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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Happy Birthday (Part Two)
For those who wondered why there was a “Part One” included in my previous post, read on here to find out why. 😉
Happy Birthday (Part One)
It’s February 18 today, and I’m happy. And it’s a big deal.
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| With Daddy (beaming with pride, I believe!) on my wedding day (January 6, 2001). |
You see, it’s my Dad’s birthday, and today I remember him with happiness in my heart, instead of sorrow and grief. This day is unlike the previous birthdays which had been punctuated by sadness and longing for the man who left us some four years ago. This day, I feel more alive than ever, and grateful that he had been a part of my life.
Had he been alive today, he would have been 69.
Compatibility Test for Bloggers?
Well, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and as they say, “love is in the air.” 🙂 Of course, come February 14, in Japan it would be women giving out chocolates to men, not the other way around. Years after living in this country, I still find this to be a rather strange custom. And I’ve never handed out chocolates to anyone, not even my own husband. But I’m sure he understands. He has gotten chocolates from the secretaries in his lab group, by the way. 😉
What Cartoon Character Am I?
Speaking of cartoon characters, I think I’d like to be Bubbles of Powerpuff Girls. Soft and cute but could knock ’em monsters down. 🙂
Found this interesting meme about personalities and cartoon characters at Bernard Chan’s blog.
Intro to the tag :
Everyone has a personality of a cartoon character. Have you ever asked yourself what cartoon character you most resemble? Apparently, a group of investigators got together and analyzed the personalities of well-known, modern cartoon characters. The information that was gathered was made into this test.
Rules of the game :
Answer all the questions (only 10) with what describes you best, add up all your points (which are next to the answer that you choose) at the end and look for your results.
Okay, here goes :
Misconceptions
Sometime ago, I asked Aya if she knew exactly what kind of work we do. Turned out that she didn’t. So I told her: “We’re scientists. You know, I do experiments everyday, just like the experiments we do at home. Tatay does stuffs on the computer. We’re both hakase.” Hakase (??) refers to someone who holds a doctorate. Aya knows this word because she watches Powerpuff Girls on TV, so I thought I’d use the word to give her an idea. In the cartoon series, the girls refer to Prof. Utonium as “hakase.”
Aya laughed out loud and said: “Eh? Hakase si Tatay? Ikaw rin? Pano ka naging hakase eh babae ka?” (What? Dad is a PhD? And you too? How could you be one when you’re a woman?)
Thanks a lot to the people who created Powerpuff Girls. You’ve inadvertently given my daughter the erroneous idea that for someone to be called Dr. or hakase, that someone has to be a man. But for now, I’ll reserve my rants about gender issues in another blog entry.Â
I couldn’t forget that incident, because it illustrated perfectly how many of our misconceptions could start early on in our lives, no thanks to the crap that we are inevitably fed by the media, friends and families, the very environment we grow up in. The images we see on TV or movies are very powerful in influencing our perception of so many things. (Image taken from www.tv.com)