American Idol Alum thinks Europe is a country!?!?
Step aside Miss Teen South Carolina! Make way for American Idol Alumna, Kellie Pickler! She guests as a contestant in the game show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? Well, Ms Pickler, the answer is clearly NO.
Laugh away!
The good news: Not all Americans are like her. 
Â
On Recharging Cell Phones
I read a blog a while ago and this blog post freaked me out because my parents do this all the time…
A Philosophical Experiment
Do you like bending your mind this way and that?
I’ve recently bought a book, a collection of one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas. Author Julian Baggini presents abstract philosophical issues in concrete terms. He also suggests possible solutions (but not claiming which are more correct than others) and encourage readers to draw their own conclusions.
I think you might want to take a look at it. The title of the book is The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher.
Have a taste of what’s inside the book and we’ll see how you’ll react to this one:
Life dependency
Dick had made a mistake, but surely the price he was paying was too high. He, of course, knew that level six of the hospital was a restricted area. But after he had drunk one too many glasses of wine with his colleagues at the finance department Christmas party, he had inadvertently staggered out of the elevator on the sixth floor and passed out on one of the empty beds.
When he woke up, he discovered to his horror that he had been mistaken for a volunteer in a new life-saving procedure. Patients who required vital organ transplants to survive were being hooked up to volunteers, whose own vital organs kept both alive. This would continue until a donor organ could be found, which was usually around nine months later…
Reflections On A Failed Rebellion
Yesterday around lunch time, Senator Antonio Trillanes, who is on trial for their shortlived mutiny in Oakwood Hotel in 2003, and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, who was the negotiator during the height of the Oakwood Mutiny and who is also facing court martial proceedings in connection with the uprising that happened February 24 last year, walked out from a hearing at Makati Regional Trial Court. Then, they marched out of the streets of Makati, with 50 other men, including armed men in military uniform wearing the Magdalo insignia, Former Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr, a staunch critic of President Arroyo, and Argee Guevarra, lawyer for the Laban ng Masa group. Novaliches Bishop Antonio Tobias, Infanta Bishop Emeritus Julio Labayen as well as Fr. Robert Reyes were also there. And the destination? The Manila Peninsula Hotel, where all the drama will unfold.
At that time, I’ve just turned off the TV because I got bored watching the Republican/Youtube Debate on CNN and decided to finally turn my attention on my review notes when I received a Twitter SMS Update:
Okay, I know that’s a web twit. But you get the idea…
That’s a twit from Arbet.
I immediately went back to the TV to turn it on to ANC. And, of course, I’ve got to get online too to catch up with the updates. From then on, I spend the whole afternoon switching from reading and typing twits and IM messages online to watching TV to reading my review notes (not necessarily in that particular order, but usually reviewing the notes came in last, haha).
And as expected, most bloggers began the deluge of twits:
The Last Thing You Want is Sometimes the Very Thing You Need
This is a quote from the movie “Kamikaze Girls†by the Japanese author, Novala Takemoto. I highly regard the film’s captivating visual imagery and the truth it exposes. There are things in life that we should need but we often do not realize because we are scared. I belong to this group, people who are afraid of accepting things the way they are. Rationalizing every detail in my life is always my way to keep me from being vulnerable. Unmasking myself is taboo to me thus even the people who know me for years point out the fortress I built around me.
Â
Until I met this person… www.filteany.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBAXwm-dqd8
BREAKING NEWS: The Man Blog Declares Coup D’état! OMG!
MANILA, Philippines — A group of civilians calling themselves members of The Grand Order of Fail stormed Hotel Sogo in Cubao, Quezon City and declared what they call a “LOL D’étatâ€. They have easily taken over hotel security by threatening them with suspicious-looking liquids contained within sealed vials marked with labels such as “herpesâ€, “syphilisâ€, “pubic liceâ€, “erectile dysfunctionâ€, “premature ejaculationâ€, and the ominous “I don’t know what the fuck this is but you don’t want to get infected by itâ€.
The swift takeover of the Hotel Sogo
Mommy, not now
Last night, my mom, myate and I had a very serious talk about guys, sex and marriage. It wasn’t the first time we had this kind of conversation but last night was the most serious, if not, the most intense girl talk we’ve ever had concerning these matters. My sister is getting married next year and of course, my mom is going gaga over everything including me.
My sister will be 29 next year, not the expected age my mom wanted her to get married and definitely not the perfect age to start having kids. My mom had always wanted for us to get married as early as 25 so we can have kids way before the dreaded age 30 comes. Ideally, it sounds nice but then again that age target is a tad too early for today’s women to get settled. Especially me, I mean I’m already 22 and after I graduate from college, I still have to go to medschool, earn my license and then work. Earning an MD entails service and this is something I am determined to commit myself to no matter what or who.
My parents have repeatedly urged me to invite those pesky suitor(s) to our house. But I had to refuse them because (1) I don’t like him/them and (2) I’ll only be wasting my time entertaining him/them. And besides, having a boyfriend isn’t my goal right now and it can wait. I’m not idiotic to go out with someone just because I am told to. NO, I am more than that and I have bigger plans to emerge myself into. More importantly, those pesky guy/s don’t know squat about what I like. Darn it, all they know are medical stuff! Not that it’s bad but that’s just boring! They can’t even tell me anything about politics and movies and books and music and stuff. I can’t live without current events and humor! ARGH!
