Saturday, June 28, 2008
Diagnostic Test
we had our Diagnostic Test last thursday. the results were out the next day. i did well, i guess, because i'm staying in a regular class. YAY!
Wanted
i watched the movie wanted yesterday. it's a great film, but it's also sad.
got this from wikipedia:
"Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), who works as an accounts manager in a firm, is offered the opportunity to change his monotonous and unrewarding life by avenging the murder of his father, a member of a thousand-year-old secret society of assassins called the Fraternity who follow death orders issued by the Loom of Destiny. The group's leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), invites Gibson to follow in his father's footsteps. Sloan appoints assassin Fox (Angelina Jolie) to mentor the young man. When Fox meets Wesley, he is being followed by the man that killed his father. After a narrow escape, Fox and the Fraternity begin to train Wesley. The training is brutal. It is meant to harden Wesley into the killing machine that the Fraternity needs.
Once he has completed his training, Wesley is given orders to kill people he does not know. Before going on his first assignment, he questions Fox, "How do we know who is bad or good?" She answers by telling him her story. Her father was a judge. An assassin was sent to their house. He killed her father in front of her by setting him on fire. The assassin then branded her on the neck. It turns out that the assassin had been targeted for assassination several weeks prior, but the assassin who was assigned to kill him failed to do so. Fox then explains that is what the Fraternity does: kill one, and save a thousand. Wesley then proceeds to kill his first target. He is then given several more targets to take out.
After being shot by his father's killer, Wesley analyzes the bullet and finds out where it came from. He is given the go ahead by Sloan to find the bullet maker. Fox admits to Sloan that she believes it to be a bad idea. Sloan then hands Fox a new order from the Loom, commanding her to kill Wesley. He travels to Europe to find the maker. Once there, he has a confrontation with his father's killer on a moving train. The train crashes on a bridge connecting two cliffs, but when Wesley is about to fall, his father's killer catches his hand, holding on to him. However. Wesley does not hesitate and fatally shoots him, even though it would cost Wesley his life, as he is still hanging over the edge. The train finally plunges and gets stuck between the two cliffs, but Wesley manages to survive inside. Before the killer dies, he tells Wesley that he is Wesley's father. Fox comes out of the shadows and confirms the story. Wesley makes a narrow escape, diving to the water below. He is rescued by the bullet maker, Pekwarsky (Terence Stamp), and wakes up across the street from his former apartment. Pekwarsky tells Wesley that Sloan is making killings for profit instead of following the Loom's messages. He also tells Wesley that his father wanted him to have a normal life instead of that of an assassin.
Wesley then plots revenge. He captures several hundred rats and places mini bombs on them. He crashes a garbage truck into the Fraternity compound, which dumps the rats who run off all over the compound. After all the rats explode, he charges in, killing all the Fraternity members he encounters. When he reaches Sloan's office, he is immediately surrounded by Fox and a few other high level assassins. Wesley tells them that Sloan is killing for profit by providing his killers with fake instructions from the Loom. Fox asks Sloan if this is true. He states that what is true is that all of their names came up as targets. By doing what he did, he had saved their lives because each and every last assassin in the room's name's had come up in the loom of fate. He goes on to say that, if they really believe in the code, then they should all commit suicide. After contemplating, Fox shoots and curves the bullet's trajectory so that it kills all the Fraternity members in the room. The bullet completes the arc and the last person it hits is Fox herself. She drops to the floor dead. Wesley then goes after Sloan, but he's gone.
Time passes and Wesley tricks Sloan into believing that he has returned to his former life. Sloan goes to Wesley's former place of employment intending to kill him, only to find a decoy, calling back the beginning scene of the movie. The real Wesley takes him out with a mile-long sniper shot. The film ends comically by Wesley asking the audience, 'What the fuck have you done lately?'"
got this from wikipedia:
"Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), who works as an accounts manager in a firm, is offered the opportunity to change his monotonous and unrewarding life by avenging the murder of his father, a member of a thousand-year-old secret society of assassins called the Fraternity who follow death orders issued by the Loom of Destiny. The group's leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), invites Gibson to follow in his father's footsteps. Sloan appoints assassin Fox (Angelina Jolie) to mentor the young man. When Fox meets Wesley, he is being followed by the man that killed his father. After a narrow escape, Fox and the Fraternity begin to train Wesley. The training is brutal. It is meant to harden Wesley into the killing machine that the Fraternity needs.
