<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113</id><updated>2012-01-30T09:00:28.710+08:00</updated><category term='kasinungalingan'/><category term='Rants'/><category term='JP updates'/><category term='katarantaduhan'/><title type='text'>The Bilog Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>A chronicle of epic fail</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>26</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-101992309736677732</id><published>2008-07-20T10:29:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-07-20T10:31:39.931+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='katarantaduhan'/><title type='text'>Hahahaha! I just remembered one of my all time favorite jokes.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This blog entry was supposed to be a review of Batman The Dark Knight (watched it last night at Mall of Asia) but the supreme awesomeness of that movie left me speechless.  All I can really say about that movie is: WATCH IT! WATCH IT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, when I got home last night after the movie (long drives are longer if you're alone in a car) I got into an argument with my mother and she got really mad over the foul language I used.  Yes, the argument was that bad!  As I lay in bed, upset and angry, I inexplicably remembered this joke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A father noticed that his three young sons were beginning to use foul language even in the house while he and his wife were there.  One day, he decided to do something about it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was seated with two of his sons at breakfast that day and one of the little brats said to him, "Dad, could you pass the @#$%^ cornflakes?"  He flew into a rage and smacked the little shit in the face and grounded him for a week.  As he was doing this, the third son entered the room and said, "Dad, can I have some @#$%^ cornflakes?"  At this, Dad again flew into a rage and  smacked the little foul mouth and also sent him to his room, grounded. &lt;br /&gt;Dad then noticed the second son who was watching him, wide-eyed.  "What do you want?" he asked. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The little boy then answered, "I dunno but I sure as hell don't want any of those @#$%^ cornflakes."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hehehehehe. Okay, it's funnier if you hear it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yeah, my mom and I patched thin gs up the next morning. So no huhu. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-101992309736677732?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/101992309736677732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=101992309736677732' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/101992309736677732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/101992309736677732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2008/07/hahahaha-i-just-remembered-one-of-my.html' title='Hahahaha! I just remembered one of my all time favorite jokes.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-1279695401140269052</id><published>2008-05-24T23:19:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2008-05-24T23:31:55.534+08:00</updated><title type='text'>This is the last time I stay home on a Saturday night.</title><content type='html'>I stayed home tonight even though it was a pretty nice Saturday evening.  My friends were all busy and one is actually in Marawi City arranging stuff for his wedding.  So I ended up just lying on the sofa and watching Epic Movie on Star Movies. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh my God. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two hours of my life gone forever, used up watching a pointless, unfunny movie.  Nooooooo!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could have sworn my IQ fell a few points just watching the damn thing.  However, I think that's okay since I still have a lot of it to spare.  Hehehehe.  Ooooh.. My YQ (yabang quotient) hasn't been affected.  Excellent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, I'm not drunk. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 reasons why I didn't change the channel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;1. I was too lazy to get up and change the channel. &lt;br /&gt;2. The remote is missing too.&lt;br /&gt;3. other people were watching.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-1279695401140269052?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/1279695401140269052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=1279695401140269052' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/1279695401140269052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/1279695401140269052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html' title='This is the last time I stay home on a Saturday night.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-1327137126448023286</id><published>2008-04-17T18:59:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T19:27:02.478+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Colonoscopies and laminectomies - hour 9 of the 24 hour duty that sucks</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Actually, just one of both, but the plural forms sounded better as a title.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had just finished informing the anesthesiologist and internist (for clearance) for a patient who was admitted a few hours ago.  She's going to undergo a laminectomy tomorrow at 7:30 AM.  I also did the IV insertion thing for her and did the history and PE for the chart (which nobody actually reads.)  Also, a patient who's undergoing work-up* for chronic diarrhea is getting a colonoscopy tomorrow at another hospital.  I called up a gastrointestinal specialist-guy at another hospital to fix it up for tomorrow.  Then I informed the attending MD that the procedure she wanted had been arranged.  I also had to explain to the patient himself about what was going to happen to him tomorrow. (Sir, you're going to get butt-f*cked tomorrow, and guess what, you're paying for it! Mwahahahaha!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now, I'm free!  No more pesky procedures to do or patients to explain stuff to. Yay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Damn, I'm bored.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;_____________________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;*work up - The doctors don't know what's wrong with you so we're going to do diagnostic tests until we make&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; tsamba&lt;/span&gt; on a diagnosis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-1327137126448023286?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/1327137126448023286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=1327137126448023286' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/1327137126448023286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/1327137126448023286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2008/04/colonoscopies-and-laminectomies-hour-9.html' title='Colonoscopies and laminectomies - hour 9 of the 24 hour duty that sucks'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-7133925096130778965</id><published>2008-04-17T13:07:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T13:15:14.301+08:00</updated><title type='text'>This moonlight thing is beginning to grow lame</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This blog entry is being assembled as I'm doing my 24-hour duty at a small private hospital here in QC.  