Sooo... how has my sem break been now that I only have around 5 days before school starts? Well, its okay. And my cousin being here makes days less boring. And with her around i try to find something different rather than mope around the computer. Actually this week started rather productively coz I didnt spend as much time as i normally do in front of the laptop. Hehe. :D And the picture above is when we saw Kuya Perfy's Lab gown Haha we loved the tiger design and then poof picture picture XD

Well I wasnt bale to finish reading Wuthering Heights. T_T But I finished 2 books yesterday. One was entitled The Rescue, and the othr one is entitled The Drifter. And I absolutely loved those books! Must buy more fro Christmas and summer vacation hehehe... :D must go to OMF and buy more books! haha anyways let me get on with other things before I make plans to rush to the bookstore and buy more books and waste all ther money I have.

Enrollment is actually over. I just enrolled last Monday but I was never able to tell what happened. Oh and to those who might pass by and read this I don't intend to hurt anyone. Okay? :D

Enrollemnt started last Monday and being one of those who are "safe" I went there quite early to make sure that i would be able to enroll early and head home early. So, I went to uste with my mom and the instructions said to proceed to the main building and see if your name is on the bulletin board. So i checked my name and to my surprise, there were only 19 of us who actually passed everything. And there are around 46 of us and no we are only 19 regular (or should I say the safe) students. My mom was also surprised because the other sections were around more than 30 so why are we so few. Well its obvious who is the one responsible. But moving on, then I proceeded to the seminary gym to find my classmates waiting and looking at the PE boards. Of course I was thinking of a PE this whole time and finally I manged to choose a PE and that is Softball. *insert gasping sounds* So after enrollment, i went to the sticker table and had the second sem sticker placed on my ID. So next sem I will still be a regular student.

And with 5 days, I have to make my sembreak more meaningful. But on the bright side, we will have a get together with our Org tomorrow! Yehey! Now I can get out of the house again. And I feel really sad that the outing with my highschool friends on friday will not push through. :(

in just a few more days, it will be time to enroll once again in school. I'm in a state of mixed emotions and I think my Limbic system has something to do with this. I feel happy because I don't have any deficiencies with any of my subjects. Not only that, I dont have to worry a lot for now. My only problem is i still don't know what PE to take next semester. I'm thinking: soft ball, Arnis, or Volleyball. Wah! I still have no idea what PE to choose! :( I still am undecided. Janelle wants me track and field, my parents wants me to take social dancing but SOCIAL DANCING?! Wont that be embarassing? Haiz. Oh Well Maybe I will take up social dancing. But I really wanna take something that I still don't know. Hmmmm..... I must pray for it. I only have 3 days left before I finally decide.

I hope second sem would be better than the first sem. I expect that we will no longer stay in room 325. The AC unit there is broken and i hate it. The heat would sometimes mix with the mood of the professor and makes the whole class almost unbearable. Then along with an unbearable class our moods are already sour and dampened. Haiz I really don't know what Pe to choose. :(

And I PASSED!!!


I PASSED!
I PASSED!
I PASSED!

Yeah I passed! Enough of the hyperactivity! I will narrate of how yesterday occurred!
Last Thursday, my classmate Myca texted me that the grades are already posted! And when I received that text message a chill suddenly went down my spine. I was scared of my professors! I was only at their mercy!

So the next day comes. I had my quiet time in the morning and I prayed to God that He will give me a heart that will accept whatever grade I receive. Then after breakfast, me and mama went to uste. But there was something that was happening and we were asked to enter through another direction. Then my mom waited for me outside while I went into the main building. At first, i went into the third floor then there was no one and i inquired at the dean's office where the grades are posted. And they said i have to go to the second floor. Okay.... it was 9:45 at that time. And I was in line. Then a girl came and asked me about myself since she had no one to talk to. And so we introduced ourselves and then my mom started to text me but the thing was, the line was way too long. And i saw some of my hs classmates while waiting in line. Suddenly my friend left and went somewhere with her mom. And i waited still and waited, wuntil she came back with a pack of cerealicious for me. It was way too embarassing but i was hungry. So after eating, we waited again until it was 2:20 when we finally reached the computer. It was hot, I was tired and I was becoming more nervous by each passing moment.
So when it was my turn (finally!) my hands started to feel shaky and it took me a while to type in my student number and my birthdate. Then the screen came and i can see the link to "my grades" then i saw the part on the side which said 1st year 1st semester ay 2008-2009. I clicked it and i waited then i scanned everything quicky and guess what! I passed all of my subjects!

wahoooooooo!!!!!
Not a grade of 5!
Praise God!

^_^


我通过了!
我通过了我的第一个学期，无需得到等级5!
我感到非常愉快!
上帝是真正地伟大的!
他是值得的所有称赞和崇拜!

并且我通过了!!!
我通过了!
我通过了!
我通过了!

我爱你阁下，
并且I生活我的声音，
崇拜您，
噢我的灵魂高兴，
作为喜悦我的国王，
在什么您听见，
愿它是甜甜声音，
在您的耳朵。

College Survey XD
1. San building mo?
►Main Building.

