Our Pets in Pet Society

Well, it's 5:00 AM in the morning here and I haven't slept yet. You can blame it on my shifting work schedule... And I guess partially also the the Pet Society game in Facebook. :)

For about a month now, I've been combing through the difference applications there. Vampire Wars, Mafia Wars, and the like are all good. After a while, though, it gets old. I guess the dependence on the number of your friends playing this game can only do so much. Sometimes, it's stressing when you find out that people are clobbering your character all the time. And stress is not exactly why I wanted to join Facebook in the first place.

Unlike the other games, Pet Society gets high scores for me at this time. I guess the capability to interact with Che in a more... uhm... constructive way gives it that every needed boost in likeability. :) I guess doing simple things for people -- like giving a ninja suit or leaving a short note -- is all that's needed to put a smile on your face.



Che's pet's name is Jessie, named after our dog we left behind in Manila. Similarly, I named my pet after our other dog, Jessie's partner, Doggie. Yep, seriously, that's his name. :) Don't ask why! :))

The two are wearing "terno" ninja suits. We didn't actually complete the whole ninja look; the ninja facemask don't fit them very well, so we just kept the headgear casual. :)

Good morning!

Top Ten Things I learned from You on a Diet

I find "You on a Diet" one of the more unique diet books out there, in that it focuses not on the usual aspects of dieting like food, calories, exercise, and sheer willpower, but on the biology and chemistry behind the gaining and losing of weight. And it is written in layman's terms complete with cartoon drawings which, therefore tells you that this is for the common man.

Here are some of the things I learned from it so far:

10. Waistline is a better indicator of your progress -- or lack of it -- of dieting than your weight. When you lose weight, you might actually be losing muscle mass instead of fat.

09. The state of mind is half the battle. Food is the common way to combat stress, but this leads to an endless cycle. Fat Bastard in Goldmember said "I overeat because I'm sad. I'm sad because I overeat." Sounds familiar? That's why the more stressed you are, the bigger your wasteline.

08. Never get hungry! Two reasons: One, in starvation mode, the body uses less of the stored energy, aka your fat. Two, you are less likely to overeat. So don't skip meals!

07. When you feel an empty stomach, drink a glass of water first. If the hungry feeling goes away, it's actually thirst that your brain -- through bad habits, or other external factors -- interprets as hunger, which therefore tells you to eat.

06. Watch what you eat. Focus not only on reducing intake of bad cholesterol, but also on increasing intake of good cholesterol. Good cholesterol HDL helps clear the body of bad cholesterol LDL, which can only mean a good thing.

05. Walk at least thirty minutes a day. Walking is good. Do we really need to explain? Just do it, okay?

04. Muscle cells burn more calories than fat cells. Therefore, bigger muscles means lesser excess calories to worry about. So work out those biceps! :)

03. Swing diet is bad. Period. When you sum it up, chances are, you gained more weight. So do whatever it takes to prevent you from swinging.

02. Keep your hands busy. If not, you're hands find something else to do -- such as opening that candy bar which miraculously appeared inside your pocket! Turns out that playing video games tend to keep you from eating.

01. Like exercise, good sex makes you feel less hungry. The pleasure center of the brain that says you enjoyed sex is the same part that says your stomach is full; doing either satisfies it. Therefore, after sex, you are less likely to eat. Ergo, less calories that takes up residence on your belly!

Hope you're learning and enjoying at the same time while reading this.

Tiring week

Just a short post. Feels like I'm in time-travelling. I think I'm loosing more days to sleep lately.

After the end of two night shifts, twenty-four hours later, I'm back to work for a day shift. Twenty-four hours after that, I'm back one two night shifts. Then two days after that -- that would be tomorrow night -- I'll be going back for two night shifts again.

It's more difficult than it sounds.

Well, that's something I have to deal with for now.

House M. D. - Season 5 Episode 13

Dr. House: Interesting. You have your whole life ahead of you. So why would Cuddy want you to die so young...

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Dr. House: You exercise your new found power; I squirm under your thumb; resent the student becoming the teacher - then push comes to shove and we all realize what our real roles should be. And then you put out.

Dr. Cameron: So whyn did I took the job?

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Dr. House: Oh will you two stop it already!

Dr. Hadley: Stop what?

