The Anatomy of My Thoughts = Rowan-ism

The Internship is due to start on Monday the 7th of September. I got what I expected. There were a couple of wrinkles which needed sorting out and after a phone call from my course manager, I was assured that those wrinkles would be smoothed out. I was worried about the internship because there was a possibility that I would not be able to attend debate training hence resulting in my letting my teammate and myself down. I didn't want that. Anyways, I am still a bit iffy about my posting. I can't say that I'm perfectly comfortable with the arrangement. There's a lot of uncertainty in the air and I don't like feeling like I have completely no control over the situation. Its the luck of the draw I guess. I have to say though that the green eyed monster reared it's ugly head when the internship postings were announced. I was, and probably still am fairly jealous of a certain someone who got what I thought was a decent posting. If I had her posting, I would have no t

Taken from Sunshine's blog. I watched the video and I just had to re-post it. Its a bummer for Molly because sometimes, people judge others' intelligence from what comes out of their mouths. This video infuriates me. It is a clear demonstration of how ignorant and misinformed some people are. I don't understand why some people can not comprehend even the existence of a perception different from their own. Molly calls Saraa closed minded, when really, who is the closed minded one? I have to commend Saraa's patience though. I wouldn't have sat through the whole thing. I wonder if they're kidding. Its an obnoxious joke though. To top it all off, Molly refers to herself as Saraa's friend. Some friend.

You may have noticed that I changed my blog header. I figured it was about time that I be less narcissistic and use other people's pictures in the header. If you look close enough, you might just spot yourself in one or two of the pictures. I tried my best to not cover up people's faces so hopefully, no one's face is covered. Hopefully, no one minds that their faces are plastered at the top of my blog for everyone to see. I was very careful though about how big the faces were. They're big enough so that you recognise that you're in them, but not too big that people who don't know you can recognise you from them - gosh I hope THAT made sense. Why the change? Well, I just thought that, since school as I know it is about to change completely, why not give my blog a make-over too. I spent a couple of minutes on that header and I tried to jam as many photos in there as I could. You could make your own using picasa 3 . You won't believe how hard it is to browse t

I just watched this movie "The Man From Earth". I've been meaning to watch it for a while but my Internet connection kept knocking off and it was just frustrating, so I tromped across the street to my school's library and watched it, utilizing the school's more efficient Internet connection. Image from, podcasternews.com Anyways, about the movie. Visually, its the simplest movie I've ever seen. The whole thing was filmed in a living room but what kept the plot moving were the discussions in the movie. I think it was awesome. Basically the whole movie consists of a room full of college professors from a myriad of expertise, coming together to bid their colleague John Oldman, adieu. John then sets a hypothetical situation, 'what if a caveman survived till this day?' and they discuss the plausibilities of the scenario. John then lets on that he was indeed the said caveman, and with some prompting from the other professors, starts to detail his journey thr

Photo courtesy of Tank. I tried to be responsible on Saturday. Tried being the imperative word. Sure I got home at around 9pm and got scolded for it can you believe it! but my self discipline muscles were sorely exhausted from trying to pull myself away from that party, hence I didn't really have the heart to flip through my notes. I got sick on Sunday so I've basically been a useless lump under my blankets. Monday marked the commencement of the term tests. It doesn't take a genius to see how I did for Monday's and today's paper. I couldn't help but linger after the last term test paper. The word last echoed in my head and I had to contemplate the fact that other 'lasts' are approaching rapidly. Of course there are also many firsts, but its the 'lasts' I'm worried about. Its the lasts that are heart wrenching. I walked through the near empty corridors. I my footsteps resounded in the hollow space. I couldn't help but feel like this cha

Here are some of the photos from the last term test and they are long overdue. I took so long to upload them because... well... I killed my camera. Yes people. We LIKE swings. Some people may think its kiddish but its the cheapest way to experience a couple of Gs. I like taking pictures. Its a way to show the world how I see things. I love looking at them too, but for some reason though, I don't really like being in them as much. School's ending soon. Sigh.

Kate Gosselyn "When you open your mouth, people judge your level of intelligence" Sometimes we compare ourselves to other people and how sometimes we feel better about ourselves simply because we feel that we are better than them in certain aspects of our lives. Its strange that a lot of how we feel about ourselves is influenced by other people. Ideally we should feel good about ourselves based on our merits and not on the demerits of others compared to ours. However, because we are social creatures and have to interact with other humans and the rest of our environments, we have to take into consideration other people's views when we make decisions in our lives, hence self perception can not be completely independent from other people's opinions of us. This struck me when Aji was talking about positive argumentation. He basically said that we should discuss principles not in a comparative manner and that is something that I believe we can apply to our day to day life.

I can't believe I got full marks for questions which I completely misunderstood. I AM born lucky. I know my mother keeps saying that, but I never really believed that it was true! I got 95% for the socials quiz baby! I think it was a fluke because I bull-crapped my way through it. Oh and an incident happened in ITAS yesterday and it was just so strange. I am flattered that people I barely know or even speak to would go out of their way in a futile attempt to annoy me. Its weird that I have such an impact in their day when I don't really do anything to provoke them. The fact that they care enough about me to try and do something like that is really cool - and I am not being sarcastic when I say that. I mean, I must have super powers to annoy people. Whoo ! Hehehe . Someone apologized for it because they felt guilty. That was funny. Did they really think that these games could mind fuck with me? Did they really think that I was bothered? Well... sorry to disappoint you folks,

I have just survived a marathon of sorts. The GMP report was supposed to be 40 pages long. Our part was 25, Chee's 15 and BP's 15 as well. The main challenge was not one of intelectual means... but a challenge on endurance. 25 pages would somehow get condensed into 20 pages. I tucked and nipped and sqeezed my way through a formatting nightmare until I emerged at 5.45am triumphant. I was fairly jubilant until I realized that I had more to do. I had to start if not finish my part for the PA report. I still haven't completed the darn thing. Good times are a few minuites away. I will work once I have gotten the play out of my system.

Astrology... is any of it true, or are the discriptions of personalities based on date of birth merely describe characteristics present in all of us so that we may relate to them? Anyways... I was born on February 23 and that makes me a Piscean. I found this on a website: "Most Pisces crave their secrets, often having a secret life or a double life. One life feeds the soul needs, one the worldly needs. Whether the ‘secret time’ takes the form of a spiritual practice, a love of reading fiction, some version of a ‘quiet drink’ each day, or artistic solitude, depends on the individual Pisces." It seems fairly accurate, but I feel that a large percentage of the population feel that they lead a double life as well. Most of the other piscean characteristics do not fit me so well though. so think that this double life thing is true. Keeping it up is tiring especially when the time comes and I have to live one life for very long. It just seems li

Corazon Aquino died. As she was transported to the place of her wake, the people made tributes for her and her husband. It was beautiful. The vastness was incomprehensible. Thousands of Filipinos were on the streets and the roofs of buildings to greet the Aquinos as they passed by, wearing yellow, and waving yellow flags with Cory's smiling visage. Golden strings of confetti drifted down to the streets as people from the high rise buildings showered their appreciation for the family. Bright yellow banners were draped across overpass after overpass with messages of thanks and condolences for the Aquino family. Fervor was across each person's face. Countless had their hands up reaching for the skies, with their index fingers extended up towards the heavens and their thumbs out to the side to form an "L" . It was the "Laban" (fight) sign, but yesterday it stood for Love. Many were moved to tears by what could have passed for a reenactment of the first People Po