Tuesday, October 07, 2008
It is true; I am one in 6.7 billion!
99.99999999% of the world may know something that I do not know, but I am proud to be the 0.00000001% that knows something that nobody else in the world knows...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
10 Year Old Girl Dies from FGM
V-Day supporter Kim Rosen was recently working at the V-Day Safe House in Narok Kenya, and sent us this first hand report of tragic death that we wanted to share with you. V-Day is committed to continuing to work to end Female Genital Mutilation. This story reminds us all that there is more work to be done.
On August 18, in the tiny village of Narosura in the Rift Valley, a 10 year-old girl died from Female Genital Mutilation. At 5 that morning she was cut. By 10, she had bled to death.
Her family wrapped the body in a sheet and secretly buried it a few yards from their huts. By that afternoon, there was no evidence of the crime.
If it were not for the network of conscience that Agnes Pareyio has woven into the Maasai community, this child's death would have gone unnoticed. But an anonymous "informer" called her on the morning of the ceremony, in time for her to send one of her collaborators and an officer of the law to the hasty funeral.
As a result, for the first time in Maasai history, a circumciser has been arrested.
This child's death is reminder that the work is far from done. Girls are still being cut in the Rift Valley and many other places in the world. Some are dying. All are scarred for life. Agnes Pareyio is one of the leading activists of the V-Day movement. Please join us in continuing to support her work to change the fate of Maasai girls and stop FGM worldwide.
Click here for a full report.
Click here to support the V-Day Safe House in Narok, Kenya
On August 18, in the tiny village of Narosura in the Rift Valley, a 10 year-old girl died from Female Genital Mutilation. At 5 that morning she was cut. By 10, she had bled to death.
Her family wrapped the body in a sheet and secretly buried it a few yards from their huts. By that afternoon, there was no evidence of the crime.
If it were not for the network of conscience that Agnes Pareyio has woven into the Maasai community, this child's death would have gone unnoticed. But an anonymous "informer" called her on the morning of the ceremony, in time for her to send one of her collaborators and an officer of the law to the hasty funeral.
As a result, for the first time in Maasai history, a circumciser has been arrested.
This child's death is reminder that the work is far from done. Girls are still being cut in the Rift Valley and many other places in the world. Some are dying. All are scarred for life. Agnes Pareyio is one of the leading activists of the V-Day movement. Please join us in continuing to support her work to change the fate of Maasai girls and stop FGM worldwide.
Click here for a full report.
Click here to support the V-Day Safe House in Narok, Kenya
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Monday, September 08, 2008
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Life and How to Survive It
(Below is a speech to the graduating class of 2008 at NTU convocation ceremony last week by Adrian Tan, a litigation lawyer and the author of The Teenage Textbook. Read it! It's hilarious but very meaningful.)
I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It’s a wonderful honour and a privilege for me to speak here for ten minutes without fear of contradiction, defamation or retaliation. I say this as a Singaporean and more so as a husband.
My wife is a wonderful person and perfect in every way except one. She is the editor of a magazine. She corrects people for a living. She has honed her expert skills over a quarter of a century, mostly by practising at home during conversations between her and me.
On the other hand, I am a litigator. Essentially, I spend my day telling people how wrong they are. I make my living being disagreeable.
Nevertheless, there is perfect harmony in our matrimonial home. That is because when an editor and a litigator have an argument, the one who triumphs is always the wife.
And so I want to start by giving one piece of advice to the men: when you’ve already won her heart, you don’t need to win every argument.
Marriage is considered one milestone of life. Some of you may already be married. Some of you may never be married. Some of you will be married. Some of you will enjoy the experience so much, you will be married many, many times. Good for you.
The next big milestone in your life is today: your graduation. The end of education. You’re done learning.
You’ve probably been told the big lie that “Learning is a lifelong process” and that therefore you will continue studying and taking masters’ degrees and doctorates and professorships and so on. You know the sort of people who tell you that? Teachers. Don’t you think there is some measure of conflict of interest? They are in the business of learning, after all. Where would they be without you? They need you to be repeat customers.
