A month ago, during PIDC, we picked Gian Karlo Dapul (second from the left) to be Philippine's Next Top Model Representative for the 2008 International Public Speaking Competition of the English-Speaking Union, held annually at London, England. For a science-loving bloke, he has quite a flair for speech, I really enjoyed listening to him during the National finals, since he has crisp humour and has an amusing theatricality to the way he says things. Just last Sunday, he gets front page coverage on the Philippine Star because he succeeded Patricia Evangelista (second from the right) to the international title for the country. Yay for Gian! He is also my creative non-fiction (CW 140) classmate, Ivan Dapul's, little brother, who won a spelling bee naman when he was younger (useless, trivial information).

[Gahd, I'm so short in this picture, but I just had to place that there =P]

[Oh yes, Patricia won in 2004, Gian in 2008, I went in 2006 and I didn't win, except the love of my fellow contestants. Maybe we have a lunar cycle to the Philippines' victory. Pressure to the 2012 contestant! =P]

Read his speech ( here ), it's really good (especially if the last set of speeches you listened to was the University Commencement in Diliman x___X). Of course, I super appreciate the pop cultural references (and even the religious ones, hahahahaha). It's so easy to relate to it as a Filipino student, or any student at that.

I am a whale. Seriously, I am such an insult to the World Food Crisis for having eaten the entire weekend, with some people of the Econ Council, then Debsoc Chums, then Family. EHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

The Jowee Ehhhhhhhhhh is now my all-time favourite expression. After 5,000,000 years of not going to Greenhills Shopping Centre, my family decided to hang-out there (dapat spontaneous out-of-town trip, but then again, late gumising yung sister ko) so there... San Juan is still out of QC. And this was the typical price-asking conversation:


Not that I engage in haggling, since I only wanted one item from this particular shopping trip (that I decided to get Online na lang, dahil MIA na siya sa Greenhills). Anyway, when my sister wanted a jacket, winner yung haggling conversation na ito:


Ang masasabi ko lang, ang mahal na sa Greenhills. x___X I am now going to blog about Graduation Week, hopefully this week. After all the haggardness of my summer raket is done. Wheeeee!!!!!

I would like to take a break from the predictable pattern of talking about my graduation week and talk about... anorexia. And why it's a better eating disorder than bulimia.

Unfortunately for those two diseases, they haven't graced my mentality for the past 10 years. Luckily, I've had all kinds of seemingly psychiatric disorders, but none of which involves intentional throwing up of food or intentional avoidance of food. In fact, if binge eating could be classified under these categories, that would be pretty much the type of food-related-mental-disorder that I probably have had.

[Oh but I've had body image insecurities: I remember crying in the bathroom, one day, after finding out that I was already 1*4 lbs when I was sixteen years old. I kept on eating that day and the following weeks.]

Nevertheless, I will tell you that in the process of constantly eating this summer (I seem to always be hungry, for food, water, and love =P), in my attempt to satiate my constant hunger pangs, I decided that not only am I potentially adding unflattering inches to my body, it is seemingly becoming an insult to the food crisis.

Yes, the world food crisis is a global phenomenon. The Economist discusses the problem as more of an allocative issue rather than a production one, meaning the production of grain and cereal for the world is enough for the world, they're just not going to the right mouths.

What makes bulimia a bigger insult to this crisis is that it exacerbates this allocation issue, and this, my friends, is the reason why anorexia is the more superior eating disorder. Especially if the said anorexic does not have to maintain the illusion of eating and just, you know, stop buying food. This will increase the supply for food, lowering the prices, and allowing poorer households to access it. Of course it's a very simplistic analysis as if would-be-anorexics have the same food market as poor households, but heck, food is food.

After hours of searching (more like a minute) there is yet to be one online-article that would state that anorexia saves lives for a more practical reason than skinny models scaring off children and/or insecurity issues being resolved. This is it ladies and gentlemen. I'm not telling you to get an eating disorder, but if you are planning to, please, give anorexia a shot.

Thank you and have a good evening.

Changed my desktop (actual desktop) three times this week. This one was sort of constant:



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Wow, it is/will be such an AMAZING week, I don't even have enough words for it. Hahahahahahahahahaha.

This is a very interesting article. Daryl has the highest GWA (accordingly, he had a flat-one in all his Econs classes) in the centennial batch of UP, Tata's twin is delivering the valedictory address, and the list of summa cum laudes, the highest academic award in our school, includes: my high school seatmate Andrea Salvador (BS MBB), Tet Grajo's best friend Mic Chua (BA CL), the unstoppable thesis partners: Brylle Baluyot and Marian Panganiban (who both got this highest award even if I was noisy as they crammed their thesis a few days before classes ended). Oh, and how can I forget my controversial former editor, Dee Lopez. (=

The summa cum laude is awarded to graduates with a general weighted average (GWA) of l.20. Of the top honors, three will be conferred the degree of Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BS MBB); another a degree in Bachelor of Science in Economics (BS Econ) while two will receive a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (BS Ch E).

Is it me or is the part I highlighted in boldface grammatically unsound? =D Another a?

The commencement exercises of both the School of Economics (on Friday, 5 PM) AND the University (this Sunday, 3 PM) will be rather interesting (aside from the fact that I'll both be there). Beyond interesting even. And in Jovan Cerda's recent words, I have no further comments. =D

I don't really need to look, very much further
I don't wanna have to go, where you don't follow