Lately I found out that there were broken links in my blog so I've fixed the "Contact" and the "About" links on the navigation above.  Ok, that was just a lame start hehe.  I don't have an idea how long those links have been broken.  So just in case you tried to contact me through my previously broken "Contact" link, I'm pretty certain that I still haven't got your message.  But then again I think, "who will try to contact me anyway?"  Hehe.  

I've been itching to write an entry about "Inconsistencies" but when I checked my e-mail, I got a forwarded message with a "We demand an apology" glaring as its subject.  So I decided to write about it instead.  Intrigued, I opened this message up which, by the way, I seldom do just to find out what the fuss is all about.  Like a subservient chicken, I clicked the link inside the message and a new window opened.  It was a petition asking for a signature seemingly demanding an apology from the dramedy, Desperate Housewives, and the ABC network which airs the said program.  Apparently, in one of the episodes, there was a scene wherein Susan Mayer (played by Teri Hatcher) threw in a hard-hitting punch line at the Filipino medical practitioners after her gynecologist had told her that she might be hitting a menopause.  Curious, I started watching the scene and yeah the joke thrown was way below the belt.  Judge it yourself:

Teri Hatcher's character says:
"Okay, before going further, can I check these diplomas cause I would just like to make sure that they’re not from some med school in the Philippines."   

You want to know what my opinion is for this matter?  Ok, here it goes.  The punch line sure can greatly taint the competence of Filipinos in the medical field IF THE SHOW WERE A FREAKIN' CNN.  Alright?  But the show's genre is comedy and draMEDY at that.  So I really don't understand why many Filipinos have been hitting the "Sign Petition" command button and seriously giving a hoot at this.  I think the screenwriter of this racial slur is maybe aware of the Nursing Licensure Exams leakage that happened last year.  And if the screenwriter were not a Filipino, then it'd definitely surprise me that he's aware of that reality.  It seems that it is a bad joke to many.  I believe it is.  Yet it also seems pretty shallow to take the joke so personally.  I believe that the joke is not even that generalized.  Besides, if you believe that you're a talented and a hard-working medical practitioner, you'll not buy on this kind of crap.        

Relating this to experience, I'm 100% Bisaya.  Both my father and my mother hailed from Samar.  Jokes circulated by the exponential reach of text messages poking fun at the Bisayas have been constantly beeping everywhere.  Those laughable accents leading to plain stupid disasters.  But do I fall for those?  Definitely, I don't.  Those words that are commonly mispronounced by the Bisayas may be true and I'm even proud if I sometimes mispronounce some words but those don't make me stupid at all.  Then neither do the Filipinos in the medical field.

Well, of course, that type of derogatory remark is definitely unfounded.  It may destroy the reputation of the Filipino medical practitioners in one swoop.  But I doubt 'cause the show is a comedy series and there's no employer especially in the US who will take the joke seriously and deny Filipino medical applicants.  Besides, the US has been aware how Filipinos, in general, can provide excellent dedicated services.  Simply put, Teri Hatcher got it all wrong.  I hope Teri will not visit the hospital anytime soon.  She probably knows the chances hehe.  But then again, we should start taking a hard look at ourselves in the mirror.  We, even though unknowingly, sometimes discriminate the Bisayas and the Bombays (ok, I'm guilty on this one hehe).  And don't get me started with Bubble Gang's resident butt of jokes named DIEGO, the national gay.  

Alright readers, I have no intellectually-stimulating, emotion-overflowing, and self-pimping topic to discuss about.  So I just have to share again another "goofy" conversation I had with friends just a few days back while getting ourselves ready for the last coordinated quiz in Advanced Accounting.  To my readers who don't give even a single damn at Accounting, I seriously apologize for getting you a little out-of-place in this entry hehe.  It goes a little something like this:

