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Home Alone at Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! (I know it’s kinda late but anyways I greeted everyone..)

I spent my Halloween at my mom’s province where my grandfathers and grandmothers are buried but then I had to come back home earlier than my mom and dad because I have to enroll online on the remaining subjects I haven’t enrolled yet. So when I reached home I was still confident that I won’t get scared of the fact that I am alone in the house but when I turned on the TV and the program was a horror movie (since it’s halloween), I knew I was dead wrong.

The program was 1408 and it really scared me to hell so I turned it off even if it was just the beginning of the movie. I was so scared that I even sweated over having a solution on what to do when I sleep at night (since I’m the only one in the house). I even texted my closest friends on what to do and here’s one dumb (okay, not really) conversation we had:

Me: Hey do you know what to do when you’re scared at monsters and you’re all alone in your house?
Friend: Oh yeah. I also had that problem, once. And here’s what I’m advising you to do. Go get a candle and light it then turn off all the lights and face in front of the mirror and recite the bloody mary 10x.
Me: Riiiiight. You are such a stupid adviser. You are advising something that makes my problem worse.
Friend: At least you won’t be scared when someone a ghost or a monster appears in front of you since it’s beside you already.

Okay I know my friend’s advise is dumb but I love my friend no matter what. Anyways, when the time to sleep came, I just remedied my fear by turning on all the lights in our house. I bet our electricity bill went high then I read a book in bed until sleepiness knocked me off.

That’s it folks, happy halloween, again!

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Helluva proud that I’m a PINOY

I was really dreading the fact that I haven’t watched the grand finals of Pilipinas Got Talent. I surely missed the performance of El Gamma Penumbra, and as I was watching their video on Youtube, their perf really took my breath away and at the same time felt the goosebumps all over me.

Anyways, enjoy the video and be HELLUVA PROUD to be a PINOY!

P.S. video courtesy by: http://www.youtube.com/user/Bluegarnet06

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THE BOOKWORM’s FRIDAY

A freaking Friday everyone!

I decided to make this blog a bit personal, so here I am writing my thoughts down as though this blog is my diary. Well, not the personal diary but a diary for events in my life, of course. If not for daily then weekly then if not weekly then monthly and so on.

So here it goes.

I woke up late today (specifically 9.30 A.M)and the first thing I did is to pet my dog, gave him his food and everything then ate my breakfast and since I don’t know what else to do  so  I turned on the computer and oh- my parents are nowhere to be found-Mom’s in office and my dad- I don’t know where’s my Dad. Anyways, I decided to read an e-book [since I don't have money yet because its our semestral break (semestral break= no money)]  entitled Trust Me On This by Jennifer Crusie .  Actually, I just started reading the author’s books when I stumbled on her novel (What the Lady Wants) in Amazon.com while checking on novels in the contemporary genre. So I downloaded it then read it and that was the start of my addiction to her novels. In fact, I downloaded most of her novels already and read about four of it including Trust Me On This. 

She really is an amazing writer. She has these witty dialogues and impressive scenes in the book that I’ve decided to read all of her books. I’ve been inspired by her and I’ve asked help from my high-school classmates to give me topics that I can write on since I have so many ideas but I don’t have a specific topic to write.

And oh- by the way! I’ve been looking up all over the web for any creative writing contests that doesn’t have entry fees. Don’t be afraid to comment this blog for any contests you know.

 

That’s all for today folks!

Have a blessed Friday!

 

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Keeping Company with Myself

 

I was quite wandering around the campus when I suddenly felt the urge to sit down. It was one hell of a hot day and the pure evidence of it is the sweat trickling down my spine and the precipitate of sweat forming on my upper lip. I caught sight of a drinking fountain and drank from it and since I got so tired of roaming around the campus, I decided to rest and the perfect spot would be on the stone benches under the shade of trees surrounding it. I crossed the quadrangle and when I reached the spot, I sighed with relief.