Even though I'm getting a little (minuscule) hospital experience here, it's starting to get old for me.  Aside from the nurses, and the occasional consultant MDs who do rounds on their patients, it's me all the way with no one to talk to and the loneliness is killing me.  I never thought I'd be saying this, but being benign* sucks.  However, I'm guessing I'd feel sucky too if it were toxic** and I was still alone.  The obvious conclusion here, dear friends, is that I hate doing single duty.  I'm not used to this after spending the majority of my hospital duties with my clerk and intern blockmates in good old PGH.  Even in rotations where there was only me as the duty intern, I knew I could always just skip over to the next ward and chat with another intern.  Here? Wala.  As in. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The consuelo de bobo in my duties here in the hospital:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;DSL internet - Yay! I can post blog entries, and whine about my crappy duty and life.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Airconditioned quarters.  - Excuse me, it's called a "callroom", not "quarters".  (I'm still using PGH terms, God help me.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Banyo - enough said.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Free lunch and dinner - Small servings, pero puwede na.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, that's it's for now, the duty nurse just called and just asked a question I don't know the answer too.  Research muna ako. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glossary:&lt;br /&gt;* benign - walang ginagawa, konti patients, o walang kailangan gawin para sa patients.  Suwerte ka, yahoo!&lt;br /&gt;** toxic - madami trabaho, madami patients, paperworks, procedures.  Tae ka, malas mo.  Lol. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-7133925096130778965?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/7133925096130778965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=7133925096130778965' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/7133925096130778965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/7133925096130778965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2008/04/this-moonlight-thing-is-beginning-to.html' title='This moonlight thing is beginning to grow lame'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-6317238089814542536</id><published>2008-04-14T21:12:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-04-14T21:13:52.046+08:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm currently hooked on...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;God help me, but to my shame, I'm currently hooked on that stupid Brian Gorrell blog. It's the blog of an Aussie gay fag guy and  about how he was scammed out of his money by his a-hole socialite boyfriend.  It must be the skewering of a piece of shit socialite that's making me come back to it every day.  Just like the time I got hooked on the Malu Fernandez scandal (what a pig!), the entertainment I get from reading these crappy socialites getting dumped on by their fellow Pinoys is simply amazing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other things I'm hooked on:&lt;br /&gt;1. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 - too bad the 1st season is over and the next season is still in October&lt;br /&gt;2. Battlestar Galactica Season 4 - the best show on TV!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Things I should start:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. studying for the USMLE. &lt;br /&gt;2. Catch up on House MD and CSI (CSI Las Vegas. I'd rather die than watch CSI Miami)&lt;br /&gt;3. Watch that Heroes show everybody is telling me to watch.&lt;br /&gt;4. Watch that Lost show everybody is telling me to watch&lt;br /&gt;5. Watch that Grey's Anatomy show everybody.. NOOOOO! NEVER!!!&lt;br /&gt;6. Be kind to my patients.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-6317238089814542536?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/6317238089814542536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=6317238089814542536' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/6317238089814542536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/6317238089814542536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2008/04/im-currently-hooked-on.html' title='I&apos;m currently hooked on...'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-2273329601872142207</id><published>2008-04-14T21:00:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-04-14T21:11:04.279+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, waddya know, I'm still blogging.</title><content type='html'>I thought I was done with this blog but I guess not.  Here I am.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-2273329601872142207?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/2273329601872142207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=2273329601872142207' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/2273329601872142207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/2273329601872142207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2008/04/well-waddya-know-im-still-blogging.html' title='Well, waddya know, I&apos;m still blogging.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-2204017712815952757</id><published>2008-03-05T23:43:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2008-03-05T23:50:03.393+08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Look, Old Sh*t.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hope you guys like the new look.  I'm trying to make the blog less gloomy so I decided to get rid of the black background.  Also, I've decided to cut back on the heavy-idealist crap I've been putting out lately.  I've actually thought that maybe I should put up a new blog for my rants on certain things, and I even named the blog already, The Angry Fat Guy.  Meanwhile, the bilog blog is going back to what it's not-famous for.  The craptastic life of the Poorest Conyo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-2204017712815952757?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/2204017712815952757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=2204017712815952757' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/2204017712815952757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/2204017712815952757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-look-old-sht.html' title='New Look, Old Sh*t.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-3001626470381056572</id><published>2008-02-17T05:43:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2008-02-17T06:44:41.979+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Heroes (no, not the TV series, you dolts!)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;One of the things that really pisses me off about Filipinos is the tired old, cynical attitude of "parepareho lang kayo."   I often hear this during elections when people say they weren't going to vote because these politicians are all the same: corrupt and out to screw us in the butt.  I often just shut up and tell myself that these people are  idiots because the act of not voting is actually equivalent to pulling down their own pants and bending over to get the ass  f*cking from the corrupt politicians.   Sadly, this attitude also shows how lazy a person is.   He is too lazy to learn about the issues that could affect his life, preferring instead to live in a cocoon and then act surprised when the shit hits the fan.   I don't see how being informed could be so hard.  TV has the news,  the radio has it, hell, even these things called newspapers have it.  (In fact, it's just about all they carry! Amazing!) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lately, I've been hearing shit like this again when people talk about the NBN-ZTE scandal witness Jun Lozada.   Some wannabe pundits (like me, but with more idiocy in their opinions) don't want to label him as a hero. They  point to his (admitted) previous corruption when he was head of a government agency.  I don't know if they really have an opinion or if they really just want to make "pabida" by stating a contrary one, but they could not have been more wrong.  &lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People have this distorted view about heroes, that they should be saints and be absolutely clean and pure in everything.  We forget or are ignorant of the fact that even saints were sinners before they were called into God's service. (I read that St. Francis of Assisi was a rich party-loving douchebag before he became what he is.)  It is not what people do in the past that makes them heroes, it is what they do when they are faced with difficult moral decisions that will affect the lives of their fellows.  Mr. Lozada, even against all the power this government has arrayed against him, found the courage to speak up about what he knew.  He had nothing to gain (except our admiration) and everything to lose.  If that isn't the definition of a hero, then you're all dumbasses.     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-3001626470381056572?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/3001626470381056572/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=3001626470381056572' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/3001626470381056572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/3001626470381056572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2008/02/heroes-no-not-tv-series-you-dolts.html' title='Heroes (no, not the TV series, you dolts!)'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-8071668197235157094</id><published>2008-02-16T23:53:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2008-02-17T05:42:42.515+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Philippines - Epic fail. (the bilog blog commentary on the ZTE scandal)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;from www.urbandictionary.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FAIL:&lt;br /&gt;1.  "Another word for "suck", most probably derived from the world of internet gaming."&lt;br /&gt;2.  "The Glorious lack of success"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EPIC FAIL:&lt;br /&gt;1.  "terrible failure"&lt;br /&gt;2.  "failing really bad"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now, the term "fail" seems to best describe the country.  This scandal is a crime against us all and if people don't react with outrage and demand justice, then the fail level drops down further to "epic" and it would probably be better if the earth opened up and swallowed us all.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-8071668197235157094?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/8071668197235157094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=8071668197235157094' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/8071668197235157094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/8071668197235157094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2008/02/philippines-epic-fail-bilog-blog.html' title='Philippines - Epic fail. (the bilog blog commentary on the ZTE scandal)'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-4904751657355349795</id><published>2007-11-12T23:43:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-11-22T13:39:25.371+08:00</updated><title type='text'>the bilog blog goes totally Male.</title><content type='html'>Belated Happy Birthday United States Marine Corps!!!&lt;br /&gt;232 years of kicking butt all over the frickin' World!&lt;br /&gt;Semper fi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, can anyone tell me, when our elite Philippine Marines celebrate their birthday?&lt;br /&gt;Philippine Marines:  XX years kicking butt in Basilan!  Booyeahh!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-4904751657355349795?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/4904751657355349795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=4904751657355349795' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/4904751657355349795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/4904751657355349795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/11/bilog-blog-goes-totally-male.html' title='the bilog blog goes totally Male.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-3667297148153910197</id><published>2007-10-20T01:14:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-10-20T02:02:40.206+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kasinungalingan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='katarantaduhan'/><title type='text'>Another date gone horribly wrong</title><content type='html'>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;me:  "So, what kind of movies do you like?"&lt;br /&gt;girl i recently met:  " I like foreign movies."&lt;br /&gt;me:  "Hollywood movies?"&lt;br /&gt;girl:  "Yeah, and some Japanese movies.  I love Akira..."&lt;br /&gt;me:  " Yeah, I watched Akira too! On Betamax.  Best anime ever..."&lt;br /&gt;girl:  "I was talking about Akira Kurosawa."&lt;br /&gt;me:  "Eh?  Well, I still watch a lot of Japanese movies."&lt;br /&gt;girl:  "Really?! That's great!   Ano favorite mo?"&lt;br /&gt;me:  "GUNDAM."&lt;br /&gt;girl:  "Are you totally retarded?"&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-3667297148153910197?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/3667297148153910197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=3667297148153910197' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/3667297148153910197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/3667297148153910197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/10/why-i-dont-have-girlfriend-reason-no.html' title='Another date gone horribly wrong'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-5097618802115443811</id><published>2007-10-11T01:54:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-10-11T02:09:26.106+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='katarantaduhan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='JP updates'/><title type='text'>the Bilog Blog's take on the Desperate Housewives brouhahah</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A friend asked me ( they always ask me crappy questions) what I thought about the recent scandal over Teri Hatcher's line about "some med school in the Philippines."  I answered that the writers were dumb and had no idea what they were talking  about.  Then I went back to watching porn - I mean - reading my Kaplan reviewer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On later introspection (while sitting on the toilet) I realized that I shouldn't have been offended.  Teri Hatcher's line went this way:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice that she said "some med school."  Well, I am not just from SOME med school.  I graduated from THE med school of the Philippines. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hehehe! Angas ng peyups!  UP Fight!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-5097618802115443811?