on pacquiao and others
he other day i was with ato in taft, starbuck-ing before class. after much hemming and hawing i decided i'll eat at red ribbon (which has pitifully small servings. i regretted the money i put in)
on the way back i saw manny pacquiao's motorcade. first thought was "WHY did they choose to go through taft? di ba dapat nasa roxas lang kayo?"
because of the über-long motorcade, i was forced to wait in the middle of taft, and so i saw various media persons, police people, and "the people's champ" waving from an open truck, with his 4 belts held up behind him by his... um... alipores.
he started waving about, even though majority of the people there were like me, just watching with an amused smile.
then i saw a jeepney driver who stuck his head out and waved at him, shouting "IDOL!!!" with a huge smile on his face.
manny waved at him, smiled back.
i bet that made the driver's day.
then i had an epiphany.
i was always disgusted by him, the way media persons are fawning over him every time he came home, and politicians left and right struggling to get a photo opportunity with him. i hated him especially when he ran for governor (i think). i have wished for him to lose on many occasions, just to teach him a bit of humility.
but when i saw the jeepney driver, i realized that no one, NO ONE who can inspire that much fervor in common people deserves my disgust and hatred.
but that's just me, i guess.
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stuff to do: grad school
1) read (again) handouts about Freud's first patient and the woman who caused him to think of the psychodynamic theory: Anna O.
2) read (again) Freud's lectures about his therapys tyle
3) construct a conceptual framework about Freud's style
4) read handouts for Group Therapy (quiz on Friday)
5) schedule appointments with ITEO to get and interpret my psychological tests
6) research on Forensic Psychology
7) look for a clinical case for case analysis (hardest)
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because i did not go to school for 1 year, i am overwhelmed with how much i need to do. i have forgotten about the stress from the piles and piles of requirements i needed to submit.
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"your depth is hungry." my prof wrote to me.
i'm still wondering what this means.
on the way back i saw manny pacquiao's motorcade. first thought was "WHY did they choose to go through taft? di ba dapat nasa roxas lang kayo?"
because of the über-long motorcade, i was forced to wait in the middle of taft, and so i saw various media persons, police people, and "the people's champ" waving from an open truck, with his 4 belts held up behind him by his... um... alipores.
he started waving about, even though majority of the people there were like me, just watching with an amused smile.
then i saw a jeepney driver who stuck his head out and waved at him, shouting "IDOL!!!" with a huge smile on his face.
manny waved at him, smiled back.
i bet that made the driver's day.
then i had an epiphany.
i was always disgusted by him, the way media persons are fawning over him every time he came home, and politicians left and right struggling to get a photo opportunity with him. i hated him especially when he ran for governor (i think). i have wished for him to lose on many occasions, just to teach him a bit of humility.
but when i saw the jeepney driver, i realized that no one, NO ONE who can inspire that much fervor in common people deserves my disgust and hatred.
but that's just me, i guess.
. - + - .
stuff to do: grad school
1) read (again) handouts about Freud's first patient and the woman who caused him to think of the psychodynamic theory: Anna O.
2) read (again) Freud's lectures about his therapys tyle
3) construct a conceptual framework about Freud's style
4) read handouts for Group Therapy (quiz on Friday)
5) schedule appointments with ITEO to get and interpret my psychological tests
6) research on Forensic Psychology
7) look for a clinical case for case analysis (hardest)
. - + - .
because i did not go to school for 1 year, i am overwhelmed with how much i need to do. i have forgotten about the stress from the piles and piles of requirements i needed to submit.
. - + - .
"your depth is hungry." my prof wrote to me.
i'm still wondering what this means.