Day 2 was island hopping day.

Walking along the oval...

The weather didn't cooperate and turned cloudy just as the parade was passing by Engineering. It pains me to see how crappy the parade photos turned out.

And trees! Oh glorious trees!

School starts again tomorrow. Not yet in the bored to death with the break phase which means I'm not ready.

Going to Japan tomorrow. Will update if the hotel has internet connection. Then again, I'll insist that we stay in one with Net.

But first, I have a party tonight. It's that formal that got downgraded to a semi-formal that I was talking about. I'll practice with my new lens again.

Interesting tidbit:
Abdulla et al. "Learning Styles in First Year Students in the University of the Philippines College of Medicine." Acta Medica Philippina

Abstract
"This study determine the learning styles of first year Medical Students in the University of the Philippines College of Medicine (UPCM) through an inventory derived from Entwitles' Inventory Approach to learning. Students scores on the scales were correlated with general weighted average as a measure of academic performance. Two of the eight scales of the inventory "reproducing" and "prediction for success were significantly related to academic perfomance."

Terms
Reproduction - rote memorization
Prediction for success - highly organized study methods with versatile approach; lack of doubt or fear of failure

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The authors attribute the results with the selection of med students. They seem to hope that students change learning styles as they go through med school. I think that students use reproduction because it is the only way to survive a very competetive environment where there is little time to study. The paper is old though so I hope the CM environment is more conducive for the more preferred styles of deeper learning (see the paper).

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If they did this in CPH, they'll probably see similar results. I think it's a fault in the CPH method. Though the fourth year is better compared to the third year, memorization will still play a big part in order to pass subjects. It's not too bad for some subjects such as Med Micro but promoting memorization tests for Clinical Chemistry and Nutrition is really bad. And what is worse is that being a PH specialist demands that a person be more than a walking textbook. Critical thinking, problem-solving and being able to see the bigger picture and connect the dots (in short integrate stuff) are more important. On the other hand, a person should know much about a subject (memorize!) before doing this lest he/she makes wrong conclusions or repeat other people's mistakes.

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Good accidents...

Xmas - Birthday - Graduation wish list

Canon 50mm 1.8 lens - actually, bibilhin ko iyan pag nakaipon na ako. balik 0 ang savings ko
actually.

Canon 28-105mm 3.5-4.5 lens - hmmm... graduation gift from ninang? *evilness*

Flash Unit - kahit ano, hindi ako mapili. basta ung tatagal ng 5 years

Trabaho - ung part-time lang. kulang ang kita ko sa current "job" ko. tutor anyone?

Sci-Fi books ni Philip K Dick at Ursula LeGuinn

Sandman Graphic Novels ni Neil Gaiman - masyado siyang mahal para bilhin. Nakakapanghinayang dahil hindi naman ginto ang papel nito kahit gaano pa kaganda

Albums: Radioactive Gulaman, Space(Mishka Adams), Back to Black(Amy Winehouse)

Philippine Speculative Fiction Anthologies

Trip to Europe - hindi natuloy kasi ayaw ako payagan mag-isa at masyadong mahal kapag buong pamilya

1-2 years break before going to med school - parang masaya maging PHM

Fling - joke lang!

Caps - pref. ung sports cap in neutral or dark colors at adjustable ung size

Tennis shoes! - nagsisimula na naman sumuko ang mga sapotos ko. ang hirap maghanap ng matinong tennis shoes ah! puro reebok tuloy ang brand ng sapatos ko.

Tennis string - ang panget na ng tunog ng sweet spot ng raketa ko. samahan na rin ng bagong racquet kung mabait ang magbibigay. gawin na ring wilson dahil sobrang bait na naman niya.

Black and white... hm... interesting...

Yey vacation! Although I have that nagging feeling about our proposal... = (

Just pictures today. All are edited(curves maaaan...)

Ugh... my watermark is so ugly. I got to create a cool one.