The good news is that they’re wrong.
The bad news is that you don’t need further education because your entire life is over. It is gone. That may come as a shock to some of you. You’re in your teens or early twenties. People may tell you that you will live to be 70, 80, 90 years old. That is your life expectancy.
I love that term: life expectancy. We all understand the term to mean the average life span of a group of people. But I’m here to talk about a bigger idea, which is what you expect from your life.
You may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy. We are behind Andorra and Japan , and tied with San Marino . It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There’s very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup. Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap.
Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom.
So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.
Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.
I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.
After all, it’s calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.
Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.
That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.
If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don’t need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.
What you should prepare for is mess. Life’s a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it. Good and bad things happen to you day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. Your degree is a poor armour against fate.
Don’t expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today. At this point in time, you have grown as tall as you will ever be, you are physically the fittest you will ever be in your entire life and you are probably looking the best that you will ever look. This is as good as it gets. It is all downhill from here. Or up. No one knows.
What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.
Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.
The most important is this: do not work.
Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable.
Work kills. The Japanese have a term “Karoshi”, which means death from overwork. That’s the most dramatic form of how work can kill. But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there’s nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.
There’s a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are “making a living”. No, they’re not. They’re dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.
People will tell you that work ennobles you, that work lends you a certain dignity. Work makes you free. The slogan "Arbeit macht frei" was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps. Utter nonsense.
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.
Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.
I like arguing, and I love language. So, I became a litigator. I enjoy it and I would do it for free. If I didn’t do that, I would’ve been in some other type of work that still involved writing fiction – probably a sports journalist.
So what should you do? You will find your own niche. I don’t imagine you will need to look very hard. By this time in your life, you will have a very good idea of what you will want to do. In fact, I’ll go further and say the ideal situation would be that you will not be able to stop yourself pursuing your passions. By this time you should know what your obsessions are. If you enjoy showing off your knowledge and feeling superior, you might become a teacher.
Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.
Most of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth. I’m not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things. The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.
In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.
I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.
It’s not as easy as it sounds. Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.
One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.
The other side of the coin is this: fall in love.
I didn’t say “be loved”. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one’s looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.
Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false. Modern society is anti-love. We’ve taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings. It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable.
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the truth worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul.
Loving someone is therefore very important, and it is also important to choose the right person. Despite popular culture, love doesn’t happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming. It is not a silly weed, but a mighty tree that weathers every storm.
You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.
You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.
Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.
Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.
You’re going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there’s no life expectancy.
I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It’s a wonderful honour and a privilege for me to speak here for ten minutes without fear of contradiction, defamation or retaliation. I say this as a Singaporean and more so as a husband.
My wife is a wonderful person and perfect in every way except one. She is the editor of a magazine. She corrects people for a living. She has honed her expert skills over a quarter of a century, mostly by practising at home during conversations between her and me.
On the other hand, I am a litigator. Essentially, I spend my day telling people how wrong they are. I make my living being disagreeable.
Nevertheless, there is perfect harmony in our matrimonial home. That is because when an editor and a litigator have an argument, the one who triumphs is always the wife.
And so I want to start by giving one piece of advice to the men: when you’ve already won her heart, you don’t need to win every argument.
Marriage is considered one milestone of life. Some of you may already be married. Some of you may never be married. Some of you will be married. Some of you will enjoy the experience so much, you will be married many, many times. Good for you.
The next big milestone in your life is today: your graduation. The end of education. You’re done learning.
You’ve probably been told the big lie that “Learning is a lifelong process” and that therefore you will continue studying and taking masters’ degrees and doctorates and professorships and so on. You know the sort of people who tell you that? Teachers. Don’t you think there is some measure of conflict of interest? They are in the business of learning, after all. Where would they be without you? They need you to be repeat customers.
The good news is that they’re wrong.
