February 2012
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Why not give feedback to the lecturers right after they finish? Won’t doctors, living on the lines of professionalism, take the comments as areas they could improve on? Or would their human flaws prove to be indomitable and reign over?
I guess the system is proven to be ineffective and bound to stay this way when we have doctors preaching professionalism and consider their judgment as word...
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Girls with Dragon Tattoos
The widely-acclaimed bestselling novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was adapted twice. First, in Sweden by Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev and two years later by David Fincher. With the rich substance of the book, you cannot retain the entirety in film without sacrificing its artistic merit. In a little under 160 minutes, Fincher’s version depicted more elements from the Wennestrom...
January 2012
9 posts
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Philosophy, particularly existentialism, is not about reading Sartre, Dostoevsky, Rousseau and the likes. It’s about exploring the universe with your mind. It’s not about swallowing the words and having the shallow interpretation as your sole nutrition. You mince the phrases, drink in context, compare and contrast with others, and, most of all, have your own critique.
If you want...
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A Hipster Genocide
Have you dreamt of a world without hipsters?
Disclaimer: Just so we’re clear, this is a thought experiment. I am not advocating mass killing of any group of humans who share a common underwear. And my crude hipster stereotype may not be your crude hipster stereotype so let’s just have fun.
1. Hipsters acknowledge their lonely superiority. Since hipsters are human beings by default,...
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Security
We safeguard what we value.
Anti-aging water. Frisking in malls. Financial safety.
Paranoia or just a way to protect your investments?
Last December, our family went to one of the latest “attractions” bountiful Mega Manila has to offer. Classy is the most apt statement. But like every other mall, there is a mandatory security check before you immerse in their World. I won’t...
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End of an Aeon #2
An appealing personality is a disorder.
*Wild Mass Guessing for Dec 21, 2012*
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Hating Manila
I understand why people hate Manila. Reminds them of their misery. Not being in their safe zone. The pollution. The poverty. How terrible life has become. But are those reasons sufficient to hate Manila?
Why hate something you never fully knew? I love Manila for her imperfections. You could always learn a thing or two everyday if you just open your eyes. The best restaurants. The best shops....
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Cataclysm
Let’s not resort to cyber-bullying.
First, we need to dissect the post. Is it a post of facts or an opinion piece? My logic center tells me it is highly likely of the latter. Next, is it a well-grounded opinion? In a nutshell, she (the poster is verified to be female so I could use the female-oriented words) said that most of those who pass USTET are ‘bobo.’ What is...
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End of an Aeon #1
Right arms of right-handed people and left arms of left-handed people will instantaneously detach from their bodies on Dec 21, 2012.
**Expect more of these end of the world scenarios. Less of doomsday predictions but more of a change in the whole system.
Cephalalgia
Why are there so many drugs for migraine? I’ve always thought they were just karma’s way of setting balance. And epilepsy is just a manifestation of one’s unholiness or a grave sin of your parents you must pay. With my beliefs, the world would be a whole lot simpler.
/sarcasm
December 2011
15 posts
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You can’t change a pawn to a knight unless you are the world where the day becomes night. Same thing with turning a donkey to a noble steed. Accept that Disney just had too much weed.
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Sometimes the fortress will be filled with fumes, rats and what-nots. And the bishops won’t care for they stand by their Ego that they came into this world with. Live with it or die losing hope from foolish psychoanalysis.
A knife is useless in a thriller when the victim doesn’t know where s/he placed it. The same thing for the front door. It’s useless when other people in the house don’t lock them twice for two straight days. It’s actually disappointing when you know that these same people already got robbed before. It’s hard not to care when you can be the unnecessary victim for a...
Cannibalist Friendship
We consume each other’s orbs.
Chomp of chunks of trivialities.
Sharing needles of happiness.
Wavefronts adding up.
Syncing to such great heights.
But we fail to see the atrial fibrillations of our hearts.
We want to go with this forever but the truth is this is only good for a shift of the hands of time.
And so we must part for we revert to our primal identities.
A perversion of...
You know you are not good in life when you don’t care that the after-effects of incessant partying disturb someone else’s sleep.
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Once, you wanted to leave when there was something else to live.
Signs from the stars and the moon but all you looked for was the sun in the night.
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You didn’t ask for it but it comes along anyway.
You weren’t ready but the world never waits for you to be.
We got here because we got here.
A moment of reprieve. Of closure and desperation. What we wanted but never worked for.
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See past the bruises, the scars of the alien in the mirror.
You were not you. You are not you. You will never be you.
It is never enough to abort.
Mash. Slice. Grind. Pound.
Make a burger for the richest man.
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And we play chess with nothing but pieces of our worned-out selves.
Futile was our truce for there is nothing else to lose.
It will never be the same. It will never be the same.
