Major Depression with Psychosis

First of all, if every person in the world  undergoes psychiatric evaluation, there will be a finding and files that will reach the moon with major diagnoses and  little quirks that will require sliding scale dose of Ativan.

Noynoy Aquino’s supposed psychiatric evaluation can be interchanged with someone else’s name and will still pass as supposed truth.  Everyone has their quirks. Everyone has a dark side. And just because someone is sensational and a public figure doesn’t not mean, they should have all their DNA’s in the right order.

All the Castros and the Marcoses and  the Pol Pots have psychiatric evaluations that will require more than Ativan, heck maybe short and low doses of electrotherapy.

So, what’s the beef about this one Aquino being hurled with fake psychiatric evaluation? The simple answer–a smear. Someone is doing damage control over the idiocity of the C5 extension, or that other road built beside a string of subdivisions, or it might even be to cover the dumb answer to the question: “Besides your family, who is your best public servant choice” and here be the answer “My nanay!”

How stupid is that? I am not a political analyst. Heck, I am not even politically inclined, I may be apathetic to Philippine politics, but I am not dumb. I can connect the dots, I can read, and yes, I can write about it. This recent tactic? Fail. If I were in “that” opposing party’s strategic planning committee, I would dump the vile orange color, sell-out shares on the hundreds of subdivisions that profited from “highway robbery” (get it! ha, cheap joke), own up to the pro-poor me by living simply and yada yada yada. I can’t think of anymore. The damage is way too sewege.

No wonder, the Philippines is still hit by the proverbial tidal wave  and instead of people running away from it, they run towards it, in hopes that they land as domestic experts in Hong Kong, nurses in Singapore, best drivers in Quatar or even professional hide and seek players in the US.

And no wonder, that the good people that stay and make something in and of themselves become “smogged” by the corruption and greed of the few. Man as his worst beast. I am not campaigning for one or for a few. I am just saying, if us ordinary people, average on all sides, just trying to keep afloat in this “Only in the Philippines”, keep on putting foremen who has the track record of a bad DUI driver, why ride in his passenger seat?

We, the people (have I heard this somewhere?), are required by an ethical and moral responsibility to alleviate ourselves from the quagmire of our nation. We have how many days left? 26?

Let’s ditch the cramming nature of our college days and be good citizens for our children (does this post all of a sudden sound like a public address read through a teleprompter? ha!) Let’s do our assignments. NOW! Heck maybe, we’ll help our helplessness and our political and economic hyposomnia.

We are headed to a major depression with bouts of psychosis, if we do not do something about it. No amount of borrowing and stimulus and spending can alleviate our poor. It is our choice, it should come from our ranks, our part of the grassroots to vote for _____.

The choice is always…yours.

Who Sucks at Math?

There is a math exam going on in some part of the globe somewhere. And I pity those whose genetic makeup is similar to mine. We’ll all suck at it. There should be a public outcry for those who can only do addition and subtraction without Algebra or Trigonometry skills to choose to waive their math exam.

Before some of you condescending minds say, “Well he’ll get nowhere if he doesn’t pass math” say it out loud. I just want to say that there better things in life than polynomials and integers. Why is there such an air of superiority when someone is a good guesser at math? They are just numbers. And in the grand scheme of things, trivial.

But then again, this can be a denial phase of someone with a dreadful anticipation of a math exam taker. If you look at any collegiate placement tests, there it is sitting in the back pages, filling an 8 x 11 sheet, numbers and problem solving questions.

And what is x anyhow? Isn’t just a letter substitute for the unknown? Why are we spending our lives and brains in the unknown fleeting number? When we can use the numbers readable and countable by many. You do not go to a store and say, “I’d like an x amount of red beets which is b in dollars and y in cents.” The price tag will not say: The Numerical Equation of this vegetable is bx/y. But these are actual questions in a placement test.

That is what gets me, the word placement. Why do people who has any math skills be ahead of the game? Does people skills count? People skills are harder to gauge on paper, they are exhibited in the connections and relationships you make. Why do you have to rank higher than, let’s say people with artistic value? Is it because art is subjective and math is easily measured? Who decided that people who can do the math are superior than people who had never heard of the Triangle Sum Theorem?

In the real world, where average people exist,  we do not use problems to solve Complementary and Supplementary Angles problems. When we have a measuring problem, whip out your tape measure. End of problem. There is no Imaginary Numbers to deal with outside the textbooks. If you think of imaginary numbers, it’s either, you are dreaming to win the lotto or guesstimating the amount on your paycheck times the number of hours you’ve worked.

So, to you math exam taker, take it easy. Math isn’t all there is to life. There’s Philosophy, Arts and Craft, Chemistry, Biology…yada yada yada.

Don’t blame this post though, if you flunk this coming exam. Beyond math, one should exercise social and personal responsibility.

Without boredom, Where would I be?

Without boredom, I wouldn’t be typing my next post just after I hit publish on the other one.

Let’s explore the possibilities of eliminating boredom:

1. Get into a fight with a random person online.
2. Friend every friend of a friend on Facebook.
3. Eat a few minutes after gorging on large order of onion rings.
4. Drink laxative. You’d be running the shits, keeping you from thinking about the pathetic neurosis of your boredom.
5. Smoke your ears out.

There is no hope with this post. Just turn off your monitor and sleep. Later!