Last Pill and a Very Important Sunday (V.I.S.)

a post about good friends and taking my last pill

After a week and a half of point blank depressed moods and cough-shitty-cough cough i took my last pill last night. That Cephalexin and the Ambroxol Tablet and Nim's Island is what i celebrated last night, and to think that tomorrow would be my D-Day in Physical Chemistry, blogging about yesterday and today would be totally inappropriate. But i couldn't help it, the moment of hapiness that i treasured are inevitably 'to-blog-for'.

my empty table = state of mind.

my iPod, on an empty table.

LAST PILL CELEBRATION

At last, and this message is intended to my great mama who constantly reminds me of my health, i finally took the pill. to describe the feeling, it is a mix of fear and happiness, that moment is utterly gratifying, and intoxcating and you just want to dwell in that moment to be happy once in your life. your concurrent feeling of triump, that after a week of cough that moment is a validation of your rejuvinated self; and doubt of future, that the five-day medicine isn't enough to cure the damage in your respiratory system.

So i watched Nim's Island, a childrens movie starting Jodie Forster(my favorite actress), Abegail Breslin (a child actor who also starred on Little Miss Sunshine), and Gerald Butler (Leonidas of 300). I had knick-knacks to back things up. A little sweet won't do any harm. my infection is long gone, but i'm not sure. It is an fantasy-adventure movie about a marine biologist, Jack Rusoe (gerald butler) and a born-free girl, Nim (Abegail Breslin) who live in the Island in the South Asiatic Sea. Nim is inlove with hero/Indiana-Jones-type- adventurer in the novel Alex Rover who is also writen by Alex Rover. the author, Alex rover, turned out to be a lady with a true name Alexandra (Jodie Foster), and she is borderline agoraphobic (insanely afraid of spiders) though in the movie she looked like more of an Obssessive-compulsive than borderline agoraphobic. Jack was on the verge of his discovery of a new specie of nanoplankton, so he decided to take samples hoping that it would be the thing and Nim insisted that it should be named Protozoan Nim. So he took a two day boat ride to the see on an atoll, but then a storm struck the island and Jack boat was destroyed and Nim was all alone in the island. coincidentally, the writer, alex rover emailed her dad to asked about facts on the volcano of the island and discovered that Nim, an 11 year old girl, is home-alone in the island so she decided to help Nim by going to the island. Nim is trying to overcome the fear of losing her father and Alex is also overcoming her fear of doorknobs and spiders. So the author ventured out to save Nim from isolation.

Nim's Island Poster. Photo Credit: Wikipedia.

i enjoyed the movie because of the theme and the animals who were Nim's friends. I am inlove with the sea lion, selkie, and the lizzard, Fred, and also the Pelican, Galileo. They are just adorable! they make me feel better, but just a little. I slept at 12 o'clock.


V.I.S.


I woke up at 830 AM and i couldn't wait to get out of this messy room. So i took a bath, and read the book on Physical chemistry hoping the clock would strike 1100 AM.

Keith arrived at 1105 just in time for the mass.


After the mass we went to NEC to withdraw
from an ATM.




With ATE CHERRy, a guard from MOLAVE
now at NEC.



Keith (brown), RJ (red), and some guy pushing
a taxi. What a great sunday it is!


A rustic altar for a jeepney.



@ FLAMING WINGS, KATIPUNAN.



The Menu...




Mashed Potato... My favorite.... way better than KFC




The Chicken Piccata --- @P132
but a little too minty than my previous Piccata
experience at a bistro in Manila.



Pomme Frites? is that correct? it's a german for
French fries.



Red for Red,
RJ's RED TEA!



RJ AND Gela... Too much friendship!



Me and keith!



This TENDERS MEAL with Caribbean Jerk Sauce
and Bleu Cheese DIP



TENDERS MEAL WITH Smokey Barbeque sauce
and i think a honey-mustard dip? Angela, i think this is
your order.



Keith ordered this, and i don't know what it's called.



My HOT TEA with all it's HOTNESS.
I have to do this, it is a post-cough ritual not
to drink red tea... so WTF i got an even hotter tea
HOT TEA! And with all the absentmindedness
i dropped the lemon. God i don't know how to use the lemon
for God sake! And how am i suppose to squeeze that lemon
after all!