Once he has completed his training, Wesley is given orders to kill people he does not know. Before going on his first assignment, he questions Fox, "How do we know who is bad or good?" She answers by telling him her story. Her father was a judge. An assassin was sent to their house. He killed her father in front of her by setting him on fire. The assassin then branded her on the neck. It turns out that the assassin had been targeted for assassination several weeks prior, but the assassin who was assigned to kill him failed to do so. Fox then explains that is what the Fraternity does: kill one, and save a thousand. Wesley then proceeds to kill his first target. He is then given several more targets to take out.
After being shot by his father's killer, Wesley analyzes the bullet and finds out where it came from. He is given the go ahead by Sloan to find the bullet maker. Fox admits to Sloan that she believes it to be a bad idea. Sloan then hands Fox a new order from the Loom, commanding her to kill Wesley. He travels to Europe to find the maker. Once there, he has a confrontation with his father's killer on a moving train. The train crashes on a bridge connecting two cliffs, but when Wesley is about to fall, his father's killer catches his hand, holding on to him. However. Wesley does not hesitate and fatally shoots him, even though it would cost Wesley his life, as he is still hanging over the edge. The train finally plunges and gets stuck between the two cliffs, but Wesley manages to survive inside. Before the killer dies, he tells Wesley that he is Wesley's father. Fox comes out of the shadows and confirms the story. Wesley makes a narrow escape, diving to the water below. He is rescued by the bullet maker, Pekwarsky (Terence Stamp), and wakes up across the street from his former apartment. Pekwarsky tells Wesley that Sloan is making killings for profit instead of following the Loom's messages. He also tells Wesley that his father wanted him to have a normal life instead of that of an assassin.
Wesley then plots revenge. He captures several hundred rats and places mini bombs on them. He crashes a garbage truck into the Fraternity compound, which dumps the rats who run off all over the compound. After all the rats explode, he charges in, killing all the Fraternity members he encounters. When he reaches Sloan's office, he is immediately surrounded by Fox and a few other high level assassins. Wesley tells them that Sloan is killing for profit by providing his killers with fake instructions from the Loom. Fox asks Sloan if this is true. He states that what is true is that all of their names came up as targets. By doing what he did, he had saved their lives because each and every last assassin in the room's name's had come up in the loom of fate. He goes on to say that, if they really believe in the code, then they should all commit suicide. After contemplating, Fox shoots and curves the bullet's trajectory so that it kills all the Fraternity members in the room. The bullet completes the arc and the last person it hits is Fox herself. She drops to the floor dead. Wesley then goes after Sloan, but he's gone.
Time passes and Wesley tricks Sloan into believing that he has returned to his former life. Sloan goes to Wesley's former place of employment intending to kill him, only to find a decoy, calling back the beginning scene of the movie. The real Wesley takes him out with a mile-long sniper shot. The film ends comically by Wesley asking the audience, 'What the fuck have you done lately?'"
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Panic
i thought my class would start at ten. i left the house ten minutes before ten so i was running and hurrying. i got there(school) ten minutes after ten. i knew i was already late, but i was hoping that the teacher wasn't there yet. then i went to the new classroom(our teacher decided to move to another room. i was sure it was room 306, but when i got there, i didn't see my block mates. my teacher was there though, so i was thinking, "should i go in?") i was already panicking, running around, finding the correct room. then i saw one of my block mates. i asked her where we should go(i thought she was also late). it really was room 306, but one thing i found out, my class would start at 10:30, and not 10.
while waiting, my block mates asked me about the homework in Filipino. i wasn't able to do it, and the deadline was 5pm. around 3:45 pm, i started doing my HOMEwork. the problem: i didn't know how to answer the questions. i was able to submit my paper ten minutes before the time.
while waiting, my block mates asked me about the homework in Filipino. i wasn't able to do it, and the deadline was 5pm. around 3:45 pm, i started doing my HOMEwork. the problem: i didn't know how to answer the questions. i was able to submit my paper ten minutes before the time.
