Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Daily Gulps
Your (almost) daily dose of greymatter (and anti-matter)
Always running out of breath? Try vacuuming your lungs.
Upload a photo and find out how you look like when you get old.
Bored? All you need is a willing friend, a wall or a ceiling, and a few rolls of duct tape.
In the midst of booming Japan are weird ghost towns.
Here's something for the Simpsonatics.
It writes at any angle, even in ZERO GRAVITY. It writes in the freezing cold temp. It's the only pen worth having! 
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Saturday, April 23, 2005
Happy Birthday Milkolate
Yahoo! Yahoo!
On this very day, Milkolate turns ONE! This momentous day marks the birth of our favorite
So let's celebrate and do the move!
Thank you for the continued support. Without you, dear ol' me won't have the inspiration for some days to write.. What can I say? I'm an exhibistionist! Doomo arigatoo gozaimasu!
Be happy! This day is for all of us who love the drink (and the effects of the drink one me - hehehehe!). Happy birthday Milkolate!
Friday, April 22, 2005
On a Sleepless Summer Night
The clock has struck 12. Morning has come, and I'm still awake. Lately, I have been sleeping later than usual though it is against my summer motto of "Early to bed. Early to rise." But what's new? I've been feeding my eyebugs for years now and I see no end in sight.So how am I after a week of summer class? Still coping.. But in my vantage point, I still see some goodness in my summer. First, I'm re-learning to love the morning. My 7:30 am Psychology 101 class has forced me to get out of slumber at 6:30 am. But compared to the previous semesters, I'm actually finding my self awake before my alarm rings. Another beauty of an early class is I am able to walk to Ateneo without any discomfort. Finally, I'm able to take advantage of my nearness to the school campus.
Nihonggo is fun. For the first time in my life, I can actually understand something durign a listening exercise. Unlike my experience on that other language.
I'm getting sleepy.. I suddenly realized that it's been a long time since I last wrote something not so coherent or more importantly, something that is less trivial and more personal. But this is unlike those previous posts of mine that's oozing with angst and sometimes love and romance (check the posts from last year's summer).. By the way, did you know that tomorrow, April 23, Milkolate will celebrate its first year of liquid existence in the world wide web? Exciting e? Well, for me it is. It's like seeing your child celebrate his/her first birthday. Oh the pride, oh the joy! Well, it all started here. One year surely has been one long adventure and it's just beginning. This blog has faced so much - be it complaints, compliments, or bashings from retractors. Oh well, who's perfect? Even the new pope has retractors even before he has gone through a day of actually being the pope. But I won't drive a beetle down memory lane today, maybe on some other day, especially since I need to study for dear ol' Psych
.Gggrrr.. I want to write so many things but sleepiness just gets in the way. Does anybody know a great way to stay awake during crucial nights? Please drop me a message and help a lonely fool like me...
Oyasuminasai...
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Habemus papam! - We have a Pope!
These have been the words spoken by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany when he appeared on the balcony of the Vatican Basilica to greet the people of Vatican, few minutes after the first traces of white smoke appeared and the ringing of the Sistine Chapel's bells. The first German pope since the 11th century chose the name Pope Benedict XVI and called himself "a simple, humble worker."
Once the archbishop of Munich, Germany, and for many years prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, Ratzinger, 78, was one of the most powerful men in the Vatican and is widely acknowledged as a leading theologian.
Ratzinger served for 20 years as John Paul II's chief theological adviser.
The conclave of 115 cardinals had voted three times previously -- once Monday night and twice Tuesday morning -- before selecting the new pope.
The cardinals' morning ballots were burned at about 11:50 a.m. (5:50 a.m. EDT).
The choice didn't come much of a surprise especially since he made a very blunt message saying, "Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism", during a public mass last Monday.
Recalling my previous post on a guide to the leading successors of PPJII, Cardinal Ratzinger was one of those stated.
Did you know that even though in theory, any adult male Roman Catholic is papabile, or a potential candidate for the papacy, the chance of having a non-cardinal pope was very low especially since the last time this happened, in the case of Pope Urban VI, the pope was deemed a disaster.
Still hungry for papal related stuff? Why not search the net on St. Malachy's prophecy on popes and see why Pope Benedict XVI may well be the second-to-the-last pope.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Tuesday Funday - Fine misPrint
chikan - chiyuui
Do not use while sleeping.
(Gee, that's the only time I have to work on my hair!)
On a bag of Fritos:
You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.
(The shoplifter special!)
On a bar of Dial soap:
Directions: Use like regular soap.
(and that would be how?)
On some Swann frozen dinners:
Serving suggestion: Defrost.
(But it's 'just' a suggestion!)
On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert: (printed on bottom of the box)
Do not turn upside down.