@ STARBUCKS KATIPUNAN a lot bigger than other
starbucks up at North Edsa (SM and Trinoma)
and this SB is way customized for students studying nearby
And specifically for CAN AFFORD students.
I ordered Espresso Machiatto and thought it can ordered as
a Grande but it's ordered in shots pala! haha! 3 shots for 110. I
didn't know that. So i bought the alternative, caramel Machiatto
which is what i expected it to be.




waiting! waiting! keith, where are you?



KEITH! OMG! what happened to you, your
gayer than usual! WTF!



that situation is depressing.

So we went back to UP at around 3PM and i reviewed a little... and by dinner time i hesistated a little on bringing with me Manuel. Keith! you should know why!

but anyway, dinner is a lot way than expected. So we came to Lola lita's at 6PM and the four (Phegiel, Ton2x, Dex, and KEITH(with his new haircut)) just bumped into us. it's a funny experience! it's a good thng knowing you still have people around you. This groups of friends are the most amazing, most adventurous people i have ever met. I thank God, realized how lucky i am to have these people, and i hope they read my BLOG and will never forget me!

Ciao!

TO MAMA: Text me after reading this!

It's been A WEEK and a half now

It's been A WEEK and a half Now
a post on my mood swings

I don't know how you can classify it but i had a very low mood for a week and a half now. half a week to go, and I'm hitting clinical depression. I have a test this coming Monday on Physical Chemistry and i can't concentrate. My mind seems like in a trance state, immobile, and i always sleep a lot. I sleep from 9PM to 3AM last Thursday, and another 6 hours in the afternoon. i don't know what's gonna happen to me. i have the peak of sadness at around twelve noon, and in the afternoon, i feel my world is gonna fall down on me. :(

HOW TO SPOT FAKE LOUIS VUITTON

HOW TO SPOT FAKE LOUIS VUITTON
a post on spotting fake louis vuitton

One time, when i was sitting inside this jeep from Philcoa to the Campus, a very fortunate looking girl sat next to me. she looks good, she has a fair white skin, i didn't saw her eyes because she was wearing this bumblebee sunglasses. i stared at her completely stunned by the radiance of her skin.
but then, she was carrying this bag. a LOUIS Vuitton hand bag and i was stunned even more. if she can a afford a $15, 000 worth of bag (approximately P645,000.00) why is she sitting next to me? A third world mode of transportation seemed to be ironical of her stature, ironical of her radiance. so i came into a conclusion: the bag is FAKE!

she's fake.

after watching this video from youtube I could finally say that that bag was fake. FAKE!

Ciao!

Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas Four months in advance

Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Four months in advance
a video post

I miss Christmases when my family gathers around the midnight dinner table eating noche buena and everyone just happy staring at each other, with eyes flashing with joyous feeling of being encompassed inside a very warm home. how many christmases would i recall! I just couldn't wait to be home and spend chirstmas with my family! i miss you mama, papa, lola! I miss you Guys!


this is one of my favorite christmas songs by COLDPLAY. it's a good remake!
listen!

Being in a warm home with very warm people makes you remember well the childhood that you left back home!

Ciao!

enjoy!

Beginning A New Diary

Beginning A New Diary
a new post about a new life

I felt something this morning, when my cough was getting tough, and my heart was pumping really hard. i felt that the life i was living was empty and trivial. and my writer in me was dying. i was reading the life of Leo Tolstoy, how he became a writer, how he became the most prominent author, beside Dostoyevsky. I reflected as a writer, how am i as a writer?

i was living in this hole inside of me, no inflections, no doubts, nothing but the simplicity of the routine that i take everyday. Getting up at 730AM, eating breakfast at CASAA on Wednesdays, and on Eng'g Cafe on Mondays, and coming home at 6:00 PM, Dinner with Manuel (almost everyday), and making cups of coffee at 7:30 PM to begin my night and finishing by 3AM lost and wasted. as i cough this morning, i remembered finding myself writing a story when i was fifteen years old on bench of my old school, Sorsogon national high School. it was this idea that hit me so hard that my pen trembled. it was about this male person in is twenties struggling as a writer, to write his new book but finding himself subconsciously drawn to his inner life that he killed himself in the end. the big question is why?