Monday, June 23, 2008
No Classes
classes were suspended today.
i wanted to watch a movie, but:
a) i had to accompany my aunt to some place. and
b) everyone was busy with something
i wanted to watch a movie, but:
a) i had to accompany my aunt to some place. and
b) everyone was busy with something
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
i was doing my physics homework and i found this article. it's somehow interesting. i got this from http://www.gaiamind.com/Teilhard.html.
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
1881 - 1955
By Anodea Judith
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a visionary French Jesuit, paleontologist, biologist, and philosopher, who spent the bulk of his life trying to integrate religious experience with natural science, most specifically Christian theology with theories of evolution. In this endeavor he became absolutely enthralled with the possibilities for humankind, which he saw as heading for an exciting convergence of systems, an "Omega point" where the coalescence of consciousness will lead us to a new state of peace and planetary unity. Long before ecology was fashionable, he saw this unity he saw as being based intrinsically upon the spirit of the Earth:
"The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth."
Teilhard de Chardin passed away a full ten years before James Lovelock ever proposed the "Gaia Hypothesis" which suggests that the Earth is actually a living being, a collosal biological super-system. Yet Chardin's writings clearly reflect the sense of the Earth as having its own autonomous personality, and being the prime center and director of our future -- a strange attractor, if you will -- that will be the guiding force for the synthesis of humankind.
"The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistible pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.
"We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits."
To this end, he suggested that the Earth in its evolutionary unfolding, was growing a new organ of consciousness, called the noosphere. The noosphere is analogous on a planetary level to the evolution of the cerebral cortex in humans. The noosphere is a "planetary thinking network" -- an interlinked system of consciousness and information, a global net of self-awareness, instantaneous feedback, and planetary communication. At the time of his writing, computers of any merit were the size of a city block, and the Internet was, if anything, an element of speculative science fiction. Yet this evolution is indeed coming to pass, and with a rapidity, that in Gaia time, is but a mere passage of seconds. In these precious moments, the planet is developing her cerebral cortex, and emerging into self-conscious awakening. We are indeed approaching the Omega point that Teilhard de Chardin was so excited about.
This convergence however, though it was predicted to occur through a global information network, was not a convergence of merely minds or bodies -- but of heart, a point that he made most fervently.
"It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?"
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
1881 - 1955
By Anodea Judith
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a visionary French Jesuit, paleontologist, biologist, and philosopher, who spent the bulk of his life trying to integrate religious experience with natural science, most specifically Christian theology with theories of evolution. In this endeavor he became absolutely enthralled with the possibilities for humankind, which he saw as heading for an exciting convergence of systems, an "Omega point" where the coalescence of consciousness will lead us to a new state of peace and planetary unity. Long before ecology was fashionable, he saw this unity he saw as being based intrinsically upon the spirit of the Earth:
"The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth."
Teilhard de Chardin passed away a full ten years before James Lovelock ever proposed the "Gaia Hypothesis" which suggests that the Earth is actually a living being, a collosal biological super-system. Yet Chardin's writings clearly reflect the sense of the Earth as having its own autonomous personality, and being the prime center and director of our future -- a strange attractor, if you will -- that will be the guiding force for the synthesis of humankind.
"The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistible pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.
"We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits."
To this end, he suggested that the Earth in its evolutionary unfolding, was growing a new organ of consciousness, called the noosphere. The noosphere is analogous on a planetary level to the evolution of the cerebral cortex in humans. The noosphere is a "planetary thinking network" -- an interlinked system of consciousness and information, a global net of self-awareness, instantaneous feedback, and planetary communication. At the time of his writing, computers of any merit were the size of a city block, and the Internet was, if anything, an element of speculative science fiction. Yet this evolution is indeed coming to pass, and with a rapidity, that in Gaia time, is but a mere passage of seconds. In these precious moments, the planet is developing her cerebral cortex, and emerging into self-conscious awakening. We are indeed approaching the Omega point that Teilhard de Chardin was so excited about.
This convergence however, though it was predicted to occur through a global information network, was not a convergence of merely minds or bodies -- but of heart, a point that he made most fervently.
"It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?"
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Homework
we have a homework in physics, and it's not easy.
it has something to do with: science vs religion, geocentric vs heliocentric, universe, philosophers, etc.
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i just finished doing my homework. it took me nearly 4 hours to finish it.
it has something to do with: science vs religion, geocentric vs heliocentric, universe, philosophers, etc.
