Correction 9/26/05 06:33 |
it is not Pompeii Disease (I apologize), i hate myself for making such mistake, especially that my nephew has it, and nobody told me about the correct spelling, nor i did research.
here's the correction:
Pompe's Disease - glycogen storage disease due to deficiency of a lysosomal enzyme that hydrolyzes glycogen to glucose. Death usually occurs in the first year of life. The heart is an important site of excess glycogen deposition causing severe cardiomegaly and heart failure. Asymmetric glycogen deposition in the ventricular septum can mimic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Chest X-ray demonstrates severe cardiomegaly in the neonatal period. Echocardiography reveals markedly thickened myocardium and hypokinesis. - from Pompe's Disease Definition at Medcyclopaedia Standard as provided by General Electric's Healthcare Branch
research 19:48 |
I read the following to influence and reference my own essay due tomorrow:
The Promise of Stem Cell Research
Roe v wade at FindLaw (lp.findlaw.com)
Human Skin Cells Turned Into Stem Cells at International Society for Stem Cell Research
The Controversy Over Stem Cell Research by Dr Ray Bohlin (executive Director of Probe Ministries)
i didn't know that abortion would be that much connected with stem cell research, but it did in terms of the right to life argument, and when a blastocyst is considered a living thing. reading roe v wade was interesting enough for it includes definitions and opinions from american medical association dating as far back as 1800s.
haaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
crap, my head is spinning right now.
9/24/05 07:44 |
wonderful! my sister arrived yesterday, but here are some review items:
last wednesday was the premier of lost. the previous season is actually wrapped in mysteries. the new season? worse... even more mysteries that gets you involved in the series. aside from jack's wig that looked so fake, they showed what was in the hatch.
the guy was starting his day by playing mama cass (mamas and papas)' make your own kind of music, which really added to the creepyness of the series. imagine it was a guy with guns, exercising and buffing up his muscles, eating breakfast... and you can't freaking see his face. creepy indeed.
basically the episode was about jack's past and how he becomes who he is, and how his dad died. you, historical stuff that made them famous.
jin? walt? you'll see them too.
as for the other stuff, dancing with the stars was very impressive too. aside from the fact that kelly monaco is so freaking fuckable and deliciously eatable, the dance off was very impressive. john's partner, according to the judges (i can't tell, after all, i don't know a whole lot about dancing), she covered up a lot of mistakes, which i think led me to believe that the dance was flawless.
ok so it was a dance off... anyway, kelly's partner danced with his real life partner, the same woman who danced with the boxer. wowww, that you can really tell the difference. even john's partner's real life partner (lol, redundant? nope, too lazy to search for names) danced across the stage, it was very different, they just danced without sweat. it looks like these professional dancers doesn't need to cover up for anything... then again, i forgot that these celebs can't even dance.
ultimately, john won the competition, and proceeds were given to a charity john selected, cancer something?
for the other days, my classmate belinda was nice enough to tell me about what i missed when i got late. she gave me her email and phone number. i sent her an email and she was soooooooooo nice to email me her notes. interestingly, my psychology class was funny.
the atheist professor was asking about opinions on why people are pro-lifers or pro-choicers. everyone agreed that christians are so one sided that they do not see the good things about pro-choice. i talked.
i said,
"i believe in stem cell research and pro-choice, but i'm still catholic."
the prof said, "everyone is entitled to an opinion," then jokes, "maybe you're just scared that God might send you lightning bolts!"
everyone laughs.
the prof continues, "ronald, why do you take that grey side?"
i talked, "my nephew has pompeii disease..."
"oh my god... that's awful..." the prof said, "why don't you tell the class what that is?"
"pompeii disease is when a certain hormone is absent, the hormone that is responsible for growing muscles. and stem cell research shows a lot of promises."
so the discussion went on and on about stem cell research. i looked at my past two papers (written last week), i got a 33/40 and a 20/20. ha! impressive eh?
well, as for my math, it's only 9/10, 10/10, 8/10, 20/25, 6/10, 22/25, not bad eh?
what about freaking work?
one of my co-workers really have a problem with the breath. i can smell it at a distance of four feet. i don't know what to do.
our new edi program really showed a lot more promises to our situation. oh well, that's a different story.
i'll talk more about yesterday's later today... when all the fun things have happened. haha
9/22/05 23:42 |
being a paranoid human living in this country, i was outright scared when i saw a rocket flying from one end of the sky to the other. As i was exiting the building where my class was held, i turned around this awesome... yet very scary bright flying object across the sky.
thank god it's not a missile rocket. wheew.
here's the LA Times Article: Rocket blast wows Valley observers
- From Associated Press
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A rocket carrying a military research satellite blasted off Thursday, dazzling spectators from California to Arizona with a rainbow of colors as it streaked across the sky at dusk.
