| The Philippine RH Bill: Responsive and Progressive |
[12-16-09 at 10am] |
My englcom argumentative essay.
The Reproductive Health Bill and Population Development Act of 2008 (hereafter RH Bill) is an act providing for a national policy on reproductive health, responsible parenthood and population development, and for other purposes. It was primarily authored by Albay First District Representative Edcel Lagman and is now co-authored by about 130 more lawmakers. The bill covers the following aspects: "information and access to natural and modern family planning; maternal, infant and child health and nutrition; promotion of breast feeding; prevention of abortion and management of post-abortion complications; adolescent and youth health; prevention and management of reproductive tract infections, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases; elimination of violence against women; counseling on sexuality and sexual and reproductive health; treatment of breast and reproductive tract cancers; male involvement and participation in reproductive health; prevention and treatment of infertility; and reproductive health education for the youth." (House Bill No. 5043 Sections I-III, 2008) More than a year has passed since the bill's original authorship, but it still remains a controversial issue in the legislative assembly. Consequently, it has also sparked debates among economists, sociologists, health experts, religious organizations and ordinary members of the community. This is why it is only appropriate for me, a concerned student and Filipino citizen, to offer my assessment. After reading the full text of the bill and the opposing arguments among different sectors, I am now brought to an unwavering stand. The RH Bill must be immediately legislated because as clearly stated in its policies and objectives, it promotes awareness and education, ensures public health and disease prevention and enables the government to play its role in the overall welfare of the citizens.
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[12-14-09 at 8pm] |
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I just watched the Dexter finale.
O_o
This season was almost as good as Season 1, and that is saying A LOT.
Wow.
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| LOST Top 10: Villains! |
[12-14-09 at 6pm] |
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I just posted my newest To 10 LOST list!
Click the picture to go to the list :D
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| HILL HARPER, ILY! |
[12-14-09 at 11am] |
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OMG.
HILL HARPER OF CSI:NY @REPLYING ME!
That’s the second time this happened!
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| White Chocolate Mocha verdict: Seattle's Best > Starbucks. |
[12-13-09 at 11pm] |
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At Borders today, I had a medium white chocolate mocha from Seattle’s Best. On the way home, they decided to get Starbucks. I ordered a tall white chocolate mocha. I liked the one from Seattle’s Best more. If you want it sweet, Seattle’s Best. A bit bitter, Starbucks. [HO-LEE. I totes typed that out as Starkbucks at first. OMG.] |
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[12-13-09 at 11pm] |
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I was so angry just then that I literally threw a bottle of soy sauce, barbeque sauce, ladle and cup at my brother. Granted i was about 10 metres away so nothing actually hit but I think it shut him up. I am so fucking sick of always being blamed, for haing people always telling me that I'm irresponsible, just because they like to wear that hypocrisy suit under the pretense that it's some kind of self-justified moral high ground. I don't give a fuck.
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[12-12-09 at 3pm] |
Patient's father threw a tantrum at the clinic (ranford) being fully pissed because he had to pay for his daughter's extraction.... his reason for being pissed? "well, the dentist only took 10 seconds taking out the tooth!"
.... so you would PREFER it if I had made grunting noises and stabbed at the mouth for another 10 minutes before taking the tooth out on your daughter???
*puzzled* and super peeved. cuz damn it was a good job. what kind of kid would want the dentist heaving and ho-ing in their mouths with sharp objects for a longer period of time?? the kid refused to have local anaesthesia - so i had to be in and out in all of 10 seconds.
i hate that patients never appreciate anything you do for them. all they do is complain and complain some more. after they're done complaining; they seem to think they'll get better treatment??
i hate more that it's STILL bothering me.
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| Coming across a few pictures |
[12-11-09 at 9pm] |
A few random thoughts while waiting for my mom to arrive so we can go home.
I'm happy to have made one million memories in high school.
This is us heading to go out after senior prom :)
And I'll be happy to make a million more.
Funny how things seemed so simple during our first term.
Here's to four more until we're in med school!
PS. Look at this cutie patootie. He looks like a five year old!
Hi, birthday boy. What's our plan for tomorrow? :)
Nothing, just some random irrelevance that made my day today. I'm sure it will still serve the same purpose when I look back to it months from now :)
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| At every turn, I find a reason to kick myself on the butt. |
[12-11-09 at 1am] |
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Remember my post about The Mentalist filming in Colorado/Chester in Pasadena? Hell, I even saw it. I said in my Tumblr post that I wish I watch that series [so I can go stalking].
Shit. This is where I kick my butt.
