because the unexamined life is not worth living

I first found out about Gandhi's 7 Social Sins more than a week ago from a graduation speech given by the guest of honor. It definitely caught my attention....it's a very good way to examine one's life.

1) Wealth without Work
2) Pleasure without Conscience
3) Science without Humanity
4) Knowledge without Character
5) Politics without Principle
6) Commerce without Morality
7) Worship without Sacrifice

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It's so darn hot that the blogger side of my brain decided to take a vacation somewhere really, really far away. Like our refrigerator.

when you have no choice

I'm supposed to be taking graduate studies again, but I didn't enrol in academics last term and I will potentially not enrol again this coming term. I missed the online enlistment schedule...again...The very few offered courses next term will clash with my teaching schedule next year.

Not that I think anybody's interested.

the zen eater

Eating out is one of the best forms of leisure. It only becomes stressful to picky diners who will not take less than perfect service. I met a good friend at the mall yesterday and chose this world famous cafe since it wasn't crowded and was perfect for very long, casual conversations. Unfortunately, almost all their sandwiches were unavailable at that time (the mall had just opened...plus people go there for the coffee and not really for the sandwiches)...I already gave my payment to the person on the counter and he was about to give me my change when the kitchen staff informed him that my order wasn't available.

..it was a choice between becoming irate or just letting it go...he didn't know that the darn sandwich wasn't available anyway.

I've always practised a sense of calm consumerism. It's difficult to be in sales. It's hard to pretend to like consumers and allow them to be right all the time even when they're obviously taking advantage of the customer is right rule. Being a sales person is a noble job.

So I salute you, noble blue collar employees who earn an honest day's work. You are the heart of the workforce.

kudos to our department

I'd like to take this opportunity to announce to cyberspace that our biology department is already at par with biological research of the new millenium...our best thesis is on bioinformatics...computational biology (frankly, my feeble mind is still trying to fathom the topic but it has information about genes that are being activated during exercise). At last, we are not archaic. I have been a huge fan of this new field ever since I came across Francis Collins and his book entitled The Language of God a few years ago. Almost all the science updates I read from Discover, some science blogs, and even my favorite fields of Evolutionary Biology & Parasitology, have something to do with breakthroughs based on bioinformatics.

"Biology in the 21st century is being transformed from a purely lab-based science to an information science as well." -NCBI

I agree.

So congratulations to our seniors! Well done Professor of Bioinformatics who incorporated this field to our department (wink wink), who is incidentally a high officer of our country's Mensa society...and who is among the most down-to-earth and accommodating people I've ever encountered. I'm not worthy.

desperately seeking summer

i'll be teaching this summer. no summer vacation. overload pay....so i guess it's okay.

I've been wanting to read Eartha's book suggestions (the perks of being a wallflower and the secret) plus, I haven't finished Ulysses yet....so, oh well. That's life. Here I am--procrastinating when I should be finishing my unit report for our department meeting on Friday. Tsk tsk tsk. It's like being a student all over again. Hehehe. At least I'm spending time with my beautiful, bouncing, chubby little boy who's talking to the monitor as if he can actually read at 2 years old.

Obviously, the heat has affected my sentence construction and coherence so my apologies....and I wonder what the heck entered my mind that I'm suddenly drinking hot instant coffee!....at 4:20 p.m....when it's 90 degrees Fahrenheit (thank you freemeteo)! I'd love to soak anywhere..on the beach, a swimming pool...an inflated swimming pool.

It's so darn hot. I'm melting....tssssssss......