While filming his movie "Rust" on Thursday, October 21, Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that injured the director and killed another crew member. The incident occurred at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Mr Baldwin was seen “in tears” outside the sheriff’s office on Thursday night. The visibly distressed actor was seen dressed in a navy T-shirt, holding a mask and doubled over in the office’s car parking while talking on a phone call, pictures shared on social media showed.

Police officials said that Mr Baldwin has been cooperative in the investigation which remained “open and active” but no charges have been filed so far.

Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra, where his ship is seized and scheduled for auction.

In his attempt to win it back, he befriends the beautiful concubine Shireen. But when her master, the nefarious Emir, calls her back to duty, Sinbad must interrupt his adventure to save the "Jewel of Persia."

The tales of Sinbad are a relatively late addition to the One Thousand and One Nights. The tale reflects the trend within the realm of Arab and Muslim sailors exploring the world.

I was watching a streaming movie the other night where the phrase “cousin twice removed” was mentioned. I already have a faint idea of what it meant, but just to be sure, I googled it up. There are a lot materials about cousins and family relationships. I'm sharing the information here, in case you are also curious what the term (and many more) meant.

Cousins are people who share a common ancestor that is at least 2 generations away, such as a grandparent or great-grandparent. You and your siblings are not cousins because your parents are only 1 generation away from you. So who are your cousins?

Melancholic song of owning up the blame of a love gone awry.

One rainy afternoon last week, with nothing much to do in this lockdown, I longed to hear those Spanish/Latino songs we used to listen to when we were growing up. So I went to YouTube and searched those familiar Spanish songs like Besame Mucho, Historia de Un Amor, Cucurucucu Paloma, Reloj, and many more. After listening to the vocals, I decided it was time for instrumentals.

If you know this story, you must have been in grade school in the 1950's, same as me. Maybe this was one of those fables written by Aesop. It's about gratitude and it's worth re-telling.

Androcles (in Latin, Androclus in Greek) was a slave who escaped from his master and fled into the forest. As he was wandering about there, he came upon an injured lion lying down moaning and groaning, with a thorn stuck in his paw. The kind Androcles plucked out the thorn and put the lion out of pain

There's an on-going construction of the LRT Line 1 Extension from Baclaran to Bacoor, Cavite. The progress of the construction is covered by several vloggers, who call themselves "LRT Boys", with daily videos and live updates. I watched these vlogs, and sometimes I can't make out the terms, methodologies and names of the construction tools and equipment.

So, I made a quick research. The result is this blog.

The principal character of the story is the mighty Rustum, who, mounted on his famous horse Ruksh, performed prodigies of valor in defense of the Persian throne.

Of all his adventures, his encounter with Sohrab is the most dramatic. Sohrab was the young champion of the Tartars, the enemy of the Persians.

Rustum dueled with Sohrab, mortally wounding him before he realized Sohrab was his son.