{"id":1522,"date":"2011-03-01T20:32:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2014-11-19T08:59:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:59:56","slug":"the-elusive-test-less-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"The Elusive Test-Less Week(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is upon me!  I can&#8217;t believe it!  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost the end of the semester and I can&#8217;t believe that I have 2 weeks coming up which won&#8217;t have exams in them.  I&#8217;m really happy, but I still have to read a bunch of things for my Radiology, Canine &#038; Feline Medicine, Zoonoses and Equine Medicine Courses.  As much as it seems like I have tons of time on my hands since I only have class most days for a few hours, the exams are extremely difficult.  So difficult in fact, that I&#8217;m not really taking my chances with the ones coming up since it&#8217;s the last few before finals week.  Gotta make it count!<\/p>\n<p>This past Friday I had an amazing experience going on my Poultry junior clinic duty. I usually don&#8217;t have an affinity for poultry&#8230; I mean, I don&#8217;t mind working with them, but I don&#8217;t see myself being in the poultry business in the future, so I was kind of disinterested in going to clinics and not expecting anything. We were scheduled to go to a few gamefowl farms (farms that raise chickens for cockfighting, which is still legal here in the Philippines) and so definitely was not very enthralled at the idea. <\/p>\n<p>But take a look at this!<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_4053\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/072a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4053\" src=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/072a.jpg\" alt=\"Wow\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4053\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/072a.jpg 563w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/072a-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/072a-534x400.jpg 534w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/072a-344x257.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wow<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And this!<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_4054\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/070a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4054\" src=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/070a.jpg\" alt=\"Amazing\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4054\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/070a.jpg 563w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/070a-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/070a-534x400.jpg 534w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/070a-344x257.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Got to see a bit of this too&#8230;<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_4055\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/002a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4055\" src=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/002a.jpg\" alt=\"What a big rooster!\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4055\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/002a.jpg 563w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/002a-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/002a-534x400.jpg 534w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/002a-344x257.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What a big rooster!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And this&#8230;<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_4056\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/025a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4056\" src=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/025a.jpg\" alt=\"Hen &amp; Chicks\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4056\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/025a.jpg 563w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/025a-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/025a-534x400.jpg 534w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/025a-344x257.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hen &#038; Chicks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can tell that I was pleasantly surprised.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_4057\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/075a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4057\" src=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/075a.jpg\" alt=\"Amazing View\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4057\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/075a.jpg 563w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/075a-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/075a-534x400.jpg 534w, http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/075a-344x257.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazing View<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anyway, the pictures really say a lot. The farms we went to were 12 and 7 hectacres respectively.  Both in Lucban in Quezon Province which is 1 1\/2 hours by car from our college.  We left at around 7:30am and got back at around 5pm.  It was a long day but it was totally worth it.  Got to learn that poultry (especially the gamefowl industry) has a lot of things that go into it.  The production, the different birds, the profits made and the raising and selling of them were all pretty intricate. I learned a lot and this trip just made me realize that I am still surprised at how fascinated I am by some things in the animal world.  <\/p>\n<p>Guess this is why I decided to study veterinary medicine, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Besides that, this weekend I got to go back to Fort Bonifacio and then was able to meet up with some friends to go salsa dancing and clubbing a bit.  I&#8217;m really starting to get into salsa, and I&#8217;m thinking of taking some lessons.  It&#8217;s a great way to meet people and get talking.  I met some really cool people this weekend and hope that I get to do more mingling with people soon.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s all I have to update for now.  Let&#8217;s hope the near future has some more cool experiences in store for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is upon me! I can&#8217;t believe it! It&#8217;s almost the end of the semester and I can&#8217;t believe that I have 2 weeks coming up which won&#8217;t have exams in them. I&#8217;m really happy, but I still have to read a bunch of things for my Radiology, Canine &#038; Feline Medicine, Zoonoses and Equine Medicine Courses. As much as it seems like I have tons of time on my hands since I only have class most days for a few hours, the exams are extremely difficult. So difficult in fact, that I&#8217;m not really taking my chances with the ones coming up since it&#8217;s the last few before finals week. Gotta make it count! This past Friday I had an amazing experience going on my Poultry junior clinic duty. I usually don&#8217;t have an affinity for poultry&#8230; I mean, I don&#8217;t mind working with them, but I don&#8217;t see myself being in the poultry business in the future, so I was kind of disinterested in going to clinics and not expecting anything. We were scheduled to go to a few gamefowl farms (farms that raise chickens for cockfighting, which is still legal here in the Philippines) and so definitely was not very enthralled at the idea. But take a look at this! And this! Got to see a bit of this too&#8230; And this&#8230; You can tell that I was pleasantly surprised. Anyway, the pictures really say a lot. The farms we went to were 12 and 7 hectacres respectively. Both in Lucban in Quezon Province which is 1 1\/2 hours by car from our college. We left at around 7:30am and got back at around 5pm. It was a long day but it was totally worth it. Got to learn that poultry (especially the gamefowl industry) has a lot of things that go into it. The production, the different birds, the profits made and the raising and selling of them were all pretty intricate. I learned a lot and this trip just made me realize that I am still surprised at how fascinated I am by some things in the animal world. Guess this is why I decided to study veterinary medicine, eh? Besides that, this weekend I got to go back to Fort Bonifacio and then was able to meet up with some friends to go salsa dancing and clubbing a bit. I&#8217;m really starting to get into salsa, and I&#8217;m thinking of taking some lessons. It&#8217;s a great way to meet people and get talking. I met some really cool people this weekend and hope that I get to do more mingling with people soon. Anyway, that&#8217;s all I have to update for now. Let&#8217;s hope the near future has some more cool experiences in store for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[293,229,252,292,291,294],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fvs","tag-cockfighting","tag-farm","tag-fort-bonifacio","tag-gamefowl","tag-poultry","tag-salsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}