I took this presidential candidate matching quiz and looks like my views line up pretty much with John McCain’s. Who would have thought? Speaking of McCain, he’s going to be in town tomorrow and looks like I have to drive a certain someone to go see him at the Crown in the afternoon! I’m not yet to sure since I have to study, but we’ll see!

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

72% John McCain

70% Mitt Romney

59% Fred Thompson

58% Hillary Clinton

57% Mike Huckabee

56% Barack Obama

54% Tom Tancredo

53% Bill Richardson

53% Rudy Giuliani

52% John Edwards

51% Chris Dodd

50% Ron Paul

45% Joe Biden

38% Dennis Kucinich

38% Mike Gravel

Sometimes… I just don’t know. I’ve lost all my words. I used to be easily inspired, but all of that is gone. I used to be super creative… but they killed my creativity. It feels like A Clockwork Orange and 1984 to me, but I just… followed. I allowed it to take over.

lugi /lu•gi/ Tagalog [1] n. loss in a business transaction; [2] adj. incurring loss in a business transaction.

Mom: Ayusin mo yung itsura mo, para kang nalugi.

Me: Eh nalugi naman talaga ako eh.

My passion for learning is now gone. My creativity is all drained away from me.
I am broken, and empty, and… I’m not sure if I could go on like this for a long time.

“Dancing puppets”—we’re all like dancing puppets. Pretty puppets.

We are all but pretty puppets dancing to the beat of an unknown master. We are all but screwed robots following pre-programmed commands. We are all but blind followers of routine.

“Oho, my sainted aunt, have I become a victim of brain fever, the curse of academia…?”
– Jonathan Crane, in SANDMAN #7: “Sound and Fury”

Three semesters to go.

Well, to my non-Filipino readers, kilig is that shivery, fuzzy, chilling [positive] feeling that you get when you’re “in love” or infatuated.

To get straight to the point, I think—take note, I said I think—that it is…

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What do you think?

This is perhaps the most accurate career quiz I’ve ever taken!

Below are my results, with majority of them all careers that I have considered.

What career will suit your personality?

This description is a generalisation. If it rings true, you’ve found your career type. If it doesn’t, return to the quiz, decide whether you answered truthfully, and not by what you think you should answer. Redo your answers and read your new results.

You would be very happy in a career that utilised your level-headedness, and allowed you to work mainly on your own. You want a career that allows you to be creative, without having to be involved with lots of people. Some careers that would be perfect for you are:

• Artist
• Historian
• Banker
• Novelist
• University Professor
• Photographer
• Vet
• Paralegal
• Graphic Designer
• Online Content Developer
• Webmaster
• Producer
• Managing Director
• Nutritionist
• Advertising
• Nursing

You like working and being alone. You like to avoid attention at all costs. You tend to keep to yourself, and not interact much with the people around you. You enjoy spending time with a few a close friends. You like to listen to others, but don’t like sharing much about yourself. You are very quiet and private.

You are very practical, and only act after thinking things through. You don’t like being forced to answer quickly. You have to evaluate the situation completely. You make decisions based on what you can verify with your senses.

You like to be deeply involved in one or two special projects. You like to be behind the scenes. You are very logical and fair. You feel you should be honest with others and protect their feelings.

You trust your gut instincts. You are easily inspired and trust that inspiration. You are very innovative. You analyse things by looking at the big picture. You are concerned about how what you do affects others. You worry about your actions and the future. You tend to use a lot of metaphors and are very descriptive and colourful in your choice of language.

You are very creative, and get bored easily if you don’t get to express yourself. You like to learn new things. You don’t like the same old routine. You like to leave your options open.

That was really accurate. I was seriously considering Artist, Historian, Novelist, University Professor, Photographer, Paralegal [well, Lawyer, to be specific], Graphic Designer, Online Content Developer [a.k.a. Blogger, which at one point I considered doing professionally], Webmaster, Producer, Advertising, and Nursing.

PS: I don’t really “try to avoid attention at all costs” and I don’t really enjoy being alone. I’d be okay with being alone, but being with people is also something I like to enjoy.

I can’t wait to see what happens next! I hope that this is as brilliant as the Frodo one!

Oh, by the way, moar Hobbit movie news:

Bilbo Baggins casting rumors!

There have been tons rumored actors to play the young Bilbo Baggins so far, but the most popular ones have been:

[L-R: Jack Black, James McAvoy, Martin Freeman, and Daniel Radcliffe]

I’d rather they took an unknown actor, really. If they were to choose from any of those actors, I’d go for Martin Freeman. The guy looks an awful lot like a Hobbit and would definitely pass for a younger version of Sir Ian Holm. Daniel Radcliffe is too young and too Harry Potter; James McAvoy is a brilliant actor, yet I associate him with Nicholas and Mr. Tumnus too much and I don’t think that another fantasy flick would do him good anyway; Jack Black is made of Awesome and Rock, but that’s the problem, really: he’s too much of a funny man. I bet he could even play Peter Jackson if ever PJ needed an actor to play him in his biopic.

Either way, I just can’t wait to see how director Guilermo Del Toro is going to get this Hobbit on the move! It’s been YEARS since that last LOTR film. I just can’t wait to see this Hobbit movie. The possibilities are ENDLESS!

(via The Hobbit Movie page @ Facebook)

[Via Neil's journal]

PS: Thanks for the birthday wishes. I had a great birthday. I feel so loved. ♥
PPS: It’s my mom’s birthday today!
PPPS: Two more finals to go, and Summer 1 is all over! Up next: Summer 2 on Friday!