given the cough and all those hot lemonade that i made, i thought that i should buy WAR and PEACE by Tolstoy. I thought hard of it, and then finding myself at 12noon scurrying FULLYBOOKED at North Edsa and find nothing else but an empty shelf if Tolstoy. So i thought, what am i doing here? looking for a book that doesn't exist. And i thought more, is this a sign to make a book? to make a novel, to write that idea four years ago. if Tolstoy began as a writer by writing a diary, i too should begin that way. i should. i really should. so i began a new life.

i bought this diary, and you know, my pocket mocked me because it costs a whooping P649 pesos. buy hey, this is officially made in gold.

This is the cover. What i like about this
is that it made of high grade book binding
with an image of Da Vinci's Vitruvian
man. This made it look classical.

The flap is just great. the vitruvian on the left
is magnetized so no worries of having some
of your stuff fall down.

it has a pouch at the back. I just love it. now
i do not have to worry clipping stuff like pictures,
random thoughts in post its, or small flyers, i just
have to insert them here...

this is the closer image of the cover. its
so classic which reflects my own
taste of writing. not bad for a
P649.

this is my fountain pen that i bought last summer.
fountain pens really cost a lot. i had this
at around P700 and you can personalize it
by letting them carve whatever
name you like.

i don't believe in Patricia Evangilista's viewpoint in notebooks. She said, to be a writer, it is enough to have a notebook type like that of a grade one. i disagree. i believe that good writing comes with good writing writing tools. mood is a pertinent factor in writing.

so writers out there, be reminded of this:

"to write fiction a writer must have a money and a room of one's own."
---Virginia Woolf

I WISH I'M MICHAEL PHELPS

I WISH I'M MICHAEL PHELPS
A how-i-wish post

I have struggled much, and i tell you i'm not getting fitter. Most of the time i think of myself as bulging and disorderly fat, and how i wish i'm michael phelps who can eat what ever he wants. In fact he even has a problem on keeping his weight on. He eats an average of 12, 000 calories a day. Take a look at his breakfast: 3 fried egg sandwiches, 2 cups coffee, 5-egg omlette, bowl of grits, 3 pieces of french toast, 3 chocolate chip pancakes... Oh my God! He gets to enjoy this meal where in fact i have to cut down my rice intake to one cup... God i hate him for saying that!

I wondered more About My Life ahead

I wondered more About My Life ahead
a 'being responsible' post

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"It far more difficult to kill a phantom than reality."
-----Virginia Woolf, an English Feminist
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Waking up at ten o'clock in the morning, i wondered how much alcohol i drank yesterday. 2 Low calorie San Mig Light and i am boned to death by my insipid, self-mutilating brain. I thought i am doing this to be a responsible citizen of my country. but what am i exactly doing this?

Well, for the past few days i am a living dead. Literally alive in the middle of the night with zombified eyes and a caffeine-damages brain. This, my friends, is the state i called and i will always be at: the INSOMIAC CATATONIC STATE. This is a bad ass really, and i feel i am not getting enough sleep to finish everything in the morning. So i thought of buying 2 can of beers to get me intoxicated so that my mind would finally go to sleep. So sipping the beer slowly i opened my laptop to amuse myself before going into the deep sleep. And sudenly somebody came along and watch with me. I was watching SEX and the City movie at watch-movies.net and the roomhopper in the name of Melvin, sat with me to also amused himself. He said he was reviewing for his subject BIO 1 and he thought if he could spare time to take a break just a little here in my room. So i said it's okay. The movie went good, when Carrie and Big get Carried away in a weeding, more people were comming in. And the next thing i know, we were having a stag PARTY! of course that was just an exaggeration. But picture this having 6 men, some of whom you don't know enters your room doing some hokey-pokey with the laptop, playing my roomates guitar, laying unfulfilled in my bed ---- IT's Crazy living in a dormitory. What could be more worst than that--- touching each others butt while watching BRING IT ON? EWWW! it is terrible.

