Wanted: Thesis Topic

I'll run this by you guys 'coz you guys have finished your thesis... Would these be considered okay theses?

a. Behavioral Sink in Urban Poor Settlements
b. Behavioral Sink in Philippine Prisons
Those are our Social Psych bets... we're still thinking of Cognitive Psych bets, Developmental Psych bets, and maybe even a Field Experiment on working conditions in white collar companies... I'm just looking for advice.

My Bloodtest Results

I know this is a private matter, but I can't help but share this lesson with all of you... That's what I get... my habits regarding sweets and fatty foods... *sigh*... the lesson to learn from all of this is:
1. don't eat too much sweets
2. drink coke light
3. eat lots of fruits
4. LOVE tofu

and that's precisely what I do. My blood sugar is normal. (WOHOO!!!!) 79 (which is low-normal).
My Cholesterol is normal.
My LDL is normal.
My HDL is normal.

basically, my blood is cool... or is it...

my Uric acid is 150% of normal.
Oops. I guess we scratch the LOVE tofu part...
I CAN'T EAT TOFU ANYMOOOOOORRREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

The Indies and Drawn Blood

Nope. This is definitely not a colonial themed post.

My friends smoke packs of cigarettes and consume indiscriminate amounts of alcohol. I watch too many movies. Independent films are my vice.
I have watched practically all the independent films shown to date in Robinson's, and many times have travelled to UP for a screening of this or that movie. It all seems to be about the same things. Sex. Poverty. Opression. Our country really has to find something more developed to showcase in film. Anyway, it's a nice hobby, but then I dreamt that I was in Shortbus.

Shortbus (check the 3rd definition)

Then I had the dream again.
and again.
and again.

No more indies for me.

I visited the integrated clinics inside the campus a while ago. I had my blood checked (out of selfconcern). Full blood workup. RBC, WBC, glucose, uric acid, cholesterol, creatinine... the works. I brought 1.5K... and it wasn't enough. 2.6K amp. *cries* anyway.. I can pay in installment naman... My blood was brown O.o is that bad?? I get my results later *cries*.

To: The Offices of Operational Affairs, Michael's Motor and Association Cortices, Michael's Body, Manila, Philippines; The Office of Memory, Michael's Hippocampus, Michael's Body, Manila, Philippines

From: The Central Fight-Flight-Freeze Office, and the Decision Making Office, Prefrontal Cortex, Michael's Body, Manila, Philippines

Please be informed that due to the success of November 2007's body restructuring project entitled "Pesci-Vegetarianism" in both the operational function of the office of willpower, and the cleansing of renal and adipose tissues, the decision making office has decided to reinstate the November 2007 order. Reissued are orders to the Memory Office in the Hippocampus to keep the diet in constant remembrance, as well as reissued orders to the Association Cortices to label all foods not belonging to the diet preliminary to be labelled as "bad." Lipoprivic hunger is to be denied compliance, and the only intake suitably taken into the digestive system is as follows:

Vegetables

Fish

Rice

-end-

Thank you for continuing to let Michael live. This new dietary change is only on a final trial basis from February 1st to March 31st 2009.. Possible continuation may follow depending on the sucess of the said dietary change. Let us hope for lowered cholesterol and sustainable weight loss.

Jurjurethics 3: Glory Holes and Anarchy

Glory Hole - From Urban Dictionary

I took a piss is the SocSci foyer CRs this morning. The urinals were both occupied, so I opted to use a stall. Inside the stall, there were two new drawings on the cubicle wall: that of an illegibly written name, and a sort of simple yet shocking illustration that looks something like this...
The link above from Urban Dictionary will tell you what a Glory Hole is. Anyway... as a point of discussion, the Glory Hole is a concept in gay pornographic pop culture. It's display, by a student no less, in the Ateneo brings to mind certain questions, or maybe even answers regarding the social workings of the middle class. It brings about that sense of need to see what is in the other cubicle. A sense of wanting either pleasure or a point of comparison. It shows a need to view. A sort of voyeuristic itch. Maybe even not so needy or sexual a connotation. The glory hole embodies the idea of a wall-less society where even the most private of matters are left for the public sphere. It is only malicious because it was deemed so. It demands sexual transparency, a need to eradicate the privacies of instilled shame. The glory hole is not merely a physical device, but rather a theoretical break into the high hidden walls of sexuality. In truth, the best way to address sexuality is to discourse on it. We merely wish to understand what we are able to understand. The Glory Hole, seen as a point of deviance is really a symptom; the wailing of the psyche, a sickness of lack. This is lack of understanding of the sexual matters and the social structures that surround it.

THAT Orgasmic Song

I've been looking for this piece for YEARS (since 3rd year High School, we used this in the cheering competition) I found it! LUX AETERNA. What a befitting name. Eternal Light. Try it out... One of the only things in this world I would define as Orgasmic. Especially from 3:25 to the end... OMG... I swear... I want this to play as I die.