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/5097618802115443811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=5097618802115443811' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/5097618802115443811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/5097618802115443811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/10/bilog-blogs-take-on-desperate.html' title='the Bilog Blog&apos;s take on the Desperate Housewives brouhahah'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-3611305820190416489</id><published>2007-10-11T01:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-10-11T02:09:26.107+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='JP updates'/><title type='text'>Dudes, I kinda suck!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I didn't get into the residency program of Veteran's Memorial Hospital.  That sucks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that's out of the way, let's go back to what we do best here in the blog: making fun of other people.  (Yes, this is a clear case of the pot calling the kettle black, but I don't give a flying  f*ck.  Not right now.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-3611305820190416489?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/3611305820190416489/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=3611305820190416489' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/3611305820190416489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/3611305820190416489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/10/dudes-i-kinda-suck.html' title='Dudes, I kinda suck!'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-8947164582530717193</id><published>2007-09-28T01:13:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-09-28T01:35:48.738+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='katarantaduhan'/><title type='text'>The Bilog Blog Picks a Fight.  Issue 1.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Something I saw on the internet pissed me off today.   In one of the friendster clone-websites I joined (this one supposedly for book lovers) a person I was connected to gave this review about the book "&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation" by local woowoo idiot Jaime Licauco:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;     &lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="reviewText"&gt; "either we believe it or not ,, there are some facts that prove about reincarnation... try this book and let's talk bout some experience (if you believe in such thing as karma, reincarnation and soulmate) "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Something in the above statement made me want to provoke a fight.  (Guess what it was?! Hahahaha!!)  So I added a comment to her little review:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"What facts prove reincarnation?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm waiting for her to reply.  I'll keep you losers posted.&lt;br /&gt;___________________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Note:  I don't believe in reincarnation.  What I do believe is that  any Christian or someone with a good education who believes in reincarnation is an idiot. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next Issue:  The Bilog Blog picks a fight with Losers who like The Da Vinci Code.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-8947164582530717193?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/8947164582530717193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=8947164582530717193' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/8947164582530717193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/8947164582530717193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/09/bilog-blog-picks-fight-issue-1.html' title='The Bilog Blog Picks a Fight.  Issue 1.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-6366152479378770269</id><published>2007-09-24T00:55:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-09-24T01:16:17.659+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rants'/><title type='text'>The week of the crap interview and b*llshit exam.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;September 23, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lest you think that I practically spent the whole week just eating rich food and lying around at home, let me clarify that I did have an eventful week.  I had clinic days and was called for an interview at Veteran's Memorial Medical Center.  The entrance exam for NKTI was also last Saturday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The interview at VMMC was, in my opinion, okay except for when they screwed us all in the ass by giving us an oral exam.  Each of the interviewees was given a clinical case to  discuss with the interview panel.   I'm not going to tell you what my case was because I'd really rather not think about it anymore.  (Sobs in the corner.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Saturday was the entrance exam for the residency program of NKTI.  While I did browse through my Harrison's I have to admit that I didn't study for it since I was trying to finish my Microbiology for USMLE.&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;Okay, fine! I was also lazy!  Ahhh, Constant Reader, you know me so well.  F*ck you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At NKTI, I met a batchmate of mine from UPCM and some people who were my clerks at PGH.   They were all taking the same test I was.   Holy crap!  Madami na kami na UP grads applying for only FIVE slots sa IM Department!  (Nakanampucha naman mehn!)  Then there were about 60 to 70 others applying and taking the exam that day.  I had a really bad feeling about my chances and I'm no longer hoping for it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the exam, the only thing I can say about it is, "tawa na lang ako."&lt;br /&gt;I then went home and sulked for the whole day and only went out when I was weak from hunger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wow, two ass reamings in a week!  No wonder I overate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-6366152479378770269?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/6366152479378770269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=6366152479378770269' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/6366152479378770269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/6366152479378770269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/09/week-of-crap-interview-and-bllshit-exam.html' title='The week of the crap interview and b*llshit exam.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-608418005771483223</id><published>2007-09-24T00:05:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-09-24T00:55:00.790+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rants'/><title type='text'>The Week of Overeating</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;September 23, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mother is currently visiting my brother and his wife in Hong Kong, leaving me and my cousin to fend for ourselves.   What this basically means, since we were both fully functioning adults, is that we were left to our own devices when it came to our meals.  I don't know what my cousin ate but I soon found myself, after a few meals, in a bit of a pickle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fundamental problem I had was basically I could only barely afford to feed myself.  To solve this, I made out a budget and told myself I was going to stick to it.  I woke up late everyday so I didn't have to eat breakfast.  What I had almost everyday was brunch, which according to Timmy Turner's dad in the cartoon Fairly Oddparents is "better than lunch!"  I planned to stick to the standards, Jollibee, McDonald's and KFC and probably something like Chicken Bacolod or a pizza.  