dantalian, Galaxy Express 999, Xam'd: Lost Memories, Fate/Zero, Level E, La storia della Arcana Famiglia, Polar Bear Cafe, Yumeiro Pâtissière, Gintama, Maoyū Maō Yūsha, Aoi Hana, Nokto de la Galaksia Fervojo, Mononoke, Shelter, Akira, Sirius the Jaeger, Violet Evergreen, etc.

News items I follow are about space exploration.  I like knowing about the new data including pictures from robot probes in outer space and from crewed flights, even better.  I marvel over the turbulent cloud storms over Jupiter.  The glimmering icy mountains on Pluto's landscape astonish me.  The dunes near methane lakes and rivers on Titan bewilder me.

Roza Limonado, Pink Lemonade

Judaj Libroj

The Desert Quadrilogy

The Eye of the Heron

The Eye of the Heron

Anne McCaffrey

Esperantovirino

Star Trek:  The Original Series

Esperantofilmo Incubus, La Maro

Esperantofilmo Incubus, Restu kun Ni

Esperanto 3000

Redefining Wealth in the Blue Plague of Capitalism

As economies falter like dominos around the world, people will have to redefine what wealth means.  The Blue Plague of Capitalism has caught us by surprise.

Sinospheric Economy

What I didn't expect about the economy of the Sinosphere was that its bubble would burst so early in its cycle.  But as what happened in Japan, the bubble would burst eventually.  Some economists predict a following period of stagnation in the Sinosphere, as what happened in Japan.  Some economists predict the entire planet would engulf itself in stagnation, not just Asia.

Esperantofilmo Incubus

World Literacy

Support world literacy by supporting Esperanto!  Don't believe natural language nonsense!

Esperantoglobo

Why Strangers Walk Perpendicularly to My Path

1.  They think I am the centre.

2.  They feel humiliated.

3.  They hate the cross, the symbol of Xtianity.

4.  They want to express discontent and sadness.

5.  They want to masturbate.

Esperantomondo

Middle English, The Canterbury Tales

"1: Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
2: The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour
4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
5: Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
9: And smale foweles maken melodye,
10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye
11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
13: And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
14: To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
15: And specially from every shires ende
16: Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,
17: The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
18: That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke."

This text is from The Canterbury Tales, which is in Middle English, the form of English during the massive absorptions of Latinate words from Normandy and elsewhere.

Old English, Beowulf

"Fand þa ðær inne æþelinga gedriht 

swefan æfter symble; sorge ne cuðon, 

wonsceaft wera. Wiht unhælo, 

grim ond grædig, gearo sona wæs, 

reoc ond reþe, ond on ræste genam 

þritig þegna; þanon eft gewat 

huðe hremig to ham faran, 

mid þære wælfylle wica neosan. 

Ða wæs on uhtan mid ærdæge

Grendles guðcræft gumum undyrne;

þa wæs æfter wiste wop up ahafen, 

micel morgensweg. Mære þeoden, 

æþeling ærgod, unbliðe sæt, 

þolode ðryðswyð þegnsorge dreah, 

syðþan hie þæs laðan last sceawedon, 

wergan gastes; wæs þæt gewin to strang, 

lað ond longsum!"

This text is from Beowulf, which is in Old English, the form of English before the massive injections of Latinate words from Normandy and elsewhere.  Old English looked like Icelandic, also a Germanic tongue.