Everything in the room calmed down by two o'clock in the morning and my table was a mess, and i was having post-delusions about the probset in Chem 153 that i am about to finish. So i laid myself at three o'clock with my head cracking and spinning like a top. I am so disappointed with myself. for letting those people control my time. but then a thought came to me, if i don't want to happen it again, how should i control it? or more importantly, are my actions of today entirely connected with my future self? How am i suppose to anticipate this happening?

How should i live to be succesful?

For the past few my simple lufe gets complicated because i am not getting enough sleep. And another thing is, some outside factors are constinuously bombarding me, making my life and my decisions more and more complicated. One instance was not attending the Swimming Session of my CWTS because my Labandera lost my new BENCH Trunks. THis particular complication led me to another complicated situation wherein i have to lie to my team leader the next day to be able to escape from my agony of waking up early for my formal Monday sessions in CWTS. The keyword here folks is escape. Yes, i love to escape and do something more worthwhile like BLOGGING. So having done that, my life gets even more complicated when he texted me that there would be a session that Monday morning because next monday there would be no classes because it's quezon City day. I am greatly appaled by how powerful a split of decision could affect your whole strcuture and maybe your whole life. I may be having the best education in the country but that does not guarantee that i can be a better person in the years to come. It is, of course and most importantly, how i deal with the situations i have everyday. How do i anticipate? Life i think is all about anticipation of yourself. being ready for the consequences of your decisions. This i think is what we all should do. TO ancipate our lives, to anticipate what could hapen if i do these and that. By that thinking we will be able to live our lives more fruitful.

But how? How should i decide now? well, tommorow i have an examination in Envi. Eng'g 31. I have to study in order to pass, in order to have a better understanding of my course. if i don't do this, or i study too soon. one would be i would have to pull an allnighter again, and two is that i won't be able to reach my goal for that subject and for my overall semester's goal--- to have a 1.0 GWA. this is important to continuously note this goal and visualize it having aquired it. It is the power of the mind that cross all boundaries and uncertainties. THis is living a postive outlook, and thus living a positive life. Everyone should live their lives like these. and if youre living a complicated life like mine right now, do not ever escape from it cause it get's a lot complicated than you could ever think. the enxt thing you know---you failed a subject like what i did a year ago. . . it's all in the mind, it's all on yourself.

ciao!

A Critical Review

A Critical Review on
Reuse of Effluent Water
Article by Simon Toze
a critical review post

I had this homework that my professor in Environmental Engineering gave me. His instructions was to make a critical review on the attached article paper entitled "Reuse of Effluent Water --- Benefits and Risks" I thought i could share this piece to you and comment if there is something wring about it. I will be passing this paper tomorrow at 8:30 AM. So whatever your comments on it would be for constructive criticisms on my writing, which would help me in further reviews.

Here is the link to the article: http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/redir.pl?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2FB6T3X-4GXVG73-1%2F2%2Fba058cdb97ac1131c6ba674834a1f0dd;h=repec:eee:agiwat:v:80:y:2006:i:1-3:p:147-159

Here is my review:

A CRITICAL REVIEW ON Reuse of effluent water --- benefits and risks by Simon Toze

Dr. Simon Toze, an expert on behavior of microbiological pathogens on groundwater and biogeochemical changes on managed aquifer recharge , and is now a leading principal research scientist on CSIRO’s Water Use and Reuse research group within the Urban and Industrial Water research program discuses the benefits and risks of reuse of wastewater to agricultural irrigation in his article. Although the research delivers practical and useful information on the benefits and risks of the reuse of effluent water, there are also some incongruous claims on the risk of endocrine disruptors on agricultural yields of farms irrigated with reclaimed water.

The article on Reuse of Effluent water discusses about recent problems on scarcity of water resources. Some places in the world demands more water than any other place due to variability of climate and arid conditions that, in addition to population growth, could result to the depletion of these resources. It is important however to establish a system to maintain this depleting resources. One recommendation to this is the application of advance wastewater treatment to reclaim the effluent from different wastewaters. Simon Toze, in his article, particularly sited the benefits of reusing effluent wastewater for agricultural irrigation. He cited that reuse of effluent streams from wastewater treatment can drew a large volume of reliable and constant supply of water to agricultural crops. It also reduces use of water from the environment. (Toze, 2005)

He also mentions the potential risks of reclaimed wastewater, like toxicity of heavy metals deposited on soils, the presence of contaminants (human and animal pathogens, pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors). He also cited the low socio-economic value of the crops irrigated with water due to public opinion.