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i just finished doing my homework. it took me nearly 4 hours to finish it.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Robert Muraine
meet robert muraine.
this was one sad moment. i was actually hoping he would stay because i was really looking forward to seeing him on the show.
this was one sad moment. i was actually hoping he would stay because i was really looking forward to seeing him on the show.
School Spirit
i am starting to feel the school spirit now. the do the homeworks and the study parts. i am feeling a bit tired right now. haha!! but i am starting to enjoy it at the same time. weird huh?
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Playing For Pizza
i found out a while ago that "playing for pizza", a book by john grisham, will be a movie soon.
www.cinematical.com/2008/05/22/phoenix-pictures-is-playing-for-pizza-with-john-grisham/
"When you think John Grisham, you usually think of legal thrillers, right? Well, that and the term 'airplane reading', but you probably don't think pastoral sports stories (I know I don't). The Hollywood Reporter announced that Phoenix Pictures has purchased the rights to Grisham's 2007 novel, Playing for Pizza, and the company is already on the hunt for a writer and director for the sports dramedy.
Pizza centers on a third string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns named Rick Docker. After blowing his team's championship shot, Rick is dropped from the team and blacklisted from the NFL. Luckily for him, his enterprising agent finds him a spot in the Italian football league playing for the Parma Panthers. From then on the story is probably a compendium of 'fish out of water jokes', and general cultural misunderstanding -- I'm thinking something along the lines of Under the Tuscan Sun, but with a lot more tackling.
I can't help but remembering back to the 90's when it seemed like you couldn't turn around without seeing another one of Grisham's legal dramas go into production. But, as audiences (and the quality of the movies) sagged, it seemed like his moment in the sun had passed. Now that George Clooney's Smokehouse has picked up the screen rights to Grisham's non-fiction novel, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town with David Gordon Green set to direct, there may just be a second chance for Grisham on the big screen after all -- although it's going to be awfully tough to live down the reputation of being the man responsible for Christmas with The Kranks."
www.collider.com/entertainment/news/article.asp/aid/7950/tcid/1
"Phoenix Pictures has bought the film rights to John Grisham's "Playing for Pizza," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 2007 novel is one of the very few non-legal tomes published by the author of "A Time to Kill" and "The Client."
"Pizza" centers on a former NFL quarterback whose agent farms him out to a semi-pro team in Parma, Italy. A downward career move actually becomes a blessing when the quarterback falls in love with his adopted homeland.
While Grisham's 1990's courtroom adaptations have been huge at the box-office, his only non litigious novel to be made into a major motion picture, 2004's "Christmas with the Kranks," has not gone down as well with audiences. Maybe it wasn't Grisham's fault. I think Tim Allen had just made one too many Christmas flicks.
Yet the Grisham name still sells scripts, no matter what the subject matter. Case in point: the author's sole work of non-fiction, "The Innocent Man," which was snapped up for the big screen by George Clooney.
No screenwriter has yet been assigned to "Playing for Pizza" by Phoenix Pictures – the same company that brought us "Zodiac" and Martin Scorsese's forthcoming "Shutter Island" with Leonardo DiCaprio."
www.cinematical.com/2008/05/22/phoenix-pictures-is-playing-for-pizza-with-john-grisham/
"When you think John Grisham, you usually think of legal thrillers, right? Well, that and the term 'airplane reading', but you probably don't think pastoral sports stories (I know I don't). The Hollywood Reporter announced that Phoenix Pictures has purchased the rights to Grisham's 2007 novel, Playing for Pizza, and the company is already on the hunt for a writer and director for the sports dramedy.
Pizza centers on a third string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns named Rick Docker. After blowing his team's championship shot, Rick is dropped from the team and blacklisted from the NFL. Luckily for him, his enterprising agent finds him a spot in the Italian football league playing for the Parma Panthers. From then on the story is probably a compendium of 'fish out of water jokes', and general cultural misunderstanding -- I'm thinking something along the lines of Under the Tuscan Sun, but with a lot more tackling.
