My strengths call me to indulge in sciences. My weaknesses (and laziness) call me to indulge in arts. As for me, I am a mixture. I’d like to tackle my arts side. As a piscean, I am naturally artistic.
Oh well, arts as in arte/maarte/kaartehan/ka-o-ey-han, ka-walang-buluhan. Let a very intellectual guy appreciate an abstract. I bet he’ll call it walang kabuluhan. Hehehe. A few business dreams have been stored in my brain databank since I took review for CPA board exam. During the review, I dreamt of putting up my own transportation lines applying my own logistics design. I learned crash course on contemporary logistics. I grew up in transpo biz, I grew up travelling, I grew up reading maps and atlas, I grew up with parents travelling. Then employed in international forwarding where the 2 companies I worked in were competitors to each other. (ang dating ko para akong na-pirate eh. hehehe. d naman). Nag-aagawan ng rank # 1 sa IATA. Wag kayo, 3 modes of transpo, winish ko. Hehehe. Shempre start from scratch yan. Pero I realized, magastos. A few good men I have learned from, magastos nga. Nde ko kaya mag-isa. It’s a hard core business.
Then recently….restaurant, resort, spa, a business centre, a coffee shop, a library, coffee shop, a travel show where I am the host, etc etc. These businesses ay tipong pagkakaabalahan ng mga retirees. Retiree kamo? See that? Laziness ko pa rin ang bagsak. Hahahaha. As my classmate names "balance of nature". Yes balance. A typical individual involved in the workforce working 8 hours day using the brain 8 hours a day (or even more) deserves to venture into some or few income-earning "laziness". Nde lang yung puro ako consume. Nde lang na puro consumption ang nasa SAL (statement of assets & liabilities) ko. Nde lang na lagi nalang ako ang customer. Nde lang na ako nalang lagi ang nagpapa-spa at nagpapa-massage. (sssshhhh hahahaha). Nde lang na ako nalang lagi ang nagbabayad ng room accomodation. I want to have my own business too. Yung nde madugo ha. Remember, I am lazy. An income-earning lazy-er. Yes I know those passive types of incomes: from real-estate, stock investment incomes. Pero remember, I am an artistic income-earning lazy-er. Hahahaha. I-qualify talaga noh? Yun bang pwedeng mag-interior design? Tsk tsk tsk. In visayan pa, kana bang binabae or binayot na biz. No offense to real guys who are into these biz ha. Don’t offend me rin if I go into "non-lazy" businesses. Hehehehe.
On another hand, I have a challenge to intellectuals pala. I concede na nde ko kaya ang test na to. Here is a "final exam" for ya. Hehe. Enjoy answering guys.
WORLD HISTORY
Describe the history of the papacy from its origins to the present day, concentrating especially, but not exclusively, on its social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical impact on Europe, Asia, America, and Africa. Be brief and concise, yet specific.
ASTRONOMY
Define the universe; give three examples.
MEDICINE
You will be provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of Scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have 15 minutes.
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Write a fifth-generation computer language. Using this language, create a computer program to finish the rest of this exam for you.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Twenty-five hundred riot-crazed aborigines are storming the classroom. Calm them. You may use any ancient language except Latin, Hebrew, or Greek.
CIVIL ENGINEERING
This is a practical test of your design and building skills. With the boxes of toothpicks and glue present, build a platform that will support your weight when you and your platform are suspended over a vat of nitric acid.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
The disassembled parts of a howitzer have been placed in a box on your desk. You will also find an instruction manual, printed in Swahili. In 10 minutes a hungry Bengal tiger will be admitted to the room. Take whatever action you feel is appropriate. Be prepared to justify your decision.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
You will be placed in a nuclear reactor and given a partial copy of the electrical layout. The electrical system has been tampered with. You have seventeen minutes to find the problem and correct it before the reactor melts down.
BIOLOGY
Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if this form of life had developed 500,000 years earlier, with special attention to the probable effect, if any, on the Philippine social spectrum circa 1640. Prove your thesis.
RELIGION
Perform a miracle. Creativity will be judged.
MUSIC
Write a full piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with a flute and drum. You will find a piano under your seat.
LOGIC
Take a position for or against truth. Prove the validity of your position.
CHEMISTRY
You must identify a poison sample which you will find at your lab table. All necessary equipment has been provided. There are two beakers at your desk, one of which holds the antidote. If the wrong substance is used, it causes instant death. You may begin as soon as the professor injects you with a sample of the poison.
PSYCHOLOGY
Based on your knowledge of their early works, evaluate the emotional stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of each of the following: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ramses II, Gregory of Nicea, and Hammurabi. Support your evaluations with quotations from each man’s work, making appropriate references. Translate all quotations in Tagalog.
SOCIOLOGY
Identify the sociological problems which might be associated with the end of the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory.
ECONOMICS
Describe in four hundred words or less what you would have done to prevent the Great Depression.
MATHEMATICS
You have 60 seconds to mentally solve the mathematical problem below. Begin. 8,256.091 + _________ - ________ x ________ 8 ________ = -38.07623
(Bonus question: Why is 11 not pronounced onety one? Provide a full numerical analysis in justifying your answer.)
POLITICAL SCIENCE
There is a red telephone on the desk beside you. Start World War III. Report at length on its socio-political effects, if any.
ART
Given one eight-count box of crayons and three sheets of notebook paper, recreate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Skin tones should be true to life.
PHYSICS
Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an in-depth evaluation of the impact of the development of mathematics on science.
METAPHYSICS
Describe in detail the nature of life after death. Test your hypothesis.
PHILOSOPHY
Sketch the development of human thought. Estimate its significance. Compare with the development of any other kind of thought.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.
O diba? Hanep! Hahahaha. Happy weekend!