2. Course mo?
►B.S Psycho ay mali... BS Psychology

3. Center of excellence ba yun?
►BS Bio lang alam ko sa science eh XD

4. Nakagulong ka na ba sa main field?
►Hm... never did. sounds like fun :D

5. Anong masasabi mo sa bagong fountain sa USTe?
►Looks Ancient haha

6. Nakapasok ka na ba sa Graduate School?
►Not yet!

7. Napuntahan mo na ba lahat ng sections sa Central Library?
►Planning to.

8. Nakapag-internet ka na ba sa Central Lib?
►Oo.

9. Nag-friendster ka?
►Never did. XP

10. Nakakain ka na ba sa lahat ng kainan sa Carpark?
►nooooo.....

11. Bakit ka kumakain sa Carpark?
►nearest to the building

12. Kumakain ka rin ba sa may Dapitan?
►never did. phobias XD

13. Sinong paborito mong prof mo?
►Ma'am Roan tsaka Ma'am Glody tsaka Sir Noli!!! :))

14. Paboritong subject?
►PE!!! :))

15. Maka-Growling Tigers ka ba?
►uhm... pass?

16. Nameet mo na ba yung players ng USTe?
►Nope

17. Naka-akyat ka na ba sa isa sa mga puno sa Botanical Garden?
► hnde ba bibigay yung puno?

18. Nakapagsimba ka na ba sa simbahan dun?
►from time to time although forced most of the time

19. student number mo?
► this questionnaire is a stalker!!!!! XD

20. Saan ka nag test ng USTET?
►Beato

21. Mahirap ba USTET?
►I dreaded ACET more XD

22. Anung org mo?
►Psych Soc tsaka PURE

23. Nagkaroon na ba ng kuwenta sayo yung UST Health Services?
►nooo....

24. Nagpupunta ka ba sa Tinoco Park?
►Where is that?

25. Naranasan mo na bang magpractice ng kahit ano sa grandstand?
►no... too many people XD

26. Alam mo ba yung Research Complex?
►yeah

27. Naholdap ka na ba kahit saan around USTe?
►Hindi pa.

28. E nanakawan?
►Hindi pa rin.

29. Anung pinakaayaw mong lugar sa USTe?
►lover's lane. i seem to be irritated by that place

31. Sa tingin mo marami bang konyo sa USTe?
► what is a konyo?

32. Sa tingin mo bakit tigers ang USTe?
►Dunno... i remember reading that before

33. Di ba orange ang tigers, bakit yellow tayo?
►Eh gusto ng uste yellow eh. XD

34. Excited ka ba sa 400th year ng USTe?
►Not really maybe by 2010

35. Ilang units ka this sem?
►20+

36. Anung pinakamadali mong subject last sem and this sem?
►English. :)

37. E pinakamahirap?

►Zoology.

38. Bakit ka nag aral sa USTe?
►It was my choice duh!

39. Kabisado mo na ba yung UST Hymn?
►Hinde.

40. E yung mission and vision?
►nope

41. Anung tingin mo sa mga guard sa USTe?
►taray

42. Anung masasabi mo sa uniform policy?
►It saves money from buying clothes especially when big books suck up your money

43. Ano naman masasabi mo sa uniform nyo?

►Could be better :P

44. Mahal mo ba USTe?
► i think. do I?!

Its one of these days, the days when something weird happens and there is nothing to do. But maybe later, I will read zoology, SA, Psy101, and filipino. I have to give my best in these subjects. There is no way I wanna fail another quiz in those subjects. Oh and add all the other subjects but the ones I stated are the hard ones which require tons of effort. Moral: If i really wanna pass BS Psychology in UST, I should give more effort than what I already am giving. I also have to do my best in school and getting on the good side of my professors. I just dont know how my blockmates do it! I think that they are born for the course. While me, bah! am still suffering from zoological trauma. I just dont know how i can memorize! I still dont know what is the effective study strategy for me. And although i still have these kinds of problems, I want to do my best, my very best for god even if it means sleepless nights, tears, blood, sweat, coffee, you get the idea. But I made a choice that if I will do my best, I chose to start my study time with God. He gave me the decisions so I have to take responsibility for my actions. And I really want to pass in BS Psychology. I wanna do my best! I dont wanna be a lazy person. Having said that... see yah!

So college so far... well since its one of those rare days that we got nothing to do. *Yey for those days! ^_^* This week went by quickly, and at first i felt like its a Monday but no! Today is a Thursday already and then by tomorrow it will be Friday and then it will be a Saturday *W/c means another high school reunion! yey!* So what else... on Saturday i will see my friends at PE. *note: bring a camera!* And then we will have another birthday! Bon-bon's 18th! *Gar! I just remembered another practical test this Saturday! boohoo so sorry to my group mates in advance i suck!!!* On Monday no SA and Zoo again and no math at last!!!!! wahahah! We will be having our assembly on Monday so from 7-5 shucks! too long!!! :(

I always see some of my old schoolmates once in a while at school. Seeing them makes me feel happy coz i know that I am not alone. And seeing them makes the separation less painful. I normally see my batch mates once in a while but talking to them for a long time can be hard since we have different schedules. And yes, i can still see some of the older batch mates, and they had gotten taller and i feel shorter. So sad.. i know... live with it.