I can't help but remembering back to the 90's when it seemed like you couldn't turn around without seeing another one of Grisham's legal dramas go into production. But, as audiences (and the quality of the movies) sagged, it seemed like his moment in the sun had passed. Now that George Clooney's Smokehouse has picked up the screen rights to Grisham's non-fiction novel, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town with David Gordon Green set to direct, there may just be a second chance for Grisham on the big screen after all -- although it's going to be awfully tough to live down the reputation of being the man responsible for Christmas with The Kranks."
www.collider.com/entertainment/news/article.asp/aid/7950/tcid/1
"Phoenix Pictures has bought the film rights to John Grisham's "Playing for Pizza," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 2007 novel is one of the very few non-legal tomes published by the author of "A Time to Kill" and "The Client."
"Pizza" centers on a former NFL quarterback whose agent farms him out to a semi-pro team in Parma, Italy. A downward career move actually becomes a blessing when the quarterback falls in love with his adopted homeland.
While Grisham's 1990's courtroom adaptations have been huge at the box-office, his only non litigious novel to be made into a major motion picture, 2004's "Christmas with the Kranks," has not gone down as well with audiences. Maybe it wasn't Grisham's fault. I think Tim Allen had just made one too many Christmas flicks.
Yet the Grisham name still sells scripts, no matter what the subject matter. Case in point: the author's sole work of non-fiction, "The Innocent Man," which was snapped up for the big screen by George Clooney.
No screenwriter has yet been assigned to "Playing for Pizza" by Phoenix Pictures – the same company that brought us "Zodiac" and Martin Scorsese's forthcoming "Shutter Island" with Leonardo DiCaprio."
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Filipino Botanist
i was helping my cousin with her research work and i found out about a filipino botanist.
the topic of the research paper's botany and she was asked to research about a filipino botanist.
and here's what i found.
his name's Eduardo Quisumbing
(taken from wikipedia)He earned his BSA at University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1918, his MS at the University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1921, and Ph. D. in Plant Taxonomy, Systematics and Morphology at the University of Chicago in 1923.
From 1920-26 he was attached to the College of Agriculture in U.P., and from 1926-28 to the University of California; in 1928 appointed Systematic Botanist and since February 1934 Acting Chief of the Natural Museum Division of the Bureau of Science, Manila, now Director of the National Museum. When assigned to the U.S. Navy in Guiuau, at the southern tip of Samar, made collections in that region. He retired as Director in November 1961, and was for some following years attached to the Araneta University. Dr. Quisumbing undertook restoration of the Herbarium which was completely destroyed during the war.
Dr. Quisumbing was author of taxonomic and morphological papers, many of which deal with orchids, including ‘Medicinal plants in the Philippines’ (Manila 1951). Saccolabium quisumbingii has been named in his honour. He was recipient of the Distinguished Service Star (1954) for outstanding contribution to the field of systematic botany; Diploma of Merit on Orchidology and Fellow Gold Medal, Malaysian Orchid Society (1966); Gold Medal, American Orchid Society and 1975 PhilAAS Most Outstanding Award.
(taken form: http://inventors.about.com/od/filipinoscientists/p/Quisumbing.htm)
Eduardo Quisumbing - Filipino Botanist:
Filipino botanist, Eduardo Quisumbing was a noted expert in the medicinal plants of the Philippines. He was author of more than 129 scientific articles. many on orchids. Eduardo Quisumbing served as the Director of the National Museum of the Philippines, where he rebuilt the Herbarium. The plant "saccolabium quisumbingii" is named in honor of Eduardo Quisumbing.
Eduardo Quisumbing - Degrees:
BSA at University of the Philippines Los Baños - 1918
MS at the University of the Philippines Los Baños - 1921
Ph. D. at University of Chicago (Plant Taxonomy, Systematics and Morphology) - 1923
Eduardo Quisumbing - Awards:
1954 - Distinguished Service Star for outstanding contribution to the field of systematic botany
1966 - Diploma of Merit on Orchidology
1966 - Fellow Gold Medal from the Malaysian Orchid Society
1975 - PhilAAS Most Outstanding Award
the topic of the research paper's botany and she was asked to research about a filipino botanist.
and here's what i found.
his name's Eduardo Quisumbing
(taken from wikipedia)He earned his BSA at University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1918, his MS at the University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1921, and Ph. D. in Plant Taxonomy, Systematics and Morphology at the University of Chicago in 1923.
