Not so innocent

You Are a Normal Girl

You are 50% Good and 50% Bad Sure you've pulled some bad girl stunts in your past. But these days, you're (mostly) a good girl.

Are You a Good Girl or a Bad Girl?

Anatomy of the Head and Neck

I managed to salvage a couple of my diagrams from gen ana2 before the prof took all our work away, waah! Below is a pic, which i call "Before and After." haha. get it? (what a hunk, heheh..by the way my model for the sketch on the left was Bill Gates, but i sorta 'modified' him to make him look better!)

Is it true? Most of it is, i believe..

i re-took this brain works test, i forgot which site i got it from..i'll post it here when i do..

Sniffles

I basically started my first day of class with a sore throat and stuffy head. Whereas people around me whom i haven' seen in about two weeks were sporting new hair cuts, bags, accessories, who's gain or lost weight,and whatnot, there i was, sniffling the day away. The next day was no better, and the following day was even worse. I had forced myself not to be absent last friday so i wouldn't miss my quizzes in Oral Histology and Anatomy 2 Lab..I had literally worn my jacket all day. Despite the warm sunshine, my teeth were chattering. My head hurt to the point of making me nauseated and the throbbing simply wouldn't go away despite the drugs. I didn't take any antibiotics, mainly because the ones mama would make me take (erythromycin) never did go well with my G.I.T (always would end up either throwing up or getting the runs)..plus i didn't want the little buggers to build up a resistance against it. No, all i took to nurse myself to health were vitamins, paracetamol, expectorant and general rub down with vicks..and i literally survived on various soups and gatorade. I've even lost my voice. bah. Every night after class i would ignore the old wives tale and crawl into the shower. Just standing there letting hot water pour down on my stuffy head was such a relief. I wouldn't even shampoo or anything for a while. i would just welcome the warmness of the water, allowing it to cascade down my virus plagued body. Then afterwards, after having the quickest dinner of all time, I would crawl into bed, still coughing and sniffling, praying for sleep as my escape. One of those viciously deep sleeps where you are more dead than asleep and (possibly) you drool all over the place, because both your nostrils are blocked and you have to breathe through your mouth.

But hey, waddaya know, I'm feeling better now.

Fellow Paderos Just Hanging Out

Here are some pics taken Post-Christmas..We had a lovely breakfast date at Tito Momie and Tita Becky's at their house in Cavite. Then we spent some time chilling back home and Wall Climbing. It was nice getting to know my Esguerra cousins, Ate Pating and Bonjo..Kulang na lang si Kuya Paolo, who's in the states and couldn't be home for the holidays. The last time i saw them in person was when i was around 4 i think..i even forgot that Bonjo and I were born in the same year. After wall climbing we went to the mall looking for a place to play some billiards and the day ended with us meeting up with Tito and Tita at the Shang. All in all a memorable day..

- Group Photo taken in a residential area in Cavite. From right to left: Bonjo,Ate Patricia, Sarjie,Tita Becky,Ate,Yours truly,Kuya and Tito Momie.

-Me and Martin/Bonjo both showing off our braces :)

-Us Cousins in the front yard..

-Back home in QC, about to leave the house to go wall climbing

-At Power Up, Rizal, all harnessed up and ready to climb..

-Fooling about with the digicam, Hanging out with the sibs and cousins. My favorite pic of the day. :)

- that's me being driven up the wall. lol, ok, i'm just kidding. it's a bit dark coz i think my sister inadvertently covered the flash.

A Happy New Year

Well, it's the new year again. Time sure does fly..wish i still had at least another week of vacation left, but alas, my classes resume on the 4th..*sigh*...it's gonna be back to the salt mines again. We didn't buy any firecrackers this time, but instead admired the ones the neighbours were setting off..sinturon ni hudas, super lolo, daylight, watusi.. :) Poor Xena was reduced to whining only by 9pm, i took pity on her and let her stay in my room till the fireworks died down. Spent the New Year and New Year's Eve at home with my siblings, Auntie Girlie and one of our cousins on my dad's side, Kuya Ben..It was quite a nice and cosy celebration, nothing too fancy. Kuya even fired up the grill and barbequed the marinated liempo and chicken. It went well with the greek salad Ate made as well. Yum..

