A visit to King Hearthur's Court

Friday, June 27, 2008

An Update on the meme I did (dated 6/21/08)

Reminder to self: Don't do any more tags for JC. (Unless I've nothing better to post.)

1. What was I doing 10 years ago?
Commencing my trek to becoming a Physical Therapist in the hallowed walls of UST. A journey I took blindfolded and did now know took 5 years.

*Am I glad I still get to say I was still studying 10 years ago. This aging business sure didn't turn out as fun as I thought it would 10 years ago.

2. Five things on my to-do list today:
It's a Saturday so I plan to

blog
do my laundry

*had both done before I even went to bed at 6am

attend a post-grad update

*as a consequence, I didn't get up in time for this one

hangout with friends

*nor this one

find time to review for the NPTE

*pretended to do this for 30mins. while waiting for my dinner to be cooked

In that order. Now you know why it's taking me this long to take the exam.

*I was able to hang out with a sick friend and visit my gramps, so it wasn't a wasted weekend

3. Snacks I enjoy:
I snack quite a lot, and thus have to find a relatively healthy one that's filling and tastes good.

Yep! It has fiber too! Try it! :)

4. Places where I've lived:
Let me see... Middle Earth, Narnia, Terminus, Bayport, Hogwarts, the Old Republic, and of course, Springfield. Ok, so I'm a geek like that, sue me.

5. Things I'd do if I were a billionaire:
I'd set up foundations to help educate kids, assist field missionaries, lend start-up capital to gutsy and brilliant business endeavors and fund scientific researches for more efficient energy alternatives, economically relevant inventions or evidence-based studies on alternative medicines/ treatment approaches.

I figured a billion wouldn't be enough for all those, but we all got to start somewhere.

6. People I want to know more about:
Aline, Cam, Dianne, KM, and Vanny. (Yes, that means you've just been tagged )

*My heart-felt appreciation to Aline, Cam, Dianne and KM. Thanks for taking time to do this. (Yeah yeah, I'm such a drama king. )

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Blog Readability Test

Got tagged by Cam (whom I tagged in the first place so I can't really complain)

Here are the rules:
1. Check out your blog Readability Test here then post it.
2. (OPTIONAL) Stop asking yourself regarding the results of the test (LOL!)
Now since this one's optional, I've decided to ask myself some questions regarding the test and the subsequent results with the hope of providing answers for future test takers. This test purports to determine the requisite level of education necessary to understand one's blog entries. Now while it doesn't really matter what level your blog turns out to be, I imagine you would want to at least get a readability result that approximates the level of your target audience (or a notch below that level to accommodate the mediocre members of that particular subgroup). Otherwise it can be assumed that your target audience will not understand most of your entries or at least only pretend to do so.

Thus it is with great pleasure that I announce the result of my blog's readability.

3. Add your blog from the list together with the results.
1. Big Eyed Gal - High School
2. The Chronic Shopper - Elementary
3. Vital Sighs - Genius
4. Princess Vien - High School
5. Em’s Detour - Junior High School
6. Strawberrygurl and Busy Mom - Elementary
7. Reflexes snapshots of life (on manillapaper) - Junior High School
8. expressions and thoughts - Genius
9. our family story - College (Undergrad)
10. MOMEMO - Genius
11. Deranged Insanity - Genius
12. Traipsey Turvey - Genius
13. Crissy's Haven - High School
14. Memoirs of a Med Student- Genius
15. A Visit to King Hearthur's Court - High School
16. You're NEXT!

4. Tag as many friends as you like.
In an effort to avoid people's ire, I'm just tagging Chicken Mafia (whose readability I bet is Kinder with all that talk about poop) and anyone else there who would like to tag themselves.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Photohunt: Water (2nd this week)

I'm not sure if this is even allowed--a 2nd entry for the week, but I couldn't resist because this is so appropriate for the entry!

I've been saving this clip for almost a year now just to see if it comes true.

Wow! Ain't that something right? He will end flooding in Manila for good! Yay Bayani! If he pulls this off, this will be an accomplishment of historic proportions! A herculean effort to say the least. Just think of the cost this will save the government. I imagine a quarter of the traffic problems during the rainy season being eliminated, not to mention the perennial evacuation of people from areas that return to the sea during this time.

No more bringing of slippers to work just in case you need to wade through flooded streets. No more worrying about leaving your car stranded in the middle of the road, or accidentally being swallowed by an open manhole.

Needless to say, I wasn't optimistic. So when June rolled in, I started keeping my eyes open for any signs of flooding. Now I'm not going to be petty about this. I won't complain about little puddles or even big ones as long as it doesn't stay there for more than a day. I'm giving Bayani a fair chance. This is why I haven't really posted anything about this yet.

Then in comes Typhoon Frank...

This is a photograph taken earlier today courtesy of my sister. That photo is of a main thoroughfare just a few blocks from home--submerged in at least a foot deep of flood water. Not only that, half the main roads I passed by today are either partially flooded or virtually impassable. And most of the small alleys I saw were ankle deep or higher.

I did a little more digging and found that he actually promised the same thing in 2006. Tsk. Sorry Bayani, better luck next year. Though maybe you ought to speed things up a bit or you might just miss out on that presidential nomination you were hoping for.

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