The Minotaur rocket carrying a DARPA payload launched into orbit at 7:24 p.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base, said Maj. Todd Fleming.
DARPA is the research and development arm of the Pentagon. The 920-pound "Streak" payload will stay in orbit for a year, gathering information about the Earth's environment in low orbit. The mission's cost is classified.
The payload was so named because of the streaking movement it makes across the sky.
After blastoff, the rocket -- made from decommissioned first and second stages of a Minuteman 2 missile -- tracked over the Pacific.
"It was just bright, bright white. I've never seen anything like that," said Ken Baker, who was driving along California's Pacific Coast Highway from El Segundo to Manhattan Beach when he saw the rocket streaking across the night sky.
"It almost looked like a laser, it was so bright," Baker told The Associated Press.
People throughout Central and Southern California and parts of Arizona also reported seeing the launch. To some, the rocket's contrail produced a swirl of red, green, blue and yellow as the rays of the sun, which had already set, reflected off it as it raced into the sky.
07:16 |
I heed thee to traverse in this lifetime of hell. May the kingdom of the heavens send me peace to free me of my own inhibitions. Try as I can to find the greatest of all honors in this world, I failed to reassure myself of the overwhelming task of reigniting my mind to the dire need of knowledge beyond the greatest and the best of everything. - unpublished archives: 01/14/03
9/19/05 21:56 |
it's that time of the year again. rainy days on fall. yeah. my windshield will probably break even further, then again, i really don't know.
9/18/05 23:17 |
Things I need: (in order of importance)
1. for my car
- windsheild repair
2. for my self
- slacks
- polo
- necktie
- shoes
- dress socks
- suit
3. for my room
- carpet
- blinds
- bed covers
KROQ's Inland Invasion 5 19:52 |
KROQ's Inland Invasion 5
Yesterday, John, Tep and I went to San Bernardino's Hyundai Glen Helen Pavillon (ex: Blockbuster Glen Helen Pavillon) to watch the festival. It started out with the band Kasabian, which we didn't bother really to watch.
Kasabian rocking on the Family Guy stage 2.
Followed by Fishbone, which we also didn't care to watch. 
Free Ads for Just Tires, this girl works for them giving out free raffle for new rims.
She too works for Just Tires, the three of us agreed that she looks better between the two.
She doesn't look like she was pleased though. lol
Obviously, we were bored to death. haha
We walked around for a bit, talking about bands and how the side show from Guitar Center's kiosk stole a big crowd. It was practically played by music fans everywhere, and they played some good ol grunge... nirvana. we bought lunch while john received a call from Bob.
Bob couldn't make it. I was pissed, two tickets gone down the drain? The three of us congregate on who to contact. I opted for Lara and a "friend." I left her a voicemail while we eat lunch, while some more nirvana songs played. While singing along munching was funny enough, it was interesting that we were trying to hide from the heat.
We moved to the main stage to catch the bigger named bands. KROQ was displaying text messages on their screens. You can send in different messages and I opted to send one. (sadly, it was never displayed.) Travis Barker and DJ AM played, but it was so so, since i am not a fan of such type of music. of course, some people are just so happy with certain types of music, that they start to dance away, in the photo below, this guy just started dancing, moving through the beat from one end of the walkway (between loge seats and lawn) to the other end. People were just cheering him on!!!
i wonder, what happened?
the next act was the bravery. I think these guys are the bravery, can't really remember if this was the photo (my camera doesn't have a capacity for such).
"it was an honest mistake... an honest mistake..."
I alone loves you... i alone tells you..... yeahhhhhhhhhh... whooooooo hoooooooo... live plays next. makes me remember the highschool days and the days when the front man used to have hair.
the band live
the balding frontman
most of the time, we would just watch people walking around and make comments about them in our dialect. woohoo.
Our favorite past time...
Yup, bored to death when waiting in between bands.
At this point, it was almost 3pm and there was no calls from Lara. I called her again and was able to talk to her. she said she can't go. we called other people and john sent a text message to christian bsb. we called mark/teray (not available), i scanned my address book and there was nobody else, john tried his other friend. christian replied to his text inquiry, and he was already on the concert.
nicole alvarez, one of kroq's joqs, introduced garbage, and a woman with a very heavy accent came to the stage, telling us that this was her last performance from the north american tour she had, and that she really didn't have any idea where we are. HAHA.