Also had a nice Yahoo conference with Kuya and Kuya Ben, (who were just in the next room at home) Ate Tina and Ate Tootsie, one of our cousins who's in the states. It was great hearing their voices, despite not understanding a word whenever they started jabbering in bisaya. Yes, alas, i do not know a word of my own dialect..

On a much lighter note, my parents will be flying home on the 7th this month. Then again this means the parentals will be around, no more late nights and all that college life fun though, hehe. Papa's gonna be here for probably 2 weeks, Mama much longer, maybe 6 months..

I have a few New Year resolutions; am still working on them. I'll post them here soon. Hope everyone had a pleasant New Year as well.

At least i'm mostly a Ravenclaw

Squib
You scored 16% Slytherin, 48% Ravenclaw, 36% Gryffindor, and 32% Hufflepuff!

Are you sure that you belong at Hogwarts? You show no defined personal characteristics and therefore no house preference. Perhaps you should seriously consider a lucrative career in dentistry or tax preparation -- or allow the Sorting Hat to redetermine your place at a later date.







Taken from http://www.okcupid.com

Stolen Shot

Was waiting for my brother to finish getting ready so we could have brunch somewhere last tuesday. Apparently what was taking him so long was that he was busy taking pictures of me doing the crossword.

so this is the image that i project to people. hmmmm...

Mix 'em up and what do you get

Some of my choice favorites of my anagram name:
Tricie Padero=

Dope criteria
Erotica Pride
Pirate Ice Rod
A Poetic Rider
I'd Rot A Recipe
A Torrid Piece
Torrid Ice Pea
Acrid Riot Pee
Idiot Crap Ere
Irate Rice Pod
Diaper Erotic

Stuff

Random stuff that's happened recently..sorry i haven't been updating this blog so often.

day before yesterday:
Auntie's 49th bday!! Happy Bday again Auntie!! She didn't feel like celebrating that day, but there are plans for next week..

yesterday:
-was at manila bay with kuya and sarjie, just hanging around waiting for midnight to pick up older sister Melissa from this bar called Boysies in Malate. Had sandwiches from Subway for dinner, walked around. Nothing to do there really but eat, all the places there were restaurants and casinos. Nobody present had money to gamble so we ended up just sitting around at Starbucks.
-also saw a used condom floating around in manila bay. Ewww! Kuya pointed it out to us; i thought it was an ice-candy wrapper. Took a picture of it with my phone but it was too dark, even on night mode.

today:
-cramming for my Physiology lab and lec exams. Tomorrow's the last day of my prelim exams, yehey!
-watched bicentennial man on HBO during my break from cramming
-picked up a cake from a Kink Cakes branch on Timog Ave. Secret, will post another blog about this ;cp

Also planning on having a small get-together/inuman thing at the house this week, a sort of end of prelims and xmas celebration. Hope it doesn't get cancelled.

Arghh

I had a sorta shitty day at university today. Discovered that my profs for Nutrition and Dental Materials are no good. Or maybe it's just my first impression. One doesn't seem to care and the other one may be a terror. Probably one of those profs who don't believe in giving a 1.0 (gotta let those newbie students squirm) even if you deserve it. Hell she'd probably get a migraine or vomit blood if she was forced to fork out 1.25 grades. Guess i'm just venting a bit. Had a bit of a disaster with the dental plaster in lab today. And that was just the first experiment. Hope the others turn out better. Plus the LRT was chock full of sweaty people again coz i left CEU late; had to attend this bullshit meeting for the upcoming Dent Fest. Seriously, not one of my better days.

The demons are cackling to me now, they say i have to read up on anatomy if i don't wanna flunk tomorrow's oral recitation and quiz.

^%&%$^$#@#!@!@!#$@%$%^%*&^

Wishlist

ok, so i'm feeling a bit greedy now. But really, this list is more of a self evaluation than an actual wishlist. Although you are more than welcome to actually purchase (or steal,cadge,weedle, i'm not too bothered with the means you acquire them for me)the following items for me. Oh, of course i'm only joking! .....