The bad news is that you don’t need further education because your entire life is over. It is gone. That may come as a shock to some of you. You’re in your teens or early twenties. People may tell you that you will live to be 70, 80, 90 years old. That is your life expectancy.
I love that term: life expectancy. We all understand the term to mean the average life span of a group of people. But I’m here to talk about a bigger idea, which is what you expect from your life.
You may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy. We are behind Andorra and Japan , and tied with San Marino . It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There’s very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup. Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap.
Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom.
So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.
Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.
I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.
After all, it’s calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.
Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.
That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.
If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don’t need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.
What you should prepare for is mess. Life’s a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it. Good and bad things happen to you day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. Your degree is a poor armour against fate.
Don’t expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today. At this point in time, you have grown as tall as you will ever be, you are physically the fittest you will ever be in your entire life and you are probably looking the best that you will ever look. This is as good as it gets. It is all downhill from here. Or up. No one knows.
What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.
Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.
The most important is this: do not work.
Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable.
Work kills. The Japanese have a term “Karoshi”, which means death from overwork. That’s the most dramatic form of how work can kill. But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there’s nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.
There’s a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are “making a living”. No, they’re not. They’re dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.
People will tell you that work ennobles you, that work lends you a certain dignity. Work makes you free. The slogan "Arbeit macht frei" was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps. Utter nonsense.
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.
Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.
I like arguing, and I love language. So, I became a litigator. I enjoy it and I would do it for free. If I didn’t do that, I would’ve been in some other type of work that still involved writing fiction – probably a sports journalist.
So what should you do? You will find your own niche. I don’t imagine you will need to look very hard. By this time in your life, you will have a very good idea of what you will want to do. In fact, I’ll go further and say the ideal situation would be that you will not be able to stop yourself pursuing your passions. By this time you should know what your obsessions are. If you enjoy showing off your knowledge and feeling superior, you might become a teacher.
Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.
Most of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth. I’m not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things. The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.
In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.
I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.
It’s not as easy as it sounds. Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.
One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.
The other side of the coin is this: fall in love.
I didn’t say “be loved”. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one’s looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.
Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false. Modern society is anti-love. We’ve taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings. It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable.
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the truth worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul.
Loving someone is therefore very important, and it is also important to choose the right person. Despite popular culture, love doesn’t happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming. It is not a silly weed, but a mighty tree that weathers every storm.
You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.
You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.
Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.
Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.
You’re going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there’s no life expectancy.
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Myrtle Beach
After meeting so many dysfunctional couples who ask me to kill their little babies, I realize how great I had it with him... Respect, Love, and Always Full of Surprises... I miss that... Really do... I need a trip now more than ever! Would love to be here with you...please don't make me your #2...
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Why is it so difficult for men to listen?
When sound waves enter the external auditory meatus, the tympanic membrane vibrates. That causes the ossicular system (malleus, incus, stapes) to vibrate. The vibration of the stapes causes the oval window, the part of the cochlea to which the stapes is connected, to vibrate.The oval window vibrations causes the fluid above the basilar membrane, the scala vestibuli, to be pushed deeper into the cochlea. This causes the basilar membrane which lies beneath the scala vestibuli to vibrate. Those vibrations cause the fluid in the cavity below the basilar membrane to be pushed outward towards the direction of the middle ear, utlimately causing a rhythmic bulging of the round window into the middle ear. It is the hair cells of the organ of Corti that transform the mechanical basilar membrane vibrations to nervous conduction.
...Then after all this it would take a few pages for me to tell you how the sound waves travel through those nerves to eventually get interpretated in the brain...
If they can't remember to put the seat down, you think they can manage all of this to actually listen?
...Then after all this it would take a few pages for me to tell you how the sound waves travel through those nerves to eventually get interpretated in the brain...
If they can't remember to put the seat down, you think they can manage all of this to actually listen?
Monday, June 23, 2008
...something to think about as the day gets close before you say NO and leave me...
just wanted to share my thoughts in my head right now before you tell me what i know you're going to tell me... ...this might be pointless and not fruitful in anyway at this point,... but just going to put it out there...
i dont want to see how things go anymore... i want a full estabished relationship where we both are honest, respect each other's feelings and space and give each other tons and tons of understanding....