I put my sling bag on the rounded stone table along with my books while feeling contented of the cool wind swirling around taking the heat down and sending wisps of my hair flying around which I gently tuck behind my ear.  I looked around and watched the students around me. Some are buying food from that overpricing canteen, some are hurriedly walking across the quadrangle to their own points of destination and others are just like me; lazily sitting on the stone benches nearby. It is still my break time, since I have four hours of it, wherein I spent an hour already of it by roaming around the campus and I’m intending to spend the remaining three hours of it by just sitting around here to wait for my next class. And as I continue to stare at people, I suddenly felt so lonely sitting all alone.

Before, I had a bunch of friends, and the memory of spending all my free time with them feels like acid on my stomach. It was always a happy experience for all of us before a fight tore us up to pieces. Everyone began jumping on to which side they’ll go and before we knew it, our friendship shattered.

And as I look back on it, I can’t help but sigh with regret over the friendship that was terribly wasted. If only I could turn back time and undo all the things I have done but there is always a nagging voice inside my head saying, “Too bad, your friend is a little bit insensitive”. I am not blaming this to her but I already got tired of putting up with my patience whenever she ‘unconsciously’ wrongs me. I know I’m not a patient person and my temper is as volatile as a gasoline but I’m sure that I already tried my hardest to tame the dragon within me until that one event where I exploded and I knew I couldn’t take it anymore.

I snapped out of my reverie and let my eyes wander again and it was then that I realized, being alone doesn’t always mean about being lonely and eating yourself out but it also means spending some time on yourself to become a rather independent and dependable person. I sighed heavily and stood up, picked up my bag and books and went to my next class.

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Tissue (Biology)

Tissue- Are group of cells performing same function.

Animal Tissue:

*epithelial- A type of tissue where cells are closely arranged with each other.

-Simple squamous- made up of flat like and scale like or polygonal cells. Made up of 1 thick cell of these cells, found in capillaries, alveoli, glomeruli.

-stratified squamous- Forms at the outermost layer of the skin, inner lining of mouth, esophagus

-Simple cuboidal- cube like cells. Cells comprising thyroid gland and kidney tubules, ovaries, lining of nephrons, thyroid.

-stratified cuboidal- Found in sweat glands, salivary glands and mammary glands.

-Simple columnar- associated with the linings of digestive tract functioning for absorption and secretion. Stomach, large intestine, small intestine.

-Pseudo stratified Columnar- tissue may appear stratified creating illusions on the condition. All cells originated in the base. Found in male reproductive organ.

 

Connective Tissue

*Loose connective tissue- consists of fibroblasts (secretes fibers that are deposited in the tissue matrix). Found beneath the dermis of skin, underneath epithelial tissues, mucous membranes of digestive, respiratory and urogenital tracts.

*Dense connective tissue- Made up of dense collagenous fibers in bundles and arranged in parallel fashion.

-Tendon- connects muscles to bones

-Ligament- connects bone to bone

*Cartilage- has cells known as chondrocytes (lodged in spaces known as lacunae)

-does not have blood supply

-has three types based on type of extracellular matrix

~hyaline cartilage- matrix: transparent and made up of type II collagen and chondroitin sulfate. This tissue makes up tracheal rings, nasal septum, costal cartilages and epiphyseal cartilages.

~elastic cartilage- made up of bundles of elastin fibers. Can be found in epiglottis and pinnae.

~fibrocartilage- has an extracellular matrix with dense bundles of collagenous fibers. Found in pubic symphisis and intervertebral discs.

-Bone- a connective tissue made up of bone cells (osteocytes) made up of inorganic component, calcium hydroxyapatite and organic component of collagen fibers. Basic unit of bone tissue is the haversian system. Blood vessels and nerves supply bone cells through haversian canal. Volkman’s canal arises from haversian canal.

Canaliculi are minute and microscopic canals that carry nutrients to individual bone cell.

-Bones have calcified matrix.

 

Muscular Tissue

*Skeletal muscle tissue- attached to bones. Muscle fiber is characteristically striated with alternating light (isotopic) and dark (anisotropic) bands. The thin actin molecules are associated with light band while the thicker myosin molecules are oriented at the dark band.

Muscle fiber is multinucleate (synctium) has contractile unit termed as sarcomere.

