Ha ha ha.

I don't look good with my poker face. I don't look good when I laugh, either. There was a point in my life when I cover my face when I laugh really hard. As much as possible, I suppress my laughter. But who needs to look good when they laugh? The important thing is, you FEEL good! And probably more important for us, ever curious creatures, is to find out why.

Read  Scientists Hint at Why Laughter Feels So Good at The New York Times.

Life may become so serious it's funny. You have to laugh it out, sometimes. Get those endorphins going!

Ha ha ha.

Eat that.

In addition to scientific journals I have this to devour.

 Finishable, I hope.

How to make an event like a beauty pageant particularly riveting and engaging.

1. Start way behind schedule. In order to do this, choose judges that avail each and every salon service an hour before the show actually starts. Or you could choose judges that simply have the guts to let people believe we have all day to wait for them. Choose those judges who believe they are very important. They are those who do not know that the reason the pageant needs them and cannot start without them is that their valuable subjective judgments play a crucial role, not because they have an unlimited sense of entitlement.

2. Assign a boring host. Choose public speaking veterans who have gained the accolades of their peers with probably a century of experience kicking ass in the hosting industry. Their long experience made them sank into complacency as they are certain that even though they are pulling the flow of the pageant together with their dragging spiels and effortless vocal nuances, they still believe they are doing a great job. Make them introduce the board of judges in a time duration equivalent to one judge per day. This way, the audience which is mostly composed of young and highly-energetic students, will be able to relate to the host because the generation gap is non-existent.

A few reminders.

There are some things I must remind myself of.

First,  most of the time the problems we have with other people are actually problems we have with ourselves. In introspect, it is not actually the other person's actions that is making you uncomfortable but it is your attitude, your reaction, and your paranoia that is causing all the distress. Thus, before condemning others by attributing to them the error and fault of the circumstances, ascertain first where the true problem lies. It could be within your area of responsibility and burden pushing other parties might lead to irreparable consequences. If you found out that it is your fault, then rejoice. The easiest mistake to correct is the one you have committed, for you have no control of others' errors but you have full control and responsibility of yourself.

Celebrate for math. Happy Birthday, Fermat!

The best kare-kare in town.

 Kare-kare

 Ox tongue

JanMell Vanity Scripts #07: Mental Infrastructure

People assume a lot of things. For example, when you say something is easy they are keen to understand that you mean it is menial. But the truth is, you said it is easy because it is what you love doing.  For instance, when I say Biology is easy, I do not condescend on Biology. Rather, I declare that my love for Biology makes me enjoy studying it thus making the experience EASY.

This is something we should do: renovate the construct of our understanding and widen the narrow bridges of our mind.