....THEN if something goes wrong between us after that and is bad enough to warrant breaking up for...and anybody would break up... ...then we break up--FOR GOOD and never ever look back..!
...that would be the last straw and we know we tried everything and (you & i) is not happening!
i dont want to see how things go anymore... i want a full estabished relationship where we both are honest, respect each other's feelings and space and give each other tons and tons of understanding....
....THEN if something goes wrong between us after that and is bad enough to warrant breaking up for...and anybody would break up... ...then we break up--FOR GOOD and never ever look back..!
...that would be the last straw and we know we tried everything and (you & i) is not happening!
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Virgin Blood and Tight Hymens
Infant and Virgin Blood--Quite an established site
"Not Quite Perfect" anyone?
Tight Hymen In Dubai?
So Simple yet getting the message across...
"Not Quite Perfect" anyone?
Tight Hymen In Dubai?
So Simple yet getting the message across...
Friday, June 20, 2008
Happy 20th!
u can wish me FIRST sometimes too u know... (i even reminded you of EVE yest...)
hope u liked it...
hope u liked it...
CMS Announcement
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have notified Medicare contractors to begin the process of implementing the 10.6% reduction in the physician payment update for the remaining six months of this year. Effective July 1, 2008, the current Medicare conversion factor of $38.0870 will decrease to $34.0682, unless Congress approves legislation to stop the pay cut.
For the first six months of 2008, physicians avoided a 10.1% reduction to their payment update, as a result of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007. The Act also provided a 0.5% increase to the physician payment update through June 30, 2008. Those payment provisions of the Extension Act expire June 30th.
If legislation is approved and signed by the President, CMS will instruct its contractors to alter their fee schedules to reflect the revised payment update and conversion factor. Depending on when legislation is passed, payments may be made retroactively. CMS will provide further instructions to its contractors and the physician community once more details of any changes become available.
Stay tuned for more information on how you can get involved to stop these cuts from becoming a reality.
For the first six months of 2008, physicians avoided a 10.1% reduction to their payment update, as a result of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007. The Act also provided a 0.5% increase to the physician payment update through June 30, 2008. Those payment provisions of the Extension Act expire June 30th.
If legislation is approved and signed by the President, CMS will instruct its contractors to alter their fee schedules to reflect the revised payment update and conversion factor. Depending on when legislation is passed, payments may be made retroactively. CMS will provide further instructions to its contractors and the physician community once more details of any changes become available.
Stay tuned for more information on how you can get involved to stop these cuts from becoming a reality.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Silver Foil
Varakh
All this fury about ox gut and the vegeterians' uproar, yet no one conducted and published a paper on how cummulative consumption of silver affects health. There's stuff about argyria, but you'd think you'd stop eating it when you started to look like a smurf! I say, let's feed Varakh to mice and see if it causes cancer...
We'll find out if it will kill you eventually that's if Diabetes Mellitus Type II doesn't kill you first from eating all that Mithai!
It can't be that bad, we used to use silver as an antibiotic and silver is still mixed with mercury to make amalgams that are put in your mouth! We also use radioisotopes of gold to to treat Rheumatoid Arthritis! Thus the ancient logic, "Something so pretty has to be good for your health" may hold true!
I need some diamonds for my next experiment... ;-)
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
TOP TEN MEN TO AVOID BEING IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH...
10) Men who curse and abuse
9) Men who try to control you
8) Men who are possessive
7) Men who are all talk and no game
6) Men who are dishonest
5) Men who fake calls
4) Men who lie about where they are
3) Men who don't smile when you ring them
2) Men who can't get it up
1) Men who look for your faults rather than value your strengths and embrace your assets...
Don't need these men! Who wants to be with someone who constantly says and does things that are going to hurt you? Rather be single and married to medicine! (At least your patient won't care if you're not pretty!)
