The Divine Subjects

Posted on March 30, 2007 at 11:04 am | 17 Comments
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Last semester, I compared and contrasted my subjects to foods, this time, I’ll verdict them where they should go. And of course, my subjects are not divine, it was just the title. Lol.

CFE2 - Inferno

Yeah, inferno. I thought I’ll enjoy this subject because learning Theology has a new level in college. Thanks to my boring professor who always forgot to bring something very important in class and basically, she ruined everything! Muchas Gracias!

CHM03a - Paradiso

Memorizing the jargons in this subject was very easy. I thought I’ll have a hard time on memorizing them, but I was wrong. My professor in this subject was very impressive. What she brings when she enters the room were only writing materials. All of the things that she had to teach us were stored in her brain. No wonder why she is a board topnotcher.

And here are some of the comments of my blockmates regarding our professor:

Parang computer si ma’am! Ilang GB kaya ang meron siya sa utak niya? Pa-USB naman ma’am!

And when my professor forgot something…

Ay, navayrus si ma’am!

Lol.

ENG02a - Inferno

I don’t like the subject very much. Yeah, it’s very ironic. My professor does not know how to make the class alive, yeah, it was very boring.

FIL02a - Purgatorio

The subject was very demanding, especially in the last part of the semester when we were required to create a baby thesis. I’m happy though that we did not need to defend it because there was no time to do so.

ICT110 - Purgatorio

I don’t want to comment about this subject. All I can say is that this will be stuck in the purgatory!

NSTP2 - Paradiso

Why paradiso? It’s because of our professor who’s very lazy. The last time we had a meeting was last January. Ang saya!

PE02 - Inferno

I danced in this subject! Heck, I really hate it. Jive was very hard! The good part? Well, our instructor said that for our finals, all we have to do is to attend the PE Day tomorrow.

PHL03 - Inferno

Do I have to tell the reason why I put this subject in hell? Hey, Sophie, have a great time with Satan, hu? And don’t forget to ask him for a date in the most hottest fiery pit of hell with the Mountain of Purgatory in the background… what a nice place to answer Satan with your sweet “yes.” Goodluck, Sophie!

ZOO01 - Purgatorio

This one is supposed to be in hell because of the hellish names, technical terms, and jargons that I had to memorize. But because of our professor in the laboratory, memorizing all of these was easier. As for the lecture part, during the latter part of the semester, I decided to copy what my blockmates were doing. I decided to stop listening from our instructor (we have a different professor in our lecture) and do other important things. Like my blockmates, I depended on the handouts that were given to us.

While I was reviewing just this week in this subject for our finals, I saw a note that I scribbled in the margins of my handouts:

Zoology is poison to my brain that slowly degenerates it.

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Being a Child Once Again

Posted on March 8, 2007 at 6:19 pm | 13 Comments
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“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.”

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

One thing that I’ve learned from reading the Little Prince is that grown-ups have forgot how is it to be a child. Ironically, you’ll hear some grown-ups saying “How I wish I’m still a kid… bla bla.” But who doesn’t like that? Well, except for those people out there that were bullied and were teased by their classmates who are pa-sosyal1, I’m absolutely sure that they don’t want to go back or even just remember their childhood days.

To be a kid is to be carefree, not sensitive, always asks questions about random things, and other things that I’ve forgot. Yes, I admit, I’m growing up — in less than two years, I’ll be officially a young adult — and my childhood memories and the feeling of how to be a kid are starting to ebb away. One reason why I can say this is that sometimes I find my self agitated because of my younger brother.

Why do we unlearn these things when they are not supposed to be unlearned? All of the grown-ups have experienced how does to be a child, a child who is curious with all the things that he or she sees. It is not necessary that one should act a child in his or her late forties, what I mean is that we should understand why kids act like this and that that we always label as stupid. Hey, haven’t you did that stupid act back in seventh grade? Haven’t you also abused your ugliest classmate by calling him names? Haven’t you hid from your mother after eating half of the contents of your refrigerator because you were afraid to be spanked? Haven’t you cheated when you were playing with your childhood friends?

Now, let’s have a look once again to the remaining childhood memories that we have while we can still. And relish to the world that we understand the stupid acts that the children do.

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On other news, I’m glad that I was able to memorize the frog’s muscles in time. Sure, there were some items that I don’t know the answer to because it was a move test. I forgot where the vastus internus and vastus internus are located, if it was in the dorsal or ventral part of the frog. Tomorrow, we’ll have another test, this time in Zoology (lecture) about the circulatory system. I did not listen to my instructor (who does?). I’m glad that I have a copy of all the things that were discussed last Monday and yesterday. All of the things that I need to memorize are there.

