The inefficiencies in the Philippine public transportation system

If there's one defining characteristic of Philippine public transportation, it's inefficiency. Taking a jeep or bus to any given point takes twice to thrice as long as if you were taking a taxi or car. Not only that, but they cram as many of you as they possibly can inside the vehicle before moving a single inch. And that is why they cost practically nothing ($0.19).

This is the music I grew up with, Part 3

Part 3 of our 90's music retrospective

This is the music I grew up with, Part 2

Part 2 of our 90's music retrospective

This is the music I grew up with, Part 1

All you 90's kids, you know what I'm talking about

Your Consciousness

Have you ever stopped to think about what comes after death? For some people, it's some version of heaven or hell. For others, it's nothing. When people say that there is nothing after death, I don't know if everyone truly comes to grips about how terrifying that is.

Your consciousness is what makes you who you are. It is everything. Your thoughts, your opinions, your interests, your viewpoints, these are all what make you uniquely you. If there is nothing after death, you will simply extinguish like a candle being blown out. Another life in the billions of lives the world has seen. You will not be able to regret, you will not be able to think, you will not be able to comprehend the emptiness of your current state. You will simply... cease to exist.

This is perhaps why people are so ready to embrace religion. Because it offers us an alternative to a void of nothingness. Pretty much every religion has you maintaining your consciousness, maintaining your life after death. Whether that place is good or bad, you will still be who you are, you will still have your memories and your mind. People are not afraid of dying, people are not afraid of eternal damnation; people are afraid of simply ceasing to exist. Even the prospect of spending the rest of eternity in a fiery pit of torture is more palatable for most people than simply disappearing.Never able to think, taste, see, hear, or smell for the rest of eternity.

Think about it while you still can think.

Growing Up Is Hard To Do

Today, my last official class in UP ended. I am now simply a few final exams and revisions away from graduation. My time in UP has seemingly ended with a whimper rather than a bang, but nonetheless, it has been an amazing 5 years.

I think that i've achieved a good amount of things that most any college kid should have done in their college lifetimes. I've met good people, bad people, smart people, and dumb people. I've failed a subject twice (well technically, just didn't pass the 2nd time) and I've been a university scholar for a semester. I've gone to a couple of parties and i've stayed for hours on end in the Coffeebean studying.

I've learned a lot of things in the last 5 years. But what I know, now better than ever, is that when you look back at what you accomplished in college, it won't be the medals or the certificates that you'll remember. It's the things that seem the most meaningless that matter the most. So what was awesome in my college life?

The Idiot's Guide to Contraceptives and Abortifacients

A lot of confusion about the entire RH Bill debate seems to come from a poor understanding of the terms involved. So let's try to explain this as easily as possible.

Here is how the pregnancy happens: Guy+girl+sex = orgasm. Guy's sperm travels to girl's egg. Sperm+egg = conception. Conception = life.

I hope that was clear enough for you. Surely any idiot on Earth could understand that.

Now, on the the next concept. It is impossible to abort or kill something that does not exist. That would be like me trying to kill my son. I cannot do it, simply because of the fact that he currently does not exist.

 If a girl does not get pregnant, there is nothing to kill. Girls become pregnant because? Yes, because conception happens. How does conception happen again? Sperm+egg. Sperm is not life, an egg is not life. A sperm cell and an egg cell together is life.

So, what have we learned so far? The only way to abort or kill something, is for there to be something to kill or abort in the first place, yes? You cannot kill empty space. How is does life happen? Sperm meeting egg. This is a very crucial concept you must remember. You can only kill things that exist. New things exist when sperm meets egg.