9) Men who try to control you
8) Men who are possessive
7) Men who are all talk and no game
6) Men who are dishonest
5) Men who fake calls
4) Men who lie about where they are
3) Men who don't smile when you ring them
2) Men who can't get it up
1) Men who look for your faults rather than value your strengths and embrace your assets...
Don't need these men! Who wants to be with someone who constantly says and does things that are going to hurt you? Rather be single and married to medicine! (At least your patient won't care if you're not pretty!)
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Who's to say that prostitution is wrong but sending kids to war to go kill people is right?
baloney...!
people need to mind their business in their OWN business... and get their priorities straight!
what's more important... some guy finding means on pleasuring himself or what their tax money is really being used for...
just close down a few more hospitals to make some more camera adjustable guns or the new slime bombs! Oh they did one right; the only good thing they came out with using our tax dollars are the new aphrodisiac "gay" bombs-at least that doesn't kill people! Could be a new way of war, I imagine! A True Love/Hate War; fighting with the power of love by throwing bombs to make the soldiers fall in love with each other! LOL! Really hilarious! What will they come out with next? The world never ceases to surprise me! :-)
by the way, i'm not condoning prostitution... i just hate how hypocrites cause an uproar over petty things that don't make a difference in our everyday lives! Spitzer did his job alright as governor; leave his personal life to be handled by him and his wife, u know.. "personally..." doesn't concern us... why do we need to even make prostitution illegal anyway... it's consented sex... and someone makes a living out of it... if it works for her.. good for her! would i go do it? hell no! i really look down upon it...! i would never sell myself... why would i let someone use my body to put their dirty sperm inside of me...? ewww... you're selling yourself--a part of you... why don't u just open your mouth for a few thousand and let a stranger have his bowel movement on you too! next you can sell your teeth, your kidney, and then your leg; i guess they have to make it illegal cause there's no limit to what you can sell... then only the rich will get to keep all their organs and get whores to come to their house to pleasure them and their families will be dysfunctional cause they'll have money but no one will love them... they'll have to pay for someone to pretend to love them and they will never know what real sex with love feels like... anyway, point is controlling it at a point before selling our parts gets out of control... we really don't want the homeless bums in jersey city to start screaming out, "Colon for sale" or "2 for 1 parathyroids"... sigh... controlling something before it gets out of control... hmmm.. peter cooper village stuyvesant town used that philosophy on their no pets policy... people understood cats and dogs but our secretary would get inundated with calls from people saying, well why can't i have a fish?... it's just a little tiny fish...how is a little goldfish on my room desk going to affect anybody... but it does... no pets means no pets... if i let you have a fish, why can't the next guy have a frog and the guy after that will want a guinea pig or a hamster and then that soon turns into an iguana and so on... remember that lady who swallowed a fly and had to keep swallowing all those animals to catch the last one that she swallowed? oh my oh my why did she swallow a fly? anyway... my point is i really don't care where he chooses to spend his own money; i just care that there's a garbage can at the end of every corner of the streets in ny and that i can get a cop to come by screaming for help if i get attacked on the subway... just let the guy do his job, u know...? not my business...his wife can take him to court for adultery and divorce him if she wants... again he's not my man... it's not my business...! ...same way i don't need to know that clinton showed good control by not climaxing until his 9th encounter with monica... why do we need to know that? do u see any other countries talking about their president's ejaculation habits? and yet we ridicule people back in the day for checking queen elizabeth's bed to make sure she had her period every month... sigh... priorities! why do i care if clinton has climax control? i just needed to know that he had good control in his office while not signing papers to jump to spend money to go to a war that doesn't affect us... unlike our current so-called president did... this is the same guy who thought it would be a good idea to chop down trees in order to prevent forest fires... gawd! seriously? ridiculous! even joe wouldn't say something that stupid! whomever wins this term, gawd anybody would be better than him! i really have no honor for this man, who by the way was against the law that congress just passed to make insurance cover psych bills just as they would for medical bills..! gawd.. huge huge difference this is going to make in our lives, especially for all the crazy people i know who need help! yes i'm talking to you, yes, you who's sitting there reading all my...
