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+ geog1 study aids?

Maybe. I hope so. :) These are links I found useful/relevant for Geog1 students:

+ Google Earth
+ Google Earth shot of Acad Oval
+ Aerial Shot of UPD Campus
+ Map of UP Diliman (ala Google Earth. The site is down at the moment, but the map is under Visitor Information)

+ because i'm such a literature geek

Some works related to Geog1 lessons

+ Strugnell's Sonnets (iv) -- on globalization
+ A Martian Sends a Postcard Home -- how different cultures see things in a different light
+ Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas Chapter One -- a not-so-impossible-sounding future 1 ~ 2 ~ 3 ~ 4 ~ 5 ~ 6
+ Python at the Megamall -- on Filipino behavior

"Python in the Megamall" (by Amador Daguio?)

She hatched in the dank
Basements of our gullibility.
Warmed in the gasp of our telling,
Curling in the tongues
Of housewives and clerks.

We gave her a body
Half-serpent, half-voluptuary,
With a taste for maidens
And movie stars
Who began to vanish mysteriously
Behind the curtains
Of boutique fitting rooms
And water closets,
Never to be seen again,
Or only to be found
In the parking cellars,
Wandering dazed
Into the headlights of shoppers' cars.

How she fed on our thirst
For wonders,
Fattened on our fear
Of vacant places.
Slowly we embellished
The patterns on her scales
And admired the sinuous
Grace of her spine.

Avidly we filled our own multifarious
Hungers at her belly,
And lapped the marvelous
Tales of her forked tongue.
And as the gleaming temples
Of her worship rose
In the midst of our squalor,
How we trembled
At the seduction of her voice,
O what adoring victims we became.