Note to People Who Think They Know Everything About Nuclear Technology

People should stop talking about things they know nothing about, such as the nuclear technology. They should stop speculating among themselves and start trusting the people who really know.

I myself do not claim to understand everything about nuclear technology, and I’m a science major, Physics to be exact. As much as possible, I stray away from making statements and speculations regarding the “nuclear dangers” that might arise due to the nuclear power plant leak in Japan.

People should seriously stop taking to heart what they watch on television. For example, toxic waste will NOT give a person superpowers! That only happens in cartoons! Disaster movies are all works of fiction. They are products of the wild imagination of the creators. Not because a natural disaster took place, doesn’t mean it’s the start of the end of the world.

For the umpteenth time, there is so much more to nuclear technology than what sci-fi movies tell us. It’s a very broad subject to tackle. Experts, scientists, researchers, and nuclear technologists have spent more than half of their lives in continued pursuit of better understanding of this technology. Don’t think that you know better than them. They have spent every waking hours of every day for decades, some even gave their lives, to give us a better perspective of this technology. Please, don’t turn their hard work into mockery by thinking you know better than listen to what they have to say about this issue.

Defining What's Normal

A while ago I went to Mercury Drug Store along Rada St. As I was going through the things I need to buy, a tall, well-built, and attractive-looking guy suddenly came in. He was pleasantly greeted by the staff. All the women staff were "kinikilig" and even the men were greeting him and talking lightly with him. While waiting on the line to pay for the things I got, some of them were already taking pictures with him. All these happened while I was trying my very best to think who the hell is THAT GUY???

A few minutes later and a little walk along the block to my office building, I still have no idea who the guy is.

Because of what happened, I came up with a few thoughts:

1. Is it normal for people to be asking to take pictures with attractive-looking men? It's not like he's famous or anything. Not that I would know about it 'coz I still have no idea who he is, which brings me to my second thought,

2. Are famous people really that accommodating? And BTW, if he's famous how come I don't know him? But then again, it's not like I know every famous person in the country, which again brings me to my next thought,

3. Is the situation just a normal happening and I'm the one who's acting unusually or the whole situation is definitely unusual and I'm the one on the "normal" side. (It's confusing, I know!) In this case, I strongly doubt it's the second one so it must be because I'm such normally "un-normal." (Whatever that means.)

This really confuses me. And not because my thoughts are normally confusing but really, whatever goes on in situations like that one, I have no idea. Maybe I'm just being my un-normal self. I don't know. I keep saying "I don't know," and I really don't. I really think weird sometimes. Or most of the time. I wonder how I am able to live with myself. And I wonder more how I was able to do that for 24 years. I must be out of my mind to be even thinking this way about myself. Am I still making any sense? If you can understand me, I don't know about you, you must be a lot weirder than I am to be able to understand me. LOL!

Whatever.