Diploid!

I just started out doing a part-time job as a Math Tutor/Teacher for Sylvan Learning at Northridge. The location is just near my school, and pretty much after class I work for 3 hours till 7:30pm.

It's a very interesting experience, and it's nice to meet many kids, all of whom have their own interesting perspectives. One of them, perhaps a fourth-grader, just blurted out the word diploid, a basic biology term that people don't learn about till high school. He used it to describe the 5 toy bears he was playing with. I asked him what it meant, and he just said something I didn't quite understand, but I knew he did not really know what the definition was.

Because if he did know the definition, I think he'd be a genius or a child prodigy or whatever.

To those of you who are non-biology majors (and if you forgot the definition), diploid is used to describe an organism with two sets of chromosomes. We humans are diploids. On the other hand, haploid means that an organism has one set of chromosomes. Our sperm and egg cells are haploid.

What makes me wonder is from where did the kid hear the term. Hmmm....

Interesting...

Nosebleed Sessions Episode 1

*** A "Nosebleed Session" is my amateur attempt at free-writing.

This Episode's key words/phrases:
"The sun is my friend"
"Alarm clocks"
"I'm gonna be a Math Teacher"

The sun is my friend now, or perhaps we have a love/hate relationship. It's comforting to know that the sun is there to warm you up when the wind is cold. And the wind, well she has always taken me to places far away from my footsteps, faraway from reality. I have often wished for wings so that I would have more freedom to ride the wind and go to where she can take me.

Alarm clocks. Ring, ring. Wake up, coz you've been dead for so long I can smell the formalin accumulating in the air. You've been alive for so long that death is welcoming your presence and he's a constant companion. You've been asleep for so long that you don't know what's happening around you. You have no tomorrow.

Pre-calculus, Trigonometry, Fractions? High school kids, elementary? Teenagers, pre-adolescents? I'm gonna be a math teacher, and I'll start training on Tuesday. I'm pretty sure it will spark some "Charles is a math teacher!?!" and "Wow Charles you're a math teacher!" and "I thought you were going to be a doctor." Well I'm pretty darn tired of explaining again and again. I'm a premed physics graduate! I can pretty much do anything. A Ph.D. is no joke.

I'm sick and tired, but still waiting.

Waiting for an ordinary miracle... whenever that will happen, who knows?

But I'm sick and tired of having to seek it out. I'm tired of doing all the fronts and getting nothing in return.

I'm not a damsel in distress, and this I know because of two things. The first is pretty obvious: I'm a Lad, not a damsel. The second is a bit more subtle: I'm NOT in distress.

I'm contented with my life as it is now, and I know and hope that things will come and unfold themselves eventually to me. God never opens a door without closing another.

I agree with you Jom that God has plans for us, we just have to trust Him, and hope and pray.

So here's to living life day by day. Carpe Diem!

Music Television is Dead

Eversince TV was reintroduced into my life last year (after not watching TV for 2 years), I actually noticed that MTV isn't like the MTV I knew before. I've always respected MTV as something I could relate to, something that is made for my generation.

But now, it's just too extreme. Either I have become more intelligent or MTV has just become retarded.

MTV isn't Music Television anymore.

It's reality shows, stupid stupid reality shows, borderline porn, borderline insane, with just a side serving of music videos.

Sometimes, I take a moment to 'appreciate' the new shows MTV has on, but I always come to the conclusion that it's better to watch porn. I swear!

Where's all the music videos? Where's the rock and roll? I don't care about two strangers having sex in the "Intimacy Room." Why should I care? It's just sooo retarded.

This isn't artistic - it's completely cliche, and it's completely stupid.

Music Television is Dead.

I wish for Channel [V] to be a bit better, but it's not aired here.

The Damsel in Distress

Who shall save the Damsel in Distress?

1. The Jock with the Guitar

2. The Roommate

3. The Senior

4. The Sugar Daddy

5. The Vampire

6. The Incubus

7. The Random Pop-Up

8. The Travel Buddy

9. The Foreign Visitor

10. The US Marine

11. The Professor

12. The Flirtatious Stranger

13. The Guy who gives a free ride to the hitchhiker

14. The Musician

15. The Chatmate

16. The CEO

17. The Classmate

18. A Youth who is more mature compared to his peers

19. A Dark Angel

20. The Politician

21. The Activist

22. The Extremist

23. The Rocker

24. The Beach Bum

25. The Drug Addict

26. The Porn Star

27. The Callboy

28. The Artisan

29. The Cuddler

30. The Fashion Model

31. The Pimp

32. The Sexually-Charged Guy with ADHD

33. The Stalker

34. The Policeman

35. The Fireman

36. The Gay Rights Activist

37. The Feminist

38. The Bicurious Straight Boy

39. The Leather Warrior

40. The Biker

41. The Guy from the Bus

42. The Waiter

43. The Salesman

And the list goes on...