However, the point about mentioning the risk of endocrine disruptors as a potential health hazard to agricultural crops consumers cannot conclusively assure that such threat do considerable damage. It is noted that on unrestricted irrigation, where high-quality reclaimed water for irrigation of food crops for human consumption, certain requirements need to be considered in the treatment of wastewater. The chemical quality of irrigation to food crops should follow the agronomic standards which include salinity, sodium absorption, and specific ion toxicity of sodium, chloride, boron, and trace elements like cadmium that can affect sensitive crops. (Viessman et. Al., 2005) The presence of endocrine disruptors in effluent cannot be implied as a potential risk on agricultural crops for human consumption due to its variability of source. He cited from a source that it is commonly contributed by contraceptives pills, pesticides, and industrial chemicals. (Toze, 2005) But, these sources are debatable in terms of its severity to affect indirectly human health. For example, pesticides are used in farming to enhance agricultural yield. If pesticides itself, not including the reclaimed water used for the crops’ irrigation, could cause endocrine disruptors, then consumers of such crops could be terribly suffering from its adverse effects today. Consumers today enjoying pesticide-treated crops like rice and staple are generally not experiencing the adverse endocrine disruptors. It is therefore true that pesticides itself, not even including reclaimed waste water with endocrine disrupting chemicals, cannot cause such adverse effects to human health.

His claim on the risk of endocrine disruptors on agricultural yields of farms irrigated with reclaimed water is debatable and therefore cannot directly be concluded to potentially affect consumers of crops. His implication should be further supported by actual studies on the adverse effects of such endocrine disruptors on humans, not just on animals, to actually provide a conclusion on whether this particular risk is essentially hazardous to human health.

References:

REGAN, L. 2005. Land and Water. [Online]. Available: http://www.clw.csiro.au/staff/TozeS/ [11 August 2008]

TOZE, S. 2006. Reuse of effluent water --- benefits and risks. Agricultural Water Management, 80:147-149.

VIESSMAN JR., W. & HAMMER, M. J. 2005. Water Supply and Pollution Control. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

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i will be soon posting some fun reviews on the recent movies i've watched for a couple days. So just keep reading.

Ciao!

U.P. Presidents

U.P. Presidents
a video post

I got this video from my junk mail... so i thought it would be okay to recycle it.




Source: Youtube.com

Ciao!

I Miss this Person!

I Miss this Girl!

the Best Smile, the Best Joke, my Bestfriend!
Anagie!

I NEED SLEEP!

I NEED SLEEP!
a post on my very odd sleeping disorder

I am currently having an idiopathic sleeping disorder which is characterized by large eye bags and a hostile, irritable mood.

Waking up isn't easy, sleeping is overrated. i just finished my exam in Organic Chem and Probset in ChE 32 hours ago and i am still sitting in front of my laptop dodging this blog post to all of you with so much enthusiasm.... i am so sleepy!

i should sleep!

BLINDED ITEMS! WHO ART THOU?

BLINDED ITEMED! WHO ART THOU?
{ON FART}

Sino tong mokong na toh?
na allegedly has a lot of issues at the back door? (as in berry berry back door like his whole past life as back door!)
ahuh! na eyebag hanging like hell? or malaki lang tlg ang balls nya?
BOYOT3: malaki ang BALLS???
BOY1: baka naman eye balls? ahuh!
BOY1: galit nanaman ba?
TABBOY2: ewan ko dun? wala akong pakialam sa kanya!
BOYOT3: inutil! mga ganyang tao inutil!

a usual F to F talk at some place, at tlgang topic of the year tong boy mokong na to!
every year, ahuh!

BOYOT3: bakit naman?
TABOY2: ewan! tanungin mo yan oh?
BOY1: oh bakit ako?
TABOY2: may past kayo diba?
BOY1: asa! at hindi ako bading! etong si boyot3 ata ang may past dyan! ahuh!
BOYOT3: i like balls! you know?
BOY1: bayot ka tlg boyot3

hay like a usual F to F talk, topic nanaman cya.
and recently.... recently.... recently>>> haha!

