share stories. empower ourselves.

everytime i take a health class
im pressured to write
what good is a story if not shared?

so this girl went to a gynecologist
dressed down. legs high up.
doctor walks in, takes the covering sheet away.
oops, she forgot her lamp.
doctor walks out, leaving the door wide wide open.
everything between the legs is shown to the world.
legs high up for another 5 dreadful minutes
doctor comes back
ahh, she has her lamp.
no apology, of course.

what the hell?!

stop complaining.

Lately I have been quite depressed. I whine about having too long a to-do-list while stressing out on upcoming papers and exams. I question why people say the time in college is the best time of life, a worry-free honeymoon. Indulging in this misery I conclude that being a successful college student away from home requires superpowers.

Unending applications, numerous deadlines are of course nerve racking;but attending classes, finishing homework, passing exams are not enough, grabbing all extra credit opportunities, striving for good GPAs and fighting for a spot in the Dean's List are basics, how about extra-curricular activities and community service for building the resume? part-time jobs for the desparate extra cash? what about the necessary networking, healthy socializing and checking my facebook? we are not on a one-man's land. Oh, should I cook or dine out? My 2-week-old laundry needs to be done, and I haven't done my weekly vacuuming and that toilet bowl is crying out to me! Ah, and don't forget to call home.

From personal psychological growth to meeting the realistic economic social needs all cramped together, but you only have 24 hours a day 7 days a week and the next semester is only weeks away and the next thing you know you are planning a very fruitful, not necessarily pleasurable, summer.

Today, when I slowed down and stopped frowning, I see the sun shining, the smile on my professor's wrinkled face, I think about what I am doing and what I may achieve and I remember why I picked my courses, why I chose this life. I appreciate what I have, I enjoy life, I smile.

Take the time to step back and stop complaining.

p.s. God gave us lips and tongues to praise Him and say good things( :

better lives make us worse?

The maintanence guys in my apartment building are really nice, friendly, helpful, though old and uneducated.
I say to myself, isn't it too bad that these people were unfortunate not to have a chance to go to school and have a better job? because at school or work, people we meet are not like them, I'd love if they are the people I deal with.
But, then I think, maybe it's because they have never had a chance to be at institutions like we do that kept them unconteminated, pure and simple.
They might not be the same if their lives were different.

How much has the interactions with aggressive, competitive people and system corrupted us?
Why is it the higher we climb the more we forget about the basics and where we come from?

It is time to step back, to observe, to evaluate who we have become and compare it to who we want to be.

media. teen pregnancy.

(image from abcnews.com)

so the younger Spears is pregnant while claiming that kids should wait and not have premarrital sex. i guess she just didnt want to wait till 21 to lose her virginity, as that would be "too late", right?

it is a good time to talk about what message is being sent. GMA brought it up, i didnt, that abstinence-only sex ed does not work, on the other hand, people who learn earlier in life about this important life experience, knowing the consequences, will delay and use protection if they choose to have sex.

a report also emphasized the fact that young 16-yr-old Spears met the father of her baby, who's 18 (only) at a CHURCH. what, again, is implied?

losing virginity "LATE"

this was in the news:

Losing Virginity Later Linked to Sexual Problems

Those Who Have Sex Later, Particularly Men, Seem to Experience More Sexual Dysfunction

By DAN CHILDS
ABC News Medical Unit

Nov. 29, 2007 —

"Those who lose their virginity at a later age -- around 21 to 23 years of age"

21-23 is LATE. wonderful.

sexuality is a life long experience as I explained in previous posts, and like mentioned in the article, abstinence-only education does not work statistically in preventing teen/unwanted pregnancy. People should be taught about their sexuality and know consequences of unprotected sex.
But as a Christian, I wonder what our society has become. are we encouraging "early"/premarital sex?

maryknoll

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http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/tv/hkgstories2007/20071029.html

"瑪利諾畢業生都患上了嚴重的<瘋狂愛校症>"

everyone is quoting and posting this.
it hurts that im still not over it.
i'd say its the negativity of mcs that shaped my positivity.
i's admit i love the school, but i've experienced too much of its darker side.
having been away for two years, u hope things have changed for the better.

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