Various Things I've learned

1. Men consider women who are capable of taking care of themselves a threat. They'd rather get hitched to some demure, passive airhead (there must be a clone lab somewhere, it's a conspiracy..or maybe there's a mail order bride/girlfriend site). Then again, I don't sweat it much coz these men are most probably airheads themselves.
2. It is possible to watch certain tv shows or movies without using your brain. You know those types of shows.
3. Jeepney drivers refuse to return your change if they discover you wear braces.
4. The LRT train smells like various perfumes, colognes, aftershave and shampoos during the morning rush hour, but the universal odor of stale sweat lingers in your nostrils after 4pm. (Kinda like a gym..)
5. The world is mainly made of dumb people. About 99.9% of the human population are dumb. The Marching Morons isn't just Sci-Fi, it's actually Non-Fiction. Sad but true.
6. Music and Movies are increasingly becoming less and less original. Revivals are the 'in' thing now. Jokes are rephrased accordingly. 90% of Hollywood Movies have an obligatory Kissing/Love Scene.
7. Same-sex Siblings tend to sound alike over the phone.
8. Mosquitoes prefer biting people fresh from the airport. (Fresher blood?)
9. A person is either a dog person or a cat person, or neither.
10. If you act ornery, people always assume you have PMS.
11. If you act happy, people assume you're in love.
12. If you act sad, people assume you need to get roaring drunk.
13. Chocolate is the solution to every problem. :) (At least for the time being the problem seems to dissolve while the endorphins kick in)
14. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes fully open. It really is.
15. Getting muscles (this is called Hypertrophy, by the way) by doing housework and home improvements is better than sweating it out in a gym. You spend less and are doing something productive at the same time. Only you can't really work on the abs by sweeping and mopping and buffing and hammering..that's the only downside. (oh, the gym idea is great only if u have a gym partner or a hunky trainer to, ah, motivate you)
16. The Home Shopping Network is a funny channel. I tune in whenever i need a laugh. Oh, i do wish i could just pick up the phone and order a multi purpose ladder or something,(and be one of the first 20 callers!!) but the boob enhancers and zenith grow products are just hilarious..
17. People with braces cannot whistle. They also tend to spit occasionally whilst talking. doh.
18. With the infinite possibilities of computer graphics, people expect nothing less than to be bombarded by dazzling effects at the movies. Anything else and the movie is declared low budget, at walang kwenta..(sadly i think i fit into this category because i am really waiting rather impatiently for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, King Kong and Chicken Little...ahhh shoot, so do you, admit it!)
19. Bohemian skirts are in again. Sadly i don't think they would suit me. Plus the pains of getting shoes and bags to match. Ang hirap maging babae talaga.
20. Murphy's Law is so true that there should be a religion for it. AND the grass really is greener on the other side. Thus ends my list of little things (for now) that clutter my brain.

Heheh

These are my South Park Characters. The one on the left is me at college while the one on the right represents me elsewhere. I made them from this pretty neat site where you can make your own South Park character. I found it amusing considering i don't really watch the tv show.

http://spstudio.elena.hosting-friends.de/spstudio.html

My first Dental Cast

I'm kinda proud of it..so thought i'd post a pic of it here. :) All my sweat and blood and tears went into it. heheh. It is essentially made out of the following:


-A clay dentulous (with teeth) cast
-half a set of human teeth
-ivory wax
-pink wax
-red clay
-plaster of paris
it was quite fun, yet tiring to make to say the least. Well i suppose 1 year from now i can look back and laugh at how much of a big deal we were all making out of it given the fact that we're gonna be making this kind of thing almost every other day. This particular Oral Ana1 project was made into a reason for myself and fellow classmates/friends to spend the night at my house. Thank goodness we had each other for support, encouraging one another when we each took turns throwing our hands up in defeat (No no, you can do it,kaya mo yan,not too much pressure now..! oops. Nothing a little epoxy won't fix..) Anyway, the clay teeth were knocked down using a micromotor..we embedded the realteeth and the wax specimens we carved out of wax in red molding clay (playdough-like stuff) making sure they were occluded properly. Next was the pink wax (which we melted with our trusty blowtorches..erm, i mean alcohol torches) and which was used to simulate the gingiva/gums. Once that was done, we made some plaster of paris gunk and slapped some onto the ends which would help seal the articulator in place, so the cast would have a hinge-like thingy to hold the 2 jaws together. Pretty neat huh? :)