Useless Face Mask

I’m so confused and startled every time people wear face masks wrongly.

Face mask are intended to prevent people from inhaling foreign particles that flow with the air and also to prevent any harmful and contagious particles that an ill person could pass on. And so, the mouth and the nose should be covered when using a face mask. In most cases, diseases that could transfer by contact to body droplets are being prevented in using face masks, just like how it is use to prevent influenza A (H1N1) virus transmission.

But what’s the use of using a face mask if you don’t wear it properly? Few minutes ago, I was commuting in a jeep and I saw an old guy wearing a face mask and I was confused on how he wore it because his mouth is covered but his nose is not. I really find that very insulting to the face mask because the old man made it look so useless. I don’t if that man do not breathe to his nose that he doesn’t have to cover it and I really find it irritating as well because it’s like trying to prevent thieves from entering your house by just locking one of many main doors you have in your house. Isn’t that very ridiculous to do? I just hope that each us should know that a thing could be useless and even harmful if we do not use it properly.

UP STATSOC Freshies Day

UP Statistical Society held a freshies day activity few minutes ago and it was a whole lot of fun. Our batch was well bonded through their activities.

The first activity was a getting to know you activity wherein each of us (freshmen) should have a creative way of introducing ourselves. Some danced; some were too shy, some spoke in other language and many more but what I did was a bit of singing. I sung FAME like this: “remember my name! Van!” After that, I sung the phrase – And I’m from Block O-3 – in my own tune and as usual, I did a lot of slurs in it.

After that, the first game was Stat En Ek Ek. It is a quiz game with any topics available under the sun. They asked about the important staffs in UP, movies, Statistics and a lot more. My favorite question is probably the middle initial of someone (I forgot who he is.). That’s my favorite because I was able to answer it correctly by just wild guessing. LOL

We played a hybrid game of charades and pass the message. Also, we played Bahay, Baboy and Bagyo in which I ended up making some consequence.

The whole duration of the activity is full of energy and fun and there are more things to expect esp. the “Hawa thingie” and also the Freshies Week.

Pink and Blue

I know that some of you might think that this blog is all about the MMDA for its title is Pink and Blue. But, I’m glad to say that this blog does not have any relation with the MMDA instead this blog will be more informative than that by sharing to you two congenital heart diseases, which are called Pink babies and Blue Babies.

Blue babies are babies born with a heart problem that causes inefficient transfer or flow of oxygen in a body, which causes the skin to look bluish. Most often, blue babies have hearts with holes or leaks at its septum making the oxygen flow inefficient. Blue babies having very distinguishable skin are easily spotted and diagnosed thus; emergencies, treatments and medications could be easily given and called even if the child is born at home by a midwife.

On the other hand, pink babies are babies born with heart problems that do not cause prominent inefficiency in oxygen flow. Enlarged heart and weak pumping heart are one of the possible congenital problems that the pink babies probably have. Pink babies are called such since their skin is as rosy as the skin of normal babies, and that factor just makes their diagnosis a little harder but there are indications of complications. One of the indications that could identify a pink baby from the normal ones is that if the child doesn’t cry the moment he was born. Pink babies are often the not being identified as normal esp. there are cases that a pink baby is not diagnose since the mother gave birth to her child in her house by a relatively less knowledgeable midwife and then the parents were just going to recognized the complications during the later ages of the child.

Knowing this information is very important esp. for the parents since it could cause the lives of their child and also, watching educational and health service shows would help a lot in keeping our lives healthy.

Smoking and Third hand Smoking

As we all know smoking is bad for our health and those hours of our life is being wasted in every stick of cigar we smoke. In connection, you probably have heard of first hand smokers and second hand smokers.

First hand smokers are those who directly inhale the smoke from a stick while Second hand smokers are those who indirectly inhale particle from a lighted cigar because of exposure to first hand smokers. They say that second hand smoking is more dangerous than first hand smoking because cigars as of status quo have gas filters at one of its ends but nevertheless any type of exposure onto the chemicals inside a cigar doesn’t make any significant difference in its danger. Therefore, if you are a smoker, you should stop as early as possible and if you are a non-smoker make sure to prohibit yourself from inhaling particles from a cigar by doing some precautions. Precautions like covering your mouth and nose when someone is smoking will be helpful but it will be better no to dwell in smokers’ area or places.

Non-smokers could not just be second hand smokers but they could also be third hand smokers. Third hand smoking is a term that was just established and defined lately to me. Third hand smoking is when a person inhales a particle that was left in a place after a first hand smoker lights up a cigar. Particles from a cigar could attach and remain in a place for hours and so people might as well inhale these particles once they stay in such polluted areas and by that time they are third hand smoking. Such poisonous particles could easily attach on fabrics and so we should be very conscious in public places that must have been polluted. In addition, precautions such as putting up a defined no smoking and smoking areas would be helpful in public places such as malls so that there will be clear boundaries between places that is most likely to be polluted. Constant washing of hands is also helpful since their times that are inevitable for us not to hold onto polluted objects. But definitely, the best solution is to have each of our lives nicotine-free or smoking-free because if there are no first hand smokers there will never be second hand and third hand smokers and our world will just become cleaners and more livable.

FIRST WEEK IN COLLEGE

My first week in college was a blast. I would say that it was a blast because all of my professors are cool and very conversational. Starting it of with my Math 17 professor, Sir Allan Junio is such a cool professor. He teaches with fun and one of my favorite is when he makes analogies of math and life. One of my favorite is when he showed that the set containing the letters of trashes is the same as the set containing the letters of hearts (LOL) and that the set containing the letters of tears is within the set containing the letters of hearts (LOL).

Next would be Mrs. Herrera, who we first thought to be strict but ended out to be very conversational and cool as well. One of the things that I will never forget about her is when she said that she’s teaching a GE course because the best teacher was required to teach in BIO1 (LOL). Her class is full of information and fun and she never fail on keeping our attention to the course and also, it is very evident that she knows what a student needs and experiences.

The rest of my professors are cool as well. My professor in English1 is very talkative in a very positive way in other words she delivers English so well. My professor in Stat114 is cool as well. She speaks direct to the point and also she got a lot of surprises in our class and I really don’t have any idea on how long I will be surprised. My Socio10 professor is cool as well because Ms. Cases is the only teacher I have that let her students decide on most activities and that includes grading. We also have debate in her class and I’m still clueless but ecstatic on what we’ll do in her class. My PE class is also cool though I still don’t know who will be our professor in that class but nevertheless bands and balls as a PE is very profitable.

Aside from my professors, new set friends also constitutes onto my brain blasting first week. Most of my new friends are my blockmates and most of them are staying dormitories. (LOL) My classmates are also cool though I don’t know most of them yet.

I’m still looking forward to harder challenges in a college life and so I always keep myself equipped with a healthy body and mind.