Cardiac muscle- muscle tissue of the heart

*striated & has involuntary function. The muscle fibers are branch and provided with links (intercalated disks) between them.

Smooth muscle- also known as visceral muscle tissue. Spindle shaped with a singular nucleus and involuntary in action. Main contracting tissue of visceral organs (e.g. digestive tract, uterus, urinary bladder and blood vessels)

~peristaltic movement- movement due to the contraction of smooth muscles.

 

Blood Tissue – extracellular matrix of a blood tissue is plasma. Plasma (where vitamins and minerals are lodged). Comprised with:

`Red blood cells- (erythrocytes) appear as biconcave. No nucleus at maturity. Produced by erythropietic organ. Life span is from 120-127 days after that it will be destroyed by spleen. Has hemoglobin (red protein pigment which carries oxygen and carbon dioxide.

`White blood cells- (leucocytes)

Agranulocytes (no granules)

.lymphocytes-cells divided into two types: (B-cells; production of antibodies, T-cellsl cell mediated immunity)

.Monocytes- in tissues, the cell are functioning as phagocytes

Granulocytes- have granules

.neutrophils- have 3-5 lobed nucleus. Considered primary combatant in infection. Cells engulf bacteria.

.eosinophils- cells have horse shoe shaped nucleus. Have ability to destroy parasites.

.Basophils- release histamine once stimulated. Histamine is responsible for allergic reaction.

*blood platelets (thrombocytes) irregular cells for blood clotting.

 

 

P.S. This is a reviewer for the tissues lesson. Credits for the picture  http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/A/AnimalTissues.html

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I DO MISS YOU

Here I am sitting on one of those brown-colored lounging chairs in a library somewhere in a university, staring way too long at the beige-colored rack which is obviously filled with books and totally ignoring other students passing near my spot. I am too lazy to get a book and too tired to stand up so I contented myself sitting on the plush chair with my chin resting on the knuckles of my hand.

Contemplating on the new environment I have to face, YOU suddenly popped into my mind out of nowhere. With my bags huddled beside me, I remembered YOU, YOU and your pair of brown eyes donned with reading eyeglasses. I remembered how we first met, our first conversation and our friendship. And just the thought of you made me lose myself in a daydream.

I remember those times where we used to share a laugh on something we find funny, those times where we tease each other and I, ending up getting riled and that time when I realized that I like you not as a friend and not as a special someone but something in between. At that time, I didn’t know what hit me and when I did, it came through me like a cannonball smacking squarely on my face. You suddenly filled up the corners of my mind taking up too much space making me incapable to focus on something vital and ending up spacing out by just the thought of you. How I wish I realized it sooner that I like you before we parted ways and right now my memories of you served as a fuel to the fire. I didn’t even know since when you’ve wormed into my heart, shaking my heart, uncovering things that are buried in my heart, just like it’s out of order. I sound like a lovesick fool right now and right then and there I realized I’m falling into the category of women who recognized the saying, “absence makes the heart grow fonder” which is absolutely true. I may have hinted you on my feelings for you just to let you know on how I feel and just to remove the anxiety to see you again. I keep on counting the days and months on when you will comeback so that I can see you again because I already miss you more than you can possibly think of.

But then, the saddest realization would be, you, treating me as your sister. Here I am missing you like I’m going crazy and you out there somewhere in another university without any traces of thoughts for me. I suddenly realized I was like building castles on sand instead on a loam-surface adequate for realities. I picked up my bags and left the library with a sigh and a heavy heart.

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BEASTLY

Kyle Kingston [Alex Pettyfer] is the arrogant and vain son of wealthy and equally as arrogant and vain businessman Rob Kingston. During an environmental event, he disrespects a classmate; Kendra Hilferty [Mary Kate Olsen, who is secretly a witch in disguise. The witch then casts a spell on Kyle to disfigure his body and face, giving him a year to find love or be left with his monstrous appearance forever.

Gonna watch this movie! Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens are amazing here! Can’t wait for this movie to be in Philippine Theaters! :)

Credits to: http://www.youtube.com/user/clevverTV and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastly_(film) for the information :)