Kamote is a Good Boy
Posted by Kamote Empire at 10/27/2009 04:38:00 PM 2 comments
Judging from the Judges there is a Chance of Turbulent Wind with Stickmen
Last Friday October 23, 2009 I was chosen to judge a Day Care Copying (Drawing) or was it Drawing (Copying) Contest.
Turns out I had to judge 60 abstract(?) drawings from 55 4 year olds. It was a painstaking task to
The sponsor of the event was Jollibee and naturally the kids have to draw Jollibee which in there perception was a stick with yellow wings.
Posted by Kamote Empire at 10/27/2009 12:17:00 AM 1 comments
Kamote Are You a Facebook Addict?
NOTE: I AM NOT A FACEBOOK ADDICT... add me up marcreyman@gmail.com muhaha
MANILA - Facebook users beware. Psychologists are now probing a new kind of addiction called Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD).
Psychologist Dr. Michael Fenichel, who has published numerous writings on FAD online, describes it as a situation in which Facebook usage "overtakes" daily activities like waking up, getting dressed, using the telephone, or checking e-mail.
"The amazing thing is that, like cellphones, nobody seems to notice the vast amount of time and energy - at work, at home, and now while on the move - people are devoting to Facebook. It has become a given," Fenichel writes in an online post titled "Facebook Addiction Disorder- A New Challenge?"
FAD could be classified under the more broad "internet addiction disorder" or internet overuse.
Academic papers have already posed theories on internet addiction and social networking addiction, and even less, cellphone addiction.
"Like most activities, moderation and integration are key. Those that may seriously label and treat FAD as a behavioral addiction will clearly need to use context in determining if a behavior has become demonstrably harmful to overall social, work, or face-to-face interpersonal efficacy," Fenichel added.
You are a Facebook addict if...
According to Joanna Lipari, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles who was interviewed for a CNN report, here are some signs that you are addicted to Facebook:
1. You lose sleep over Facebook. When using Facebook becomes a compulsion and you spend entire nights logged on to the site, causing you to become tired the next day.
2. You spend more than an hour a day on Facebook. Lipari said it is difficult to define how much is too much when it comes to Facebook usage, but that an average person need only spend half an hour on the site.
3. You become obsessed with old loves or exes you reconnect with on Facebook.
4. You ignore work in favor of Facebook. This means you do not do your job in order to sneak time on Facebook.
5. The thought of getting off Facebook leaves you in cold sweat. If you try going a day without Facebook and it causes you stress and anxiety, this means you need help.
According to the same report by Elizabeth Cohen, Senior CNN Medical Correspondent, Facebook addiction is not yet an actual medical diagnosis.
However, the report notes that several therapists in the United States have noticed a rise in the number of clients who get hooked on social networking, to the point of social dysfunction.
Facebook fun
Facebook, launched by the world's youngest billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, has over 300 million users worldwide, half of whom log on to the site every day.
Further, about 2 billion photos and 14 million videos are uploaded on various Facebook pages a month and about 6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook a day, worldwide.
According to Willis Wee, founder of the social media and marketing blog Penn-Olson.com, this is twice as much time that people spend on Google.
The global social networking website allows users to post and share content (like photos, links, videos, and notes), play casual games and applications, and interact with friends and family through messaging and chat. abs-cbnNEWS.com. With reports from CNN.com.
A shirt I designed for our team building day
Posted by Kamote Empire at 10/22/2009 12:17:00 PM 1 comments
As my Life is Currently A Spiral Staircase
I cannot wait to reach the bottom, I know I am not yet there.
I hope you can understand me.
Its like when I was in high school, when I was at Citizen's Army Training, I stand under the since from 7:00 to 1:00pm. I know it will end but I suffered so much I just wanted to quit in the middle.
As my Uncle Sam would say, "You have got to be stupid to display your cel number online"...
If you think you are retarded as me, here are my digits:
+639232318019
Posted by Kamote Empire at 10/20/2009 07:54:00 PM 0 comments
Indifferent
Sorry I don't share your enthusiasm. You have to give me up to the end of the century before I could get to accept you, thank you for patiently waiting.
Posted by Kamote Empire at 10/13/2009 08:58:00 PM 0 comments
Relaping (Quatrain)
I spent the greater part of the last two weeks stuck in a hospital. I think I'm relapsing.
I am much thankful to all family and friends who showed all their support and help.
To the nurses who kept me awake, and to the doctors whose hand writing I will never understand, I hope I don't see you again professionally.
Relapsing (Quatrain)
(This poem is about an idealistic kamote who thought that memories can be surgically removed. He goes and gets the operation but the doctor made it look like there was an operation, a PLACEBO operation, first time in the history of mankind... a placebo operation. The kamote then leaves the hospital hopeful of the new later realizing that he is relapsing.)
Did I sleep enough to dream
The hospital walls kept warning me
My surgery will not be the key
to fix the memory of me and you
Doctor I am at ground zero
Everytime I stop and think, what went on
I hear it, I don't see it
A song so awful yet so perfect
Doctor I think its my pain I hear
Can you put anesthesia on my ear
Can this pain be rearanged
In such a way this nightmare will be undone
This hallucination by drugs
Eyes wide open
no numbness, I'm not worried
I hope my surgery will be the key
I wasn't the one who got the surgery anyway
Posted by Kamote Empire at 10/13/2009 08:08:00 PM 0 comments