random thoughts

i have been contemplating on what to write on my blog. I haven't been doing much for the past few days... Nothing interesting has popped unto my restless brain. I usually have a lot of ideas pouring out of my head that I can't decide which one to focus on but for some unknown reason I am out of topics today. Maybe I'm excited that Grey's Anatomy Season 3 has finally started that I can't bear the excitement. I am a big fan of Addison... Not that I think she's the victim in the story but I adore her character. Strong, brilliant and fearless. Total girl power. Her aura exudes what women today should have. Commanding and authoritative. Loved it. I know that there are a lot of Meredith fans out there but I just love Addison Shepherd. Hehehe... I'm starting to sound like a tv critic.

I'm going on vacation this coming October. I'll be going to the beach for 5 days. Wow! 5 days of sand and sun. I've been looking forward to this for the past 6 months. And i just got regularized on my job. Time flies so fast even if your bored you know. Even if you count each hour by the minute that passes by, it's still fast. I haven't gone on vacation for this year. I deserve the time to relax and not think of work for 5days. Drink, party and relax. Meet some cute boys... yeah.. definitely meet some boys. hahahahhaha... someone interesting. I no longer meet interesting guys. There's a shortage of appealing and fascinating guys in my circle. My friends excluded, of course.

I can't write about anything worthy today. I'll try to think again. Maybe I'll get the motivation to blog about something. or maybe write about nothing but crap again.

A little something from my current favorite show: "Grey's Anatomy"

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

fairy tales

“You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.” (Grey’s Anatomy)

I was never one of those kids who got really hooked with fairy tales. I knew that there are fairy tales entitled Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella and Snow White and Goldilocks but I never really put myself in their shoes. I knew that they were just stories to make us feel good about life and its shortcomings. I know that we can dream and dreams make life exciting because when you dream, you actually have something to look forward to. We always hope that our dreams can somehow come true.

Most of my friends always tell me that my prince will come along when you least expect it or something like, your prince might be just around the corner, and you haven’t seen him. Why must we refer to him as the “prince”, why not refer to him as “the frog”. Tagging him the prince is very fairy tale, do guys look for their “princess” to save from the wicked queen? I don’t think so, but we girls look for our princes to sweep us off our feet. Ironic?

Now, how many price charming can we meet in a lifetime? According to Charlotte York of Sex and the City, we get 2 great loves in a lifetime. According to Elizabeth Taylor, hmnn… I don’t know, all I know is that she had a lot of princes. According to Madam Auring, our prince charming doesn’t have to be older than us, he can be a minor too. Our prince charming can come in different sizes, generation and packaging. And they may come in numbers too. One at a time, two at a time, bring it on genie!

Some girls don’t even want prince charming but prefer princess charming. Now, that’s an idea. Maybe having a princess charming is even better, right? I haven’t really thought about that though. I just know that I have girl friends whom are happy because they found love not with a prince charming but a princess dressed like a prince. As long as they’re happy, I’m happy for them.

We have different stories to tell, you have yours and I have mine. My fairy tale might have been finished a couple of years ago but who knows there might be a spin off or a sequel, or a season 2, can go as far as season 10, right? Or my fairy tale might have not even started yet, maybe I’m one of those late blooming princesses. Or perhaps, my story is currently a blank page and is unwritten, maybe waiting for a really good writer to start it up.

“At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.” – Meredith Grey

the stupidity of the human race

As I heard Dr. Bailey said these words in Grey’s Anatomy, it struck me as odd that we, as the “supposedly” highest form of living things in this place we call Earth are stupid. I thought it was funny… even more amusing because as I thought about it and serenely contemplated, the more I was convinced that we are indeed stupid.

We all seem to suffer from a chronic illness called “stupidity”. We learn a lot of things as we grow old and these things are supposed to guide us on life’s struggles but we always manage to look like dim-witted individuals.

First law of human stupidity according to carlo m. cipolla,

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

a. People who we once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid

Need I explain more? This is like the best example right? Have we ever seen a very smart woman with a stupid guy? Well, we often see smart men with dumb women. So, it’s a matter of choosing. So I guess women choose better in this aspect. Let’s give the guys some respect in this aspect, if they think that big breasts are enough, who are we to judge? If the guys appreciate beauty more than they deem intelligence important, so be it. Let them be stupid in that aspect. Women swoon over handsome and hunky guys too, apparently, we just don’t think that being handsome is enough, though sometimes I really think looks are vital. I mean I don’t know if I can kiss a really ugly but smart guy. Attraction is important too, right? Yeah, I know. I’m shallow. I want to have it all, I want a smart and good looking guy, who doesn’t? Can you just imagine yourself waking up beside a smart but ugly guy? I’d like to imagine waking up beside a really handsome guy. =)

The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

In this aspect, Nature was said to have outdone herself. It doesn’t matter if you’re a girl or a boy, black or white. The frequency of having equal probability is high. You will find the same percentage of the stupid people in a large group or in a small group. It is quite a phenomenon.

It doesn’t matter where you studied, what major you took up, where you were raised or how you look. You always meet the same percentage of stupid people wherever you are (which will always surpass your expectations).

My favorite law :

Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals.
In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

If you are not stupid, it will take time before you realize that you actually did a stupid thing. =)

Remember :
A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.
A bandit’s objective is to simply get wealth for himself while stupid people, it’s a completely different story, stupid people cause losses to other people with no gains on their part thus leaving society impoverished.

We all act stupid. We all have our episodes and sometimes it’s just funny to be stupid, but consistently acting stupid is totally not.

Seriously? Seriously!

When Bailey mentioned the stupidity of human race… It all goes back to the fact that we can all be “sometimes” stupid…

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein

With excerpts from The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by carlo m. cipolla