Tuesday, 25 of September , 2007 @ 11:29 am
I’ll be closing our online survey at midnight. Finally. It was a lot harder than I thought. Still, we managed to get a little above 200 respondents, which isn’t so bad.
Thank you to everybody who answered our survey! You have no idea how grateful we are. I would love to acknowledge all of you, but we did promise to keep the URLs to ourselves. But really, each and every response matters. Thank you for your time and effort!
And of course, to those who helped us spread the word: my mom, my sister, d Y u, Jaypee, Tiff, Chesca, Kat, Losman and Meg, THANK YOU SO MUCH for pestering your readers and friends through your blog, email, Twitter, YM! etc etc. You know, if there’s one thing I picked up from this entire Psych 118 ordeal (and it’s not even done yet), it’s that you won’t make it out alive without good friends. Aww. We’re indebted to you! ♥♥
We’re analyzing the results tomorrow. I’m excited. Haha.
Ok. Back to work!
Friday, 21 of September , 2007 @ 10:51 pm
This is the second and final version of our survey on Filipino bloggers. After this, we are done!!! Whoohoo! But that’s only after we get 250 respondents in this survey. T_T So if you have 5 minutes, please do answer this short survey. 
Click here to get to the survey on Filipino bloggers. Please click me. PLEASE? 
If you have any comments or questions, you can email us at sikolohiya118@gmail.com. Also, we would really appreciate it if you could help us spread the word about this survey by linking back to this post.
Thank you soooooo much for your help since the start of this research!
Good day! We are a group of Psychology undergraduate students from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. For our final study in our Psychology 118 class (Field Methods in Psychology), we would like to explore the blogging phenomenon in the Philippines. To that end, we are asking you to fill out this survey that will help us understand what motivates you to blog, how blogging has helped you and how much of yourself is present in your blogs.
Qualifications:
1. Must be a Filipino by blood or citizenship
2. Must be residing in the Philippines
3. Must own and maintain a personal blog
We would like to assure you that we respect your privacy, and will render all results anonymous. All blog URLs will be deleted after this study is completed.
If you have any questions about this survey, please email us at: sikolohiya118@gmail.com Thanks for your help!
Click here to get to the survey
Renz Angeles
Marielle Dado
Racine Maniego
University of the Philippines, Diliman
Department of Psychology
Wednesday, 19 of September , 2007 @ 7:36 am
I don’t have a whole lot of friends, but the friends I am close to mean the world to me. I love them to death. Even when I’m busy, I still manage to squeeze in a few minutes of my time to help them out when they need me. If I have to, I drop whatever I’m doing just to do them a favor. I try to be as dependable as I can possibly be, and I hope I’m doing a good job at it.
Another thing about me is my friends’ moods affect mine. When my friends are sad, I’m sad too. And yet another thing is I can’t seem to be straightforward with my friends when they do something I don’t like.
Finally (and this is probably the most emotionally taxing thing I do), I am very very patient with my friends. Even when I am pushed to my limits, I don’t give up on friendships that easily, no matter how difficult it gets.
But lately, I’ve been at wits end trying to figure out whether my approach is the right way to handle friendships. While I don’t expect anything in return, it hurts a lot when my friends don’t seem to see how much I care for them. Maybe I just suck ass at maintaining relationships, but right now I’m definitely not happy with the way things are going. And it makes me want to give up on everything - and everyone.
Sunday, 16 of September , 2007 @ 7:44 am
One of the worst things about me is my being irrationally selosa and possessive. It doesn’t take much to make me jealous.
I think I’ll leave it at that.
Sunday, 16 of September , 2007 @ 4:06 am
All-nighters are a drag. Whether it’s transcribing a hour-long interview, studying for an exam the next day, cramming a paper equivalent to a quarter of your final grade, or interpreting your qualitative research data, sometimes caffeine just doesn’t cut it anymore.
So, my friends and I found a way to keep ourselves perky and amused during the twilight hours: watching dumb, funny, stupid YouTube videos! Here are some of the ridiculous video clips that have served us well this semester:
- Sofa King! - This is a Saturday Night Live sketch. “Sofa King Great!” “Sofa King Easy!” Say that fast and out loud.
- Human Tetris - It’s a Japanese game show where players have to pass through weirdly shaped holes on a wall moving towards them. There are a lot of Human Tetris videos on YouTube and this is just one of them, so you might want to just search for it in.
- Gaki no Tsukai - English Lesson -Â Another silly Japanese show. Funny shit. Describing it won’t do it justice. Ten ten ten…
- MS-DOS 5 Promo Video - An ancient video promoting MS-DOS 5. It’s called “Yo MS Rap.” What.
- Charlie the Unicorn - Chhhhharrrlllieeeee…..
- College Saga - Someone made a 40-minute parody of PlayStation RPGs. I love Mark Leung.
Wednesday, 5 of September , 2007 @ 8:30 am
I spent my twentieth birthday doing exactly what I thought I would be doing today - fretting over my academics.
Just so I could have some semblance of a birthday celebration, I brought two dozen Krispy Kreme donuts for my friends yesterday, and ate a hearty lunch at Chateau Verde with my life partners (118 groupmates), Renz and Racine. Since I thought I wouldn’t see any of my friends on my birthday itself, I decided to celebrate it with them a day early. Turns out I had to go to school today anyway - consultation for our 118 proposal that needs to be revised for the nth time.
I knew it. I knew I’d be dealing with my major on my birthday. Whee.
So I ended up having a sort-of birthday lunch with the life partners again. We all shared a slice of blueberry cheesecake for dessert. Renz even stuck a makeshift candle on it - a toothpick with a strip of tissue on one end - for me to blow. Aww. Yay!
That’s pretty much it. Today was just so stressing that it didn’t feel like my birthday at all. Still, I’m so touched that quite a lot of people remembered my birthday. I don’t know about you, but being greeted a Happy Birthday is really heartwarming, especially when it’s from old friends or people you wouldn’t expect. Thank you to everyone who greeted via text, Yahoo!, email, my blogs etc. It means a lot.
Ok, back to work!
Monday, 3 of September , 2007 @ 11:28 pm
Hiya! My group and I need your help again. We need a LOT of blogs for our content analysis, so if you are willing to volunteer yours, the details are here.
__________________
Good day! We are a group of Psychology undergraduate students from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. For our final study in our Psychology 118 class (Field Methods in Psychology), we are investigating the predominant topics blogged about, the values evident, and the emotions conveyed in personal blogs. It would be greatly appreciated if you allowed us to include your blog in our study.
Qualifications:
1. Must be a Filipino by blood or citizenship
2. Must be residing in the Philippines
3. Must have owned and maintained a personal blog for at least six (6) months.
We would like to assure you that we will respect your privacy, and will render all results anonymous. All blog URLs will be deleted after this study is completed and will only be noted for reference back to the blog. Comments to this entry will be screened.
For those who meet the qualifications and would like to volunteer their blogs, please place a comment to this post containing your blog URL.
If you have any questions, feel free to email us at sikolohiya118@gmail.com
(And also feel free to link back and promote this post, we could use the help!)
Thanks for your help!
Renz Angeles
Marielle Dado
Racine Maniego
PS: I won’t approve the comments I get here, for privacy’s sake. We won’t disclose who our participants are. Promise.
Marielle is a 20-year-old Psychology student at the 
