Also take note that they also want to learn how to become anorexic.

This here is the perfect sign that our world is going downhill–fast.

Fun Facts:

• Vampirism now seems like a realistic goal in life and a sensible career path.
• A person would rather be anorexic than become a lawyer. Or a doctor or firefighter, for that matter.
• Based on search volume, more people who would still like to learn how to become teachers than those who would like to become anorexic.
• More people want to become pharmacists these days.
• A lot still want to become models–not a surprise.

Thank you for your omniscience, Google.

Frozen Sink Water, originally uploaded by Pam Q..

So I was washing my face and brushing my teeth last night at about 1:00 AM, and as I was rinsing off the toothpaste, I noticed that the water suddenly started forming ice at the bottom of the sink. So yeah. It was so cold that water from the faucet starts freezing. Damn.

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Sorry for the lack of updates. Ever since I came to this bloodyfriggin’ program, I had no time for anything else. Sort of frozen, like this sink water. I had to give up a lot of things and people–blogging included. I did, however, continue to update my microblogging outlets such as my Facebook status, twitter, and the latest one, plurk.

I did find blessing in this bloodyfriggin’ program, however. I met people who I greatly respect and met about two who I consider kindred spirits.

I’ll write a proper blog entry next time. For now, I hope you’ll be content in knowing that yes, I am still alive. I may have given up writing [for now], but know that this blog is always around for your entertainment and mine. Also, if you haven’t done so yet, you may want to check out the archives and find a couple of my more entertaining/angsty entries from a couple of years back.

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.

[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!

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.

It’s not really a “real” blog entry in the strictest sense. I’ll do that next time.

For now, I just want to share a comic and a strip that describes me.

See the entire set at http://www.xkcd.com

Brought to you by the girl who introduced you to PostSecret.

Also, I’m still finishing up the First Summer Session. My birthday’s coming up as well, and I’m scared of turning 21. I’ve been dreading this day ever since I hit 20. [Well, okay, I guess not really.] Oh, and did I tell you that I totally pwned my stupid Film and Literature instructor [he doesn't even have a PhD!] over Maymester? I could teach that course better than he did! More on him next time.

I’ll update soon. For the mean time, enjoy xkcd!

PS: Also, welcome to Guia and Karen! They’re my latest hostees! Be sure to check out their blogs! If you want to get hosted, just send me a message. [If you're my friend, you'll know how to reach me. ]
PPS: I have been laughing excessively over this comic. I’m thinking that maybe too much GC-ness has fucked up my sense of humor. Please tell me this isn’t so. [LAUGH. OR ELSE. XD ]

I visited it again today, and lo and behold, a couple of entries are on there.

Here’s a plug for Steph. Go visit her new blog! Right now!

Go go go!

PS: I miss you, Steph.
PPS: Other plugs… My Filipino-American culture group blog and a new D’Arvit! hostee, Dan [a.k.a. P5YCHIC] of FG.
PPPS: Yes, maybe I’ll start blogging again. My finals are over, and summer is here! [But summer classes are still around. More on this later.]

Anyway, because we hate tl;dr-type blog entries, I’m keeping it short.

I got this quiz off some med school group’s forum on Facebook. It’s a Medical Specialty Aptitude Test. According to the results, I’ll best be in Thoracic Surgery or Radiology. XD I know that it’s all for fun, though. And hey, I never considered Plastic Surgery, but it’s on 4th place. Maybe cashing in on people’s vanity would be a good idea….

Rank    Specialty Score 1 thoracic surgery 45 2 radiology 45 3 aerospace med 43 4 plastic surgery 43 5 nuclear med 43 6 ophthalmology 43 7 gastroenterology 43 8 pulmonology 42 9 emergency med 42 10 dermatology 42 11 allergy & immunology 41 12 radiation oncology 41 13 med oncology 41 14 neurology 41 15 neurosurgery 41 16 otolaryngology 41 17 physical med & rehabilitation 41 18 pediatrics 40 19 urology 40 20 anesthesiology 40 21 hematology 39 22 cardiology 39 23 general internal med 39 24 nephrology 39 25 occupational med 39 26 pathology 39 27 psychiatry 39 28 preventive med 38 29 obstetrics/gynecology 38 30 infectious disease 38 31 endocrinology 37 32 colon & rectal surgery 37 33 general surgery 37 34 orthopaedic surgery 37 35 rheumatology 37 36 family practice 31

Take the quiz here.

I logged on my Blogger account just a few minutes ago and found two unfinished drafts happily sitting on my dashboard. Nostalgia is an amazing thing. I have decided to reproduce them right here, just like Christopher Tolkien published his daddy’s unfinished tales. Bad bad analogy, but whatever.

