July 8, 2007
Daily: School’s first day tomorrow (Comments Off)
Well, these aren’t usually important things:
1. Read my friends list (only one filter out of 3)
2. Downloaded Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit for my Dad
3. Deleted some links in my bookmarks
Tomorrow’s the first day of school. I’m going since there will be an event for the freshmen. I want to see what’s the hype about.
I’m not supposed to go to school anymore, btw. I only have the thesis left to do. 
I hope we could get this done before mid-August, so we could make it to graduation march.Ah, I forgot to “show off” my grades.
I didn’t expect to get a grade higher than 3 in EnSE Correlation (or EnSE Review where we have our mock board).July 8, 2007
Daily: Don’t use that! (2 Comments)
I’m getting tired of hearing that every time they ask what shampoo I use. Filipino readers would already know what I mean. There is news going around that Sunsilk contains formaldehyde (aka formalin). I guess this is more spread through emails, since the ff. sites — THE BLOG @ dencio.com and The Mommy Journals — have mentioned getting them through that. I won’t quote the email here anymore since you can read it from the sites mentioned. Although parts of the email are in Filipino, so I would have to explain further. It seems some people have ’seen’ Sunsilk shampoos having the ingredient formaldehyde. Formaldehyde (aka formalin) is known to be carcinogenic (cancer-causing).
I use Sunsilk for a very long time. I’m already brain dead. I guess I already have brain cancer.
WHOA!Haha~ Of course I’m just kidding.
If you have read the comments in The Mommy Journals, some have mentioned they had or have direct contact with formalin when they use it on a biology experiment yet this didn’t have any effect on them. But I guess it would be different if they’ve been doing that for n years. What about their professors/teachers then? 
Not all of them might be doing experiments by themselves, but what about those who do? The probability could be 1:20 professors would work with their students. *shrugs* A dermatologist have mentioned about formalin causing redness, skin rashes, or skin irritation on contact. I forgot if this is based on frequent, prolonged, or instant contact. These effects might be possible on instant contact though especially for those with sensitive skin.You know, if they add this carcinogenic substance in shampoos or other health-care products, then those wouldn’t be approved for public distribution. A minimum dosage would be fine and it’s not like you actually use _formalin_ on your head. So you can have an idea of what I’m trying to point out, I would use WATER as an example.
Do you know how your public water is treated and disinfected? Treatment process depends on the quality of the raw water. Chlorine is commonly used for disinfection because it is strong and will kill many microorganisms. Chlorine may be toxic when too much is used, therefore, a minimum amount is only required. Why would they use chlorine? Because it will be able to kill microorganisms once the water is distributed through the water pipe distribution system. Manganese, flouride, iron, etc. can also be found in water, but there are others hard to remove. They can be left alone once they are under or at least equal to the minimum standards. Of course, the majority of the population do not drink water directly coming from their faucets. Some may have home water purifiers like my family does. At least this will remove any solids that may have come from water pipes. (Read some information about chlorine here.)
Going back to formalin, it is used similarly like chlorine — to kill off germs that may live in your cosmetics, health, or beauty products. A lot has been saying, “DON’T USE SUNSILK!” I would say then, “DON’T DRINK WATER!”
You may say you drink mineral water, but it contains a lot of minerals that you have to be wary of. Those minerals will always have to meet the standards. (Read MineralWaters.org or Aquamania.net).
It’s not bad to have a little bit of what’s dangerous to our body. Don’t you even wonder why street children still grow old even if they grow up in a dirty environment? It’s only bad they get various kind of diseases.
You know, it’s also bad if you’re TOO CLEAN. It’s funny how people react this way when it comes to their health-care products, when there are other things they should worry about. Like their surroundings. The environment. People in the Philippines wouldn’t normally look for a trash can. They would just throw it any where that is convenient for them. The streets are the biggest ‘trash bins’ or ‘trash cans’ you’ll ever see. Even when I haven’t studied Environmental and Sanitary Engineering, I’ve been mindful of my trash. Just because there isn’t a nearby trash can I’d just throw it away like that. I would really look for a trash can. If it were just plastics from candies, I’d temporarily keep it “properly” in my bag and throw it when I get home. Plastics are the hardest to break down and, when you burn them, you will only contribute to the air pollution. Be conscious of your environment. The environment comes first because this is where your habitat is based. The government will not entirely do the cleaning for you. You can’t just go to another planet once the Earth’s resources are gone. More generations will come and it’s the current generation who will have to put action in protecting their environment for the future… The future generation will also do their part for the future, future ones. 
It’s funny how people have been fighting over that formalin issue. When there are other issues like you can easily get lung cancer from air pollution.
If you made it this far, then I thank you and congratulate you.
Boring topics like these aren’t supposed to be ignored. Hehe~Flames would be ignored, btw. If you want to bring down products of Unilever, don’t argue with me. There are proper places for that… Like the court.
(Crossposted in Here is No Why)
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