And i like my subjects but i hate the tests. Those are way too hard! :(

Haha so I copy pasted this from: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=231

So this is about someone we read from class this morning. His story really caught my attention. But then it was morning so there goes my breakfast. haha anyways... here's his story... and if you wanna see what his skull looks like just google it. haha (1Psy3 alam niyo to diba?! XD there goes our breakfast! wahahahaha!!!!)

Phineas Gage's Brain Injury

Written by Alan Bellows on September 28th, 2006 at 12:19 am

In 1848, a twenty-five-year-old construction foreman named Phineas Gage won nationwide fame by way of a hole in his head. While working on a railroad project in Vermont, he experienced a severe brain injury when a three-foot-long, fourteen pound tamping iron was violently propelled through his skull. Astonishingly, he lived to tell about it.

At the time of the accident, one of Gage's duties was to set explosive charges to remove unwanted sections of large rocks. Typically, a long, narrow hole was drilled into the rock which was then filled with gunpowder and ignited. Before lighting the fuse, the hole was topped off with sand, and a three-foot-long, 1.25" diameter iron tamping rod was used to pack down the gunpowder. However on 13 September 1848, Gage was distracted momentarily while in the process of preparing a blast, and he neglected to add the protective barrier of sand. When he thrust the iron tamper into the hole in the rock, it created a spark, and the gunpowder was ignited.

The resulting explosion propelled the fourteen pound iron rod straight into the air with the force of a cannon, causing it to pass through Gage's skull in the process. It entered through the bottom of his left cheekbone and exited through the top of his head, then continued to fly in an arc across the sky, landing almost 100 feet behind him.

The unscheduled explosion got the attention of his fellow railroad workers, who rushed over to see if there was a problem. What they found was Phineas Gage slumped on the ground with a hole through his skull. Amazingly, the man was still alive and breathing. Even more amazingly, within moments his eyes were open and he was speaking to his fellow workers. The injured Gage was quickly loaded into a cart, and transported back to his boarding house, some 45 minutes away.

When Dr. John Martyn Harlow arrived, Phineas was conscious and had a regular heartbeat, and both of his pupils reacted to light normally. He was reported to be "in full possession of his reason, and free from pain." He was under the care of Dr. Harlow for ten weeks, at which point he was sent home to Lebanon, New Hampshire. But while he was recovering, the doctor noted some changes in the man's demeanor and personality. People who had known him before the accident described him as hard-working, responsible, and popular with his workers, but after the traumatic injury, Phineas Gage was not the same man.

In regards to his patient, Dr. Harlow wrote:
Gage was fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the grossest profanity (which was not previously his custom), manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires, at times pertinaciously obstinate, yet capricious and vacillating, devising many plans of future operations, which are no sooner arranged than they are abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible. A child in his intellectual capacity and manifestations, he has the animal passions of a strong man. Previous to his injury, although untrained in the schools, he possessed a well-balanced mind, and was looked upon by those who knew him as a shrewd, smart businessman, very energetic and persistent in executing all his plans of operation. In this regard his mind was radically changed, so decidedly that his friends and acquaintances said he was 'no longer Gage'.

Several months after the accident Gage felt strong enough to return to work, yet due to his personality changes, his previous employers would not entrust him with the foreman position he had previously held. In the following years, he took various jobs caring for horses, driving stagecoaches, and doing some farm work. He also briefly appeared at a museum in New York which was curated by the infamous P. T. Barnum, alongside the tamping iron which had impaled his brain.

Not much is known about his years after the injury, but eleven years after the accident, when he was aged thirty-seven years, Gage began to experience epileptic seizures. He died several months later, on 21 May 1860. His brain was not subjected to any medical examination at that time, but seven years later his body was exhumed so that his skull might be studied. It has since been subjected to much scrutiny.

It was determined that damage occurred to Gage's skull in three places: There is a relatively small area under the cheek bone where the tamping iron first impacted, the orbital bone behind the eye socket, and very large hole where the iron rod emerged. The bone fragments over the exit wound were very skillfully put back in place by Dr. Harlow– so much so that it was hardly visible from outside the skull– but the original hole was about three and a half inches long by two inches wide.

There is still some controversy over the extent of damage to Phineas' brain. It is certain that it passed through the anterior frontal cortex and white matter, but it has not been determined with certainty whether the lesion involved both frontal lobes or was limited only to the left side. In any case, the damage caused by the accident was roughly equivalent to a frontal lobotomy.

Today, Gage's skull and the tamping rod which damaged it are on permanent display at Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine. The incident did much to advance the field of neurology, as it was among the first evidence suggesting that damage to the frontal lobes could alter aspects of personality and affect social skills. Before Gage's brain injury, the frontal lobes were largely thought to have little role in behavior.

Further reading:
Description of damage, School of Psychology Deakin University
High-res image of Phineas Gage's skull
Alan Bellows is the founder, designer, and managing editor of DamnInteresting.com, and he is perpetually behind schedule.