My brother was surfing IMDB, specifically Generation Kill. A good number of them guest-starred on the CSI shows. And then he clicked on Owain Yeoman’s page. To us GK nuts, he’s TV!Eric Kocher. And what’s on the TOP of his Filmography list. Yes, The Mentalist as Wayne Rigsby. A bit of Wikipedia research informed me that his character is an arson specialist who hates bikers.
Guess what… the set that I passed by on my way home… had studio smoke and flames. And another thing… across the street was a bike shop; the parking lot had trailers left and right. Not to mention camera crews.
FUCK. MY. LIFE.
Twice… twice… I was a 15-minute bus ride away from glimpsing GK actors. First one was Jon Huertas when Castle was filming in, I think that was Oak Knoll or Arroyo Parkway.
And if that wasn’t enough, the CSI:LV episode that filmed at 300 Pasadena — THE WHOLE FRICKIN’ CAST WAS THERE. From Catherine to Hodges, heck... even WENDY was there. Shit, that place is a mere 10-minute walk from where I’m sitting right the fuck now. My brother and I stalked the place the first filming day they were there, saw nothing. The next two days, I was either lazy or tired. :\ FML.
Shit, I know Los Angeles is a huge ass place but the mere thought that Michael McMillian was having dinner with Alexander Skarsgard somewhere in LA, ASkars in Marmont and then in Nobu. Gahd, if only I have a car.
But forget about LA… I’m talking PASADENA. That’s Espera and Kocher I missed seeing. Shit, who’s next? Stark, once you come back to sweet LA, get a Twitter account and IF you are going to Pasadena, TWEET IT OUT.
[And oh, in a Pasadena lifestyle magazine, an article stated that a part of Old Town Pasadena (I think) was used as setting for True Blood. Kill me now, please.]
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| how YOU can save the Philippines (for real) |
[12-9-09 at 8pm] |
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Konbanwa from Japan! I'm here until Sunday for the last leg of the Denso Youth for Earth Action. It's below 10 degrees. Nalulurkee ang Southeast Asian blood ko!
This entry (which was originally in two parts) was first published in the WWF-Philippines Facebook site and the Definitely Filipino site, which has over 300, 000 fans. Imagine of all of us put together did all the fifteen here. I really think the best way to show love for country is in the little things. Panis na yung namamatay sa Luneta noh. Ika nga ni Ghandi at ni Efren Penaflorida, "Be the change you seek." I did all fifteen of these before I could write about them.
Since this is my online journal, my candid comments are included in parentheses :)
1. Hold that straw! Plastic straws are among the most abundant debris found on beaches. Marine animals nibble on these, thinking they’re food. Remember: you are fully capable of drinking without the help of a plastic appendage.
(During the International Coastal Clean-Up and UP Clean-Up, we found so many of these. KADIRE.)
2. Donate those tarps! Tarpaulins are made of non-biodegradable and non-recyclable stuff. Instead of throwing them away, donate them to Earth Day Network, an environmental NGO that turns them into schoolbags for less fortunate children around the Philippines. Contact Ms. Binggirl Clemente at earthday_village@yahoo.com for more details.
(Tita Binggirl is AWESOME. She inspires me everyday.)
3. Chuck those (disposable) chopsticks: when dining at any Asian restaurant, bring your own reusable chopsticks. Though wooden chopsticks are biodegradable, they take a long time to decay and just add to the volume of solid waste in dumpsites. The annual production of chopsticks uses up to 90, 000 tons of wood, which comes from trees—climax of the plant kingdom and lungs of the earth.
(I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT MY FRIENDS AND I BRING CHOPSTICKS EVERY TIME WE EAT IN OMAKASE. WHICH IS AT LEAST TWICE A MONTH. Or else Ms. Fernandez goes into a bitch fit with matching hampas sa lamesa.)
4. Think big, buy big. We Filipinos have a tingi-tingi culture where everything must come small. Imagine the amount of waste we’d reduce if we bought in bulk! Instead of buying in sachets, reach for the big bottle. When traveling, just put the contents in smaller, refillable bottles that you can buy in any department store.
5. BamBOO YEAH: instead of planting a tree, plant bamboo—it’s a kind of grass, which means it grows faster. Other bamboo bonuses: it doesn’t need fertilizer, generates 35% more oxygen than a tree, and stores more CO2.
(My dad and I planted bamboos to celebrate his 55th birthday.)
6. When buying ice cream, choose cones over cups. Note: cones are edible, cups are disposable.
(Besides, hindi ba mas fun kumain from a cone?! Mas feel mo ang pagiging bata debah?)
7. Be a botante and not a bobotante: in the upcoming 2010 elections, read up on your candidates. See if there’s any green platform behind the yellow, the orange, and the hand symbols.
(Uuuuy ALAM NA.)
8. Spread the word: one person can make difference if she reduces her waste. But if she tells others, then those others tell even more others, then we can begin to effect change. It may be important to practice what you preach, but it’s equally important to preach what you practice.
