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tOts to ponder..

"As much as I would want to share every complicated thought that runs through my head, I believe speech does not permit me to do so. Writing it down perhaps may help me come up with a good approximation."

Gender Issues Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |

After the long and tedious process of having my "sex change", finally... I'm a female!

(For those who didn't know yet, i was wrongly labeled "male" in my birth certificate. Thanks to whoever that was who did the records.)

Yesterday, I went to Manila City Hall to claim THE court order: that my birth certificate be corrected from male to female. It felt weird being questioned about my femininity, specially during the court trial...

Q: What proof do you have that you are indeed a female?
A: (dumbfounded at first..) Well, all my medical records since my birth can proove that I AM a female! (with a "duh?!" facial expression)
Q: Do you have them with you?
A: As in now?
Q: Yes
A: Um, no...

Barado.

But now I sort of wish I could have said..

Q: What proof do you have that you are indeed a female?
A: Well sir, for one, I have a uterus. And I also have 2 ovaries. And I have loads and loads of estrogen hormones running through my body. So unless you, being a male I suppose, have those too, I believe I can say that I am indeed a female, sir.

<Clap, clap, clap. Judge stands while clapping tremendously. All else stand except for the humiliated (enemy) lawyer.>

Anyway, even if that was not the scene back then, I still have the last laugh now.

Simple (?) Thermodynamics Thursday, September 07, 2006 |

I remember a line from a physical chemistry book which says:
"Some things naturally happen, some things don't."
Thus, the concept of spontaneity.

Wow. What a useful insight that can easily find its use in dealing with life! And to think the line came from a chemistry textbook.. (phychem for that matter)

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I was studying thermodynamics (again for the boards) when I realized that I am indeed using up a whole lot of energy just so i can proceed with this obviously non-spontaneous action (called studying). Talk about applying what you've learned.

balik sayans balik blue jeans Monday, September 04, 2006 |

After missing pisay for quite some time now, it finally happened. Our homecoming. And now it's over.

Seeing the surroundings--the flagpole area, front lobby, creek, dorm, back lobby, oval, and gym, it felt like i was transported back in time, to my good old high school days. The place didn't change much, which made it easier for me to reminisce all the memories of 4 years of pisay life i've kept for more than five years now. But more than the place itself, i missed the people.

With all those batchmates around, it felt like home again. Balik pisay. Balik hayskul. Except for the physical changes, some getting bigger (fatter?), others slimmer, the people are really quite the same as five years back. The old "groupings" are there: (may)josacola, solid, backboys, corpo, st.mary's people, the very big crowd of benaphotau, other science streamers, and of course us jerck.

Haaay.. Nostalgic talaga. And sad cause it didn't last long. One night is really not enough to satisfy my yearning for that reunion..

Sana may tech party. Sana soon.