Pep's New Mission Statement
The priest's homily was very timely. In today's mass, he was talking about not giving up when "our future seems unclear." Many times during his homily I felt like God was really trying to tell me something...something about my career. And I felt that stronger as the mass ended:
I AM NOT GIVING UP ON MY DREAMS, EVEN IF THINGS NOW ARE SO DISCOURAGING. I WILL BE A GOOD DOCTOR. I KNOW I WILL.
And so tonight I'm explaining this to my parents again. After dinner perhaps. Hopefully this will make them happy, hopefully this will stop them from persuading me to study nursing instead. And hopefully in ten years' time, I'd see them fulfilled and happy just like how fulfilled and happy I am right now.
Life Without Water
This is horrifying. The entire village is deprived of water supply for three (or four) days now! So imagine us conserving our water reserve even to the last drop,imagine us using mineral water in toothbrushing, and imagine our toilet bowl overflowing with grime and stench! Eeew!
Ho-humm. Luckily it rained hard today. Therefore I was able to properly scrub the filth off my skin. Astig maligo sa ulan! Tuloy-tuloy ang buhos ng tubig! Hahaha!
What I'm Reading
My friend Aatz lent me this book, Human Cloning and Human Dignity by the US President's Council on Bioethics. It sounds heavy with all the medical science involved but the first few pages proved it wrong. This is one of those accounts which every Bio major should read. Haha.
Last week I was into Dan Brown's controversial The Da Vinci Code. Well yeah, the thrill and the mystery were there. The suspense is superb and the plot really interesting but halfway into my reading, I realized that it was poisoning me. Hehe...therefore I stopped reading Da Vinci. Moreover, the way Brown depicted Opus Dei was very inaccurate. In fact, the opposite is true!
Well I don't intend to discredit Dan Brown. My only intention here is to warn the readers to critically evaluate the information contained in Brown's work of fiction. It may be a bit far-off, but I think that his book is excessivly fictional that it puts our faith at risk. Really.
Anyway, PEACE to all Dan Brown aficionados. =)
The priest's homily was very timely. In today's mass, he was talking about not giving up when "our future seems unclear." Many times during his homily I felt like God was really trying to tell me something...something about my career. And I felt that stronger as the mass ended:
I AM NOT GIVING UP ON MY DREAMS, EVEN IF THINGS NOW ARE SO DISCOURAGING. I WILL BE A GOOD DOCTOR. I KNOW I WILL.
And so tonight I'm explaining this to my parents again. After dinner perhaps. Hopefully this will make them happy, hopefully this will stop them from persuading me to study nursing instead. And hopefully in ten years' time, I'd see them fulfilled and happy just like how fulfilled and happy I am right now.
Life Without Water
This is horrifying. The entire village is deprived of water supply for three (or four) days now! So imagine us conserving our water reserve even to the last drop,imagine us using mineral water in toothbrushing, and imagine our toilet bowl overflowing with grime and stench! Eeew!
Ho-humm. Luckily it rained hard today. Therefore I was able to properly scrub the filth off my skin. Astig maligo sa ulan! Tuloy-tuloy ang buhos ng tubig! Hahaha!
What I'm Reading
My friend Aatz lent me this book, Human Cloning and Human Dignity by the US President's Council on Bioethics. It sounds heavy with all the medical science involved but the first few pages proved it wrong. This is one of those accounts which every Bio major should read. Haha.
Last week I was into Dan Brown's controversial The Da Vinci Code. Well yeah, the thrill and the mystery were there. The suspense is superb and the plot really interesting but halfway into my reading, I realized that it was poisoning me. Hehe...therefore I stopped reading Da Vinci. Moreover, the way Brown depicted Opus Dei was very inaccurate. In fact, the opposite is true!
Well I don't intend to discredit Dan Brown. My only intention here is to warn the readers to critically evaluate the information contained in Brown's work of fiction. It may be a bit far-off, but I think that his book is excessivly fictional that it puts our faith at risk. Really.
Anyway, PEACE to all Dan Brown aficionados. =)