  1. Translation: social climbers [↩]

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The Perfect Duo: Chemistry and Zoology

Posted on February 26, 2007 at 5:13 pm | 18 Comments
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What am I after all? Who am I? A mere creature of God. Yes, a creature made out of clay and molded skilfully by the powerful hands of Him whom we call Father. He made me just like that, and for what reason? To suffer the temptations herein? Am I really important? What am I in this world? To eat, play, drink, and study? Study. Why do we have to study? To gain knowledge and be superior overall beings here on earth? Or do I study merely because of pride so I may not be counted among the ignorant idlers. Why do we have to study and take examinations? Why not let life be only for eating, sleeping, or pleasure. Why do we have to suffer the pains of the damned? Why was I born? Why babies have to leave their mother’s womb when it is much secured there than outside. There you’re kept warm and you don’t have to bother about food, clothing, or shelter. Lastly, why do mothers have to suffer just so we can be brought out into this world. They love us, and yet, very often we fight them when we are grown-up. I don’t think that is right. One should never give his parents cause for worry. God created us in order to be happy with him after death… why do we have to die before we can see God?

Anonymus

That was a piece that I got from a book (actually, it were some of my high school classmates who discovered it) when I was still in high school for an oral examination in English. If I’m not mistaken, the author of this piece is unknown, but if you know who he or she is, please let me know.

Have you asked yourself with those kind of questions. In my case, yes. And most of the times, I don’t get the answers. And if I have, it would lead to yet another question. One of the questions that I always asked myself is the one that I bolded.

Yes, okay, it is a fact that we should learn in order to know something. But why do we need to know those unnecessary things? Let’s have Math for example, even if I like it so much that I would gladly trade it with Philosophy if given the chance, I still don’t get the point why do we have to know algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and other stuffs that has something to do with Mathematics when simple MDAS — the four basic Math skills — would make you survive life even without those complicated Mathematical skills. Besides, what’s the use of calculators? Lol.

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Chemistry and Zoology are driving me crazy! With tons of jargons to memorize, who would not turn into a lunatic? But hey, I’m not one yet, I’m still in the process of becoming one. Lol.

Yesterday, I was memorizing the frog’s bones (e.g. humerus, occipital condyles, fenestra, mento-meckelian, astragalus1). And this morning, I had a test about them. Boy, it was brain damaging! There were even some bones that I did not recognize because they were cut and chopped into pieces. For instance, the pectoral girdle that has ten (more or less) parts was cut, making it too hard for me to recognize as pectoral girdle that consists of clavicle, fenstra, epicoracoid, coracoid, episternum, and other parts that I’m sure you don’t want to know and don’t care about.

And later, I have to review for Chemistry because I have a test tomorrow about lipids. Yes, about those fats you have in your body.

Until now I still don’t know why do we have to study all of this things. Why do we have to memorize names of chemicals such as “acetic acid” (IUPAC name: ethanoic acid) when you can simply say it as “vinegar.” I’m sure, nobody from you would go to the nearest sari-sari store2 and ask the owner “Do you have acetic acid (or ethanoic acid)?” If you don’t want him to pour vinegar on you! Yuck!

On the lighter side, there are some interesting things that I knew this semester, thanks to my excellent Chemistry instructor3 and Zoology laboratory instructor. My Chemistry professor told us that you can create diamond (synthetic) out of methane gas which consists of one carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms. (Are you already getting bored? Or am I already killing you with all these terms? Haha.) She even also told us that putrescine (IUPAC name: 1,4-butanediamine) and cadaverine (IUPAC name: 1,5-pentanediamine) are reasons why dead animals have unpleasant odors. (So the next time you smelled an unpleasant odor, just simply say “Gorss! It smells purtescine and cadaverine!4) And oh, you could also make vinegar (or any other carboxylic acids) have a pleasant odor just by adding alcohol (this process is termed as esterification).

With all of these, I’m just so glad that I’m doing great with these two subjects… and I’m still alive!

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  1. Hey, it’s only the word “humerus” and “occipital” that the spell checker of Firefox has recognized as correct. [↩]
  2. My English instructor last semester said that “sari-sari store” is already included in the English lexicon so I’m not going to italicize it. Lol. But a simple search of it in Dictionary.com would not give me a positive result. [↩]
  3. Who enters the classroom with only her chalk box. All of the things that she teach are programmed into her brain. Lol. [↩]
  4. But who would understand you? Lol! [↩]

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