The purpose of eating out was also so I didn't have to wash dishes or put out the garbage. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the end of the 2nd day, I was sick at the thought of fastfood.  So I shifted to foodcourt stuff which was only marginally better and more expensive since I ate at the foodcourt in Gateway Mall.  My budget was in shambles soon enough because of this.  I also found myself eating more than what I normally eat (an understatement), having extra rice for one thing and some dessert, which I normally never have.  Having to get dressed every few hours to walk to the mall soon wore me down.  Kakatamad! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the end of the 5th day (last Friday), I was a bit eager for my mother to come home.  However, I did not want to worry her too much since I knew she was enjoying her stay abroad so I just shut up about how I was eating when we talked over YM. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow, I pick her up at the airport so my week of hellish (not really) overeating is finally over. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Conclusions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.   If ever end up living alone, I need to hire a cook.  Someone who knows how to cook healthful meals.  Otherwise, I predict I'll be dead by 40. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.  My eating habits since med school have changed.  I can no longer tolerate non-home cooked meals for very long.  Nakakasawa ang food court at fastfood.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;3.  I am a spoiled brat and will probably be hanging around my mother's house even when she and Dad are old and retired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.  I'm obsessed with food.  I even write about it in my blog.  Huhuhuhuhuh!!! &lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-608418005771483223?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/608418005771483223/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=608418005771483223' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/608418005771483223'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/608418005771483223'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/09/week-of-overeating.html' title='The Week of Overeating'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-9189787941645684408</id><published>2007-09-20T20:21:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-09-23T22:49:47.135+08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Clinic Story - that sucked!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This guy comes in and he tells me he has a problem with "singaw."  I take a look and see one small oral ulcer on the inside of his lower lip.  I then disregarded one of the lessons I learned in medicine: "Don't overthink."  I asked about sexual history.  Yup, he did have sex with a you-know-what.  I then asked him if he developed a painless lesion in his thingy.  Yes he did.  I then informed him that he may have syphilis and that we needed to do a blood test (RPR) to confirm.  I then made out a lab request and sent him on his way with the instruction of seeing me when he got the results back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was a bit proud of myself.  I was finally developing the vaunted CLINICAL EYE.  I was so sure of the diagnosis that I even filled out a prescription for antibiotics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the poor fellow came back with the results.  Negative.&lt;br /&gt;Hehehe.  So much for clinical eye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-9189787941645684408?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/9189787941645684408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=9189787941645684408' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/9189787941645684408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/9189787941645684408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/09/clinic-story-that-sucked.html' title='A Clinic Story - that sucked!'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-7911789964848881041</id><published>2007-09-04T16:17:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T17:00:14.642+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='JP updates'/><title type='text'>THE JP Update - September 2007.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hello!  For once sinipag din ako gumawa ng update sa super blog na ito.  Stuff happened during the past few days since my last post.  A lot of stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;August 27, 28, 29&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I went to the 1st ever BREATHE Conference which was held in the PETA theater in QC last August 27-29.  I paid 1500 for it and it sucked.  It was supposed to be a CME (continuing medical education) seminar but instead it was a disorganized mess.  The lectures which I wanted to attend were in conflict with the Basic Life Support workshop which I had to attend (due to NKTI requiring it of their applicants) and the lectures I did manage to attend were for respiratory therapists and nurses.  What was I doing in a lecture on the different types of mechanical ventilators for example?  There was even this Australian speaker who gave a talk about Buteyko Breathing, a psuedo-scientific load of crap  and I could see that all us doctors there were itching to interrupt and say that what the speaker was saying was pure horsesh*t.   However, the Filipino trait of not wanting to contradict and embarrass guests prevailed and I (and apparently everyone else)  kept my piehole shut.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then there was the food.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The food, while okay, was in very small portions that we had to (even the very slim doctor who was with us)  buy additional food later.   That to me was the worst thing about the whole damn conference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole seminar was a waste of money and the only good thing I got out of it was the BLS training and certificate.  I left early on the last day and went home to sleep and cry on my pillow for the money I had flushed down the toilet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I was called for an orientation for pre-residency in Quirino Memorial Medical  Center last Saturday.  I went there early and was shocked to learn that the damn thing was a month long and was in September.  However, they did say it was okay for us to do it in October and about half of us jumped on that.  The residents then gave us a tour of the whole hospital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we walked through the place, I began to have a feeling that while I had run away from my beloved PGH, I was going to a place that was almost a twin of PGH.  A big hospital bursting with charity patients.  I didn't know if I should rejoice or feel dread.  This time, I would not even have the luxury of my peers of having clerks and interns to order around!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of today, I'm only about 50% sure that I'm going to go through with it and show up there on October 1.  You see, I finally received my exam permit for my step 1 MLE and I know I have to ace it in order to have a good score.  I was advised to not go and just spend October studying.  I don't know.  I'll give you updates later.   &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spent the day cleaning the car and driving to 2 hospitals today.  I went to National Kidney and Transplant Institute and to Veteran's Memorial to submit applications for residency.  