Consumables: (see how organized i am, i even categorize my wishlists)
1. Sourballs (the last can i had got gobbled up by my sister
2. Food for the Gods (drool..)
3. Nacho chips and a bottle of Mild Salsa (my current junkfood staple)

Stationery/Office supplies:
1. Keyboard rest pad
2. Bookmarks

Gadgets & Computer stuff
1. Webcam
2. Speakers (the old ones seem to be dying on me)
3. The Sims University PC game

Accessories/Body Products:
1. Shades
2. Strawberry lip balm from The Body Shop
3. Lavender scented body spray from bath and body works (i've run out)
4. Loofah Gloves (blue)
5. Stud earrings (got my ears pierced again which were a total waste seeing as i forgot to actually buy more earrings..)

Books:
1. The Chronicles of Narnia (I've got the first 3 books already)
2. Asterix (yes yes..it's a comic book)
3. The Diaries of Adrian Mole (I've half a mind (haha) to order it from PowerBooks)
4. Anything that is a good yarn to read, do recommend one for me, anything from the Fantasy/Satire/Murder Mystery section will intrigue me
5. Hardbound copy of HP & the Goblet of Fire.
6. Is The Dante Club any good? i've forgotten who the author is. doh.

Others:
1. A small canister of pepper spray
2. Swiss knife (i am perpetually intrigued by knives and power tools..hmmm...i'd hate to think of what that means psychologically..no..it's better left unsaid..)
3. A larger tackle box for my dent material. Sarjie got me this really nice one for my birthday, but i think i may need a bigger one...

Well, aren't i just a materialistic person or what? oh, and Happy Holidays to everyone..seeing as it's almost december i'm starting to feel the usual Christmassy (yes it's not a word, i just made it up) spirit..not the one that makes you feel all warm and gooey inside or whatever, but the *crap i haven't even started doing my Christmas Shopping yet* feeling ...

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? :)

Something Sad I Saw

I really hate it whenever i commute to and from CEU...not because of all the dangers lurking in every corner and alley, or the unbelievably thick strata of smog in the air..it's because i never know what i'm going to see along the way. What i saw last August 24 completely ruined my day..

ok, so with Midterm exams threatening to make me an irregular student, i, the master of all procrastinators, decide to pull an all-nighter. Amazingly managed to do that sans coffee or any form of stimulant..come 6:15 i dash to the LRT station and scurry along with other commuters..by 7am i'm at the Legarda station (after surviving being squashed nose-level to someone's kilikili in the train..what doesn't kill u makes you stronger right?)..

if you're reading this right now and also commute to school on the LRT line 2, i'm sure you're acquianted with the 2 mangy-looking dogs that camp out just near the Legarda station right? 1 grey one and 1 brown one? You can't miss them, coz if you don't watch where you're going you can easily step on them on the pathway. Well this morning, sure enough the brown one was snoozing away. But SOME DRUG-INDUCED ZOMBIE decided, for extra fun to the poor creature, to budgleon it to death. There i was, sprinting to Mendiola when i see the horrifying image of dead dog with a busted skull cap.

This is direct from me to the FREAKAZOID responsible. MA-KARMA KA SANA. EVERYTHING COMES BACK TO YOU THREEFOLD. YOU SICK EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING.

Recent Pics

These were taken on the opening of the Sports Fest of CEU at the Rizal Stadium in Manila, last Wednesday Aug 10..Thats me, and some of my friends Heizel, Mhavic, JoAnn and Ives. The purple thing i'm holding is a kind of a crepe paper-pom pom on a stick. Go Go Go Dentistry!! Wooooohooo!

A Substitute for Fencing

2 weeks ago, after paying Czar a visit at BookGrove (his newly opened Reading Center for kids) we checked out the Archery Range just beside it. Me, my brother E.J., Czar and Weng took a stab at the sport;i was pretty useless at it at first, but eventually, i got the hang of it and progressed to actually hitting the target with some amount of consistency, i have to admit. :) It was pretty fun. I even broke into a sweat after a while; never thought archery was a strenuous kind of sport. Can't wait for the next session.