(Too late! you lose!)
On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding:
Product will be hot after heating.
(Are you sure? Let's experiment.)
On packaging for a Rowenta iron:
Do not iron clothes on body.
(But wouldn't that save more time?)(Whose body?)
On Boot's Children's cough medicine:
Do not drive car or operate machinery.
(We could do a lot to reduce the construction accidents if we just kept those 5 year olds off those fork lifts.)
On Nytol sleep aid:
Warning: may cause drowsiness.
(One would hope!)
On a Korean kitchen knife:
Warning: keep out of children.
(hmm...something must have gotten lost in the translation...)
On a string of Christmas lights:
For indoor or outdoor use only.
(As opposed to use in outer space.)
On a food processor:
Not to be used for the other use.
(Now I'm curious.)
On Sainsbury's peanuts:
Warning: contains nuts.
(but no peas?)
On an American Airlines packet of nuts:
Instructions: open packet, eat nuts.
(somebody got paid big bucks to write this one...)
On a Swedish chainsaw:
Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands.
(Raise your hand if you've tried this...)
On a child's Superman costume:
Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.
(Oh go ahead! That's right, destroy a universal childhood belief.)
Friday, April 15, 2005
Turning Japanese
Must have sushi!
I really think so
Summer classes have just started yesterday. Currently, I only have two classes, Psychology 101 and Japanese Studies Program 1 as my foreign language class, each lasting for just an hour and a half everyday.
So why did I choose a difficult language, since I must also study the writing form (which is composed of 2 kinds) to learn?
I think everything started with my fascination with Japanese history. A couple of years ago, I studied Asian history in highschool. Back then, I had no interest in history since I find it boring and I find the frequent quizzes heavy burdens to carry. The likes of Goldamaire and Chandragupta whoever were discussed but I simply had no interest for these people though how colorful their lives were. Then came the country of samurais. Yup, it was the whole picture of medieval Japan that made me set my eyes on it. I found the samurai way of life very appealing to my adventurous mind. Thus, I voraciously started to read parts of my history books (which were never opened 'til that point) that contained the history of Japan. Thus, I learned about serfs, ronins, shoguns, geishas, and all the colorful figures of ancient Japan. My notebook was filled with info about Japanese. There even came a point that I was so absorbed in their history that I was able to perfect an exam on Japanese history.
My choice to study Nippongo also had a practical reason. Being a phycisist, I have set my eyes on Japan as my choice of workplace. Being a technologically forward nation, it ranks second, next to America, as to where I will build my future. And why not? I find the impecable mixture of the past and present, very enthralling and captivating. And what better way to prepare myself than to learn Nippongo.
Currently, Naka Sensei is teaching as to write Hiragana, one of the two forms of Kanas. I won't go in detail about Nippongo but it is enough said that it is difficult but with my goals at mind, I know I can get an A in this one!
Konnichiwa.. Sayoonara!
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Everything Starts with Reg
First year of my college life is over and due to foreseen and expected circumstances, it ended not in the way I wanted it to. Why? Here's a glimpse of my 2nd semester grades:English 12 - A
Lit 14 (Poetry and Drama) - A
Fil 13 - B+
Physics 41 - C+ [PHEW!!!]
Math 21 (Calculus) - D [This one definitely made my knees buckle]
If one will look at my final marks for the semester, one could easily comment that I am in the wrong course (check the ABOUT. But there are a lot of factors why I got a D in Calculus. Firstly, Dr. Emmanuel Cabral is a merciless and ruthless mathematics professor who is not a believer of partial points (def. the source of a majority of a student's final score in an exam. Of course, I can't blame everything on the teacher. On my part, after the midterms I almost went over the limit of allowable cuts for my Calculus subject due to numerous tardiness and a couple of absences..
Oh well, my duty as a Loyola Acessor is about to begin again.. Ciao!
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Daily Gulps
A 24-year-old French student became the first person to figure out the 13th root of a 200-digit number by mental arithmetic alone.
A nifty random word generator.
Check out this guide to the leading pope candidates.
Don't know a thing about the conclave in Rome? Let the net educate you.
While you're at it, why not check out info on Vatican's Swiss Guard?
This crap deserves one nice laugh..
HOWTO Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Daily Gulps
the hardcore Star Wars fanatics are at it again! It's 42 days before showtime...
An inexpensive do-it-yourself gas mask made from computer parts is what our empoversihed and polluted country needs.Miss the pope? Don't worry, he's being reincarnated into ink and paper. Meet Incredible Popeman.Europe's longest reigning monarch, dies at 81
*waves ba-bye*
Rainier brought Hollywood glamour to Monaco by marrying beautiful American actress Grace Kelly in 1956 and transformed the world's smallest state except for the Vatican from a faded gambling center into a billionaires' haven.Gggrr.. So many famous people dying. Oh well, only proves that life is short but not short enough to enjoy it and to fulfill ones purpose.