BOY1: hoy! alam nyo ba na si mokong boy ay farted na farted na?
BOYOT3: farted na farted na?
TABOY2: huh? tlg lang ha! anung ka-farted nya?
BOY1: yung mga sig-sig dyan sa tbi tbi...? alam nyo ba yun?
BOYOT3: hmmmp! inferior people! they deserve to diiiieeeeee!
BOY1: wait wait! alam nyo ba yun? hay! sayang! kung nagmath lang kayo malalaman nyo!
TABOY2: ahuh! alam ko na yan! yan ba yung "ammmppp siiighHHHH"
BOY1: hoy! wag mong ipagkalat! wag kang magingay maririnig tayo!

so kung kilala nyo tong mokong na toh, ahuh! beware! hahaah!

so long ! ciao!

Night and a Very Suave Situation

Night and a Very Suave Situation
a post about another sleepless night at room 213

i am sitting again in front of my laptop with my right eye half closed. I don't know what kind of sleeping disorder i have one right now, with my right eye tingling involuntarily. it is just so weird, i feel so weak yet my mind is so happy and outgoing, willing to do anything, but my body ( or my half body) is not keeping up so well.

I need Stresstabs. God, i need them!

my schedule for tonight is pretty heavy:

1.) Research critical review paper on EnE 31
2.) Sagot Probset ChE 32
3.) Aral Chem 31
4.) Aral GE 1


So as for my night this is the remnant of my table after the grueling Chem 153 probset, i almost tried to cool off by praising myself over and over again for finishing the probset on time. Although i spend 4 hours from 9PM to 1AM answering 5 moderately difficult questions.

TABLED!
My cluttered table. i am so disorganized.

An this is the remnant of my bed, a sleeping creature that i almost did not notice because i was pretty engaged in my problem set in chem. May God save his soul!

SPOTTED!
Manuel Portento Jr! getting comfortable with
my pillow. is he 'room'less? why? wanna find out?
haha! (Some interpersonal issues i
suppose, i could never tell. i'm only a witness)

I was glad, to think that my week is running like all hell broke loose, i still found time to do some personal reading and light research on the things i am most interested in: PSYCHOLOGY.

BOOKED!
Personality and Psychopathology:
Building a Clinical Science by
Theodore Millon, a well-known psychiatrist
in the States. He collected groundbreaking
papers on personality and phenomenology
of personality disorders.

My current interest now i probably a bit out of the box. I once tried to understand politics and governance and international law, but i just couldn't hang unto it. The topic is pretty foreign to me, unlike psychology and physics. I just lost my interest to some topics after reading a book or two about international law. But after watching this video in Youtube i was again reawakened to continue my venture towards personally studying international law and governance. I am practically interested in cross-cultural analysis. For example, what could be the trend in our present rice crisis as compared to the recent humanitarian crisis in Somalia. The two nations has two different cultures, but what links them up? is there a cross-cultural factor on moral, socio-ethical systems that may have been similar to both of them? if there is so, how do we solve such humanitarian or fiscal problems like hunger and rice crises?

CAPTURED!
Somalia is undergoing a lot of challenges as nation!
Aren't we glad that we still have a government to
provide us with some answers to recent problems?
Did you know that Somalia is stateless since 1991?

So long...

Ciao!

ON PSYCHOPATHY and My Disappearance

ON PSYCHOPATHY
A post about some article at a tabloid

I couldn't believe myself buying a tabloid with a headline: CANNIBAL EATS TEENER'S HEART, LIVER. And to actually think that this is another one of my psychoanalytic games that i like to play. I have, and my friends know, quite an addiction towards psychology especially in the realms of psychoanalysis. I wanted to master the art of knowing a person at a glance. Or by just looking into his room, his stuff, his behavior i could know his pattern, his psychopathology, his reaction to stresors. i may sound weird but i am actually enjoying deducing and exploring a persons behavior and try to see if there is something wrong with his structure. And if there could be, how will i approach such person: in a jovial, edgy way; maybe in a realistic way; or in a more sensitive and caring way. It maybe too pretentious, and can be a lot insensitive of me, but actually this is what most people do when they meet first hand, they adjust to the personality of that person.