From 1920-26 he was attached to the College of Agriculture in U.P., and from 1926-28 to the University of California; in 1928 appointed Systematic Botanist and since February 1934 Acting Chief of the Natural Museum Division of the Bureau of Science, Manila, now Director of the National Museum. When assigned to the U.S. Navy in Guiuau, at the southern tip of Samar, made collections in that region. He retired as Director in November 1961, and was for some following years attached to the Araneta University. Dr. Quisumbing undertook restoration of the Herbarium which was completely destroyed during the war.
Dr. Quisumbing was author of taxonomic and morphological papers, many of which deal with orchids, including ‘Medicinal plants in the Philippines’ (Manila 1951). Saccolabium quisumbingii has been named in his honour. He was recipient of the Distinguished Service Star (1954) for outstanding contribution to the field of systematic botany; Diploma of Merit on Orchidology and Fellow Gold Medal, Malaysian Orchid Society (1966); Gold Medal, American Orchid Society and 1975 PhilAAS Most Outstanding Award.
(taken form: http://inventors.about.com/od/filipinoscientists/p/Quisumbing.htm)
Eduardo Quisumbing - Filipino Botanist:
Filipino botanist, Eduardo Quisumbing was a noted expert in the medicinal plants of the Philippines. He was author of more than 129 scientific articles. many on orchids. Eduardo Quisumbing served as the Director of the National Museum of the Philippines, where he rebuilt the Herbarium. The plant "saccolabium quisumbingii" is named in honor of Eduardo Quisumbing.
Eduardo Quisumbing - Degrees:
BSA at University of the Philippines Los Baños - 1918
MS at the University of the Philippines Los Baños - 1921
Ph. D. at University of Chicago (Plant Taxonomy, Systematics and Morphology) - 1923
Eduardo Quisumbing - Awards:
1954 - Distinguished Service Star for outstanding contribution to the field of systematic botany
1966 - Diploma of Merit on Orchidology
1966 - Fellow Gold Medal from the Malaysian Orchid Society
1975 - PhilAAS Most Outstanding Award
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Sleep
got the article from yahoo.com
i learned new things here. it's very interesting and very informative. (not sure if everything's all true though) it's an article about sleep and life. :D
Sleep is one of the richest topics in science today: why we need it, why it can be hard to get, and how that affects everything from our athletic performance to our income. Daniel Kripke, co-director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, Calif., has looked at the most important question of all. In 2002, he compared death rates among more than 1 million American adults who, as part of a study on cancer prevention, reported their average nightly amount of sleep. To many his results were surprising, but they've since been corroborated by similar studies in Europe and East Asia. Kripke explains.
Q: How much sleep is ideal?
A: Studies show that people who sleep between 6.5 hours and 7.5 hours a night, as they report, live the longest. And people who sleep 8 hours or more, or less than 6.5 hours, they don't live quite as long. There is just as much risk associated with sleeping too long as with sleeping too short. The big surprise is that long sleep seems to start at 8 hours. Sleeping 8.5 hours might really be a little worse than sleeping five.
Morbidity, [or sickness,] is also "U-shaped," in the sense that both very short sleep and very long sleep are associated with many illnesses - with depression, with obesity, and therefore with heart disease and so forth. But the [ideal amount of sleep] for different health measures isn't all in the same place. Most of the "low points" are at seven or eight hours, but there are some at six and some even at nine. I think diabetes is lowest in seven-hour sleepers, [for example]. But these measures aren't as clear as the mortality data.
I think we can speculate [about why people who sleep 6.5 to 7.5 hours live longer], but we have to admit that we don't really understand the reasons. We don't really know yet what is cause and what is effect. So we don't know if a short sleeper can live longer by extending their sleep, and we don't know if a long sleeper can live longer by setting the alarm clock a bit earlier. We're hoping to organize tests of those questions.