The Politically Incorrect Post (Please Don't Kill Me)

Warning: this will be offensive on MANY levels. I apologize in advance. I write this in satire. I do not mean any of this. I was dared to write this. I have to write like a stereotypical vulgar pompous Atenean for once. This hurts me more than it will hurt anyone else. Please don't kill me.

I'm sure most of you have seen an interracial couple strolling around in your favorite social hideaway. In a globalized world, culture mixes with culture, creating human diversity. That is why we have to thank the Japanese and the Brazilians for coming together and creating the perfect people. It's too bad we have to import Braps here in the Philippines, but as was said earlier, we have interracial couples here too.

There's the Dwarves and Elves type: The aesthetically hot caucasian male, 6 feet tall, burly, with the most beautiful eyes you have ever seen, and with him is the 5 foot pinay who almost always looks like your maid, except your maid doesn't have a 2 inch mole sticking out the side of her nose. As you pass them by, your female friends look at each other and say, "What the?! Pick me instead! I'll wash your clothes! I'll be your bed wife!"

There's the Druid and Dryad type: The 65 year old caucasian male with an aesthetically hot 20 year old Filipina who's too poor to afford clothes to cover more than 50% her body. She's basically wearing a scarf coiled around her torso in weird ways.

There's the Old Goats type: 60 year old caucasian male with a 55 year old Filipina who has denied her Filipina-hood by donning classic western day wear, speaking in her husband's accent, and carrying a small furry animal named "Babushka." Her eyebrows have been shaved off and have been replaced by perma-taray brows, and she wears one too many pieces of jewelry. Sometimes she wears animal print blouses. Oh, and her expression is as if her husband's penis is constantly up her ass.

There's The Kalabaw Kurry type: 45 year old middle eastern or south asian male with 20 year old Filipina. It's like they never stop talking. Where did you meet her? Wait... isn't she the girl who used to be saleslady at your tiangge store in Harrison Plaza?

There's the Vanilla Bean in Hot Chocolate: 40 year old 6 foot tall homosexual caucasian male, partly balding, with 5'2" Filipino life partner wrapped within his left arm. The Filipino partner reminds you of your openly gay classmate from high school who supposedly gave blowjobs to horny or discreet men in the 3rd floor laboratory bathroom. The caucasian partner would be the single male math teacher everyone hates that supposedly got a blowjob from said classmate.

Speaking of Vanilla Beans in Hot Chocolate, I had the distinct pleasure of riding with a said couple in a jeep from Katipunan to Cubao. We passed by a sign that said "Fighting Cocks for Sale." The caucasian man turned to his Filipino partner and asked, "Hon, what's fighting cock in tagalog?" The Filipino partner turned to his caucasian partner, batted his eyelashes and said, "Galit na titi. Hihihihihi (pa demure amp) joke honey!" Then Filipino man caressess caucasian's arm, then cuddles.

Resume

RESUME!!!!!!!!

Med Specialty Aptitude Test (A Kiddy Pre Med View)

Here are my results for the med specialty aptitude test, from the University of Virginia Health System website.
I will do as Sanny did. In bold are my preferences.

Pediatrics does seem the perfect choice. I like kids (although kids are afraid of me) and I like dealing with parents. Oncology is my emo choice. I would choose this for the finality and strong sense of mortality, vis-a-vis the slight sliver of hope. I like dealing with people. I like patients. I like being a part of their lives. That's probably why radiation oncology's there as well. Psychiatry I'm unsure of as I may lack the objectivism and skill of distancing myself from patients. I guess if ever I go through with med, It'll be for the stories I can gather, whether hopeful, dire, impossible, or simple. I like shaping people's stories. I'm not in med YET, but hopefully my ideas and beliefs don't change.

Rank	Specialty	Score
1	pediatrics	45
2	med oncology	44
3	hematology	43
4	radiation oncology	43
5	rheumatology	42
6	general internal med	42
7	dermatology	42
8	physical med & rehabilitation	42
9	obstetrics/gynecology	42
10	occupational med	42
11	family practice	41
12	emergency med	41
13	endocrinology	40
14	colon & rectal surgery	40
15	anesthesiology	40
16	orthopaedic surgery	40
17	ophthalmology	40
18	plastic surgery	39
19	psychiatry	39
20	pulmonology	39
21	otolaryngology	39
22	gastroenterology	39
23	infectious disease	38
24	nephrology	38
25	cardiology	38
26	urology	38
27	general surgery	38
28	radiology	38
29	pathology	38
30	nuclear med	38
31	allergy & immunology	37
32	neurosurgery	37
33	preventive med	36
34	aerospace med	35
35	neurology	35
36	thoracic surgery	34