More on that in later blog updates.  Tamad na ako eh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-7911789964848881041?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/7911789964848881041/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=7911789964848881041' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/7911789964848881041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/7911789964848881041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/09/jp-update-september-2007.html' title='THE JP Update - September 2007.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-610169449837674821</id><published>2007-08-26T22:09:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T07:18:16.607+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rants'/><title type='text'>LeeeLooo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I  found myself switching channels today between the Formula 1 Turkish Grand Prix and Star Movies which was showing the movie Herbie Fully Loaded.   Featured in this movie was a sentient VW Beetle (no not Bumblebee!) and Lindsay Lohan with her "two best friends."  Much as I love LiLo's thingies, I love the VW Bug more.    Our old car before we moved to Manila was a grey-blue VW Beetle which we called "Ocho."   We left Ocho when we moved here to Manila and last I heard, the poor thing was headed to a junk yard after a really bad accident.   I think my mom actually cried over it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As such, I have added restoring a vintage VW bug and naming it Ocho II to my list of crap I'm going to do before I die from a stroke or a heart attack at the age of 55.  It's number 67.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think Lindsay Lohan looked hot in the movie.  This was the the movie where she was still fresh and sexy.  However, she's a train wreck now.   It's amazing how she went from this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/Rt0Tv6MrpkI/AAAAAAAAABY/FFR6W3okeiE/s1600-h/9FD42F7D0B.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/Rt0Tv6MrpkI/AAAAAAAAABY/FFR6W3okeiE/s200/9FD42F7D0B.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106259266305238594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/RtGTSaMrpjI/AAAAAAAAABI/HJJs2eNB074/s1600-h/lindsay-lohan-drunk-after-crash.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/RtGTSaMrpjI/AAAAAAAAABI/HJJs2eNB074/s200/lindsay-lohan-drunk-after-crash.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103021797266925106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/Rt0UF6MrplI/AAAAAAAAABg/0gIwVhiTZqU/s1600-h/lindsay-lohan-drunk-after-crash.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/Rt0UF6MrplI/AAAAAAAAABg/0gIwVhiTZqU/s200/lindsay-lohan-drunk-after-crash.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106259644262360658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eeeeeewwwww.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Awww, who am I kidding?  Just clean her up and I'd still do "evil" things to her.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-610169449837674821?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/610169449837674821/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=610169449837674821' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/610169449837674821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/610169449837674821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/08/leeelooo_26.html' title='LeeeLooo'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/Rt0Tv6MrpkI/AAAAAAAAABY/FFR6W3okeiE/s72-c/9FD42F7D0B.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-4244309505720425310</id><published>2007-08-26T19:43:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T07:18:16.866+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='JP updates'/><title type='text'>THE JP Update - August 2007.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/RtFqU6MrpgI/AAAAAAAAAAw/h-ADJy5806w/s1600-h/your_image.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/RtFqU6MrpgI/AAAAAAAAAAw/h-ADJy5806w/s200/your_image.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102976760239859202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hello Constant Reader!  It's been a long long while since I updated this blog.  As I said before, nothing much has been happening in my life and I don't have anything worth writing about. My life is still the same; wake up in the morning, screw around at home or study for USMLE or go to the clinic if I have clinic that day.  PrOn, TV, internet, youtube, friendster, webcomics complete my days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't go out much too.  The last movie I saw was the Simpsons Movie which for me, since I'm a fan, is one hell of a good movie.  4 out of 5 stars!   And before that, I saw the supreme awesomeness of The Transformers and realized I was never going to watch those old 80s cartoons ever again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Career-wise, I'm still stuck in the GP rut but hopefully, in a few months, I start residency and while this would mean a more stressful life and a lot less bilog blog posts, it would also be the formal start of my medical career.  I'm also studying for my US medical licensure exam (USMLE) so I can leave (temporarily) this place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personal life?  Still non-existent.  Go f*ck yourself.  Huhuhuhu.... (weeps in the corner.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-4244309505720425310?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/4244309505720425310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=4244309505720425310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/4244309505720425310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/4244309505720425310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/08/jp-update-august-2007.html' title='THE JP Update - August 2007.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/RtFqU6MrpgI/AAAAAAAAAAw/h-ADJy5806w/s72-c/your_image.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-1866302208649735577</id><published>2007-06-08T01:05:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-08-26T23:05:10.053+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rants'/><title type='text'>My career and personal life is in limbo.  Things can only improve from here.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;It's been a long while since I made an entry to this most excellent of blogs.  The reason for this is that there wasn't anything to write about anyway.  For the past few months since the Hong Kong trip, all I did was get up in the morning, either go to the clinic if I had a clinic day (Thanks Petite and Rose!) or screw around at home, then work in the evenings as the world's greatest editor of medical transcription crap.  Add a few minutes of pr0n (Minutes? Yeah right!) and a few hours of TV and the picture of my life is complete.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I got fired from my job last week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They ( the douche-bag manager of the MT department) wanted someone office-based and probably willing to work for less than what I was getting.  I'm currently at the end of my last 2 weeks with the company and surprisingly, I'm not angry or bitter.  I have to admit that I'm going to miss the money but the fact is I'm a bit relieved to be out of the editing business.  It was getting boring and I was enjoying my few clinic days (Thanks Petite and Rose!) plus I was getting tired of always rushing home at the end of the day to finish my workload before 10 pm (7 am in California).