The band rawking the stage with hits such as... uhmmm i can't remember their titles. basta. haha
The Frontwoman singing to her delight, as fans that were sleeping on the grass woke up and jammed up and/or clam up. whatever.
Yeah, this was how far we were.
again, i was bored while waiting for the next act. this is my girlfriend stephanie/swit's feet. if you've read her blog, the anklet has been around her ankle for four years.
we especially watched this band, jet, since it reminded us of our vacation in colorado.
jet rawked on!
twit watching jet play some famous songs
Nic Cester rocks on "Cold Hard Bitch"
twit sings: "oh, look what you've done, you made a fool of everyone..."
twit sings: "aint gonna hang around till there's nobody dancing, i don't wanna hold hands and talk about our little plans, alright!"
some girls are really dancing! "ain't got much to say, before I let you get away, yea!"
ahhhh the nice blue sky.
the madness...
next in line is 311. whoaaaaaaaaa everyone was singing to their songs!!!!!
i can hear my voice, john's and teptep's as we sang along in this video capture to 311's amber.
all band members of 311 playing drums. (yes, they have one drum+one cymbal each).
311's frontman
that's all the photos i have. yeah, it was getting dark, and my camera does not have the capacity to take good photographs when it's dark. let alone without a flash. (it's useless to use the flash due to it's distance from where we were standing).
after 311 was beck. he played all these great songs, including the one with his instruments that includes glass with water, etc. everyone jammed along one of his famous songs such as loser. after beck, weezer played. they did some stunts such as grabbing someone from the crowd to play with them. at one point, this band suddenly disappeared from the stage. and obviously everybody got pissed. the spot light suddenly points at someone in the middle of the loge seats. it was rivers cuomo, playing acoustic version of... uhmm i forgot. ill try to remember. so they went on playing with the entire band again. they honored foo fighters by playing one of the classic foo songs, big me.
oasis came up, and they played a song that we haven't heard of. due to the circumstances that we are looking to, and it was my dad's birthday. we have to leave. we were not that interested in oasis or cake anyway. so we left...
22:41 |
is this actually good for the small businesses in the philippines? i don't know, i'm no economist, but comment away if you have an input.
Anti-Piracy Team
9/15/05 21:41 |
... i was lost in the pages of a book full of death, reading how we'll die alone....
She walks out of the front door. Suddenly my world as I knew it would change. I looked at her walking confidently towards my truck. Knowing that she would meet new people, strangers to be precise.
...in your house i long to be... room by room patiently, I'll wait for you there... like a stone...
"Tangina, parang si Linda!!" Wendell exclaimed.
"Shut up Wendell." was my reply as we opened the door for her.
So we introduced ourselves and we proceeded to the Lucy's place. We were talking about each other, and Stephanie was talking about how she knew some stuff about us from her mom, our coworker.
- police siren in the back -
'Fuck!' i thought, i didn't slowed down fast enough before the cop sees me. I was asked to pull over, so i did. I was shaking from fear. Wendell, the fast thinking salesman, asked the officer if he could give us a break. Stephanie and Berna echoed what Wendell said.
"I'm going to give you a break. But I warn you, the lives of these three people are in your hands." The Cop said.
'Fuck you. Corny Man.' I thought to myself.
We proceeded to Lucy's place. It was a place I've never been to, I may have, but it's a place where rich folks roam, and I got used to a place like Paramount... pure ghetto, and with a drug pushing neighbor.
We ate some good 'ol American Breakfast (a luxury from where I came from), Bacon and Eggs. Well, times have changed, it was actually Microwaveable Bacon and Microwaveable Eggs. Haha. Oh yeah, some Chinese Fried Rice too.
In a convoy of two cars, the first car was driven by me, I mean my truck. It was me, Wendell, Stephanie and Berna. The Second car consisted of Lucy, Norma (on the wheel), Minerva.
i watched a change... in you. It's like you never had wings... now you feel so alive... i've watched you change... i took you home...
We passed by Ralph's (Which I recently found out was Stephanie's favorite store) to pick up lift tickets. And proceeded to take the 22 to the 55.
From the 15, we entered the 138th Highway heading to Mountain High. Wendell was kind enough to lend me his extra snowboard. The girls rented from the shop, and I rented a pair of boots for the snowboard i borrowed. We picked our parking spots and proceeded to prepare our snowboards.
We headed up to the mountains by lift, and Wendell gave a crash course to both Berna and Stephanie. We went down the mountain several times.
On our way home (the other car already left hours before). I was sighing, really tired from all the physical activity.
