Spanish designer Oscar Diaz has designed a calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date.

Each month, a bottle of coloured ink spreads across a sheet of paper embossed with numbers, colouring them in as it goes. "Ink Calendar" make use the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time. Simply genius!

The bracelet has such a cool concept — you record any message on the company website, and the soundwaves from the words become the bead design on the bracelet!

Hi blog, and hi friends!

Been a while since we last spoke ah? I know, I know, I've been ignoring you. I confess I've been much more interested in input more than output these weeks (reading, not writing). I've also been into a new blog, an anonymous one feels much more personal, don't you think?

As for the title, I think it's I who feels new, everything I look at becomes fresh. It's a very nice feeling, like nothing can go wrong.

I hope you'll still here when I feel the need to be back. :o)

xoxo

Haha, wag na, Apple! Come out with the tablet nalang!

You attach a transmitter, smaller than a deck of cards, to your sound source, then synch the 'earbuds.'  Comes in a pocket-sized case that will recharge while on the road.

Ok, a very pahinga rotation for me, Family Medicine. I get to hang out in a classroom, do some research work. I have to go to different communities and be nice to the barangayfolk, dole out medical advice. It's... idyllic in theory, and not too bad in practice either.

The best part though, no duty for me! Yay!! I get to go home everyday for 6 out of the 8 weeks, and WEEKENDS OFF!!! :o))) I was delirious with the freedom for the first week, I got to go to a club again and spent some time at home, home-cooking yay!

And since this rotation encompasses the holidays, I get the holidays off too. Ah, icing on the cake, how sweet you are...

Unfortunately, my friends aren't as free as I am. :o( so i've had to find fun things to do on my own. I've been drinking a bit more now, bought some DVDs for some quality time with myself, haha is that an oxymoron?

Of course 3 out of the 4 DVDs I bought weren't working, so I was stuck watching Grey's Anatomy, Season Shittier Than Ever. Why, oh why did I even buy that DVD!!

It romanticizes the entire medical career - med school, internship, residency.  Us out here in the real world have our expectations so skewed by this prototype medical show, and when one tastes the real thing... One is caught off guard. So much venom, so many explosions! None of that life-saving drama, none of the romanticism!

I have to slap myself for buying into any of it. Pero para bang, it was not a conscious decision for me to believe that stuff, I've just been accosted with that particular brand of propaganda for so many years. I have to say, I blame myself. I'm ashamed *I* got caught off guard.

Ugh, I even know some people who say shit like, "It's a good day to save a life," or quote other taglines from that evil, evil show.  And everyone from my med school has at least Grey's Anatomy and House listed under 'favorite TV shows' on friendster.

Gosh... I have so much time on my hands I drive my own self bananas!

I have to remind myself, this very pahinga rotation is great for me, I wouldn't think to complain at all.  Enough with the fist in the air, righteousness in the heart. Haha. Enough!


I also started another blog this week, a music blog. It's been keeping me busy, and I find this curious satisfaction working on it, I really hope to meet more people who appreciate dance/electro music.

music: van she - kelly (lifelike remix) tags: clerk, clerkship, family med, grey's anatomy

Last night as I was about to go take a shower, a cockroach flew into my room. I jumped up and out of the room, and I was peeking through the slightly ajar door to see where the cockroach was perched.

It was one of those huge cockroaches, the ones that fly really fast and make slight noises. It was on top of my mirror, and the light from the lamp was making the cockroach's shadow look even huger. I could see the outline of its wings, and those two whisker-like things on its head were freaking me out!

I  couldn't go have my shower because I left my nice body wash in the room (its this thing with me, using nice body wash before a party). So i just stood there peeking, watching it transfer from the mirror to the lamp, and after a few minutes I grabbed the closest throw-able thing and flung it at the lamp and slammed the door shut.

As I was leaning with my back against the door and panting for air, I thought to myself 'putanginang buhay to, here i am, i can't even take a shower, and the christmas party I'm about to go to is probably gonna suck pretty bad anyway, and the afterparty gimik i have planned isn't a thing that excites me, mostly because i'm not in the mood to meet anyone, because hooking up is far from what i plan to do, and what i used to look forward to dati, the good music, is no more because the music sucked the last two times i was there...'

And then I thought to myself 'you know, i have a drawer-ful of valium, and if I choose so, I can just kill myself right now, and then I won't be faced with this stupid cockroach problem, and both the party and the afterparty will no longer suck because it won't be my problem anymore!'

I want to emphasize that I wasn't thinking of killling myself in any sort of drama, I was just thinking of it matter-of-factly na hey, if I choose so, these things will no longer be a problem for me.

FYI I killed the cockroach minutes later by repeatedly hitting it with my tsinelas, and then I cackled, took a shower, got dressed and went out.

music: hercules & love affair - blind tags: christmas, is it just me, random days

So maybe i can't listen to 8-bit music, but I would so wear this tie haha!
The future is gonna be more and more plastic/polymer, mark my words.

EDIT: it's not actually plastic! :o)

music: david rubato - circuit (aeroplane remix) tags: 8-bit, i want

It's a polymer wallet, so it doesn't get all bendy from being sat on. A hard encasement so that your cards don't get mangled. Hmmm... I wonder how well that'll work.




And it's waterproof! Dunno what function that serves, but what the hey.

music: pehrson & torbjorn - geared up tags: i want, me me me

Fuck. It's just beginning to hit me that I'm nearly done with med school.

The thought in itself is kinda scary. I think i'll kinda miss... the whole experience.

music: relation - your tiny mind (lifelike mix) tags: is it just me

I think I'll forever resent med school for forcing me to grow up...

music: taken by cars - neon brights tags: fuck you med school

I wonder what "fixed" feels like, and how it happens.