So here are two of my unfinished blog entries. Yeah, even that Of Magic Lists, Positivity, and Getting Your Heart’s Desire series is unfinished [I'm working on it!]. But midterms almost murdered me, and the end of the semester has been piling up a few million things all at the same time so forgive me, my loyal readers. Yes, there’s still several of you left… I’ve got 12 RSS feed subscribers, and about 20 different people who religiously check on this blog for new entries. Well, better than none, I guess. XD Thanks for staying with me. I intended to abandon this blog, but I just can’t. I still have lots of plans for it, but not now, I guess. Anyway, off to the first unfinished draft, which, I have to say, is the typical circa 2003-2006 D’Arvit! blog entry…

The first one is a list. You see, before those professional bloggers turned “list-making” into a marketing tool, I’ve been doing my own D’Arvit!-ed lists ™ since 2004. Hah. Take that, cash cow “bloggers” who blog for money!!!!!!111!!eleventyone11!!

From Oh the shame. The SHAME!!! LAST SAVED ON APRIL 10, 2005

The D’Arvit! List of Signs that our Country will Collapse in the Next Few Years:

• People think that a person is “intelligent” if s/he has fair skin and Spanish-speaking skills. I mean, WTFH???!!! I SO DAMN F*CKING HATE THAT POND’S TV AD. For those of you who have been living in their respective shells, the TV Ad opens with this mestizo guy warning his girlfriend that his mother “is a perfectionist”. After that said warning, mestizo guy introduces the girl to his mommy. Mama Perfecionista, trying to act cocky and secretive, tells her Baby Mestizo–take note, in Spanish–that she thinks that his girlfriend “has a perfect face… but is she intelligent?” Before Baby Mestizo answers Mama Perfecionista‘s query, the girl in question answers MP in Spanish. Because of that, MP is impressed. And thus, they all live happily ever after, damn them. I mean, what the frell do I care if you can speak Spanish? FYI, English is the Global Language right now. I don’t care about your Spanish. And another thing, the knowledge of a second, third, or fourth language is definitely not proof of one’s intellectual capacity. IMHO, intelligence is what you actually do with your gift of tongues. There is a HUGE difference with just speaking in Spanish and well… speaking in Spanish. I just hope that people would be…hmm… INTELLIGENT enough to know the difference. A Spanish tongue would not make you perfect. And definitely, white skin would definitley NOT make you perfect. I have seen a bunch of old, ugly women, in their dire desperate attempts to lighten their skin tones, have, I must say, ended up looking like Michael Jackson‘s clones. Oh, how perfect!
• Angel Aquino blabs about how many Starbuck’s Coffee branches there are in our country, in an attempt to look cute in Oprah. Ok. So maybe I put in a little bit of exaggeration in that, but that’s how it looked like to me. For those who weren’t aware, last week, Oprah Primetime had an episode wherein they “went around the world” and gave their audiences an overview of the different lifestyles of 30 year-old women around the world. Some of these 30 year-old women actully went to Oprah‘s studio to say something about their lifestyles, but most of these women just submitted short feature videos that would describe their lifestyle in their respective countries. The Philippine’s “representative”, Angel Aquino, definitely disappointed me [and a bunch of other Filipinos who saw that shameful segment].

I do recall that episode of Oprah. So Angel Aquino was basically telling the whole world that 30 year-old Filipina women basically hang out in Starbucks and have merienda because that’s pretty much the only thing to do in the Philippines. What a pretentious c*nt. There’s lots to do in the Philippines, dammit! Manila has a lot of hotspots: shopping centers, restaurants, universities, business districts–just anything else aside from Starfarkingbucks! This is the remnant of the Starbucks folly that I mentioned around three years ago. She could also have been a bit more honest. She could have said that there are probably two kinds of 30 year-old Filipinas: the pretentious, social-mountaineering kind [e.g. her], and the hardworking, tax-paying, cash-strapped sensible one who doesn’t strive to get seen sipping Starbucks coffee in public. Yep, I totally hate it. I don’t suppose that it’s still that bad anymore, I hope?

From And he turned around and said, “We’re home…” LAST SAVED ON DECEMBER 4, 2005

We drove East. Straight ahead on the highway, watching the buildings disappear into open fields of corn and trees and cattle. Over fields. Over roads. Across mountains. We went through Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia. Illinois’ snow melted away as we…

It ended there. I can’t believe it’s been three years since we moved to the US. Anyway, I wrote that after the Chicago-North Carolina roadtrip back in November 2005. Hard times, they were.

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Anyway, this is just to let you all know that I’m still alive. I’m just really busy trying to keep my grades up (and my scholarship) these days. Summer won’t give me a break, either. Oh well. I’ll get back to blogging and web design someday.