He strengthened the sovereignty of Monaco as enshrined by a 1917 treaty with France, its territorial waters and air space were recognized and it won a United Nations seat.
But Rainier — the world's second longest-serving monarch after King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand — cut a lonely figure in later life as media focused on his children's problems and on charges that Monaco had become a mafia refuge for dirty money.
Rainier's reign added to the legendary curse of the Grimaldi dynasty that has haunted his family during its seven centuries of rule over Monaco.
Princess Grace died in a car crash in 1982 and his daughters Stephanie and Caroline have had a succession of disastrous, high-profile relationships. [Via ABS News]
As for me, summer is definitely short. Next week heralds the start of summer classes. But before that I will have to suffer looking at my grades.
Looks like I will just have to bear with it. Good thing I have my fabulous yoyo to keep me company during the wait.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Daily Gulps
Here's an updated form of the seven deadly sins - don't try these at home!
Womenkind's secret weapon for world domination.
Peter Jackson is working on a King Kong sequel.
A man attempted to fool an alcohol breathalyzer in the most bizzare way and failed.
Not everyone loves Starbucks. Here's a site dedicated to avoiding Starbucks.
There are two ultimate guides for shaving - low culture and high culture. Both guarantee improvement in method.Monday, April 04, 2005
Stuff for the Nerd in You
A)The star GQ Lupi. B) Extrasolar "Planet".
2. Speaking of telescopes, After years of service, NASA will de-orbit the now deteriortaing Hubble Space telescope.
3. Did you know that April is Math Awareness Month?
4. How good is your memory? How fast can you think? Take this memory and brain speed test!
5. Who said nerds can't have fun? Nucleus is one fun game that gets that reminds me of third year chemistry class.
6. Which is the better, wiser search engine - Yahoo or Google? No need to argue, here comes YaGoohoo!gle.
Whacked!
It's already 3:03 am in the morning and I'm still awake (no thanks to my newfound obsession for yoyos). While I was doing my usual bloghopping, I found something quite interesting in Jamie's blog. It's about Googlewhack.Googlewhacking is the unofficial search for "the one". No, no, no, this is not finding "the one" who will save dear 'ol Zion or bring balance to the force, rather, googlewhacking is searching for two and only two query words in Google and finding only one result for that query.
Sounds simple, eh? But with Google searching 8,058,044,651 web pages and counting, finding two words with only one search result is one ardous task, not to mention that there are pages in the internet that is comprised by wordlists, such as this. Of course, dear 'ol me took up the challenge and after minutes of searching, found one googlewhack!
It's fun and very entertaining in a nerdy kind of way. So if you have nothing to do, why not crunch those weird words (like kielbasa and fugacity) and you get a Whack!
Btw, mine was... asymptotically wakeboard
Sunday, April 03, 2005
A Tribute to Karol
Karol in the woods
Before he was John Paul, he was Karol
On May 18, 1920, Karol and Emilia Wojtyla welcomed the arrival of their second son and named him Karol Jozef. The family lived in Wadowice, a small town just south of Krakow where Catholics and Jews lived side by side. When Karol was 8, he lost his mother. Three years later, his older brother also died.
Portrait of the Pope as a Young Man
Karol grew up to excel in academics and athletics. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, he was studying literature and philosophy in Krakow and exploring a passion for theater. After the Germans shut down his university, he saw his professors rounded up--some deported, others executed--and Poland's Jews sent off to death camps. Auschwitz was less than 50 miles away.
Karol took a job as a stonecutter, but then personal tragedy struck again: his father died in 1941. Karol Sr.'s last wish was that his son become a priest, and Karol soon began training at an underground seminary in Krakow--secretly, since the Nazis had outlawed religious study. From 1944 until the end of World War II, he had to lie low to escape the notice of the Germans, who had begun rounding up Polish men.
From these experiences, Karol became convinced that moral purity is best attained through suffering. Later in life, when addressing arguments that priestly celibacy should be relaxed, or that other dimensions of Catholic life should be made less difficult, Wojtyla would return to the idea that some things in life are supposed to be hard.
On-the-Job Training
Once Karol entered the Catholic church, his rise through the hierarchy was steady. He was ordained in 1946 and continued to study, earning doctorates in theology and philosophy. He became a bishop in 1958, archbishop in 1963, cardinal in 1967.
A priest in the Polish church faced plenty of obstacles. When the Germans were thrown out of Poland at the end of World War II, the Communists took over, and the new regime was every bit as authoritarian as the old--and even more hostile to religion. A rising star, Karol grew proficient in the difficult balancing act of resisting the government's periodic crackdowns on religion without inviting even harsher reprisals.