baloney!
people need to mind their business in their OWN business... and get their priorities straight!
what's more important... some guy finding means on pleasuring himself or what their tax money is really being used for...
just close down a few more hospitals to make some more camera adjustable guns or the new slime bombs! Oh they did one right; the only good thing they came out with using our tax dollars are the new aphrodisiac "gay" bombs-at least that doesn't kill people! Could be a new way of war, I imagine! A True Love/Hate War; fighting with the power of love by throwing bombs to make the soldiers fall in love with each other! LOL! Really hilarious! What will they come out with next? The world never ceases to surprise me! :-)
by the way, i'm not condoning prostitution... i just hate how hypocrites cause an uproar over petty things that don't make a difference in our everyday lives! Spitzer did his job alright as governor; leave his personal life to be handled by him and his wife, u know.. "personally..." doesn't concern us... why do we need to even make prostitution illegal anyway... it's consented sex... and someone makes a living out of it... if it works for her.. good for her! would i go do it? hell no! i really look down upon it...! i would never sell myself... why would i let someone use my body to put their dirty sperm inside of me...? ewww... you're selling yourself--a part of you... why don't u just open your mouth for a few thousand and let a stranger have his bowel movement on you too! next you can sell your teeth, your kidney, and then your leg; i guess they have to make it illegal cause there's no limit to what you can sell... then only the rich will get to keep all their organs and get whores to come to their house to pleasure them and their families will be dysfunctional cause they'll have money but no one will love them... they'll have to pay for someone to pretend to love them and they will never know what real sex with love feels like... anyway, point is controlling it at a point before selling our parts gets out of control... we really don't want the homeless bums in jersey city to start screaming out, "Colon for sale" or "2 for 1 parathyroids"... sigh... controlling something before it gets out of control... hmmm.. peter cooper village stuyvesant town used that philosophy on their no pets policy... people understood cats and dogs but our secretary would get inundated with calls from people saying, well why can't i have a fish?... it's just a little tiny fish...how is a little goldfish on my room desk going to affect anybody... but it does... no pets means no pets... if i let you have a fish, why can't the next guy have a frog and the guy after that will want a guinea pig or a hamster and then that soon turns into an iguana and so on... remember that lady who swallowed a fly and had to keep swallowing all those animals to catch the last one that she swallowed? oh my oh my why did she swallow a fly? anyway... my point is i really don't care where he chooses to spend his own money; i just care that there's a garbage can at the end of every corner of the streets in ny and that i can get a cop to come by screaming for help if i get attacked on the subway... just let the guy do his job, u know...? not my business...his wife can take him to court for adultery and divorce him if she wants... again he's not my man... it's not my business...! ...same way i don't need to know that clinton showed good control by not climaxing until his 9th encounter with monica... why do we need to know that? do u see any other countries talking about their president's ejaculation habits? and yet we ridicule people back in the day for checking queen elizabeth's bed to make sure she had her period every month... sigh... priorities! why do i care if clinton has climax control? i just needed to know that he had good control in his office while not signing papers to jump to spend money to go to a war that doesn't affect us... unlike our current so-called president did... this is the same guy who thought it would be a good idea to chop down trees in order to prevent forest fires... gawd! seriously? ridiculous! even joe wouldn't say something that stupid! whomever wins this term, gawd anybody would be better than him! i really have no honor for this man, who by the way was against the law that congress just passed to make insurance cover psych bills just as they would for medical bills..! gawd.. huge huge difference this is going to make in our lives, especially for all the crazy people i know who need help! yes i'm talking to you, yes, you who's sitting there reading all my...
baloney!
Friday, February 01, 2008
What to do?
In a book entitled Facing Our Mistakes, David Hilfiker tells of caring for a pregnant woman in rural Minnesota. He was friendly with her and her husband and socialized with them. The pregnancy was highly desired by the couple.