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I am is a little bit depressed.  With the loss of the job, I realized that I've been sitting on my ass too long and it's time to get up and be a doctor.  What the hell was I doing editing other doctor's notes when I should be working on becoming the one whose notes are being edited?  (Hmm. Pangit at OA ng pagkasabi ko nun ah, pero you get the point di ba?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So right now, I'm just waiting to finish my last two weeks then I apply for a moonlighting job in a hospital, read Harrison's 16th edition cover to cover, and finally take the first step on getting training in the US.  Time to get busy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the personal life thing...you know how it is.  (!@$$%^%!!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bahala na.         &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey, more posts to follow!! The bilog blog is back!  Comments are welcome!    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-1866302208649735577?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/1866302208649735577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=1866302208649735577' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/1866302208649735577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/1866302208649735577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-career-and-personal-life-is-in-limbo.html' title='My career and personal life is in limbo.  Things can only improve from here.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-5143363376827225730</id><published>2007-03-05T20:22:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T07:18:17.137+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rants'/><title type='text'>post-Hong Kong blues</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87GjGBQo9I/AAAAAAAAADM/-CebtiOSYmw/s1600-h/HK+Street+Scene+1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87GjGBQo9I/AAAAAAAAADM/-CebtiOSYmw/s200/HK+Street+Scene+1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174291328108897234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It's been almost two weeks since I arrived home from the Kong and a few people were asking me why I haven't put anything into the bilog blog about it.  Frankly, it's because I was too lazy and too busy having fun and exploring the place to blog about it and after I came home, it hurt to think of the place too much so I busied myself with other pursuits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yes, I fell in love with the damn place.  Hong Kong is wonderful!  The tourist and commuter friendly city with its clean streets, efficient transport system (trams, double decker buses and MTR trains), and tourist traps like the Peak, street markets, museums, and Ocean Park made me wish I was one of the rude, English-torturing, dollar-worshiping Chinese living there. Unfortunately, the 14-day visitor limit, a rapidly shrinking wallet, and a mother who by then was demanding I come home eventually forced me to leave.   The last few moments at the large (huge!)  Hong Kong International airport were some of the saddest in my life.  The plane ride was no fun either even though I met an older but still pretty woman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So now here I am back in Manila, but resolved to go back to this place of many delights but difficult to understand English. As soon as possible, when enough money is available to me, I will go back.  I still have a lot of new places to go to and places to re-visit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And I'm inviting you, Constant Readers to come with me.  How does an October trip sound?  Not hot like in March-May, but not freezing like in January and February (My only complaint while I was there. T*ng*na! Ang lamig!!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(I will soon put up a photoblog of my eleven day odyssey as soon as I learn how to use the features of blogspot.  Asa pa kayo na ilalagay ko sa friendster mga pics ko.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-5143363376827225730?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/5143363376827225730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=5143363376827225730' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/5143363376827225730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/5143363376827225730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/03/post-hong-kong-blues.html' title='post-Hong Kong blues'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87GjGBQo9I/AAAAAAAAADM/-CebtiOSYmw/s72-c/HK+Street+Scene+1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-7425743822032879635</id><published>2007-02-10T00:25:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-28T03:15:22.128+08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Bilog Blog in Hong Kong - the first few hours.</title><content type='html'>Hello Constant Readers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I'm in Hong Kong for the next few days visiting my brother and his wife.  I'll try to make posts everyday I'm here.  This trip is kind of a big deal for me, because I've never been fond of travelling and this may be the last time I could get to do something like this since next year, Im going to go into residency (no quitting this time).  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The flight in (Cebu-Pacific) was uneventful except I got robbed when the damn flight attendants sold me a 100-peso sandwhich.  I had not eaten anything since 11 am that morning and what I had eaten was very little-I was excited-so I was very hungry.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;We landed at HK International at 6:40 pm.  I went through immigration and baggage claim with no trouble and met my sister-in-law.  We then took the train from the airport to Hong Kong station and then took the taxi to their apartment in Sheung Wan.  Then we had pizza delivered.  Yes, I came all the way here to eat pizza.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Observations:&lt;br /&gt;1. The airport is a great place to see a lot of beautiful women. &lt;br /&gt;2. When you're hungry and you're thousands of feet above the ground, 100 pesos for a dry, tasteless sandwhich isn't so bad.&lt;br /&gt;3. Having a window seat is great. Except when the wing of the plane is right outside the window and you can see the damn thing wiggling in the turbulence. Holy shit!&lt;br /&gt;4. The difference between a travel hub like Hong Kong (henceforth referred to as The Kong) and a backwater like Manila is huge. Very. &lt;br /&gt;5. Saying "Ang daming foreigners!" is stupid. &lt;br /&gt;6. The Chinese are really rude.  If given a chance, I'd kick them in the teeth.&lt;br /&gt;7. Taxi drivers in the Kong are rude and drive in a way that made me think of roller coasters.&lt;br /&gt;8. Finally, if you're very hungry, you won't mind eating pizza as your first meal in the Kong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't seen much of the place so nothing else to say here.  Tomorrow I'm going out to really explore, but for now, the poorest conyo is signing out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-7425743822032879635?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/7425743822032879635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=7425743822032879635' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/7425743822032879635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/7425743822032879635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/02/bilog-blog-in-hong-kong-first-few-hours.html' title='The Bilog Blog in Hong Kong - the first few hours.