...Well all the love from thee, With all the dying trees I scream. The angels in my dreams (yeah), Have turned to demons of greed that's mean...
I looked to my right, Wendell, snoring. "great!" i thought, "some kind of navigator!" i looked at Berna, saw that she was sleeping too. I looked at my rear view mirror, I saw Stephanie leaning against the window. I thought she was sleeping too. Thinking that they are all sleeping, I decided to give them a better sleep by lowering the volume.
I take a walk outside, I’m surrounded by some kids at play, I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear, Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head, I’m spinning, oh, I’m spinning... as the volume faded. I told myself, "I like that song..."
"Can you make it a bit louder?"
I looked up to my rear view mirror, I was shocked beyond means. NO WOMAN has ever asked me to make a rock song louder. I was thinking "Whoa!! Rocker!!!"
I asked her, "Oh you like rock?"
"yeah... some."
"I just hate Wendell right now. He's supposed to be my navigator. Now he's asleep."
We kept on talking until we hit the 60. The rest of them woke up. I decided to tell them, do you guys want to eat somewhere? Everyone decided in unison to eat at L&L's Hawaiian Restaurant.
We ate and talked about our trip. Wendell, always asking for stuff, asked, can you drop me off first? I have a date. Berna too asked the same thing. I asked Stephanie, do you mind if we drop them off at first?
"Ok lang."
I dropped them off to wherever they wanted to go. I get to be alone with Stephanie. We talked the entire time, and we found out that we chatted before.
I've got nothing to mediate, And I've got nothing to dedicate, I can't seem to separate, 'Cause I've got nothing to liberate
We went to another snowboard trip the week after.
what the fuck? 9/14/05 14:09 |
check the link: Ang Palaiyot Bow
bwahahaha. some people just don't have any fun in the world anymore. or too much time in their hands? lolx
a poem from way back when... 9/12/05 00:10 |
from 2/11/2003
I'm about to take on a lonely journey tonight,
I wish you're here with me now in blight
I wish I could hear your sweet goodnight
And sweet kisses of power and might
That puts me to sleep sound and tight.
00:03 |
in another light...
i have 16 hours of PTO now! wo0o0ohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! SELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLl I WANT TO SELL MY PTO BEFORE I FREAKIN LEAVE!!!
9/11/05 23:59 |
663 posts including this one...
on the average i post about 0.879231 posts per day from a total of 1,121 posts since i started last 02/20/2002. That's about 1,299 days every since i started with 1,143 posts including this one.
I just need a good 300 posts over the next few days to make it a 1 post a day.
BWAHHAHAAH
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in other areas.... i just reactivated my other six yahoo accounts.
reason... i don't really know. just a "spurt" of the moment. ahaha. actually, i was trying to remember all my blogger accounts and i was able to open the following:
ron-v
bingdaemon
karlkirkie
none of which have posts in it, and two of these accounts have the same password when i was with AOL. boohooooooooooooooooo wonderful aint it? haha.
23:56 |
i'm sorry for all the things i've done
[back up vocals(BUV)]
it's all because i never wanted to hurt you
[buv]
it's just that all i want is to be loved by you...
[buv]
[chorus]:
i just want to settle down with you
and all my life i care for no one but youu
screammmmmmmmmmmmmm into my ears
like you did before
because i am not worthyyyyyyyy
of the life that i'm leading...
[II]
may the lord forgive me too
because i just want to die right now you
i don't know what i did to deserve this
because biiiiiiibiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii you
[chorus]
[coda]
loving youuuuuuuuuuuuuu
is all that matters to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
because youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
make my life easyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
and happpppppyyyyyyyyyyyyy
[talk]
you make me happy bibi... all that i can.
9/8/05 13:56 |
ouch.
my back hurts
i'm sleepy
i had a case of insomnia last night...
i really wanted to smoke, i tried to sleep through it, but i was wide awake from my craving. i don't want it anymore.
right now i'm craving for sunflower seeds. i don't want it anymore... it has so much sodium content.
i'm also craving for sex right now, but i can't.
...
i'm in pain.
9/5/05 11:44 |
oh well...
let me go back to my game of worms 2.
woohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
11:34 |
fuck.
i have another blogger account... and i forgot the login info.
I don't even remember what was in there, nor do i remember what i have in there.
9/3/05 16:56 |
You love the way I look at you
While taking pleasure in the awful things you put me through
You take away if I give in
My life, my pride is broken
- from linkin park's points of authority
9/2/05 13:12 |
ok ok ok...
what i'll do is work on just the core story, then proceed with dialogues and plotlines after. then i'll do revisions.
hmmm i wonder how this will look like?