First Mango

Well tasty fruit of the season? I myself was born in a tropical place, but never have I seen a mango in the middle of February! To my surprise this is my first mango since I returned to the island. I thought it is not seasonal yet and might not taste so good. It turned my head around and it was very delicious. Sweet as sugar, nothing like what you got in the STATES. That much I know. However sweet it my be, I say, it can't beat the mangoes from my motherland. Talking and thinking about it just put my parotid, submandibular and sublingual glands to work. And my GI is currently at the Cephalic phase, if you know what I mean... Just a taste of GI phys for you there. Parietal cells kicking into gear and pumping those tubulo vesicles up onto the membrane and secreting H+ like they should.

NO SURPRISES

Today I feel like I need to write about parenting because these days, kids are just getting out of control. I mean WAY out of control and wackos; no manner. Moreover, people these days tend to blame other more than they used to do back in the days. Without further ado, lets get down to business.

It is very important for parents to raise their children properly. If you are not a good role model for them to begin with by cursing in front of them, then there is no surprise when your offsprings have a shrewd tongue. That whole process of raising kid starts from the very beginning, as soon as the kid is born. When the parents don't know any manner, and on top of that have a shrewd tongue, then there is no surprise to see that their kids cursing in every sentence they speak, or calling names to people at their will. When others belittle you for your kids' actions, then you will scold your kids. But lets take a step back and look at the whole situation again before you unleash your anger to your kids and blame them! Lets see who really is at fault here, you or your kids! Kids act the way they do because you as parents failed to put them on the right track and teach them the proper manner, so isn't that in a way that is your fault for being belittled?

This is exactly the example of what I was blogging. It all happened in a facebook game. I don't know who it is, but that person bought my pet and renamed it. The name says something like this: "Thank Me! You belonged to me instead of idiot bastard!" And what come across my mind then was BAD PARENTING! That simply show how low-life that kid is and same image will be reflected onto his/her parents. All in all, it all boiled down to lack of parenting. If his/her parents were to taught some manner into him/her then i am sure such cases can be prevented. Calling someone bastard in public forum for no obvious reason is unjustifiable, but not unpreventable! It is also quite sad to see how kids these days don't give a second thought about how their actions will affect their parents.

So from the example above just think twice before you do something now boys and girls.

Well... the practical results turned out to be good or at least better than what I have expected right after the exam.

Today there is a movie(documentary) about Israle/Palasteinian (forgive me if I spell it incorrectly) conflict and unearthing the truth. Title is Occupation 101, but I have to see if I want to skip the anatomy TA session or not.

Let's see what I learned today... My day started out with Neuroscience, then Histology, then finishing with Biochemistry. In neuro, we covered olfactory and gustatory tracts, food and smell and pheromone. Interesting how both men and women find the mates who have different MHC than themselves to give better protection to their offspring. Wonderful ain't it, we should all thank to our parents for doing that. Then histology covered the immune system of the body. We have helper and killer and damn it was a mess XD! One intriguing thing is that CD4 with MHC 2 give you 8 and CD8 with MHC 1 give you also 8 when you multiply the CD# and MHC# together. Now learning about population genetic and Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium! And I say bring in the math! p^2 + 2pq + q^2 = 1 talking about polynomial and perfect squares... oh that brings back the memories of High School!

One interesting thing that professor said in class keep me amused for the whole day. So I will share with you all. That is from the Biochemistry class. We were doing genetic and at the end of the class when we were discussing about stabilization selection and directional selection... he has a slide showing how education and number of kids for women correlate. That is known as directional selection as women with higher education tend to have less kids. And the thing he said after a few of the students laughed is this "Oh! you guys are thinking about this, well that is also directional selection!" Took me a while, but then if you think about it, what he said was correct as well! I think you have to be a guy or not highly educated girl to get this XD.

Finally!!!

Finally back on this thing again. Had my practical exam for Anatomy on friday. Wasn't too bad at all... Today we have ISA Date Auction. It is crazy I tell ya.... I will post the pictures laters... and I hope I can find a way to upload the video I took with iPhone. Maybe I have to find a converter for it. It's awesome I tell you! Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful!

My favorite TA performed a freestyle and it was great! OMG! I didn't know he is that talented until now! WOW WOW WOW!!!

Happy Chinese New Year & V-Day

combo happiness!

ladies and gentlemen as you know this is the time to get red envelopes and give your loved ones kisses and hugs and whatever else you think is appropriate...

end up cooking for the new year thing myself. it sucks to spend new year by yourself. today took mocktical.... then study neuro for an hour then chill for the rest of the evening :) need to release some steams... well I am nice so i will share my meal with you for chinese new year.. don't expect chinese foods cuz i wasn't even planning for the event and i just have 1 night to plan it.. so enjoy..

peace out!

Food 4 Thought!

Somethings just come out of blue...

Jealousy and Grudge is the bad combo that can destroy many things. Among the things are relationship, friendship, and even the world if enough people are having it. So just stay away from it and make peace and love (alright you sicko's, not make love! That's for all you perverts out there!).

Life is too short, so live peacefully and happily. Live without any regret and live life like you don't have tomorrow!

Have you ever feel the relief that come from correcting your wrong and making it right? If you haven't felt that in your life you are one of two things; either you are living very purely and never ever made mistake in your life, or you just too proud of yourself and can't let go your Hubris! I hope everyone who haven't felt that feeling is of the former rather than latter!

Well those are just some thoughts... any comments are welcome and appreciate it. Again, thank you for taking your time to read my post.

After the MINI!

First of all, sorry for not updating this for a while. Secondly, I want to thank to people who actually took their time to read what I have to say. Let me say it one more time to all you guys and girls out there, 'Don't be shy to leave comment or mail me!' I am open to all sort of discussions. I know you all miss me and probably cussing at me for leaving you guys for so long and not updating the site.

Here was the deal, no excuses though. I was sick for 4 days just a week before the mini so I completely felt shit, excuse my language, and didn't do much studying for those 4 days. So the studying was put away for a while and I had to do some catch up for like 10 days :(... yeah yeah.. whatever!

What done is done right.. so I am back again. Where did I leave out last time? Vitamins? Either way, we learned about vitamins, I didn't believe we have that many before the lecture. It is literally A to Z man! Then they throw us with nutrition, what food to eat, how to eat healthy. So much for the lecture though because right after the lecture is lunch time and all the students went out to grab what they want and none seems so healthy! (pizza, among other americanized foods) . After all those nutrition, come the Amino Acids and digestive enzymes. What makes it fun is you have to digest the Amino Acids and Digestive Enzymes in 2 days cuz they are part of exam!

Neuro was fun, learning all different tracts/modalities of each cranial nerve. Things starting to tie together and the human body is quite amazing.

As you know from the title, after the mini, I just had my first exam of 2nd semester today and went to beach bash party! WoooHOOOOO! Great burger and drinks (non-alcoholic)!

See you tomorrow? Hope I have time to post more.