Now, how can this be so important not only to me?

Take a look at this article.

From People's Journal Tonigt Vol XXVII, No. 282
Tuesday, August 5, 2008, HEADLINE NEWS.



Continuation of the cannibal article.

You see, there is this unpredictable nature of the human mind. But along this random thoughts and actions, there is always a pattern. Why? because we are rational beings, we are capable of higher learning and cognition, thus can be predictable technically. Taking this incidence for example, the suspect, Rommel Jandoc, clearly exhibits a psychological construct called PSYCHOPATHY. Psychopathy is a syndrome, a phenomenon of a human mind that can be diagnosed by the presence of an ANTI-SOCIAL DISORDER or a DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER. this is not the only signs of psychopathy, it has long list of candidate diagnosis which can further lead to a structure which is called HARE PSYCHOPATHY CHECKLIST (from wikipedia, the most credible(irony) source of all) :

Factor1: "Aggressive narcissism"

• Glibness/superficial charm
• Grandiose sense of self-worth
• Pathological lying
• Cunning/manipulative
• Lack of remorse or guilt
• Shallow affect
• Callous/lack of empathy
• Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
• Promiscuous sexual behavior

Factor2: "Socially deviant lifestyle"

• Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
• Parasitic lifestyle
• Poor behavioral control
• Lack of realistic, long-term goals
• Impulsivity
• Irresponsibility
• Juvenile delinquency
• Early behavior problems
• Many short-term marital relationships
• Revocation of conditional release

Traits not correlated with either factor

• Many short-term marital relationships
• Criminal versatility

However, the American Psychiatric Association noted that PSYCHOPATHY is obsoletely synonymous with antisocial personality disorder. The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION also notes the same thing and provides another list of symptoms which classifies Psychopathy as a dissocial personality disorder:

Specifically, the dissocial personality disorder is described by the World Health Organization by the following criteria:

1. Callous unconcern for the feelings of others and lack of the capacity for empathy.
2. Gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules, and obligations.
3. Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships.
4. Very low tolerance to frustration and a low threshold for discharge of aggression, including violence.
5. Incapacity to experience guilt and to profit from experience, particularly punishment.
6. Marked proneness to blame others or to offer plausible rationalizations for the behavior bringing the subject into conflict.
7. Persistent irritability.

(source: wikipedia, the ultimate online dictionary(did i just wrote that?))

See here, there are many types of describing a person with a psychopathic personality disorder. But then what if there is a more general, deductive method for knowing such personality disorder? the one that can encompass not just the possible disorders related to it but to other disorders like mood disorders(depression, manic-depressive) and psychoses (Schizophrenia)?
What could be the proper scheme to generate a psychological profile with just the evidence given?

This crosses us to the boundaries of an even grander body of knowledge: FORENSIC SCIENCE. This is where psychology meets reality took place. All of what i am saying can be applied to this field.

Forensics psychology largely deal with behavior. As we know behavior is prompted by our actions alone, and to other people. This is an spontaneous process, and involves always a hidden motive or driving force to do so even the subconscious. behavior sculpts our personality, because it sums all our actions both subconscious and the conscious. Sometimes brain processes can lead to a very different, and usually deviating interpretations of our personality thus leading us to different states of personality disorders. This certain phenomenon is long term and cannot be caused by terminal or non-permanent origins like drugs, thought it can part of his obsessional thought. Personality disorders are encrypted since childhood, and due to certain extreme stresors (like witnessing the death and murder of family) during the developmental age of a person, can lead to tweaking the brain function (as if it was rewired and connected to a different socket). THis can lead to catastrophic change in the lifestyle and subconscious thinking of the person or child. wATCH this trailer of one of my favorite psychopath movies: HANNIBAL RISING.

If we could instantly track or pinpoint the behavior of person by just looking at him and note their tendency towards such disorder, we can prevent the possibility of what happened to that girl. A psychopath can be detained, charged but his mind cannot. If he could, he can still continue doing what he loves doing: obsessional killing.

It may be paranoia: but what if your friend could have one?
What would you do?

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