I have a question: Where is it stated that yearbook write-ups are supposed to describe the person (i.e., the graduate)? Isn't the person supposed to "write up" his/her experience in university, like this awesome write-up by Seth Rogan?

Originally I was planning to ASCII art "5 YEARS. W00+!" as my write-up, but the guidelines read, "The write up should be in paragraph form." Curses. Non-conformity down the drain.

Right now my alternative is to poke fun at how generalized write-ups are. Its like write-ups follow some sort of template, and all people do is replace the adjectives and events with ones applicable to the graduate. Haven't we all read, "_____ is a great friend" or "a shoulder to cry on" too many times? Hence, my mock of a write-up might go something like this:

Danna is a/an [adjective] girl. She loves [verb, progressive form] and [verb, progressive form], and has a fondness for [noun]. She is a/an [adjective] [noun, person] and always [verb] her friends. She can usually be found [verb, progressive form] at the [noun, place]. Listen to her talk long enough and you're bound to hear her say, "[quote]" . One thing not to be forgotten to be about her is the time when [event]. Her friends all think she's [adjective], but she insists that she's just being [adjective].

In conclusion, Danna likes to mock paradigms and hates being the same as everyone else. She loves playing with words and is an attention-whore when it comes to her work.

Beans made the wonderful argument that the yearbook entry is prime advertising space, so he edited the second paragraph to:

In conclusion, Danna likes to mock paradigms and hates being the same as everyone else. She loves playing with words and is an attention-whore when it comes to her work. For more details, please visit Danna's blog at http://done-na.livejournal.com.

I took P&G's exam yesterday. It was scheduled for the afternoon, so I was planning to drop by a photo place before that to get myself some recent 1x1s and 2x2s.

I woke up around 11am. I had more than an hour to spare for the photos--especially with the 10-minute rush photo technology all these places seem to have--but I didn't. I just arrived for the test much, much too early.

After the exam a friend of mine asked why I hadn't taken my photo yet. After all, I had the time.

"I didn't want to risk it."

"Risk what?"

"Murphy's law."

"...?"

"I didn't want to be late for the exam just in case."

At this he looked at me incredulously and asked, "Why? What is Murphy's law?"

I gave him back the look. I mean really, who hasn't heard of Murphy's Law?

"If anything can go wrong, it will."


Turns out that there's a whole website dedicated to Murphy's. Murphy's Laws Site has the origin and the different applications of said laws. I just found two things in the site that irked me though:

1."Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics: Things get worse under pressure." (LINK)

Like, doi. The second law of thermodynamics already pretty much states this, only without the pressure factor. I think one of my chemistry teachers in high school said it best: "The second law of thermodynamics... is that the universe is headed towards chaos!"

2. There's no mention of this guy.

I've never really had acrophobia. I've never had qualms about going up to the highest floors of Makati's skyscrapers and leaning my body, face flat against the windows to see the urban skyline in secret hopes of finding someone doing something rather embarassing at their rooftops, thinking it was safe. I've been up Sears Tower several times now and have never felt queasy. Those thrill rides that go up-and-down don't scare me because of how high they go--they scare me because of how fast they plummet me back to earth, but that's not the point I'm trying to make.

You see recently, I've been having a fear of ledges. That's right, ledges. Dave from PlanetHunt described the feeling best:

"I’d read in their literature that most people don’t actually have a fear of heights, but rather a fear of ledges, and that seemed to be true in our case. We never felt in danger or like we were going to fall. You notice how high you are when you first begin to take off, but after a few minutes, you lose that height perspective. I can’t quite explain it, but they’ve said that even people who have a fear of heights aren’t scared anymore once they’ve lifted off and are in the air for a few minutes."

He was talking about going up in an hot-air balloon, but he was right on the dot about not fearing the height, but rather the ledges. Everytime I'd see one I get this mental image of myself just running over to that ledge and jumping over. It's scary. I know it isn't true, but it just feels so real that I have to grab on to something just so I know I'm not doing it.

I saw it while looking at the balconies of The National Museum, even if they were locked up by window panes. I saw it while shopping at SM, around the area in the upper floors where you can look down and see the goings-on of the usually-ground floor. I see it everyday in Eng'g when I pass through the corridors.

On the last one, it never used to happen. I'm already in my fourth year and this only happened now. And I don't know why. Any ideas? :(