Teri Hatcher Against the Philippines

Posted on October 3, 2007 at 19:52 Down the Drain 6 Comments

I was falling in line for dinner when TV Patrol started. The first news on their list was about this actress named Teri Hatcher which stars in the U.S. TV show “Desperate Housewives”. I never really knew her before or even watched a single episode of the show, and I never thought I would know her this way.

(Scene: Susan Mayer talking to her doctor – 09/30/07)

Doctor: I know for a lot of women the word menopause has negative connotations. They hear, uhm, aging, brittle bones, uh, loss of sexual desire..

Susan Mayer: Okay before we go any further, can I check those diplomas ’cause I would just like to make sure that they’re not from some med school in the Philippines.

Now how ’bout that. I don’t know what was up with the scriptwriter for that episode to use the name of our country (or any other country for that matter) that way. It’s such an insult to the Filipinos. The Filipino community in the U.S. had to react, of course. Who wouldn’t? An insult of their beloved nation has just been thrown on national television! The world may have not known about what we’re truly capable of doing of yet, but we know ourselves that we can do better like any other country out there. We have the number of good exports to other countries. We could even be considered as the country with the greatest export workers. And think about being “hospitable”. This is just ridiculous – another plain issue of racism. The scriptwriter should have used “Antarctica” instead. That’d have no conflict at all. A public apology from ABC is being demanded, and I believe it should be done.

Man’s Satisfaction

Posted on October 2, 2007 at 18:45 Down the Drain 1 Comment

Our 2nd long exam results in Bio20 were already returned. I got 72, quite low compared to the average, but I was already expecting it. I really had a hard time figuring out the items where we’re to select, from given options, the mode of transmission and the microbe behind for a certain disease. I didn’t study that part well. There were quite a number of enumerations. Like what happens in high school, and perhaps in some or many cases in college, some were complaining about their answers. One classmate of mine even told another, “You’re gonna get it perfect soon!” I agree. I have never tried complaining for my score in any exam result that I receive unless it dictates me to do so. That is, I am 100% sure that my answer is the correct one. For me, it really doesn’t matter that much anyway because in the end, when we find our respective fields of interests as a profession, all these will merely become a memory to be buried underneath..

We had our 2nd long exam in (Data Structures and Algorithms in) Java. It was not as hard as all our previous exams in the subject but it was time-consuming. We had to cut it off and continued in our CMSC140 class at 4. It was already 30 minutes past 5 when the classroom was emptied.