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-3827897002303222701</id><published>2007-01-28T03:05:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-28T03:15:22.452+08:00</updated><title type='text'>What happened after. Issue # 1</title><content type='html'>THE EMPEROR.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“Hail the Emperor!!!!”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“Have they found the boy, general?” &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“Not in this village, Sire.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;We believe the rebels have taken him to the mountain strongholds.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“I assume that you have sent troops to that area as well?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“Yes, Sire. Twenty veteran legions and some of the best trackers we have.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;We will find the boy.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“Excellent, general.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“What of the villagers, Sire?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“They were there when the boy dared to mock me?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“No, your Highness, only the headman.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“Nevertheless, burn the village.”&lt;/b&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“Yes, Sire.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“And General?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“Yes, my, Emperor?”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“Why do you avert your eyes when you address me?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“Uhhh…”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“What, General?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“Um, I said that the clothes you are wearing are too beautiful for this old soldier’s eyes, Sire.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“Yes, I know what you mean. These clothes are amazing!”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“Ummm….”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“It’s so light and cool.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It feels like I’m not wearing anything!”&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“Uhhh…”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“Too bad, that the tailors are dead, executed for overcharging me and giving me that unfinished outfit that caused that boy to mock me during the parade…” &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;(shudder) “Yes, my Emperor….”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“Hehehehe….Laugh at the God-Emperor, will they?&lt;span style=""&gt;  Do they not realize that only the truly worthy can see what I wear?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;"How many did we execute that day, General?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“Twenty-seven thousand citizens, Sire. Virtually everyone who was at the parade.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;“Hmmm… Execute a few thousand more until we find the boy.” &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“Yes, Sire.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;The Emperor then rose from his seat in his majestic, new clothes that no one could see and walked back to his camp.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Behind him, the village began to burn.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-3827897002303222701?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/3827897002303222701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=3827897002303222701' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/3827897002303222701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/3827897002303222701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-happened-after-issue-1.html' title='What happened after. Issue # 1'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-8265562929027340801</id><published>2007-01-28T02:11:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-28T02:50:15.765+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rants'/><title type='text'>Another rant against conyos.  Envy makes me creative.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I really hate it when people talk about "following their passion."  There was this article I read many weeks ago in the uber-conyotic section of the Inquirer (Saturday SUPER!) about this conyo dude who said that he shifted from architecture to film because he wanted to follow his passion.  My reaction to what he said was a laugh and the thought, "Ulol.  Sino niloloko mo?!  Nahirapan ka lang sa archi.  Hahahahaha!!!  F*cking conyo." &lt;br /&gt;Using the term "passion" when describing your hobby, job, vocation, or sexual perversion is such a pompous thing to do.  Dude, we get it, okay?!  We can see from the way you rub your crotch against street signs that you love doing it. But please stop talking about it. &lt;br /&gt;This rant was brought about by the situation of somebody I know.  She had just passed the UPCAT but didn't get into the BS Nursing program.  Instead, she was accepted to the College of Pharmacy and to the College of Engineering.  Now, she's under a lot of pressure from her parents to just stay in their province and enroll in a local college as a nursing major.  Kawawa naman.  She wants to study in UP.  Too bad her family's not rich enough for her to follow her passion. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-8265562929027340801?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/8265562929027340801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=8265562929027340801' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/8265562929027340801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/8265562929027340801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/01/another-rant-against-conyos-envy-makes.html' title='Another rant against conyos.  Envy makes me creative.'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3650607760611856113.post-2577130993387856391</id><published>2007-01-05T22:34:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-01-05T22:42:13.123+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='JP updates'/><title type='text'>Welcome to the new Bilog Blog!</title><content type='html'>This is the first post of the new Bilog Blog.&lt;br /&gt;The friendster.com Bilog Blog will still be updated but this will be where I'll be putting my main effort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For know, I'm still thinking of crap to put here.  So stand by, Constant Readers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3650607760611856113-2577130993387856391?l=jptanrules.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/feeds/2577130993387856391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3650607760611856113&amp;postID=2577130993387856391' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/2577130993387856391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3650607760611856113/posts/default/2577130993387856391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://jptanrules.blogspot.com/2007/01/welcome-to-new-bilog-blog.html' title='Welcome to the new Bilog Blog!'/><author><name>jp</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00112894862206301122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_KTihd9UNvM4/R87EtWBQo8I/AAAAAAAAADE/nc1rumKzgMc/S220/Image008.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