Tests showed that the fetus had died. The woman felt pregnant. They waited a few weeks but there was no miscarriage though tests continued to say she was not still pregnant.
Ultrasound technology was new and scarce and over 100 miles away from his clinic. The woman was poor and had low quality transportation. Dr. H decided to not suggest she try to get to where ultrasound could be used.
Dr. H became worried that the dead fetus would cause her great harm and suggested a D & E.
He noted heavy bleeding during the procedure. Later the pathology report said the fetus had been alive and well. Should Dr. H tell her that?
Tests showed that the fetus had died. The woman felt pregnant. They waited a few weeks but there was no miscarriage though tests continued to say she was not still pregnant.
Ultrasound technology was new and scarce and over 100 miles away from his clinic. The woman was poor and had low quality transportation. Dr. H decided to not suggest she try to get to where ultrasound could be used.
Dr. H became worried that the dead fetus would cause her great harm and suggested a D & E.
He noted heavy bleeding during the procedure. Later the pathology report said the fetus had been alive and well. Should Dr. H tell her that?
Monday, January 14, 2008
Filipino Dances
APAMSA as their contribution for this year's Cultural Fair (a collaboration b/t different SOM student organizations) will be doing Filipino Dances choreographed by Knic Rabara! I've attached some youtube versions to give you an idea of what these dances are if you've never seen them. They aren't the best videos but you'll get the idea. If you are interested (you do not have to be Filipino or Asian, you just have to want to learn that's all), please email me and let me know.
On the docket possibly are:
tinikling (bamboo stick dance), kinda reminds me of double dutch for some reason =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAfdmNEHvA
sayaw sa bangko (bench dance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=439NOKgFyho
maglalatik (coconut bra dance), men in coconut bras, need I say more??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9KKqZDWYb4
Check out my friend Betty doing Poongmul with the Korean Drum Troupe at UCLA! (kinda like Dhol, nah?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5u3mmZ06U
Brought to you by Moi!
On the docket possibly are:
tinikling (bamboo stick dance), kinda reminds me of double dutch for some reason =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAfdmNEHvA
sayaw sa bangko (bench dance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=439NOKgFyho
maglalatik (coconut bra dance), men in coconut bras, need I say more??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9KKqZDWYb4
Check out my friend Betty doing Poongmul with the Korean Drum Troupe at UCLA! (kinda like Dhol, nah?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5u3mmZ06U
Brought to you by Moi!
Emergency Tips
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST
Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.
Try it out.
SECOND
Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!"
THIRD
Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.
FOURTH
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to our handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
And Finally....
FIFTH
Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial: (800) FREE 411, or ( 800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.
This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends.
Good luck
FIRST
Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.
Try it out.
SECOND
Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).
Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a cell phone!"
THIRD
Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell next time.
FOURTH
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to our handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
And Finally....
FIFTH
Cell phone companies are charging us $1.00 to $1.75 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to. Most of us do not carry a telephone directory in our vehicle, which makes this situation even more of a problem. When you need to use the 411 information option, simply dial: (800) FREE 411, or ( 800) 373-3411 without incurring any charge at all. Program this into your cell phone now.
This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends.
Good luck
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
hny
so i'm sitting and working in my bed on my insomnia presentation (which by the way is the number one no-no in the treatment of insomnia as you need to build positive associations with your bed for sleep and sex ONLY!) and at the same time, i'm trying to finish up my ethics paper and managed care paper (darn hmo's--pain in my butt!) and i get a text message from a friend i hadn't heard from in a while... so being lazy and in the midst of working fast to get some sleep (whatever that means, as I have to wake up at 4:30 in the morning and leave by 5) i reply back to his message with a cheery "hny!" at the end... to my surprise i get a stream of "LOL"s and excited propositional faces and messages back as a response for being "horny!"
Go Figure! -i had to take time to blog this one real quick before getting back to work!
hny=happy new year world!
Go Figure! -i had to take time to blog this one real quick before getting back to work!
hny=happy new year world!
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