Some thoughts about Book6 (Some Spoilers here)

Like the lovable geek that i am, i was among the first in line to get a reserved copy of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Finished reading it in less than a day. Mulled things over in my head. Re-read it a couple of times. Even read some opinions of some fellow HP fiends in one of those online forums. I've finally decided that i'm thoroughly disappointed in ol' J.K's latest installment..or maybe i'm just getting old. I'm sure she thought about writing it in a style that would suit tweens and teens..along the same age as Harry of course. Coz when i was reading it i kept wondering if i bought a Harry Potter book and not a Sweet Valley High or Babysitter's Club book. Oh, it had its moments, such as the 'You-No-Poo' part..and it was kinda fun reading about their love lives for a while..but besides that, what? here are some of my qualms about it:

NOTE: There is a reason why i mentioned the word 'Spoilers' in the heading. DON'T go telling people who don't want to be told the story before reading it. That's just plain rude, and it says something about your upbringing. So please don't bring shame to your mothers and keep your yaps shut. I'm not going to mention names, but 'bato bato sa langit...'..u know the rest.

1. Not much character development. Harry's has become less angst-ridden than in the 5th book, but Ron's character took his place. Hermione simply seemed like this bitchy-ass selosa woman and not at all the sympathetic, warm intellectual she was previously. I thought she had a genuine thirst for knowledge, but here she's shown as a sore loser who hates 'not being the best' in something for a change. (Harry outguns her in Potions thanks to his trusty dog-earred book) And to think she wouldn't even visit Hagrid when Aragog died!! That's just mean. Plus, no mention of SPEW at all. All Dumbledore was was this Lame Grandfatherly figure to Harry..

2. Quite a lot of hormones flying about, but that was to be expected. I just wish Rowling didn't focus so much on it, if i wanted to read about that i would've picked up a Cosmo or watched ElimiDate or something.

3. This one was simply a major BOO-BOO on Rowling's part...dunno whoelse has noticed this error but in one of the chapters it's mentioned that during Potions class Malfoy had a facial expression that was an uncanny resemblance 'to the time Hermione punched him in the face.' or something like that. Punched! She never punched him; that was in the movie. She slaps him in the 3rd book.

4. Not a lot of new magical stuff was introduced. Or i suppose Rowling thought she's invented quite enough already; but in that case i disagree: this is what people look forward to the most..it's what made her HP series so great in the first place. And all she could muster were some feeble Zombies floating in a lake? [incidentally, doesn't that seem familiar?? When i read that part, i immediately thought about LOTR]

5. Scrimgeour wasn't impressive. The new Minister left me a bit cold. Again, was it intentional on Rowling's part?

6. I can possibly understand what Ron sees in Hermione, but what does she see in him?? I've already known they'd wind up together, Rowling had been throwing hints into my face about it since the 4th and even the 3rd book. Harry and Ginny was my bet too, i love it when i'm right heheh. ;) But i kinda got annoyed when Harry does an alla-Spiderman/Batman on Ginny and explains that 'they could never be' if they 'keep this up' or something..hahah!! And so they split up. But i'm guessing they'll be glued at the lips again once Harry finishes off ol' Tommy..

7. Why couldn't Fawke's cry over Bill's face instead of singing all over Hogwarts? Didn't even help Dumbledore when he was helpless. Dumb bird! Although..can Dumbledore be resurrected w/ Fawke's help? He better; so he can redeem himself!

The stuff i liked reading about were Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes and their cool merchandise, Luna's lines and even the quidditch games..

guess i shouldnt've gotten so hyped-up about it..i'll just wait patiently for the 4th movie and the last book..

I'm not the only geek out there..

I was mildy amused when my brother showed me an article yesterday that he got from the web. Seems that i'm as geeky as the astronomers who want to name the 10th planet of the solar system "Xena"..apparently its scientific name is UB313..doesn't yell "ATTITUDE"! like Xena does though. Can't wait to tell my dog about it..

Go here to view the article:
http://www.ausxip.com/articles/2005/nytimes0705.htm