We can’t call it progress if we’re riding on it. It all matters on where you’re at. Moving forward. Going back. Recent stories from the newsmakers got me thinking. After a man broke up with the Superstar’s daughter, every Filipino’s gay-dar turned on and pointed to this who’s been rumored to be gay for years (was it even a decade?). A week later, we have a messy...
And we play chess with nothing but pieces of our worned-out selves. Futile was our truce for there is nothing else to lose.
It will never be the same. It will never be the same.
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Take One for the Team
Our Cacotopia prides itself for being janitor-less. Janitors, though one of the unsung (and frequently berated) heroes, are symbols of disgrace in the society called Present. They represent the ills of capitalism and manifestations of irresponsibility. On my frequent ventures to Present, there’s been a widespread mentality that throwing trash to the proper bins is akin to wrestling a wild...
November 2011
16 posts
Boy: Kristina, gaano kasakit ang sakit? How painful is painful?
KC: Sobra po.
Me: Sana gumamit ka nito:
Di mo ako laruan. Pagkatapos mo ako itakwil at paasahin, dudurugin mo lang ang puso ko. - Insulin kay Kidney. (Pharmacokinetics of Insulin)
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Transhumanism
Non-physiologic ways of staying academically alive.
Elevator
Patient, Student, Doctor
All in one elevator
Live in one building
Leave on different floors
Once we are freed from our constraints, we assume control over our own and other people’s lives. In that elevator, we seemed to be equals. Upsetting the balance will only bring harm to yourself.
Once expelled from this prison, we all become monsters. Doctor to student. Student to patient. Doctor...
A cerebral burn hopes for your return.
I want you but
I need you not.
Who is this,
the crowd would ask.
Filled with bliss,
my tongue falls back.
“Yet in return for our years of training, in return for our dedication to life,...”
– Dr. Mark S. Onglao, Top 1 of the August 2011 Physician Licensure Exams (via josephineanne)
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I’m sending you away.
And the collective consciousness picked the right soundtrack for this moment.
See you when we’ve both grown out.
“Send your dreams
Where nobody hides Give your tears To the tide No Time No Time There’s no end There is no goodbye Disappear With the night No Time No Time ”
M83 - Wait
We desired to get out of the mold when the problem was us trying not enough to fit in a world we want to live in. Tetris is so addicting. First world problems.
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Instead of splitting them up, conjoined twins will be fused together. Minds twisted together through feats in mystic empirical surgery. Moral dilemmas will soon ensue whether to fuse the greatest minds together to achieve godhood. The irony from all of these is that the Big Crunch is set on the day after that fateful moment of scientific triumph.
Smiles are free.
But sometimes, their smiles seem to suck the glee out of you.
Disconcerting this feeling that pervades.
I can’t stop from peeking through the moments and instances they are most proud of themselves.
While some folk singer-songwriter fills up the void in this receptacle.
In the zone.
The stark contrast of Sartre’s Nausea.
In the end, I feel numb with this...
October 2011
12 posts
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You are the next you
You are the next you.
Sounds silly at first listen but the message might not be just apparent as expected. You, the you of this moment, you who are in the time of your life and had a feeling that tonight was a good night that you can shout to the world, “Imma be whoever I want to be” is the light, the optimism, the naivety, the child who is out there to wonder, the one necessary...
It’s better if you leave your mad thoughts alone. Seeing your roommate’s area—who might be on a flight back to the province— left untidy after a semester doesn’t seem to bug me anymore. Life is easier if you just accept the fact that some people aren’t worth hoping for. Some things are meant to be and you just have to clean up their mess by yourself. No...
I purposely got lost today in Ortigas. It’s the best way to explore. Surprises left and right. Urban jungle. A peaceful afternoon.
The fire can only extinguish its own kind. For now, I have to handle the smoke. Two small roaches appeared. Mincing on a chocolate wrapper, I stepped on them. I felt terrible. They were just getting themselves nourished when I took out their lives. It wasn’t their fault. To calm myself out, I determined myself to locate the root of the problem and detonate an H2 bomb on it. My roommates...
“Excellent points! Providing for himself, and not buying useless crap, good job!...”
– Robert Cruiming, via 9gag
You wake up with your arms aching. Find the CR you’ve thoroughly cleaned from ceiling to floor with new dirt they could have just swept. I’m not mad at him. I’m furious at his parents’ parenting deficiency and his grandparents to theirs. No compassion fluorished in this boy but a man in legal terms. I hoped, for quite a long time, that he would change and learn what it...
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If you know how to do something, do it. You can’t wait for other people to grow up, for med students to acquire the power of compassion, for benign housemates to clean up their own mess instead of partying, watching or playing.
(On cleaning the communal area for one and a half hours after a three week war with Cardiology)