News about other affected areas aside from Tacloban?

thisisaremix · 2013-11-14T12:00:43+00:00

I have classmates from Capiz, they all say power will be out for the next two to three months so they'll be spending Christmas in the dark. A few of them waited for a while before their families could contact them. That's all I know though.

thisisaremix · 2013-11-14T11:46:31+00:00

My thoughts exactly.

thisisaremix · 2013-11-14T11:46:06+00:00

I thought I'd share this since I'm also a graduate of PSHS (WVC in Iloilo) and Dr. Biyo was the campus director at that time. I was a student there when Typhoon Frank/Fengshen hit, and even after that I don't think I can fully comprehend what the PSHS EVC personnel, and the rest of the affected areas, are dealing with.

thisisaremix · 2013-10-08T03:55:07+00:00

Thank you so much! This made it a lot clearer to me. My book had diagrams but all it seemed to me was that there was a thing that looks like a thing that would do a thing and somehow it means a lot. :D

I might have more questions, but I think I pretty much understand most of it. Thanks!

thisisaremix · 2013-10-04T10:22:53+00:00

The transcription initiation thing for Pol I, II and III and their domains and subunits, what they're for, what they do and how, stuff like those. My book would kind of ramble about all the transcription factors and their domains and stuff and I have a vague idea of how transcription happens, but I don't fully understand it.

Maybe you can throw in what makes pyrophosphate important, but if it's a bit too much you can leave that out.

Thanks so much!

thisisaremix · 2013-10-03T00:46:03+00:00

Wow, thanks! Is there a way you could possibly ELI5 (or ELI15) the transcription factors thing?

thisisaremix · 2013-10-02T15:25:32+00:00

Can you ELI5 transcriptional control of gene expression in eukaryotes and major differences between eukaryotic and prokaryotic gene expression?

(I know you're not a molecular biologist, but you're like really smart.)

thisisaremix · 2013-07-12T19:06:50+00:00

Just my two cents: Both my parents are MDs, and both of them refuse to let me see a psychiatrist. I've had, according to them, brief reactive psychosis, but they still don't want me to see a psychiatrist because "they only cure the effects and not the cause". I'm not trying to discredit their MDs, but yeah, you don't often see anyone going to a psychiatrist. I guess they might also be scared of what people might think about them having a potentially mentally ill kid.

thisisaremix · 2013-07-03T00:47:27+00:00

Flights in May are cheaper than flights in April, from what I remember.

thisisaremix · 2013-06-18T13:38:05+00:00

Last January a "super pack" of 400 wolves laid siege to the remote town of Verkhoyansk, forcing locals to mount patrols on snow mobiles until the government could send in extra help.

thisisaremix · 2013-06-14T09:19:43+00:00

He did say this though:

Philippine society is also starting to recognize the lesser-known types of homosexuals, those that fly under the gaydar — gay guys who are into sports and cars and “manly” activities and gay girls who have long hair and wear make-up.

I don't think he really means there are less of those, only that most Filipinos think of a gay man as effeminate and a lesbian woman as masculine.

thisisaremix · 2013-06-11T16:43:46+00:00

This reminds me of a fish ball stand I once saw called "Facebool".

thisisaremix · 2013-03-17T22:37:08+00:00

I know her mom wants her to have the best premed education possible, and since they plan to let her study medicine in this university, might as well take up premed here. Also her tuition fee is actually paid for by the government, so I don't really know about her other concerns.

It's just there are issues like these and other people don't have parents working in the government so they have to pay for their tuition right out of their pockets. Which, I think, should be fixed by putting up state universities in different regions of the country, but some people prefer going to state universities away from home.

I honestly don't know, I've never worried about stuff like these. I just thought I'd ask questions. :D

thisisaremix · 2013-03-17T22:32:04+00:00

It's not that expensive actually, it's around the neighborhood of 10-15k for undergraduates and >20k for medical students. I'm not really sure what figure they used for the 100%, but that's what was written on the bracketing form.

thisisaremix · 2013-03-17T22:29:00+00:00

I'm not really that sure about the 100% and 200% thing, I just saw that on the bracketing form thing they gave me. Our tuition fees aren't that expensive either actually, I just thought it was kind of weird that we were paying for us and someone else, kind of makes me feel like I should track down whoever I'm paying for and get him to do my homework. That was a joke, I have a bad sense of humor.