Friend1: I use journal entries to arrive at the value of MINAS(this is just the share of the minority, typically the stockholders, on the net assets of the parent company's puppy also known as subsidiary).
Me: Well, as for me, I use a T-Account(aka mini-ledger) to determine its value.
Friend2: Darn, I can't get the right answer on the problem asking for the value of MINAS.  I don't use entries nor a T-Account.  I just use the formula given.
Me: Friend1 uses entries.  Then his entries will be posted on my T-Account.  Then the values on my T-Account will be organized and constructed in your Financial Statement using your formula.  And you can't get it!  If your financial statement were to be presented for public scrutiny, then the auditor would have no choice but to give an "adverse" opinion.
Friend1, Me, and Friend2: *Continue to goof around after Friend2 had said that I have a fat brain*

*Sighs*  What a pouring joy I always have even under scorching pressure.  Just like the spectators in the image below sneering at the man who's about to be executed.

 Photo credit: abuggedlife.com

I hope a pass that last test or else I'll suffer the same fate which the man experienced above.

What an unexpected turn of events!  In a bad way.  First off, my father's laptop which we all are using is infected with a freakin' spyware.  YM is also affected.  It's been automatically sending a malicious message to every person in my contact list in Vietnamese.  Was it in Vietnamese?  Well anyway, although my face resembles a lean Vietnamese hunk, I'm not the one who's been sending that sick message.  So if anyone of you has been constantly bothered by that viral message from me, I suggest not to click the link in it 'cause doing so is just like conspiring with evilness that has contained the Net for years.  And I apologize for that.  This virus or whatever has been disturbing me while I'm typing.  Everytime the computer beeps, whatever I'm doing in the computer would come to a very momentary halt.  The beeping sound seems like a signal that you have to give way to the virus and let it invade your desktop.  Yeah people, this virus has gone that far until it reached my nerves and thus my decision to reformat the whole thing.  Yeah, you've heard it right my dear Constantines, I'm gonna deworm the sh*ts out of my father's laptop.  So I'll pack up my things here in this computer a little later.  Let me blog first.  It really annoys me man 'cause first of all, I still have two pending writing orders to submit and now tell me how I'm supposed to churn out orders with those freakin' beeps caused by this virus that provoke the living daylights out of me.  I've just downloaded a popular anti-spyware program but it just sits there on the status bar listening to the beeps that come and go.  For my own sake, strut your lazy butt, alright?  You're a free "trial version" software and I've always thought that the best things in life are free.  Ok, that was corny hehe.  Anyways, another unexpected turn of events just happened.  This time it's more personal 'cause it involves SCHOOL!  Sem break has just started to kick off today.  It's the time of the year when college students get mixed emotions.  Mixed because we're all happy that finally we're gonna take a much needed break from school pressures and also a bit worried at the possibility of failing a subject and for the academically-conscious, at a possibility of getting a grade they don't deserve.  Well guess where I belong.  Ever since, I've never been academically-conscious or GC(grade-conscious as the cools put it).  Personal fulfillment, my friends, varies from one person to another.  In other words, it lies flatly according to one's perspective.  It just so happened that I'm not the kind who considers the grading system as a sole gauge of achievement.  Maybe because our family culture is not deeply founded on it.  They don't give a hoot whether my grades are high or not simply because I've never achieved any scholastic awards ever since I started schooling except (again and again hehe) that Best in Conduct ribbon I got in preschool or was it Most Attentive?  See, I even forgot haha.  So there's nothing to expect from me except to soar my ass from college.  Nonetheless, My parents, as I can see, seem to be very proud of their eldest son whom they've seen as a goofy bamboo who has experienced the trials of these times.  Ok that was just a poetic/pathetic exaggeration of me haha don't mind that mushy half-revelation, half-lie.  Going on, what was that unexpected turn I was talking about a little lately about SCHOOL?  Alright here it goes on the jump.

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Congratulations to all the successful examinees in the October 2007 C.P.A. Board Licensure Examinations.  Especially to my friends.  And I'd like to specially congratulate the new CPAs who read my blog hehe.  Elaine Go, Goldwin Ong, and Soc Ty.  Did I miss someone hehe?  Goldwin, my boy, if you're still alive, comment here hehe.  Well anyways, you're all BIG TIME to me now.  Honestly, you've all just made me SO encouraged   Good luck and God speed!