Dr. House: Disagreeing.

Dr. Hadley: Okay. Which one of us should not have an opinion.

Dr. House: It's not an opinion, it's a smoke screen. Throw out a lame idea rather than agree with Foreman's better idea because you're worried that would confirm that he's boldly gone where no man has gone before.

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Dr. Hadley: How about you just judge our ideas based on their own merit?

Dr. House: Oh you don't want me to do that!

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Sarah: I just went to my happy place...

Dr. Hadley: We cannot let House anywhere near this woman.

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Dr. Kutner: It's premature, reckless, and potentially lethal.

Dr. House: True. Must be somebody's job to keep me from being reckless and irresponsible. Nobody can stop me from being premature.

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Dr. House: And just because I call him nobody, doesn't make me a racist.

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Dr. Cameron: I'm not gonna play games. You come to me with a request that makes medical sense, I say yes.

Dr. House: ...I need oral sex... Pretty sure, biological imperative qualifies as a medical sense.

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Dr. Kutner: Then why don't we just do it?

Dr. House: Because it's premature, reckless, and potentially lethal.

Dr. Kutner: Then why don't we just.. DON'T do it?

Dr. House: Because that will let Cameron know the fact that I never intended to do it.

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Dr. House: Figured if I asked for something really crazy she'd shoot me down, get the 'I can control House' thing out of her perky little system so the next time I went to her with something only marginally crazy, it would seem marginally reasonable and she'd say 'yes.'

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Dr. Chase: You've got a point. Except for the fact that it's a load of CRAP!... Don't be an idiot...

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Dr. House: I figured a new mother brings the new baby to work 'coz she wants to listen to all the cooing... UNLESS, the new mother brings the baby to work 'coz she wants to DUMP the baby... 'Coz she HATES the baby... Think she made a BIG mistake.

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Dr. Foreman: Got a second?

Dr. Cameron: Don't be an idiot. (Foreman promptly leaves.)

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Dr. Foreman: That's not what this is. Everytime a decent person comes in, you set out prove that they have brain damage.

Dr. House: I never said her deranged personality was a symptom.

Dr. Foreman: You don't need to. In your five years, I can hear your thoughts from my apartment.

Slight pause...

Dr. House: Can you hear me now?

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Dr. House: The brain's like the internet; packets of information constantly flowing from one area to another. Plaque in her brain from MS is like a bad server; cuts off the flow.

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Dr. House: We could settle this with rock, paper, scissors. But, unfortunately, there are people who adjudicate these disputes.

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Dr. House: I'm the last person you'd ever come to for ethical advice... LITERALLY... which means you've already asked every other person. No one's given you the answer you want.

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Dr. House: Has she invited any of her lesbian friends into bed with you?

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Dr. House: So, pros are: you might delay the onset of symptoms. Give her an extra year, maybe three. She's still dead before your forty-five. Question is, are those few years worth risking the rest of your life for medicine?

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Dr. House: Unless you love her... If you love her, you do stupid things...

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Dr. Wilson: Right now, she's just this weird little creature that sleeps, and poops, and cries. But that is who she's gonna be. You will be teaching her how to ride a bike, giving her advice about friends, and school, and getting her heart broken. She'll ignore most of it but some of them will stick. You're gonna be there for her through all of that. You just have to get through this part. That's all.

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Dr. House: Can't give you the proof you want because it's trapped in her head, and the only way I can get at it is to cut it open and rip it out. Which is apparently the one test you won't let me run. So either I do this or I do nothing.

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Dr. House: I'm skipping steps because our patient is skipping steps on her way to being dead.

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Dr. House: If this doesn't work, her spleen is all yours... Unless I kill her of course.

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Dr. House: My old boss. And by 'old' I don't mean 'former.

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Dr. House: Our patient loves all things annoying... She's the earth mother, takes in the rejects and freaks of humanity and tells them they're A-okay. What was different?

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Dr. House: You decided to keep her. Thank you for telling me. You can go now.

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Dr. House: And by the way, your hips maybe an evolutionary improvement.

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Dr. House: So we've evolve to find baby puke cute. 'Coz otherwise, we'd kill them all before they become functional.

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Dr. House: Good news is, we can fix the heart. Bad news for the annoying kids...