The great turning point in his career came at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). The young church leader from Krakow, relatively unknown outside his native land, attracted attention by arguing forcefully that the church should explicitly condemn anti-Semitism and officially reject the view that Jews are responsible for Jesus's death.
All Roads Lead to Rome
When Pope John Paul I died in 1978 after only 34 days in office, Cardinal Wojtyla traveled to Rome to help elect a successor. On the eighth ballot, his peers elected him to lead their church. He was the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years and the first Slavic pope ever. At age 58, he was also the youngest pope in generations.
In 1981, he was shot twice by a Turk named Mehmet Ali Agca. He recovered within months, and resumed his arduous schedule. He even went to his assailant's prison and forgave the man who tried to murder him.
Throughout his papacy, John Paul was a traveling man. In the past quarter of a century, he made more than 100 trips outside Italy. Plenty of people traveled to him, too. The Vatican estimates that 17 million pilgrims traveled to St. Peter's Basilica in Rome to see John Paul over the years. Many will return in the coming days to say goodbye.
Pope John Paul II Dies at 84
He will be remembered.
The death of the Pope was followed by the destroying of the symbols of the Pope's authority: his fisherman's ring and dies used to make lead seals for apostolic letters, as done in the old tradition.
John Paul's funeral will be held within four to six days. The Vatican has declined to say whether he left instructions for his funeral or burial. Most popes in recent centuries have asked to be buried in the crypts below St. Peter's Basilica, but some have suggested the first Polish-born pope might have chosen to be laid to rest in his native country.Goodbye and thank you, Pope John Paul II.
As John Paul's death neared, members of the College of Cardinals were already headed toward the Vatican to prepare for the secret duty of locking themselves in the Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope. Tradition calls for the process to begin within 20 days of death.
Among possible successors are German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — one of the pope's closest aides and the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog. Others mentioned include Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, Cardinal Francis Arinze, a Vatican-based Nigerian, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Austria and Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi of Italy.
Karol Joseph Wojtyla was a robust 58 when the last papal conclave stunned the world and elected the cardinal from Krakow, the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.
In his later years, John Paul — the most-traveled pope in history — was the picture of frailty. In addition to Parkinson's, he survived a 1981 assassination attempt, when a Turkish gunman shot him in the abdomen, and had hip and knee ailments. His anguished struggle with failing health became a symbol of aging and, in the end, death with dignity. [Via Yahoo! News]
Friday, April 01, 2005
Friday Funday: When Cheap Songhits Attack
Greatest Love of All"I decided long ago, never to walk in Edu Manzano..."
(I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadow)
Cry by Mandy Moore
"A walk to remember... it was late afternoon!"
(I'll always remember, it was late afternoon)
I Dont Want to Wait by Paula Cole
"she had two babies, one plus six and one plus three
(one was six months, one was three)
All My Life by K-ci and Jojo
"supposed to be you're like my mother,supposed to be you're like my sister"
(close to me you're like my mother... close to me you're like my sister)
Where's the Love
"People killing, people flying, children hurt and living, crying..."
(People killing, people dying; children hurt and you hear them crying)
Leaving on a jet plane
"so kiss me and smaffle me...
(so kiss me and smile for me...)
My Boo
"It started when we were younger you were nine.."
(It started when we were younger you were mine)
If I Ain't Got You by Alicia Keys
"some people want tambourines.."
(diamond rings)
Baby One More Time by Britney Spears
"My only nest is killing me... and I........
(My loneliness....)
Crush by Jennifer Paige
"i-splash, a little crush.."
(it's just.. a little crush..)
Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Viva Californication...."
(Dream of Californication...)
No Scrubs by TLC
"A scrub is a guy who thinks he's fine but is also known as a bus stop"
(buster)
Waterfalls by TLC
"Don't go Jason waterfalls..."
(Chasin')
You Body is a Wonderland by John Mayer
"You're Alice in Wonderland... You're Alice in Wonderland I'll use my hands"
(Body is a wonderland)
With A Smile by Eraserheads
"lift ur hand.. baby dont be scared.. of the things
that could go wrong along the way..
(head)
Wag Na Wag Mong Sasabihin by Kitchie Nadal
"maaaaaaaaaag... , magdamag mong sasabihin........"
(consult title)
On Bended Knees by Boyz II Men
"Oh God give me the reason, I'm down abandon me..."
(I'm down on bended knee)
Zephyr Song by Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Fly away on my cellphone...I feel it more than
ever"
(Fly away on my zephyr, I feel it more than ever)
Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You
"Nothing's gonna change my love for you... you know naman my love how much I love you..."
(you ought to know by now how much I love you)