9. Paper or plastic? One ton of paper bags is equivalent to 17 trees and generates five times as much solid waste as plastic. One ton of plastic bags consumes 11 barrels of crude oil and takes 1000 years to decompose. The answer: neither - bring your own!
(Last time my mom and I went to the grocery, we were busy talking so mamang bagger put them in plastic bags. Then we freaked out and said we had an ecobag with us. So the mamang bagger put the plastic bags in the ecobag. FAIL. Tinanggal namin malamang!)
10. You can carry an eco-bag or just put your purchase in your own bag. While you’re at it, tell the cashier that you don’t need a plastic bag ‘cause you want to save the world. Trust us, it’ll make her smile.
(And it always does. I do this all the time.)
11. Bring your own water bottle! 2.7 million tons of plastic are used for bottled water annually, about 90% of which end up in landfills. An average mineral water bottle costs about P20. If you stop buying one or two bottles a day, you can save up to P1120 a month. While you're at it, bring your own tumbler too! When you’re going to meet your friends for coffee, hand the barista your own tumbler or ask for your drink in a mug. Starbucks Philippines even gives a P5 discount for those who bring their own!
(Anyone who knows me has seen my huge ass water bottle na mukhang pang dispenser. My Japan Starbucks tumbler is from Bun-Chan, from Japan talaga haha!)
12. Need to reload? Go to your nearest e-load or autoload suki! Those prepaid cards are made from and individually wrapped in plastic.
(I realized this when Ma said she doesn't like buying cards.)
13. Learn to love refillables! When buying pens and highlighters, choose those that are refillable, like Stabilo. That way, when the ink runs out, you no longer have to buy new ones. Just walk to your nearest bookstore and ask for a refill.
14. Eliminate phantom drain: Believe your charger when it says BATTERY FULL - it does not lie. Plugged chargers still consume energy.
(This is my pet peeve. I walk around the house unplugging stuff. I've turned into my father :| )
14. Give me the “green” light: Replace those incandescent bulbs into Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs). They may cost a bit more, but think long-term: CFLs consume ¼ of the electricity and last several years longer. Plus, they look like vanilla swirl ice cream!
15. Tara na, biyahe tayo! Have you trekked the Banaue Rice Terraces, chased after whale sharks in Donsol, and viewed the Chocolate Hills of Bohol? Explore your country’s natural resources to remind yourself what it is you are saving. After all, you can only protect what you love, and love what you experience.
(This is like, my personal mission. 2010 will be Cam Sur, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, and Camiguin. PROMISE. I need to step foot on Mindanao soil!)
The late Ninoy Aquino said that the Filipino is worth dying for. Echos. Allow me to rephrase: the Filipino is worth living for and most definitely worth greening for. Now go forth and greenify :)
PS: feel free to link, re-post, etc.
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| Exceeding the character limit from now on. |
[12-9-09 at 4pm] |
This term has been an underestimated roller coaster for me.
I would have said unexpected, but what with all the things I got myself into, hmm. Duh.
But right now I'm writing cos I'm not okay.
And stupid 140 characters in Twitter are not enough.
I'm not okayy.
Let me make myself feel worse.
1. Trig 78% and Soctec 80% broke my supposed comeback.
2. Hmm, the extremities of the male population (okay, just one)
3. English argumentative essay, Soctec final paper, four more exams.
4. Saturday. December 12. Saturday. I suck.
I hate how I can't say I didn't expect this. Now I'm left to admit that I simply didn't expect it to be this way.
STUPID ROLLER COASTER. Haha let me throw up in the middle of it.
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| *rings bell* |
[12-7-09 at 9pm] |
Your Christmas request icons are finished!
GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE HOT!
Phew.
P.S. Thank you all for the snowflakes in my profile! It's like a freaking snowstorm over there LOL I love you guys &hearts
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| All I want for Christmas icons... |
[12-6-09 at 2pm] |
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I'm still taking requests for Christmas icons if anyone missed my post yesterday.
I've only made 195 so far, which seems like not enough LOL. GO REQUEST! I'm only taking requests until tonight!
In other news I finally finished reading the 5th Sookie Stackhouse book Friday after being stuck in the middle of it for like 6 weeks. And then I read the entire 6th book yesterday. And I started the 7th last night haha. I love these books. NEEDS MORE ERIC (which I've been told happens, so yay). In my head Quinn looks like bald Michael Trucco, idek.
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| global warning |
[12-6-09 at 11pm] |
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by David Gonzales, BS Chemical Engineering major and paper-cutter extraordinaire. The image on the left was made with love by a cutter! Intense ka David!
