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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

  • the wonders of hiearchy in the medical world.

    Our physical exam and dental today in UP was at some parts a nightmare, and at some parts enjoying. We went there at I think 8 AM, and after comprehensively reviewing every single detail in the necessary requirements and important dates, we were all ready to go, confident yet still a little anxious (especially my anticipation of me getting naked for the doctor's exam). UP did a good thing in setting PE and Dental for 2 courses a day, so that the day will not be too cramped up and spiteful. My mom met up with her director friend there so he guided us into the building it was held. He left us with the nurse responsible, and also left us more dignified and more urgent to the eyes of the staff, since we came with their boss, and since he was calling my mom "mam'" all the while. So, thankfully, the nurses were nice and asked us of the nec. reqs. That is where the nightmare began for us.

    The nurse told us that we have to come there with the X-ray and Dental results, even though the notices given to us didnt tell us we have to, or much more needed to. We asked how to get it, and she said the line was long for the Dental, and the Xray has to be taken somewhere outside, and to add to the insults takes 4 hours to process. We totally panicked, especially since we have to get out of there by 1 since my mom had a very important meeting by 1. We were like totally finding the dental office, and we were sweating all over, since the information given to us when we asked were totally contradictory in terms of the location. My mom even got mad at me for unconciously using some important documents as a fan haha. So we found after going back and forth and sweating like maniacs, and got my teeth checked, and discovered I had 3 cavities, and talked to the dentist about how many gradutaed in their batch last year. Two, yep only two out of 20+. My mom decided we had to do the xray in my Dad's office, so we can get a discount on time. So the 4 hours it takes in other hospitals turned out for us 15 minutes. Whew. Btw, there were others before us too, foreigners. Last come first served I guess, just have a family member as a staff.

    Now the good part. We got back just in time for the PE, and much to our dismay, the line was especially long. We talked to the nurse we talked to in the morning, and she guided us to the front of the line, in front of the long line of waiting students soon to be my college mates. That's the power of the priveleges of the hiearchy of the Medical world! Haha. I wondered what the others thought. Even better, the PE turned out to be just routine check ups, and no naked exam. I guess they only do it in Diliman.

     

Saturday, May 03, 2008

  • New Painting


    Ah finally! After more than a month of painting, Ive finished this one. My mom thinks my aunt and grandma will kill me for painting something nude (both are conservative Christians), but I don't care, and besides, Ive painted it for myself and not them. I like to call it acceptance to express my disgust of people who compromise themselves for the sake of acceptance, and belongingness. The woman is the alpha female, and the little people are the followers. I have someone I have in mind when I painted this, and even though were friends, I disapprove of how that person handles his social circle, which is manipulation through fear and dominance. Thank God i dont belong in that person's circle, and its because of that person's habit do I avoid being with that person.
     

    I find it weird though that most of my portrait paintings are not centered. Notice here how she tends to rest on the right side. I have no idea if this has a psychoogical explanation or perhaps plain coincidence or mistake. Hmm....

       

Saturday, April 26, 2008

  • I wish for these:

    (the brown one)

    and

    (the brown one. yet again)

    The other sanuk I bought was to large for me, and I feel like Ive wasted money for something not perfectly fitting. :(

Thursday, April 24, 2008

  • American Beauty

    I rented "American Beauty" starring Kevin Spacey, and that is one of the best film I have ever watched. I watched it in the late afternoon- about the time my parents come home. I was like totally covering up the fact that i waswatching it, since it overflowed with so many explicit content, and of course nudity. I wasnt of course going for that, but my interest in the movie started when I saw that rose scene with Mena Suvari, and thought that offered such great cinematography, and it was very interesting and artistic. So I happened to find that in the video store today, and much to my surprise it was 2000's Best Picture. Very promising indeed.

    With all the American Beauty's cut-scenes and previews Ive watched, I was totaly expecting it to revolve around passion, longing, sex, lust and fantasies, but the movie was so much more than that. Sure there were lot of that in there, but its message and theme transcends that. The movie tells us, tells me that in every bit of seeming normalcy around us, there are deeper, darker truths we do not know of. In other words, it shows us that people are multi-faceted, and in their whole life, they attempt and strive to put up this wall so that they would be considered "normal," and further more, I think the movie is telling us that maybe normalcy doesnt really exist. Normalcy is society's constant struggle, an illusion, a dream, but not reality. Every character in the movie told me of this truth, especially with Mena's character. I wasn't really sure where the movie was going in the middle bit, but the ending was so spectacular and shocking, and still, minutes after as I am typing this, I feel that surge of adrenaline, or whatever this feeling is (I think excitement), brought forth from the movie.

    Just beautiful. I would like to elaborate more on the characterization, but I dont want to be a spoiler. I demand to whoever is reading this, that you watch it. You won't regret it.

     

Thursday, April 17, 2008

  • Society

    The concept of society, and how society functions, is not for all. Its a pity that those who are not "ideal" as society dictates and believes, are compromised and inhibited of other potentials and skills, which realistically is deemed unuseful by society. Pity.

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