One of the reasons I like to publicize these facts is that I think we can prevent a lot of insomnia and distress just by telling people that short sleep is OK. We've all been told you ought to sleep eight hours, but there was never any evidence. A very common problem we see at sleep clinics is people who spend too long in bed. They think they should sleep eight hours or nine hours, so they spend eight or nine hours in bed, with the result that they have trouble falling asleep and they wake up a lot during the night. Oddly enough, a lot of the problem [of insomnia] is lying in bed awake worrying about it. There have been many controlled studies in the United States, Great Britain and other parts of Europe that show that an insomnia treatment that involves getting out of bed when you're not sleepy, and restricting your time in bed, actually helps people to sleep more. They get over their fear of the bed. They get over the worry, and they become confident that when they go to bed they will sleep. So spending less time in bed actually makes sleep better. It is in fact a more powerful and effective long-term treatment for insomnia than sleeping pills. View this article on Time.com
i learned new things here. it's very interesting and very informative. (not sure if everything's all true though) it's an article about sleep and life. :D
Sleep is one of the richest topics in science today: why we need it, why it can be hard to get, and how that affects everything from our athletic performance to our income. Daniel Kripke, co-director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, Calif., has looked at the most important question of all. In 2002, he compared death rates among more than 1 million American adults who, as part of a study on cancer prevention, reported their average nightly amount of sleep. To many his results were surprising, but they've since been corroborated by similar studies in Europe and East Asia. Kripke explains.
Q: How much sleep is ideal?
A: Studies show that people who sleep between 6.5 hours and 7.5 hours a night, as they report, live the longest. And people who sleep 8 hours or more, or less than 6.5 hours, they don't live quite as long. There is just as much risk associated with sleeping too long as with sleeping too short. The big surprise is that long sleep seems to start at 8 hours. Sleeping 8.5 hours might really be a little worse than sleeping five.
Morbidity, [or sickness,] is also "U-shaped," in the sense that both very short sleep and very long sleep are associated with many illnesses - with depression, with obesity, and therefore with heart disease and so forth. But the [ideal amount of sleep] for different health measures isn't all in the same place. Most of the "low points" are at seven or eight hours, but there are some at six and some even at nine. I think diabetes is lowest in seven-hour sleepers, [for example]. But these measures aren't as clear as the mortality data.
I think we can speculate [about why people who sleep 6.5 to 7.5 hours live longer], but we have to admit that we don't really understand the reasons. We don't really know yet what is cause and what is effect. So we don't know if a short sleeper can live longer by extending their sleep, and we don't know if a long sleeper can live longer by setting the alarm clock a bit earlier. We're hoping to organize tests of those questions.
One of the reasons I like to publicize these facts is that I think we can prevent a lot of insomnia and distress just by telling people that short sleep is OK. We've all been told you ought to sleep eight hours, but there was never any evidence. A very common problem we see at sleep clinics is people who spend too long in bed. They think they should sleep eight hours or nine hours, so they spend eight or nine hours in bed, with the result that they have trouble falling asleep and they wake up a lot during the night. Oddly enough, a lot of the problem [of insomnia] is lying in bed awake worrying about it. There have been many controlled studies in the United States, Great Britain and other parts of Europe that show that an insomnia treatment that involves getting out of bed when you're not sleepy, and restricting your time in bed, actually helps people to sleep more. They get over their fear of the bed. They get over the worry, and they become confident that when they go to bed they will sleep. So spending less time in bed actually makes sleep better. It is in fact a more powerful and effective long-term treatment for insomnia than sleeping pills. View this article on Time.com
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
First Day
First day of school
Physics Lab: we were dismissed early(1 hour earlier)
PE: i only spent 15 minutes there. but i didn't know that arnis people have actual uniforms, not the white shirt and red pants.
Filipino: we had our diagnostic test--and it was really hard. i wasn't able to finish the test on time. i don't want to go to basic filipino.
Math: we discussed radicals and exponents.
Physics Lab: we were dismissed early(1 hour earlier)
PE: i only spent 15 minutes there. but i didn't know that arnis people have actual uniforms, not the white shirt and red pants.
Filipino: we had our diagnostic test--and it was really hard. i wasn't able to finish the test on time. i don't want to go to basic filipino.
Math: we discussed radicals and exponents.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Schedule
my schedule is not so good. i will have to run everyday. one class is on one end of the school, and the next class, right after the first class, is on the other end.
Happy Birthday
Belated Happy birthday to my dad. his birthdat was yesterday, but i wasn't able to post anything yesterday, so i decided to post it today.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Friday, June 6, 2008
Guidance Test
i took a guidance test last Wednesday. as usual i was late. i was late for about....2 minutes, i think. then the teacher said, "we've started already so i can't accomodate latecomers. please go to ctc 306." when i got there, i found out that it was a class full of latecomers. oh well.
there was a question there about my carrer plan.
my answer: i don't know yet. :D
there was a question there about my carrer plan.
my answer: i don't know yet. :D
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