Step 1: Press the Seal the Deal Stamp made from recycled car materials
Step 2: Sign name
Step 3: Realize that you have just Annafied yourself ng bonggang-bongga (pati legs ko nagkaron ng ink :|)
Step 4: Kebs. What matters is your name and country on the banner that will be wrapped around the building where the Copenhagen conference will be held, as a sign of the youth's support.
Global Warning by Anna Oposa
In science fiction movies, the end of the world comes in the form of aliens and zombies invading the Earth. The hero shoots and stabs these creatures until they are obliterated. The ultimate sign of victory is when he walks away from an explosion, in slow-mo.
But science is stranger than fiction, and right now, science is telling us that the end of the world can come in the form of climate change. The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GGEs) from human activity and industrialized countries have caused the global mean temperature to increase significantly. The effects are becoming more and more palpable: more frequent typhoons, floods, tornados, and droughts; faster spread of disease; sea level rise; threatened food security; disruption in the migration patters of species; and coral bleaching. Nine out of ten disasters are now climate change-related. If the temperature hikes up another 3°C, we could lose 40-70% of our species forever. Indonesia, the largest archipelago composed of over seventeen thousand islands, has already lost twenty-four islands in the last two years due to the rise in sea level—that’s equivalent to about an island per month. The Philippines, the second largest archipelago, is even more vulnerable to climate change because we are located at the typhoon belt and Pacific Ring of Fire. A recent satellite photograph of NASA shows that the hottest body of water is right beside the 7, 107 islands we call home.
The strategy for salvation won’t be as easy as grabbing a gun or spade—it requires international commitment for countries to reduce the production of greenhouse gases, the stuff that burned a gaping hole in our ozone layer. The first was the Montreal Protocol in 1989. Its goal was to phase out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the gas released by our old refrigerators, fire extinguishers, and air-conditioners. The second was the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, aimed to reduce four greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and sulfur hexafluoride) and two other gases (hydroflourocarbons and perfluorocarbons). It will expire in 2013. At the rate our natural sources are being depleted, that isn’t much time to heal the world and make it a better place.
Perhaps the third time’s a charm. From December 7-18, 2009, our real-life heroes in the form of lawyers, scientists, and political leaders from approximately 190 countries are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark for the Copenhagen Protocol. It will be 15th Conference of Parties in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. According to www.sealthedeal2009.org, this agreement has four major demands:
1. Industrialized countries “need to agree to ambitious mid-term greenhouse gas reduction targets.”
2. Developing countries need to undertake nationally appropriate actions that will cut their emissions beyond business-as-usual levels.
3. Financing and technological support for both mitigation and adaptation needs… particularly for those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This includes an adaptation framework and incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
4. An accountable institutional mechanism and equitable governance structure must be established to channel resources efficiently to developing countries.
The problems here lie in the so-called “developed” countries that may not commit because their economy will be at a disadvantage. The United States of America, accountable for over 30% of the GGEs, did not sign the Kyoto Protocol. The current solution of the “developed” countries is for the Global South to reduce GGEs so they won’t have to. They dangle a few million to low-consuming, highly-vulnerable countries as “adaptation funds”, which is really a legalized form of bribery to silence leaders at the international forum. Clean Development Mechanisms, they call it. Such countries ought to redefine their concept of “development”, because they soon will realize that you cannot satiate people with numbers in their Gross Domestic Product.
A recent study showed that if every human being in the world were to copy the lifestyle of an average American, we would need five to nine Earths. We only have one. The upcoming Copenhagen Protocol is crucial for a sustainable society that our generation and the future generations deserve. If our world’s leaders can come to an agreement, only then can we walk away from the explosion, in slow-mo.
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Thanks to Donna for keeping me sane while writing this, Mariel for the pictures, Kester for getting this published on the UP College of Science newsletter soon and getting Seal the Deal banners from the UN, WWF-Philippines for publishing this in their Facebook site, and David for "illustrating" this.
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| I must be insane. |
[12-5-09 at 12pm] |
ATTENTION, ACK ARMY.
If you'd like one of my trademark "All I Want for Christmas" icons this year, GO FILL IN THE POLL NOW.
I have no idea how many I'll be able to make this time around, so try and get your request toward the top of the pile. :D
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| Oh cruel world. |
[12-5-09 at 9pm] |
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What is this madness? I get all excited because Merlin has come to Australian television only to find out that it's on at the same time as Kingdom on channel seven. WHYYYYY????
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| New Year's Resolutions *lol* |
[12-4-09 at 3pm] |
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In 2009,  hai_di resolves to... Overcome my secret fear of hobbits. Find a better kec. Find a new lost. Keep my canada clean. Be nicer to bbirgit. Go to the movies every month.
snagged from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rawenen
P.S: Müsste es nicht 2010 heißen? Egal ;D
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