Funny Online Tests
Ah, laziness and temptation never fails to eat me up. I am supposed to search the Internet for our report in Java tomorrow about Selection. I’m already tired of looking for something that doesn’t even seem to exist. Then I remembered this site HumanForSale.com in which you fill up your details in order for you to know how much you’re worth. At the bottom part, there was a field asking for your score in an IQ Test and this Am-I-Dumb Test. I tried the first one and saw that it was lethal, seriously. You are given some letters and all that’s left for you to do is define a sentence out of it. I actually love doing this kind of thing but not when you’re supposed to do it consecutively a lot of times! Thus, I tried the next one. The questions were really not that hard. I just can’t help but think if the answers are ‘hidden’. You know, being too philosophical. I didn’t take it with full concentration. Here’s my result:
Your Number Correct: 19/25
Average Number Correct: 18.37/25
Percentile: 53.28%
Time Taken: 4:07
You are smarter than 53.28% of the population.
Neat, eh? Haha. I then abandoned learning “my cost”. I’ll spare it for some other ‘extra’ time.
Teri Hatcher Against the Philippines
I was falling in line for dinner when TV Patrol started. The first news on their list was about this actress named Teri Hatcher which stars in the U.S. TV show “Desperate Housewives”. I never really knew her before or even watched a single episode of the show, and I never thought I would know her this way.
(Scene: Susan Mayer talking to her doctor - 09/30/07)
Doctor: I know for a lot of women the word menopause has negative connotations. They hear, uhm, aging, brittle bones, uh, loss of sexual desire..
Susan Mayer: Okay before we go any further, can I check those diplomas ’cause I would just like to make sure that they’re not from some med school in the Philippines.
Now how ’bout that. I don’t know what was up with the scriptwriter for that episode to use the name of our country (or any other country for that matter) that way. It’s such an insult to the Filipinos. The Filipino community in the U.S. had to react, of course. Who wouldn’t? An insult of their beloved nation has just been thrown on national television! The world may have not known about what we’re truly capable of doing of yet, but we know ourselves that we can do better like any other country out there. We have the number of good exports to other countries. We could even be considered as the country with the greatest export workers. And think about being “hospitable”. This is just ridiculous - another plain issue of racism. The scriptwriter should have used “Antarctica” instead. That’d have no conflict at all. A public apology from ABC is being demanded, and I believe it should be done.
Man’s Satisfaction
Our 2nd long exam results in Bio20 were already returned. I got 72, quite low compared to the average, but I was already expecting it. I really had a hard time figuring out the items where we’re to select, from given options, the mode of transmission and the microbe behind for a certain disease. I didn’t study that part well. There were quite a number of enumerations. Like what happens in high school, and perhaps in some or many cases in college, some were complaining about their answers. One classmate of mine even told another, “You’re gonna get it perfect soon!” I agree. I have never tried complaining for my score in any exam result that I receive unless it dictates me to do so. That is, I am 100% sure that my answer is the correct one. For me, it really doesn’t matter that much anyway because in the end, when we find our respective fields of interests as a profession, all these will merely become a memory to be buried underneath..
We had our 2nd long exam in (Data Structures and Algorithms in) Java. It was not as hard as all our previous exams in the subject but it was time-consuming. We had to cut it off and continued in our CMSC140 class at 4. It was already 30 minutes past 5 when the classroom was emptied.
Badminton and Table Tennis
I got up at 11 after originally being budged by my roommate at 10. I then went to school to encode the Assembly Program I made for our project. It compiled, YEY. It didn’t execute right, DRAT. Whew~ Our project’s somewhat like a Mastermind Game in which the user is asked to guess a 4-digit number. We’ll be making it from scratch. I just pray we can do it. Our classmates had theirs from the Internet or from the upperclassmen (our teacher’s fine with it) - which means that all that is left for them to do is simply understand or modify the code. *yosh!* We have to do this so that I can go home this sem-break!
We still had a Badminton session in the afternoon. Only Rheinhart, Fel, and I had rackets. Ma’am played a doubles game with us. When she left to fetch some things, Fel also left, saying that she has a paper to finish. Anthony, my dormmate and Ma’am Amy’s student in Ping Pong, came. She suggested to me and Rheinhart to play with him. We ended up playing alone, since Anthony was reading something. Surprisingly, I can still hit that ping pong ball! Yeah! Awesome! The last time I hit one was when I was still in elementary, when we still had a table at home. I had fun, especially that Rheinhart also knows how to rally the ball. Maybe I should take it as a PE one of these semesters days. If I were initially fat, it could be possible that I’ve lost some weight already, considering that I’ve been playing Volleyball, Lawn Tennis, and Badminton for the past semesters. Otherwise, I could’ve simply gone to Portland plastic surgeons. =P
In the Midnight Hour-Morning Light
I slept at 4. Something new? Err, not really. But the last time I did so, as far as I can recall, was when I was studying for a Psychology10 exam way back in first year. I was even very pissed that ‘night’ because there were dormmates that were playing Magic Cards in our room, specifically on my bed! Anyway, today I did so because I was studying Data Structures in Java. Exam’s tomorrow, and I hope I’ll pass it. Jo Ann and my roommate Hanny John was also where I was studying - in the newspaper area doing their thesis. In between studying I was reading the Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper and I found it interesting:
1. The Click Five (who sang “Just The Girl”) will be in Manila at Ayala Mall this month. (wish I could be there!)
2. ABS-CBN releases “Patoktober” - Susan Roces titles I’ve never heard before in SineSerye, Super Inggo 1.5 (what’s up with the decimal point?!), PBB Celebrity Edition 2, Spring Waltz, and Prinsesa ng Banyera. (eck?)
3. Kung Fu Hustle Movie 2 in which the lead actor appears to be Vanness Wu of the F4.
4. Elton John kissing this guy named K.D. Lang (ack, just what the hack is going on around?) during a benefit show in New York!
Furthermore, the Inquirer magazine also caught me attention. Inside of it talked ’bout the Internet as, you know, a way of meeting friends abroad. So it ended up being on my carrel again. Hehe. I’ve been collecting good editions (is this the appropriate word?) of it, not to mention that it’s breaking the dorm’s rule. And, like the usual, the comics was good - Pugad Baboy, Garfield, Zits, and that funny dog (forgot his name).
Lately, I’ve been thinking of how it would feel like being known to your country. Like, being an artist, singer, model or whatever it is that certainly qualifies one for fame. A person’s appearance undeniably becomes better upon becoming a celebrity. No, seriously, really, right? Then, one would undergo different surgical operations, if preferred and needed. One of them would be rhinoplasty, more commonly known as “nose job” i.e. improve the appearance of the nose. Well, well, well. I’d dearly say that one of the celebrities here in the Philippines who had their nose done is Rachelle Ann Go. I remember my HS classmate then saying that it was really evident. It really was. I wonder if I would do such things, if ever. Ambisyon.. x_x