“Can I see your ID, please?” she asked. She was a pleasant looking woman, perhaps in her early forties, blond, tanned, yet very very white. She smiled a bespectacled smile, the type of smile that you get from people who wear glasses.

For what?, I thought. I didn’t know they did a Victoria’s Secret on here, asking for IDs when paying via credit card. But wait, I’m not even paying yet, how could she–?

I gave her my What The Hell Are You Talking About look.

“For the beer,” replied the Wise Bespectacled One, as if reading my thoughts. She got Dad’s case of beer from the bottom of the shopping cart and slumped it down on her little counter.

“Ohhh!” I lamely said. “Well,” I began as I waved towards my mother nearby. “She’s paying for these.”

I forced my credit card back in my wallet. I gave her my Stupid Smile.

She nodded and began the check-out process.

I could have told her that I’m turning 21 tomorrow, that I could buy all the beer that I want, and perhaps, even more. Of course, I knew better than to complicate things, and so I kept quiet. The fact that my driver’s license still has that ugly yellow “BELOW 21″ band doesn’t help, either [I renewed my license yesterday, and I wasn't 21 at that time anyway].

21.

Ha. Turning 21.

It still didn’t sink in yet, I think. Or maybe it probably did–I’m really not too sure. 21 is really a bigger deal than 18, I think, because of two reasons:

1. Being twentynothingsomething.
2. Getting kicked out of dependent status for my Dad’s visa. [More on this next time... this is supposed to be another blog entry & explanation.]

I was looking around the girls in my classes, and one thing I also noticed was that absolutely ALL of them have the unmistakable wedding band on their left ring fingers! They’re all married! Yes, a couple of them are older, but a lot of them are still pretty much my age [20 or 21].

Then it just sinks in. It’s like I should act like a fucking grown-up because everyone around me is. The truth is, I’m just a 14 year-old girl at heart: embracing singleness, playing games, leeching off my parents’ money, being a jobless bum and all that…

Ugh, I’ll be 21 tomorrow. I’m scared shitless. Not that it matters, since I’m pretty much 21 right now anyway. Why do numbers have to dictate how we act, how we should do things–basically our lives?

Fuck growing up.

I hope I have a happy birthday tomorrow because tomorrow is the start of the Rest of My Life.

PS: Happy 20th birthday to my friends Lora and Jade, as well! Also, happy 25th birthday to my cousin Tim.

Freaking hilarious. XD

Got it from an email forwarded to me by my sister.

2: Type in “[your name] looks like” in Google search:
“Pam looks like shit!”
–> No, not right now, at least. XD

3: Type in “[your name] does” in Google:
“Pam does Montreal, P Diddy too”
–> I don’t really want to know what that’s about.

4: Type in “[your name] hates” in Google search:
“libapache-mod-auth-pam hates me: msg#00004″
–> Cool, something Apache-related, for a change! Go httpd.conf!

5: Type in “[your name] goes” or “..has gone” in Google
“Pam goes on the Monster for the first time”
–> I never rode it yet, sorry.

6: Type in “[your name] loves” in Google search:
“PAM Loves You …”
–> Yes, I do! ♥

7: Type in “[your name] eats” in Google search
“Pam eats! *****”
–> Boo. She doesn’t eat anything.

8: Type in “[your name] has” in Google search:
“Pam has finally released her long-awaited music for speech and language therapy”
–> Yeah, I am awesome like that.

9: Type in “[your name] works” in Google
“PAM works directly with your telephone system and Workforce Management System (if you have one) to quickly and accurately restore all agents to the policy you have defined for the upcoming day.”
–> I’m your super CB operator. XD

10: Type in”[your name] lives” in Google search
“Pam lives in Mexico, works in Mexico, is married to a Mexican”
–> Yeah, no wonder !soy «magnet» para los mexicanos!

11: Type in “[your name] died” in Google search
“‘It’s a tragedy that Pam died,’ Ray Manzarek says, voicing the opinion held by most who knew the couple.”
–> Aww. Pam and Jim.

12: Type in “[your name] will” in Google search
“Do you think Jim and Pam will get engaged tonight on the office?”
–> Woohoo, Pam and Jim! XD

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Nah, the title doesn’t have to do anything with this Google meme. It’s a great misheard lyric from the über smexxy Franz Ferdinand, by the way. It’s off their song, “Dark of the Matinee”. I love the video for this; it’s so trippy and funny! XD ♥

Also, I just got hold of The Fratellis‘ new album called Here We Stand. I haven’t listened to it properly yet, but I do have to say that I like their first one, Costello Music better. We’ll see.

And damn, they’re in New York right now! So near yet so far away!

I also just realized that Franz Ferdinand played at Duke University last April 2006, back when I was in the Philippines, taking a vacation. Talk about irony! Now Franz won’t be back in the US in a long time [not until they release a new album, at least].

Okay, I guess I bored everyone with the FF and TF talk. Sorry, I forgot nobody here digs the same music as I do. Boo.

I’ve been having these quarter-life crisis conversations with friends, lately. Most of you are graduating later this year [congrats, guys!] and for my case, I just had a change of career paths. Medicine is still my end goal, but as Julie said, that’s going to take up such a long long time. I really admire Rio and Ria. They’re the strongest, most dedicated, most focused, and hardworking people I have ever met. For those who aren’t sure about medicine, though, here are some inspirational videos.

They surely gave me a boost. I hope that they help anyone else in need of deeper discernment.

Interview with Dr. Jim Yong Kim - Physician, Founder of Partners in Health
Interview with Dr. Linda Li - Plastic Surgeon (seen on Dr. 90210)
Interview with Dr. Steven Rosenberg - Chief Surgeon, National Cancer Institute

… because we could always use a little bit of inspiration.