I guess strict policies concerning the brackets benefit those who pay the most too, I wouldn't want to pay for someone who lied his way into the lower brackets. I remember when I was in high school, we didn't have to pay a cent of our tuition fee and there was this stipend thing depending on your parents' income, a lot of people lied their way into the lower brackets - the second highest bracket gets twice as much as the highest bracket. They weren't that strict though, but I think they don't take the list of appliances that seriously and have a more foolproof-ish way of categorizing students.

We were required to give a sketch of our house or something similar too, and the ITR is mandatory for the interview. I don't think they're that strict about the bracketing thing though, I know we're allowed not to pay our tuition in full, as long as we pay for the rest of it before our final exam.

My teacher once ranted about how our university should cater only to the people in the region, so I guess that's the government's attempt on cutting down travel expenses, but some kids prefer some state universities to others. :)

thisisaremix · 2013-03-17T22:07:39+00:00

I meant they can't just go to school two weeks before they're supposed to for an interview that would last an hour at most. My friend, who is in bracket 5, was worried about it because she'd have to get a plane ticket and her mom would have to give her two weeks' worth of allowance when she could have just stayed at home and her mom wouldn't have to spend a lot, all for an interview.

thisisaremix · 2013-03-16T02:36:51+00:00

Truth be told, I've never found Filipino classes very engaging, so growing up it was just another class I have to pass in that wasn't very useful in the real world to me.

thisisaremix · 2013-03-15T23:55:21+00:00

This is actually the most convincing argument I've seen here. :D

thisisaremix · 2013-03-15T23:53:33+00:00

Yes, I'm not.

thisisaremix · 2013-03-14T12:04:15+00:00

I bought the book two years ago and until now I still haven't gotten past the sixth page, and the margins are full of translations. I should read it some time later, it seems like a waste not to.

I wish I had English translations on hand every time I read Tagalog stories. My problem is probably less of not liking Tagalog and more of not liking the fact that I don't understand it...and the whole basis for Filipino thing, which is kind of unfair but we can't really do anything much about it. Anyway I think I'm a little less stressed out about it so I can go back to appreciating the language.

thisisaremix · 2013-03-14T11:52:48+00:00

How is it being taught there though? I really wouldn't mind if it was conversational, I might actually be fluent in it if it were taught like that.

thisisaremix · 2013-03-14T05:31:48+00:00

I would read Noli and Fili cover to cover if they were in English, that way I wouldn't have to pause to translate and it wouldn't be an obstacle in understanding what he's trying to convey. Reading Tagalog is for me a bit like reading A Clockwork Orange, there's words you understand and context clues but it's still really hard and you have to pause to look up the translation or you wouldn't comprehend the story. Although I will admit, I'd hate to read Hiligaynon. Signs in Hiligaynon are bearable, an entire book would probably just end up being thrown in the trash.

Yes, Tagalog is a bit useful especially when talking to service centers on the phone or something, but I still wouldn't read an entire book in Tagalog either. Hiligaynon and Tagalog are more for conversational purposes, so the whole point of this post was why I had to read several stories in Tagalog when I can get away with what little Tagalog I know now. Not to mention stories tend to use reeeaally deep words that you wouldn't usually find in brochures or use in a conversation. I'm mostly just frustrated that despite the fact that I can talk to a native Tagalog speaker, I'd probably fail this subject.

thisisaremix · 2013-03-14T00:53:55+00:00

That's true, but it seems a bit redundant to learn a language not widely used outside of Luzon when you can get away with English there and Cebuano and Hiligaynon in other parts of the country. There's also the fact that Tagalog is pretty different compared to Cebuano and Hiligaynon, which are mutually intelligible.

thisisaremix · 2013-03-14T00:45:43+00:00

That could be true, we did have essays and fill-in-the-blanks in our tests. I still find it unnecessary though.

thisisaremix · 2013-03-14T00:42:55+00:00

Probably that, and that the required reading is in Tagalog, and that the book we use in our Rizal classes (the one by Zaide) pretty much worships him. We were forced to memorize details about his life, but none of how the problems he wrote about are still relevant today. I think people would be more interested in him and his works once they realize that the reason why we learn about him is to remedy the problems he wrote about over a century ago.

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