Destressing Time & An Actor’s Diet
Sep 1st
So I’m sitting at home with my cat MoChiiro in my lap. I’m currently wondering what to do with myself tonight. I was supposed to have an epidemiology exam tomorrow, but it was moved to next week, so I’m kind of free tonight since we don’t have any exams until next week.
Got my surgery test grade back from one of my professors. I did pretty well actually and because we were awarded some bonus points I scored a little higher. Really happy about that… and it was great because that’s how my day ended. 
After classes today I went with my friends Larra and Chat to the Student Union building to play some ping-pong with our newly acquired racquets (I had bought her one for her birthday a few days ago)! We stayed there for about 2 hours just playing non-stop before calling it a quits. I was tired, but we had lots of fun!
Now I’m wondering what to do with my time. I don’t really feel like opening a book tonight since that’s all I’ve been doing all of this week. I guess I will just make myself some tea and see if any of my friends have any plans. If not, I will just take this night to relax I suppose. It’s raining outside and I guess it’s not the right weather to go out. Haha…
Lynn Chen, writer of "The Actor's Diet"
Anyway, hope you guys are doing well. Before I go though, let me redirect you to a blog that I’ve recently started reading called “The Actor’s Diet”. It’s written by one of my favorite Asian American actresses, Lynn Chen (star of “Saving Face” and “People I’ve Slept With”). She talks about balancing her food habits with life, as she’s struggled with dieting as an actor. It’s actually a pretty interesting read. She takes pictures of almost everything she eats and updates the blog quite frequently. I love what she does to eat healthy, and I’m trying to do the same. Check it out if you have a chance!
Take care guys! Have fun doing whatever you’re doing.
We Ride
Aug 31st
Yes, we will continue to ride and ride until the journey ends. Was just listening to the track by Tommy Park from JYPe that was done for the opening of the Wonder Girls TV series. It’s an interesting song… and it goes along with a cooly edited video.
I feel like I’ve just been grinding each and everyday. When I say that I kind of mean that I feel like I’m still recovering from something. Even though I had the pleasure of enjoying a three-day weekend, it still didn’t seem like enough time to recover from everything. I still feel like there’s too much to do and too little time and I’m worried that things will catch up to me. There’s still too much to do… I feel inundated with things. So I’m feeling a little stressed.
I’ve resulted in watching some YouTube videos. Here’s a cool one of my brother who actually won a contest in Coney Island, NY a few weeks ago. Check it out. The guy definitely has moves.
(Video is courtesy of Brooklyn Theory)
Well I still got stuff to do but will actually destress a little bit. Gonna go do some cardio for a bit, read for a bit and then sleep. Tomorrow we have a slightly big lab to finish up in Physiology class.
Catch you guys later! xD
A Rainy Day
Aug 25th
We’re definitely in the middle of monsoon season here in the Philippines. It is raining cats and dogs outside, really.
It’s funny when I talk to my friends here and they talk about seasons. I’m from New York, so whenever I hear seasons I automatically think “Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter”. Here in the Philippines, it’s “Summer and Rainy Season”. I don’t know… I thought that was pretty interesting. ^_^
Oh, I got a cool jersey today! A few weeks ago the Lady Vet org asked me if I wanted a special dry-fit polo jersey with a name and number. So I got one and it looks like this:
Oh also, I examined a dog that was in mid-estrus two days ago. One of my lab mates had found a metestral cell though, which is pretty interesting because you see a neutrophil inside a non-cornified cell. Here’s what it looks like:
Interesting huh? This is what you’ll see in a female dog (bitch) when she’s in the metestrus stage of the estrous cycle. This is pretty confirmatory that she was in that stage at that time of examination.
Anyway, I should get started with some thesis literature review stuff. If I didn’t mention it already, my thesis will be focused on the ultrasound of Southeast Asian box turtles (Cuora amboinensis). I’ll specifically be focusing on the heart and will be running echocardiograms on them. Cool, huh?
Well, I’ll be back to post later. Take care peeps!
